Day Adventures

Even if you only have a day, you can meet an artisanal food producer, visit a handloom weaver, lunch in a family restaurant known only to the locals and tour a mediaeval mountain-top village or a villa garden. Each season has its own culinary and cultural excitements. For a taster click on the months below. With us as your guide you can relax and merge into this slow-paced world and return home with a day to remember for a lifetime. We hope you'll be so excited by this slower mode of travel that you'll come back for one of our Small Group Tours.

To receive a full list of activities in the month you plan to visit, fill in our Enquiry Form.

January

Where

Northwestern Tuscany near Lucca, Viareggio, and in the Garfagnana, the spectacularly beautiful mountainous area north of Lucca • Pisa Province (Pisa, San Miniato) • Within striking distance of Florence (Pistoia, Pescia, San Miniato)

If you're going to the Val d'Orcia (Montepulciano and Montalcino), Bologna or Parma, we can refer you to colleagues who share our philosophy of slow travel and will plan activities for you nearer to where you're staying.

Here's how it works

Decide when you want to take your holiday.
Fill in the Enquiry Form to receive a full 'Menu' of what's going on in the month of your choice. The Monthly Menus include cultural and outdoor activities as well as culinary ones.
We create an itinerary, suggest suitable restaurants and give you a costing (see below for charging basis).
We fine-tune the itinerary to suit your requirements and adjust the costing if necessary.
Once we've agreed the itinerary and the fee, we email you a booking form which you fill in and return to us with a deposit. The balance is due 8 weeks before the start of the tour or as soon as you book if less than 8 weeks before departure.

Guidelines to fees

Basic
€150 per person, half price for children aged 6–12*
Wine tasting or silkworms: add €15 per person per activity
Includes: visits to up to two artisan food producers or crafts people (for example, cheesemaker and beekeeper), lunch with wine, sightseeing along the way, friendly Sapori e Saperi guide to translate and explain

Does not include: personal expenses, extra meals or snacks, transport (see below for prices)

Creative
€190 per person, half price for children aged 6–12*

Includes: visit to a farm, create something with artisan (for example, village baker or sausage maker), tour of farm, lunch on farm with wine, sightseeing along the way, friendly Sapori e Saperi guide to translate and explain

Does not include: personal expenses, extra meals or snacks, transport (see below for prices)

Deluxe
1 person: €465
2 people: €295 per person
3 or more people: €245 per person

Not suitable for children 12 and under

Includes: truffle hunt with truffle hunter and dog, demonstration of cooking with truffles at truffle hunter's home, lunch with wine, sightseeing along the way, friendly Sapori e Saperi guide to translate and explain

Does not include: personal expenses, extra meals or snacks, transport (see below for prices)

Forage and Cook
1 person: €320
2–3 people: €220 per person
4 or more people: €180 per person

Half price for children aged 6–12*

Includes: visit to food artisan or market followed by cooking lesson using these ingredients (for example, visit cheese and ricotta maker, pick wild nettles, learn to cook ravioli filled with ricotta and nettles), lunch eating what you cooked with wine, complimentary apron, recipe booklet, sightseeing along the way, friendly Sapori e Saperi guide to translate and explain

Does not include: personal expenses, extra meals or snacks, transport (see below for prices)

All fees are for a minimum of 2 people (except where specified)

1 person: add €125 or join group when possible

8 or more people: contact me for group price

Transport
1–3 people: €250 per day
4 people: €450 per day
5–7 people: €550 per day

*In general children under 6 don't have the attention span required for these day-long educational tours. Please contact me if you would like to discuss your child's suitability for a tour or plan a personalised shorter tour.