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Tuscany Truffles Autumn Cooking & Touring
long week-end (2 nights)
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Tuscany Truffles Autumn Cooking & Touring long week-end (2 nights) - small group Guided Tour.
Euro 780.00
This trip combines cooking lessons, a truffles experience, with tourist visits. It is ideal for those who want to visit the great Tuscan art cities independently on their own and want to add a long weekend of cooking lessons to their cultural experience.
A fine short vacation with the best of Tuscany pleasures: food, truffles, wine, olive oil, art and nature, living an unforgettable experience, in touch with tradition, history, nature, all in a small group.
2-nights weekend program, from Friday to Sunday.
This tour is for a small group of a maximum of 8 participants.
The tour is guided by a group of experienced, friendly touristic and gastronomic
Tuscan guides:
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DAY BY DAY ITINERARY
Day 1 Friday / San Miniato
Arrival to San Miniato in the afternoon, after 5 PM. We will pick you up for free at the San Miniato Railroad Station from 5 to 6 PM, or at the Pisa Airport at 5 PM, for an additional transfer fee of Euro 30 per person.
Welcome at your hotel, where you will settle into your room after meeting your hosts. You will meet your fellow traveling companions at a Welcome Meeting with Aperitivo, where your leader will give you a briefing on what lies ahead on your tour. This is followed by a dinner at your hotel at 8 PM.
Day 2 Saturday / San Gimignano & Cookong Lesson
Morning cooking lesson in a farm-house by the Tuscan home-cook Emanuela, based on traditional Tuscan recipes and saffron specialties, followed by lunch at her house.
In alternative, if your group is staying at "the Boscarecce", in the morning, cooking class by the chef Bartolo based on historical, traditional and creative Tuscan cuisine, followed by lunch at his restaurant.
In the afternoon, guided tour to San Gimignano, the famous medieval “towers town”
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Home made dinner at your lodge.
Day 3 Sunday / San Miniato
Morning cooking class by Loredana at her farm house, based on hand made pasta and Mediterranean sauces, followed by lunch at her farm house.
Visit of San Miniato medieval town in the afternoon with visit of the truffle festival and market.
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Departures in the afternoon at 5 pm.
We will take you to the train station of San Miniato, a service included in the price. On request, we will take you to the Pisa Airport instead, for an additional cost of 30 Euro per person.
Lodging in double-room at Vallacchi,
TOTAL PRICE, lodging in double room, classes, tours, transportation,
meals and everything:
Euro 780.00 (per person, taxes included). Single-room extra Euro 80.
For your best enjoyment the tour is limited to 8 persons.
Changes to the program will be communicated to the participants together
with the travel vouchers, and at that time approval of the changes will be
asked for, last minute changes will be communicated at the reception.
DATES YEAR 2008: see the CALENDAR
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| Group Size: | Minimum 2, Maximum 12 |
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Terms and conditions of payment and cancellation:
- A payment of 50% is due at reservation. The travel voucher will be sent after the payment has been cashed. This advance payment will be reimbursed at 80% in case of cancellation up to 30 days before the date of the trip, it will not be reimbursed for cancellations after the 30 days before the trip date.
- The balance of the payment is due before 30 days prior to the trip date. The balance will be reimbursed at 60% for cancellations before 20 days from the trip date. The balance will not be reimbursed for cancellations after 20 days before the trip date.
- Payments with credit card are accepted. Payments with cashier check, money order or personal check are accepted for payment of the balance.
Getting to San Miniato
Flying note: We recommend that you land at
Pisa Galileo Galilei (code PSA) International Airport, check the convenient
fares of
RyanAir from London Stansted (STN). The airport is
located near to Pisa and is the more common arrival airport for
flights originating in Europe. For flights coming from North America there
are easy connections in Rome, Milano Malpensa and Paris.
Transfer from the Pisa airport to San Miniato can be arranged on
request, at 5 PM, included in the price.
Train note: there are direct trains to San Miniato from the Pisa airport, from Pisa downtown and from the Florence Santa Maria Novella station, one almost every hour. We suggest visiting www.trenitalia.com for exact timetable information. Should you be arriving by rail, Florence's central Stazione di Santa Maria Novella is a hub for direct services from cities such as Milan (three hours), Venice (three hours) and Bologna (one hour).
Driving note: from Florence or from Pisa, take the S.G.C freeway, also called Fi-Pi-Li (Firenze-Pisa-Livorno), and exit at San Miniato. Not far from the exit there is the San Miniato railroad station, where we can meet you.
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