[caption id="attachment_2068" align="alignnone" width="300"] Olives ready to be cold-pressed[/caption] HIGHLIGHTS: Picture-perfect landscapes, ancient stone villages, Majolica dish-ware, village food markets, world-renowned cuisine, cooking classes, exceptional red wines, lunch on an organic farm, Chianina beef (Florentine beefsteak), olive oil tasting, truffle oil, Etruscan ruins and relics, Renaissance art treasures, St Francis sites, the Cinque Terre coastline,…
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The Tables of Provence
HIGHLIGHTS: Palace of the Popes in Avignon, charming Aix-en-Provence, mediterranean Provençal cuisine, chocolate manufacture, wine tasting of Chateauneuf-du-Pape and other Provençal wines, lavender plantation, perched villages, boat excursion into the mediterranean bays, art experience in ancient stone quarries, private castle tour, colorful bustling markets, sipping an aperitif in a fishing port, bull round-up in the Camargues…
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Germany for the Gourmet
HIGHLIGHTS: Rhine River cruise, picnic in the vineyards, Munich brewery tour, sausage sampling, beer sampling, medieval Rothenburg, gourmet restaurants, winery tours in the Rhine, Mosel and Baden regions, Black Forest ham manufacture and tasting, spectacular castles, wine tasting on a boat on the Mosel River, Ruedesheim, Black Forest cake-making, distillery tours, castle hotels, Baden-Baden, Heidelberg,…
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Christmas Traditions and Markets
HIGHLIGHTS: Charming Christmas Markets and town tours throughout Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Northern Italy and Eastern Europe, Christmas traditions of the various regions, the Buttnmandl and Krampus traditions in Berchtesgaden and Austria, Christmas ornament museums, Christmas ornament manufacture tours, special Advent concerts, Klausjagen in Kussnacht, Christmas smokers, nutcrackers and pyramids in the East German Erzgebirge, Advent…
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