Fully Escorted Tours
You will have a friendly, knowledgeable tour guide throughout your stay. From breakfast until dinner, our guide will be with you at all time, making sure you’re getting the best quality experience. She will eat with you, translate for you, drive you, take care of you and make your stay a one-of-a-kind experience. On the painting workshops: it means that the teacher doesn’t have to worry about anything else besides teaching. The tour leader takes care of all the logistics and solves any problem that occurs.
Gourmet Food
Our knowledge of the local culture allows us to introduce you to the authentic culture and traditions, through gastronomical food and wines. Whether on a painting holiday or on a cultural tour, we will discover European “art de vivre”. From gourmet restaurants to lunch picnics, eating will always be an experience you will remember.
Small Group Tours
Our small tour sizes ensure a personalized and authentic local experience for each guest. It allows each traveler to get to know each other at a deeper level and creates relationships, that last way beyond the length of the tour. It is common to see women becoming travel buddies.
For the plein air painters: The small size of the group will allow you to get plenty of one-on-one instruction from the teacher.
Only One Accommodation Per Tour
On most trips, we stay at the same accommodation for the entire tour so you can feel at home without having to pack and unpack every day. Best of all, we always choose an ideal base location from where we can take you on a wide variety of nearby daily excursions without having to drive for long periods of time.
Comfortable Transportation
Because of the small group environment, you will be driven in a comfortable air-conditioned 9 seat van, not in a huge monster motor coach. The guide/driver will stop anytime for pictures or any other stops request.
On the painting workshops: You will be driven to the painting sites, so no need to carry your painting supplies on long walks.