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Unique
Travel Experiences
 
Looking
for something different and exciting you didn't find in our "France Highlights"
or "Spain Highlights"? For example... Driving a Ferrari in Monaco or
tasting Jabugo ham in Andalusia. The following list offers a wide choice of unique
opportunities that will make your trip that much more memorable. Most
of these are not on standard tour itineraries. So, many of them are privately
guided tours, either on foot or with your personal driver/guide. Please contact
us for details. But
first... here are four of the most commom, available almost everywhere: Cooking
classes Tapas
tours in Spain Wine
tours and tastings
Bakery
and pastry tour Le
Marais chocolate and pastry tour Latin
Quarter gourmet tour Montmartre
local gastronomy Paris
by night tours Fashion
and shopping tour Dinner
with French host - Dinner
at "Le Procope" the oldest restaurant in Paris
Photo
tour with a professional photographer Meet
French master craftsmen (jewelry, marquetry, ivory, tortoiseshell, crystal, silver
and more) Tour
of the National Museum of Ceramics in Sevres Tour
of the Opera Garnier Tour
of the Passages (covered, pedestrian only, shopping streets) Walking
tours (Da Vinci Code, Montmartre, Latin Quarter, French Revolution, WWII, etc.) 2CV
(Citroen Deux-Chevaux) tours (classic Paris, secret Paris, shopping, parks and
gardens, custom itineraries, etc.) - Visit
the top floor of the Eiffel Tower
- Visit
the towers of Notre Dame cathedral
- Visit
the Catacombs
Around
Paris Houses
of artists in Ile de France Gothic
cathedrals around Paris: Chartres, Amiens, Beauvais, Rouen, Senlis, Bourges, Troyes,
Strasbourg, etc.
- Music
and water show in the palace gardens (2011 dates and times)
Saturdays and Sundays
from Apr 2 to Oct 30 (except May 1)
Fountains working from 11:00 to 12:00
and 15:30 to 17:00
Tuesdays from May 24 to Jun 28
Fountains working from
11:00 to 12:00 and 14:30 to 16:00
- Marie
Antoinette's hamlet (the Trianons, the farm and the boating pond)
Burgundy - Guedelon,
a 13th-century fortress under construction using period tools and methods (no
power equipment). See the stone cutters, rope makers, blacksmith, sawyers and
carpenters at work.
Modern art tour: The Maeght Foundation plus the Matisse, Chagall, Fernand Leger,
Picasso museums and much more Excursion
across the border into Italy Monaco
by night Drive
a Ferrari
on the French Riviera
Provence [top] SPAIN Gothic
cathedral of Burgos, 150 miles north of Madrid* Abbey
of Santo Domingo de Silos, 150 miles north of Madrid* Medieval
castle and wine museum of Penafiel, 120 miles north of Madrid* Roman
Segobriga near Saelices and the royal summer palace of Aranjuez Day
trips by high-speed train to Valencia (avant-garde architecture by Santiago Calatrava),
Cordoba (la Mezquita, the alcazar, plus the Jewish Quarter and museum) and Seville
(la Giralda cathedral, the alcazar and the Jewish Quarter)
*with
stop in Gumiel de Hizan (Aranda de Duero) for a wine tasting at the Portia Winery
and admire its avant-garde building designed by famous architect, Norman Foster
Barcelona Dali
Triangle: Museum in Figueres, his seaside residence in Cadaques (Port Lligat)
and Gala's castle in Pubol Colonia
Guell, a complex of Modernista residences and a chapel designed by Antoni Gaudi Roman
Tarragona, just south of Barcelona (an aqueduct and coliseum) Cistercian
monasteries in Poblet, Santes Creus and Vallbona de les Monges
Zambra
Gypsy flamenco in Sacromonte Walking
tour of the Albaycin with spectacular views of the Alhambra Tour
to the summer home (now a museum) of Frederico Garcia Lorca
Train
tour from the Basque Country to Galicia, through Cantabria and Asturias in
"Green Spain"
Andalusian
horse dressage demonstration in Jerez de la Frontera Roman
civilization at the National Museum of Roman Art in Merida, Extremadura: a coliseum,
a theater, mosaics, artifacts, excavations... Jamon
Iberico ham excursion to Aracena and Jabugo. Discover how the best and most expensive
ham in the world is made. Olive
oil mill in Zahara de la Sierra, along the road of the "white villages"
(Ronda and Arcos de la Frontera)
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Niki
de St Phalle sculpture
Place Stravinsky, Paris 
The windmills of
Don Quijote 
Olive
oil tasting 
Dalliance in Burgundy 
Bagpipes in Brittany 
The Way of St James
(Camino de Santiago) 
Thatch-roofed
house
in Normandy 
Celtic
cross in Galicia |
