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La Platriere
based: Auvergne, France
website: www.laplatriere.co.uk
Holidays with a difference! Affordable French cooking courses with excursions to rural French cheese farm; livestock markets and vineyard. Hands-on learning from French chef (English translation.) Wine tours and wine courses visiting well-known vineyards during summer and autumn. Or be pampered on Christmas and New Year getaways.
| cookery | gastronomic | wine appreciation/tasting | wine tours | retreats | self development | Christmas and New Year | France |
La Torretta
based: Rieti, Italy
website: www.latorrettabandb.com
Superb accommodation in a 15th century palazzo in Casperia, a medieval hilltown
in the Sabine Hills, north of Rome. The beautifully furnished
rooms have stunning views. Breakfast is served on a panoramic terrace and features
delicious local produce. Activities include, walking, climbing, cooking, wine
tasting and tours of cities like Rome, Orvieto and Viterbo.
| walking / trekking / hiking | climbing
/ scrambling | cookery | wine appreciation / tasting | historical tours | weddings / honeymoons | Italy |
Max & Me – Tuscany Cooking Holiday
based: Tuscany, Italy
website: www.tuscany-cooking.com
Gourmet weekends in Florence: practical cookery courses in the heart of the Florence hills, just a few minutes from Brunelleschi's dome and Giotto's tower, for people who are passionate about culinary art, who want to rediscover age-old flavours and the typical products of Tuscany and Liguria.
| cookery | gastronomic | weekends / short breaks | Italy |
Motus in Sardinia
based: Sardinia, Italy
website: www.motus.sardinia.it
A Sardinia known by few, tours and sojourns designed around traveller's
wishes. Travel ideas also suitable for off-site company events.
Genuine cuisine, charming hotels, history, traditions, art and painting.
High-quality trips in a marvellous landscape, in a land of a unique
culture in the Mediterranean Sardinia.
| sailing (large boat
/ sail ship) | cookery | gastronomic | wine appreciation / tasting
| country crafts | painting / drawing | festivals / carnivals |
historical tours | tailor made | ethical / ecotourism | Sardinia
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Myres Castle
based: Fife, Scotland, UK
website: www.myrescastle.com
Myres Castle, near Edinburgh, Fife, offers day and residential cookery classes
for individuals, with resident chef Christopher Trotter. Myres Castle is a 5
star, exclusive use, property accepting bookings from 618 people for house
parties, family celebrations, weddings, corporate meetings and incentives and Christmas
& New Year celebrations.
| cookery | Christmas and New Year
| team building / management courses | tailor made | weddings / honeymoons | Scotland |
Nick Nairn Cook School
based: Stirling, Scotland, UK
website: www.nicknairncookschool.com
Cook with celebrity chef Nick Nairn at the Nick Nairn Cook School in the foothills of the Trossachs in Scotland. Offering 1 and 5 day classes with Nick Nairn himself or classes with John Webber, Alan Mathieson or Maxine Clark. Accommodation not included but with a list of personal recommendations available on the site.
| cookery | celebrities / stars | Worldwide |
Organic Tuscany
based: Florence, Italy
website: www.organictuscany.org
Week-long 'farm to table' organic cooking holidays in the Tuscan hills. Includes visits to local organic farms, cooking classes using organic ingredients, olive oil and wine tastings and tours of Siena, Florence and San Gimignano. Two courses a year are 100% vegetarian.
| cookery | gastronomic | weekends / short breaks | vegetarian | ethical / ecotourism | Italy |
Singles in Crete
based: Crete, Greece
website: www.singlesincrete.com
Sociable holidays to Crete for the independent single traveller.
Discover the real Crete tourists never see. Small, family owned
Mistral hotel exclusively for singles. Exclusive personal tours,
wine tasting, Cretan cookery courses, walking holidays, Easter breaks.
Good food nice company and excellent atmosphere. No single supplement.
| singles holidays | wine
appreciation / tasting | cookery | folk / regional dance | riding
| walking / trekking / hiking | aromatherapy | massage | beauty
therapies | Greece | Czech
Republic |
SnowCrazy
based: Tarentaise, France
website: www.snowcrazy.co.uk
Chalet based ski and snowboard holidays, and summer breaks walking, multi-activity, motorcycling and mountain biking. Also 'The Ultimate Chalet Host Cookery Course' – an all encompassing course designed to teach everything needed to run a successful chalet in the Alps with style and minimum fuss. Learn quick, easy recipes, for large numbers at altitude.
| skiing (piste) | snowboarding | cookery | multi-activity | walking / trekking / hiking | mountain biking | motorcycling | gap year | France |
Swinton
Park
based: North Yorkshire, UK
website: www.swintonpark.com
A luxury castle hotel in North Yorkshire set in 200 acres of parkland with a
wide range of country pursuits including golf, fishing, walking and riding.
Join Rosemary Shrager, the celebrity chef, at her highly acclaimed cookery school.
Residential and day courses, also available for private parties and team building
and ideal for up-market stag or hen weekends.
| cookery | gastronomic | stag / hen
| team building / management courses | garden tours | golf | riding | freshwater
fishing / angling | horse racing | falconry | UK | England |
Three
Choirs Vineyards
based: Gloucestershire, England,
UK
website: www.threechoirs.com
Three Choirs Vineyards Estate is England's leading wine producer,
the hotel is set in 100 acres of vineyards and is a wonderful place
to relax and enjoy fine wines from around the world and superb english
cooking. Offering wine tastings, walks around the estate and much
more.
| gastronomic | wine appreciation
/ tasting | wine tours | wine making | cookery | weddings / honeymoons
| weekends / short breaks | family / child friendly | beer / pub
tours | England | UK |
Toscana Mia
based: Tuscany, Italy
website: www.welcometuscany.com
Italian cookery, wine and language classes in Tuscany with an Italian family. Cooking with Simonetta and Paola, both really fluent in English, is fun, lively and friendly. They follow traditional family recipes using fresh, natural ingredients, or accompanying you to visit typical italian markets, wineries and food producers.
| cookery | wine tours | Italian language | family/child friendly | singles holidays | tailor made | vegetarian | weekend breaks/short breaks | Italy |
Vegetarian
Cookery School (The)
based: Bath, UK
website: www.vegetariancookeryschool.com
Cooking courses to learn how to cook exciting,
uncomplicated and unpretentious vegetarian food. We offer highly
instructive, hands on cookery courses, reasonably priced and held
in the beautiful city of Bath, England. Cooking courses and weekends
for beginners and those with more experience.
| cookery | vegetarian
| UK |
Villa and Culinary School
based: Provence, France
website: www.villaandculinaryschool.com
Where gastronomy meets with fun and luxury, hands-on culinary courses with a team of dedicated and passionate chefs. Improve your culinary skills with the youngest star-rated chef in France and visit some of the best wineries in Provence, while staying in one of the most exclusive properties in Cannes.
| gastronomic | cookery | wine tours | wine appreciation / tasting | weekends / short breaks | France |
Warner Leisure Hotels Featured Site
based: Hertfordshire, UK
website: Experience Breaks
Check out Warner's 'Be Inspired To Try Something New' section and select from: cake and biscuit baking, working with chocolate, cake decorating, fruit carving, wine apprecation and other tasty courses. Or go to 'Out & About' and try: wine tasting and vineyard trips, brewery and cider mill vists or a chocolate trip to the village of Bourneville.
| cookery | gastronomic | chocolate | wine appreciation / tasting | wine tours | beer / pub tours | cider tours / making | England | Wales | UK
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Watts Cooking in Italy?
based: Apulia, Italy
website: www.watts-cooking.co.uk
Learn Italian home cooking and traditional southern dishes from Italian housewives, who will share local recipes handed down through generations. Experience the authentic Italian way of life, wander through olive groves, and taste the olive oil and fabulous wines of Salento. Discover Puglia where the sun is warm all year round.
| cookery | gastronomic | wine appreciation / tasting | wine tours | weekends / short breaks | Italy |
World Expeditions
based: London, UK (offices in Australia, USA, Canada & New Zealand)
website: www.worldexpeditions.com
Originating in 1975, World Expeditions are specialists in trekking and small group adventure holidays. From trekking in Nepal, cycling in Tuscany, cruising in Antarctica, making sushi in Japan, family safaris in Tanzania, walking in Patagonia or climbing to the top of Kilimanjaro, holidays to suit all ages and fitness levels.
| walking / trekking / hiking | unguided walking | cycle touring | mountaineering | animals / safari | family / child friendly | charity expeditions / holidays | cruises (ocean) | cookery | tailor made | ethical / ecotourism | Worldwide |
agacooking.com
based: North Carolina, USA
website: www.agacooking.com
Cooking breaks for Aga owners, 3 day courses and day breadmaking
course in Asheville, North Carolina.
| cookery | USA |
Ashes
Barn
based: Cumbria, UK
website: www.ashesbarn.co.uk
Hands-on Aga cooking breaks at Ashes Barn B&B with Gillian Wray,
an experienced teacher and Aga cook.
| cookery | England |
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