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Eat, cook, pray about the world, 10 gourmet holidays ideas from Joan

20/1/2014

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Basque in the luxury
Food heaven in Spain is in the Basque country, around San Sebastian. The city has the highest concentration of Michelin stars in a small city with three three-star premises. Every bar deserves a star too, as the quality of pintxos on offer is fantastic. Join San Sebastian Food for four days of tantalising cooking and tastings including in a Sociedad, a private gastronomic club,€525pp.
sansebastianfood.com


Grape expectations
France, home of food and wine, is the ultimate gourmet destination and the six-day Bordeaux Wine Experience is the tops. Visit in autumn, the most important time of the year, to enjoy premier cru wine chateaux in Medoc, Saint Emilion, Graves and Sauternes. Combined with three days of French culinary arts, this holiday is foodie heaven. Price from €3,995pps includes accommodation in a private chateau.
bxwinex.com.


Souk up the atmosphere
Morocco appears on the departure board from April with Ryanair, and how better to experience it than through its cuisine. Gourmet on Tour will take you from the private luxury riad in the Medina to experience the souks, desert oases, snowy Atlas mountains, Berber kitchens and cedar forests through its culinary traditions. Prices for three days tours from €890pps.
gourmetontour.com.

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Down at heel
Explore the very heel of Italy through its architecture and wine, see villages with extraordinary Trullis and towns with stunning Baroque confections. Accessing through Bari, a suggested itinerary from Discovery Puglia includes visits to Lecce, Gallipoli by the Ionian Sea, Otranto for St Peter’s Byzantine Basilica and Nardo. Visit wineries in Leverano and Salento and enjoy food of the region. A five-day itinerary with traditional accommodation, wine museum tour and two cellar tours with food and wine tastings will cost from €450pps.
discoverypuglia.com.

Welsh rarebit
Who would think that there would be a vineyard in Wales teaching culinary courses? Angela Gray, chef and TV presenter, returned to her native Glamorganshire to set up Llanerch Vineyard and cookery school. Here you can delve into the intricacies of cooking skills, ethnic cooking, special and seasonal menus or just come to enjoy staying at a vineyard 15 kms from Cardiff. Cooking classes from £60 (€72) and overnight stays from £110 (€132) per night for two.
llanerch-vineyard.co.uk


Cannes do
How better to learn how to cook then at the beginning, in the market, choosing ingredients with the experts. Where better than in a French market, one that is famous the world over, Cannes. One of the Travel Department’s food trips this year will be from June 10th to Nice and will also include visits to an olive oil mill, touring the markets, a city tour and lots of French cuisine, from €550 for three nights including flights, four-star accommodation, tours and cooking class.
traveldepartment.ie.


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