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Wine
tour "Live like a Prince" - from
Corbières to Bordeaux ... with a day's hands-on
cooking in the Quercy... this tour is devoted to French
cuisine and wine as it explores 'La France profonde'.
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Dordogne
Discovery - a delightful stroll through the
Dordogne and Lot valleys where your guide will reveal hidden
villages, chateaux and prehistoric caves. Comfortable hotels
and excellent gourmet food make for an idyllic and pampered
introduction to this beautiful region. more |
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Bordeaux
Wine Tour - a 5day/4
night tour of Bordeaux's finest vineyards with tastings in such
top chateaux such as Lynch-Bages and Pichon-Longueville. Includes
a day out in UNESCO heritage site St Emilion as well as time
to visit Bordeaux's refurbished city centre (also a UNESCO site
since 2006) more |
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Carcassonne
and Catalonia - a tour which combines the
majesty of the wild landscapes of the Corbières,
the Cathar Country and the Mediterranean coast with an
exploration of the Fauvist art movement in Collioure
and Céret and Salvador Dali in Figuras and Cadaquès. more
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Biarritz
and the Basque Country - Biarritz, the Monte
Carlo of the Atlantic coast, St Jean-de-Luz the basque
fishing village, San Sébastien and the Guggenheim
Museum at Bilbao. Quite a programme. more |
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Heritage
and High-Tech - An
unusual tour which examines the pointy end of technology
in SW France with visits to the Airbus
plant in Toulouse and Norman Foster's extraordinary viaduct
at Millau while not forgetting the regions rich architectural
heritage. more |
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Cathar
Citadels - This new tour opens up a 13th century
can of worms – the Cathar sect, their life and times
and final persecution at the hands of the Inquisition.
This pious and peaceful movement had many followers in
the Languedoc but were deemed a threat to the established
church – and to the French throne - and so were hounded
mercilessly by Simon de Montfort and the Albigensian crusade
into seeking refuge in some of the most dramatic and spectacular
chateaux in the South of France. Our tour traces the flight
of these dissidents in the stunning landscape of the Corbières
and Pyrenees, from Carcassonne to Queribus to Montségur.
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Most
beautiful villages of France - based in the
Quercy this tour explores the stunning villages of the
Lot, Armagnac and Tarn regions which have been officially
designated 'Plus beaux villages de France'. more map |
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Cave
paintings of France - in the past we have
touched on these unique caves where our ancestors painted
bison, horse and woolly rhinoceros on the walls of underground
caverns. This year we launch an escorted tour entirely
devoted to the exploration and understanding of these rupestrian
wonders. Based in Sarlat (of course) we'll be looking at
Lascaux, Font de Gaume, Pech Merle and many more. more |
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A
Tale of Pink Cities - the extraordinary 'pink'
brick of Toulouse and other mediaeval centres of the Midi
give rise to this unique tour of discovery. From the pink
marble facing on Toulouse's city hall to the Bishop's Palace
in Albi by way of the Ingres museum in Montauban ... a
feast of brique rose ... more map |
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Cities
of Art in the French Midi - a five day tour
in the triangle Toulouse-Carcassonne-Albi with accommodation
in one of France's well-preserved 'ancient monuments'.
Toulouse-Lautrec, Goya and Pierre-Paul Riquet on the menu. more |
