FRANCE
A LA CARTE - a French travel agency and tour
operator based in Toulouse, SW France, is not an ordinary
travel agent. We do not have an 'out-going' side to the
business. We do not sell airline tickets. We do not produce
glossy brochures or sell bednights in 'international'
hotels.
Our agency
is adapted to the times: its offices are a room in the
historic square of St Sernin in mediaeval Toulouse, its
brochure a range of websites visible the world over.
We started
out by asking a fundemental question: what do visitors
to France want to see ... on their second or third visit? After they've
seen Paris and Provence and the Riviera?
We came
up with a whole range of topics and places:
*
hunting for black truffles in the Quercy and then cooking
with them.
*
exploring the last remaining caves where original prehistoric
paintings can be admired
*
learning how to cook 'french cuisine' in a real french
château
*
languishing in the luxuriant waters of a turn-of-the-century
Spa in the french Pyrenees
*
admiring the great southern gothic cathedrals of Albi,
Toulouse, St Lizier
*
cruising the Canal du Midi in a solar-powered barge
and and
and we could go on for ever. Or invite you to tell us:
after all, this is FRANCE à la carte.
We then
organised our ideas into simple, short and easily-understood
packages, self-drive or escorted, and put them on our sites:
france à la
carte for general
short theme breaks
france-wine-and-culture for
escorted breaks
à la
carte SKI for
short winter sports breaks
à la
carte gitês for
self-catering accommodation in France
