• Celebrate the 50th of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory

    14th August, 2014

    "Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple" - Willy Wonka If your imagination was captured by the pure inventiveness of Roald Dahl's writing (and who hasn't been captivated by those wonderful books at some point… 

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  • Walking boosts your creativity

    31st July, 2014

    Earlier this year, a study conducted at Stanford University found that walking can boost creative thinking. A lot of people, especially those in the creative industries, writers and philosophers, have had a hunch about this for a long time, but now it's official. A person's creative… 

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  • Top 5 tips for planning family cycling holidays

    1st May, 2014

    Here at The Carter Company, planning cycling holidays for families is a speciality of ours. In fact, our connection to cycling breaks with kids runs deep - it was an extended Carter Family cycling trip to Austria - see photo above - many years ago (comprising of 4 adults and… 

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  • Our cycling tours come highly recommended

    21st February, 2014

    Why do people choose to book their pedal bike tours and walking holidays with The Carter Company? Here's a taster of the feedback our customers have sent through to us: "This is our second holiday with you within 12 months. We really enjoyed exploring a beautiful part of the… 

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