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Amalfi The Coast Of Emotions

Amalfi The Coast Of Emotions

Italy for 8 Days • from €3,475* per person

Provider: Caspin Journeys LTD (3 testimonials)

 On our small group walking tour to Amafi we visit an area of sensational coastal scenery of limestone cliffs, serpentine roads and terraced lemon groves with famous towns like Amalfi, Positano and Ravello. Villages and remote monasteries here have long been connected by a series of ancient footpaths, which provide a perfect opportunity for walking and hiking.On this walking tour you are rewarded with stunning views of the Mediterranean Coastline whose ‘Lattari’ mountains rise nearly 5000ft steeply from the deep blue sea. Wildflowers such as Broom and… 3 testimonials & more

Offered May, October
Exertion level: 5
Lodging: Spa, Resort, Luxury Tented, Hotel, Boutique Hotel, All Inclusive
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 10 people
Must form your own group? No

Cooking, Wine, Volcanoes & Walking Tour in Sicily: Mount Etna & Stromboli

Cooking, Wine, Volcanoes & Walking Tour in Sicily: Mount Etna & Stromboli

Catania Airport, Italy for 7 Days • from €2,490* per person

Provider: Mama Margaret & Friends Cooking Adventures In Italy (2 testimonials)

Eat, cook, laugh and discover breathtaking natural beauty in Mount Etna towns, Taormina and exotic, volcanic Aeolian island of Stromboli with fun loving Sicilians, passionate about sharing their food, culture and lives with you. Cook typical Sicilian dishes in classes at a great, family-run restaurant under Mount Etna, with a delightful family in their home, with a colourful restaurant owner on Stromboli and the chef in a 4 star hotel’s fine restaurant. Enjoy warm, local hospitality at a lovely, historic,… 1 testimonial & more

Offered May, September, October
Exertion level: 5
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 8 people
Must form your own group? No

Cooking & Wine Adventure in Piedmont’s Barolo Wine Country

Cooking & Wine Adventure in Piedmont’s Barolo Wine Country

Turin Airport, Italy for 7 Days • from €2,750* per person

Provider: Mama Margaret & Friends Cooking Adventures In Italy (2 testimonials)

Rediscover simple pleasures of good wine, good food and beauty in this exquisite countryside of small towns and gentle hills covered with vineyards, fields and forests. Drink some of Italy’s top red wines, Barolo and Barbaresco. Savour local dishes like chocolate hazelnut cake with Moscato zabaglione or a veal roll simmered slowly in herbs and Barolo. Stay at a pretty, family-run three star hotel in the town of Barolo with views of its medieval castle or get an upgrade to… 1 testimonial & more

Offered Year-round
Exertion level: 3
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 8 people
Must form your own group? No

Food Lovers’ Adventure in Italy’s Gastronomic Paradise, Emilia-Romagna Spring & Summer

Food Lovers’ Adventure in Italy’s Gastronomic Paradise, Emilia-Romagna Spring & Summer

Bologna Airport, Bologna, Italy for 6 Days • from €2,285* per person

Provider: Mama Margaret & Friends Cooking Adventures In Italy (2 testimonials)

Experience Emilia-Romagna’s world renowned Parmesan cheese, traditional balsamic vinegar, silk-like pasta and prosciutto di Parma, and real Italian life first hand with a local Bologna family. Cook simple, traditional dishes with a pasta expert on her farm and a friendly, small town restaurant owner, famous for his scrumptious herb dishes like pasta with arugula and prosciutto. Walk with your host family mother in Bologna’s famous central market to learn about regional foods and shop for ingredients for your cooking class… 2 testimonials & more

Offered April-September
Exertion level: 3
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 8 people
Must form your own group? No

Neapolitan Cooking & Cultural Delights With A Family In Sorrento Tour

Neapolitan Cooking & Cultural Delights With A Family In Sorrento Tour

Sorrento Airport, Sorrento, Naples, Italy for 7 Days • from €1,475* per person

Provider: Mama Margaret & Friends Cooking Adventures In Italy (2 testimonials)

Experience a cooking school tour adventure in Sorrento, Capri and the Amalfi Coast, where one of Italy’s most amazing coastal roads winds above spectacularly sheer cliffs overlooking the azure sea. Stay a local family’s B & B in a pretty area of fine hotels and gardens outside Sorrento, an hour south of Naples. The spacious rooms have private bathrooms and air-conditioning. A five minute walk takes you to the beautiful Bay of Naples. Your warm, fun loving family hosts soon… 1 testimonial & more

Offered Year-round
Exertion level: 3
Comfort accommodations
Max group size: 12 people
Must form your own group? No

Italy: A Week With The Tuscan Chef At The Villas Of Vorno

Italy: A Week With The Tuscan Chef At The Villas Of Vorno

Pisa, Italy for 7 Days • from $3,750* per person

Provider: The International Kitchen (2 testimonials)

About the location: Discover a little piece of Tuscan heaven and savor the very best in Tuscan living gathered together in our kitchen and around our table. The Tuscan Chef is based in one of a number of wonderful private villas in the area near Vorno, a small town outside of Lucca. Your week-long Tuscany cooking tour will take place at one of the charming and luxurious private villas available for the course. The villas are all of the same… 2 testimonials & more

Offered March, April, September, October
Exertion level: 3
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 12 people
Must form your own group? Yes (custom departure). Price based on group size.

Cúrate The Trip: A Culinary Week In Spain With Chef Katie Button

Cúrate The Trip: A Culinary Week In Spain With Chef Katie Button

Spain (Sevilla), Spain (Barcelona), and Spain for 10 Days • from €6,300* per person

Provider: Paladar y Tomar (3 testimonials)

A unique culinary trip to Spain, learning the authentic Spanish food with chef Katie Button. A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE LIMITED TO ONLY 14 LIFE EXPLORERS! CÚRATE, THE TRIP takes you now to Spain through a tour of the life and work of Katie and her inseparable partner and husband Félix Meana, originally from Roses, the hometown of elBulli where both have been trained. CÚRATE, THE TRIP is a unique journey to uncover first-hand the real Spain through the authentic Spanish food, living some… 2 testimonials & more

Offered May, October
Exertion level: 4
Lodging: Boutique Hotel, All Inclusive
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 14 people
Must form your own group? No

Cooking in Provence

Cooking in Provence

Avignon TGV train station for 8 Days • from $3,490* per person

Provider: French Escapade (3 testimonials)

This exceptional 8-day tour is designed to introduce you to French cuisine as well as to French culture.Discover Provence and its regional products and learn how to use them in cooking: olive oil, cheese, truffles, nougat, chocolate and of course local wines, including the famous Châteauneuf-du-Pape.You will have "hands on" cooking classes with some of the best Chefs in the region, as well as visits to markets, herb gardens, vineyards, local restaurants and cultural sites.        We believe that you… 2 testimonials & more

Offered September
Exertion level: 3
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 12 people
Must form your own group? No

Italy: Amore Siciliano

Italy: Amore Siciliano

Catania, Italy for 7 Days • from $2,750* per person

Provider: The International Kitchen (2 testimonials)

About the location: Sicily is an island rich in culinary tradition that produces some of the finest quality food the Mediterranean has to offer. We invite you on this cookery to see, taste and try all this richness through hands-on experience in the kitchen and visits to the producers and towns from which the recipes originate.For the past two years your hosts have been hard at work restoring a wonderful house right in the historical centre of Modica where they… 1 testimonial & more

Offered March-June, September, October
Exertion level: 2
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 12 people
Must form your own group? Yes (custom departure). Price based on group size.

France: Cooking Passport to Provence

France: Cooking Passport to Provence

La Cadière-d'Azur, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France for 6 Days • from $2,175* per person

Provider: The International Kitchen (2 testimonials)

About the location: La Cadiere d’Azur is a charming ancient Provencal hilltop village in the heart of the Bandol vineyards, where you will find the love of tradition, good living, fine food and wine has been preserved over the centuries. You home for your five-night culinary tour, the Hostellerie Berard and Spa is a delightful country inn in the heart of the village, set amid a cluster of beautifully restored old buildings, including an eleventh-century monastery with vaulted rooms, all… 1 testimonial & more

Offered May-July, September-November
Exertion level: 2
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 12 people
Must form your own group? No

Chateau De Berne

Chateau De Berne

Lorgues, Provence, France for 6 Days • from $3,375* per person

Provider: The International Kitchen (2 testimonials)

About the location: This cooking school is located in the heart of Provence, between Nice and Marseille near Lorgues, Chateau de Berne’s heart beats to the rhythm of the vines and wine. Here the tradition of winemaking has been deeply rooted since 1750; the winemakers live out their passion and give of their knowledge with generosity, talent and care. Entering onto the property is really like coming to a small Provencal village. The Chateau de Berne and its Auberge are… more

Offered March-December
Exertion level: 3
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 12 people
Must form your own group? Yes (custom departure). Price based on group size.

France: A Week in Bordeaux Wine Country

France: A Week in Bordeaux Wine Country

Bordeaux, France for 8 Days • from $3,425* per person

Provider: The International Kitchen (2 testimonials)

About the location: Surrounded by the vines of Château Bujan, in a vineyard of the Côtes de Bourg, you will live in the charming 17th-century guest house of the winemakers and join fellow enthusiasts on Bordeaux wine tours. Nestled in a small green valley and restored with talent by architect Marielle Meli (Pascal’s wife), La Maison des Vignes (“House in the Vines”), with its large fireplaces, oak beams, four personalized bedrooms and old books, is totally elegant, while retaining a… 1 testimonial & more

Offered Year-round
Exertion level: 3
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 12 people
Must form your own group? Yes (custom departure). Price based on group size.

France: Robert Ash Cookery School

France: Robert Ash Cookery School

Lyon, France for 6 Days • from $1,950* per person

Provider: The International Kitchen (2 testimonials)

About the location: Southern Burgundy is especially rich in history – from the prehistoric site of the Solutré rock with vineyards carpeting its lower slopes (below left), to the famous Abbey of Cluny and the Château of Pierreclos (right). The River Saône runs through a landscape which includes the famous vineyards of St. Vérand (home of St. Véran without the ‘d’), Pouilly-Fuissé, the southern Mâconnais and the hills of the Beaujolais. Mâcon itself is a fascinating town at the river’s… 1 testimonial & more

Offered April-September
Exertion level: 3
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 12 people
Must form your own group? No

France: Walnut Grove Cooking School

France: Walnut Grove Cooking School

Mayenne, France for 6 Days • from $2,470* per person

Provider: The International Kitchen (2 testimonials)

About the location: Walnut Grove is strategically located in the Loire, not far from the borders of Normandy and Brittany and a short drive to the Chateaux country of the Loire Valley. Set in an unspoiled area of the French countryside, you will enjoy all amenities, which owners Maynard Harvey and Benedict Haines have included for the comfort and needs of their guests when they renovated their charming farmhouse. With beautiful views over an expanse of walnut trees (thus the… 1 testimonial & more

Offered March-June, September-November
Exertion level: 3
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 12 people
Must form your own group? Yes (custom departure). Price based on group size.

Puglia, Matera & The Trulli

Puglia, Matera & The Trulli

Italy for 8 Days • from €3,300* per person

Provider: Caspin Journeys LTD (3 testimonials)

 Our small group walking tour Puglia, Matera and Basilicata is located in the heel of the Italian peninsula surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea and blessed with sun, sea and dramatically changing landscapes. A traveler exploring on foot can enjoy breathtaking sea views, rugged coastal scenery and vast expanses of ancient olive groves seemingly untouched by time. This coastline boasts an ancient strategic importance and a rich historical heritage dating back to the Greeks, Roman civilization and others seeking passage to the East across the Mediterranean Sea. Among the… 1 testimonial & more

Offered May, September
Exertion level: 4
Lodging: Villa, Hotel, Countryside Villas, Boutique Hotel, All Inclusive
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 10 people
Must form your own group? No

Cooking, Wine & Pampering Tour At A Lovely Villa Near The Amalfi Coast

Cooking, Wine & Pampering Tour At A Lovely Villa Near The Amalfi Coast

Sorrento+Italy for 7 Days • from €2,100* per person

Provider: Mama Margaret & Friends Cooking Adventures In Italy (2 testimonials)

Indulge in a dream-come-true cooking, wine and sightseeing adventure in Sorrento, Capri, and the Amalfi Coast. Stay at a lovely four star boutique villa hotel on 5 ½ acres with park, pool, gardens and vast views over the Bay of Naples. Just 10 a minute walk from Sant’Agata Sui Due Golfi and 25 minutes by bus to Sorrento. Peaceful but close to town. In the hotel’s state of the art kitchen with individual work stations, cook with joyful teacher, Carmen,… 1 testimonial & more

Offered March-November
Exertion level: 3
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 8 people
Must form your own group? No

Provence and the Volcanic Heartland

Provence and the Volcanic Heartland

Lyon Airport, France for 9 Days • Contact provider for price

Provider: Tour de Forks - Uncommon Epicurean Adventures (2 testimonials)

This trip was designed by our tour guides Kathryn Morton and Debra Fioritto, who are winners of the 2006 Culinary Trust’s Julia Child Endowment Fund Scholarship. This journey, like no other you'll find anywhere, is a delightful gastronomical discovery of France's Sites of Exceptional Culinary Taste, places dedicated to outstanding products. We'll take a culinary pilgrimage to unveil different facets of local ingredients, broadly expanding your knowledge of French food, the countryside, the people and their methods of production. We'll… more

Offered Year-round
Exertion level: 2
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 12 people
Must form your own group? Yes (custom departure). Price based on group size.

France: Provençal Dream

France: Provençal Dream

Avignon, France for 7 Days • from $3,200* per person

Provider: The International Kitchen (2 testimonials)

About the location: In the hills of the Vaucluse, facing the white range of the Alpilles and the beautiful perched village of Velleron, the Hostellerie la Provence backs on to its very own woodland of oak trees. The hotel is a selection of the Rivage Hotels of Charm, and Jean and Brigitte—the owners and your hosts— are ready to take care of your every need as they welcome you into their home, with its quaint red shutters, ensconsed in a… more

Offered September-June
Exertion level: 2
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 12 people
Must form your own group? Yes (custom departure). Price based on group size.

Burgundy Gastronomy & Wine Tour

Burgundy Gastronomy & Wine Tour

Airport, France near Dijon, France for 7 Days • from €1,045* per person

Provider: Pure Adventures (3 testimonials)

This cycling tour is the perfect combination of Burgundy's most important treasuhttp://traveldragon.com/trips/10345-burgundy-gastronomy-wine-tour/editred assets: wine and cuisine - or more artfully referred to as Gastronomy!Starting in Dijon, a beaufiful city with sites, history, and gateway to vine country, you will make your way across the vineyards of the most famous vignobles. As great wine requires great cooking, you will have many gastronomical experiences in the restaurants we include, but you can also venture out on your own to explore the many… more

Offered April-September
Exertion level: 4
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 24 people
Must form your own group? Yes (custom departure). Price based on group size.

Spain - la Rioja Wine Country

Spain - la Rioja Wine Country

Laguardia Airport, Spain for 6 Days • Contact provider for price

Provider: Pure Adventures (3 testimonials)

This trip goes round one of the most beautiful landscapes of Spain. It's a top chance of fully enjoying the charming villages, vintage and cellars, small castles, religious art and the best gastronomy and wine.Wine has been the backbone of the economy of La Rioja since the time of the Romans, and it's not difficult to see why. A microclimate bordered by two impressive mountain ranges, with the Ebro River cutting through the middle, its gentle hills are perpetually covered… more

Offered March-October
Exertion level: 4
Boutique accommodations
Max group size: 24 people
Must form your own group? Yes (custom departure). Price based on group size.