Featuring Insider experiences with award-winning Canadian travel expert and blogger, Journeywoman
(www.trafalgar.com) 11-day Flavors of Italy trip that will have guests satisfying their gourmet taste buds with Bolognese in Bologna, Chianti in Tuscany and prosciutto in Parma. Starting in Rome and ending in Venice, the trip takes guests to some of Italy’s best gastronomic cities. This featured trip is one of Trafalgar’s special Italy deals and with the weakening Euro this is the best time to visit Italy this summer.
Canadian blogger and founder of Journeywoman, the largest online resource and gathering place for women travellers, Evelyn Hannon, has travelled with Trafalgar a handful of times and her experience in Italy is one she fondly remembers, especially because of the food!
Fresh and Simple
"I like unadorned food made from natural ingredients and that’s what Tuscan cuisine is all about. Give me even the simplest Tuscan bread dipped in local virgin olive oil washed down with full-bodied local red wine and I’m happy. I still dream of the simple spaghetti with a Pomodoro sauce, ribollita and freshly picked basilico (basil) that tastes like none other I’ve ever tasted before,” says Hannon.
Guests will enjoy a special Be My Guest dinner in a family-owned vineyard overlooking the rolling Chianti
hills and taste the wines and olive oils the family produces on the land. “I
loved the Be My Guest experience that took me deeper into the culture of Tuscany
– meeting interesting locals, picking olives in Fiesole, sampling wines, having
a 1000 photo opportunities that I probably would not have gotten on my own. I
must say, I had lots of ‘bests,’” says Hannon. "I like unadorned food made from natural ingredients and that’s what Tuscan cuisine is all about. Give me even the simplest Tuscan bread dipped in local virgin olive oil washed down with full-bodied local red wine and I’m happy. I still dream of the simple spaghetti with a Pomodoro sauce, ribollita and freshly picked basilico (basil) that tastes like none other I’ve ever tasted before,” says Hannon.
A highlight of the trip is Trafalgar’s unique Tuscan Lifestyle Experience, where they will spend the day shopping for ingredients at a fruit and vegetable market, interacting with the locals. Lunch is then prepared by guests using the purchased produce, as they learn about Italian cuisine by a professional chef.
Just Like Famiglia
"I loved (with a capital 'L') our cooking experience with the charismatic Chef Libero in Tuscany, and that's saying a lot because ordinarily I don’t like to cook. However, this was no ordinary lesson – the chef and his staff (including his mother and father-in-law) truly treated us like friends of the family. We all cooked and ate together, drank endless glasses of wine, and sang and danced together. It was all so authentic, I had to keep reminding myself that I wasn’t really Italian," Hannon fondly recalls of her trip.
"I loved (with a capital 'L') our cooking experience with the charismatic Chef Libero in Tuscany, and that's saying a lot because ordinarily I don’t like to cook. However, this was no ordinary lesson – the chef and his staff (including his mother and father-in-law) truly treated us like friends of the family. We all cooked and ate together, drank endless glasses of wine, and sang and danced together. It was all so authentic, I had to keep reminding myself that I wasn’t really Italian," Hannon fondly recalls of her trip.
To see the cooking experience you could partake in with Chef Libero, click on the video below featuring popular TV
personality Kerri-Anne Kennerly.
For more information, please contact your local travel agent or visit
www.trafalgar.com
and follow us on Twitter at @TrafalgarCanada and Facebook.
Terms and Conditions:
Conditions: Subject to availability and may be withdrawn at any time
without notice. Prices above are per person, land-only, based on double
occupancy and are in Canadian Dollars for above departure dates only. Deals are
not combinable with Early Payment Discounts, Last Minute Deals or any other
promotional offers. Full payment due at time of booking. These deals are only
available to travellers departing from Canada.
About Evelyn Hannon
Evelyn Hannon is the editor of
journeywoman.com, the largest online travel resource for women. At 75, she is known
as the Grandmother of Women’s Travel. Evelyn lives in Toronto, Canada but her
travels have taken her to all seven continents. She has been in China to receive
her adopted granddaughter, interviewed an African Chief in Ghana, marched in a
parade in Australia and sailed on a three-month sea voyage that circumnavigated
the globe. She attended the circus in Russia, studied at the Sorbonne in Paris
and played with the penguins in the Antarctic. Evelyn still hopes to dance in a
grass skirt in the South Pacific.
About Trafalgar:Trafalgar is the
world’s leading guided vacation company offering exceptional quality and value
itineraries to a range of exciting destinations. With some 68 years of
experience and unrivaled local expertise, Trafalgar provides an authentic
insider’s view to create truly unique travel experiences in Europe, Britain and
Eastern Mediterranean, South Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, China,
Mexico, Central and South America, USA and Canada. www.trafalgar.com
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