Sally’s Guided Tours In Paris
Your Great Days in Paris gets independent travelers to get to their best in and around Paris—carefully considering their interests, travel-styles and budgets through advising, coaching, our own intimately scaled tours, our articles and e-guides, and our ability to match you with superb custom guides to book as you choose.
If you prefer expertly guided, small-group travel, Your Great Days in Paris leads acclaimed guided culinary and other specialty tours in France. Our great-value tours are always intimately sized, ten guests or less, and have knowledgeable leaders. Our tours offer a rare chance to see, experience, sample and savor both on and off the beaten path. We love French culture and enjoy sharing our favorite places, people, and experiences that make Paris so delightfully special.
You’ll see our new Getaways for ‘Girlfriends’ here too. These are a little different than our week long guided tours. They are pre-designed, flexible, day-long Paris-immersion experiences led by our in-Paris colleagues that can be scheduled as you wish all year round.
Our Tours
You are invited to Bask
in the delights
of the pays Basque
Sally Peabody's NEW Basque Country Culinary Tour
October 3-11. 2009
Distinctively delicious regional cuisine, unique culture & architecture, a splendidly varied countryside including world-class seaside resorts, atmospheric fishing villages, surf-fringed cliffs, sandy beaches, deep-green mountain valleys, tranquil rural villages of charm, vivacious small cities replete with medieval quarters, cathedrals & cobbled streets. It’s all there for your enjoyment in the French & Spanish Pays Basque. This nine-day trip will provide guests with a fine taste of this delightful region. In France we will visit Biarritz, Bayonne, St. Jean Pied du Port, St. Jean de Luz, & Espelette. In Spain, we visit San Sebastian, Spain’s ‘hottest’ culinary mecca.
Highlights of the trip will include:
- A guided visit to Les Halles in Biarritz with a teaching-chef. After learning about the uniquely Basque seafood, Jambon de Bayonne, Espelette peppers, ewes milk cheese, wines, gateaux Basque & myriad other goodies, we will have a cooking ‘party’ to prepare a delicious lunch with fresh foods from the market.
- Exploring vibrant markets & interesting quarters in Bayonne, St. Jean Pied du Port, St. Jean de Luz and San Sebastian.
- Visits to culinary artisans, including a tour of a chocolatier’s production atelier to learn about the origins of French chocolate in the Bayonne/Biarritz area. We will visit a vigneron to taste & learn about the region’s distinctive Irrouleguy wines. And we will enjoy a dégustation of Basque cheese & charcuterie.
- In San Sebastian, one evening will be devoted to a ‘tapas crawl’ where we will dine and drink in the legendary tapas bars in the gothic ‘old quarter’.
- Shopping for Basque table linens, espadrilles, pottery & other regional treasures.
This Basque Country Culinary tour is limited to six guests. Included: hotel double occupancy (two nights in Paris, four in Bayonne, three in San Sebastian). Daily breakfast. Meals & tastings as detailed in itinerary. Round-trip flights from Paris Orly to Biarritz/Bayonne airport. Airport transfers to & from Paris Orly. Transportation in the Pays Basque in a comfortable minivan with a knowledgeable local driver-guide who a fluent English-speaker. Optional: during our free day in San Sebastian guests can visit nearby Bilbao or book lunch at one of the famed Michelin-starred restaurants.
Price: $3,695. Deposit: $350 Single supplement available.
Questions: Call Sally. 781 391 6183 or email sally@yourgreatdaysinparis.com
New: Getaways for ‘Girlfriends’ In Paris
Your Great Days in Paris wants women to fall in love…with Paris! We’re offering flexible daylong experiential-immersions for savvy women travelers. Everyone IS different after all… Customize these great days in Paris as part of a longer trip, for a long weekend or anytime you choose. Learn about French culture and experience the incomparable Parisian lifestyle as our convivial expert guides take you to shop, savor and sample your way across the City of Light. Ideal for women of all ages, multi-generational families, women traveling together, Getaways for ‘Girlfriends’ custom tours and talks are available all year. Pick one, two, three or enjoy all four getaways. And talk to us about your other ideas for custom touring… chances are we can design a great day for you.
Learn more about 'Getaways for Girlfriends'
Paris Culinary Treasures Tour
2008 tour dates - May 10-17 and October 4-11
Our bi-annual Paris Culinary Treasures Tours have been highlighted by the Boston Globe, International Travel News, San Diego Union Tribune, La Maison de la France and Bonjour Paris. These great-value opportunities will have you tasting your way across Paris, exploring the best French and multi-cultural markets, dining in carefully selected gourmet-bistros and winebars, tasting wines, cheese, chocolates, exploring the outstanding food boutiques and meeting culinary artisans--- and much more.
As one guest on our spring ’06 culinary tour said ‘I loved these artisans that we talked and tasted with. They are amazing, passionate and knowledgeable. Every day was different… and wonderful!”
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Tea.. Chocolate.. Paris
April 5-12, 2008
Autumn 2008 TBA
Paris, capital of the world for chocolate? Well known. Paris capital of the world for fine teas? Yes! But less well known!
If fine tea and chocolate are two of your favorite food groups this is an experience for you! Sally Peabody, Your Great Days in Paris, and will take ten guests, maximum, to immerse in Paris’ very best tea, chocolate and patisserie, all over the city of light. We'll enjoy tastings and visits to the most atmospheric chocolatiers, tea salons, tea-sellers and patisseries. We will explore how the French Art of Tea includes creative uses of tea in chocolate making and in crafting irresistible pastries and macarons. A most delicious and revelatory experience of tea (and chocolate) in the cup and on the plate.
Your Great Days in Paris’ Invites You!
Culinary & Cultural Treasures of the French-Southwest October 15-21, 2008
A Delicious Immersion in Regional Cuisine & Wines, Markets, Culinary Artisans, Medieval Villages & Famed Pre-history Sites
Join two expert leaders, Sabine le Dualt of Paris Authentique and Sally Peabody of Your Great Days in Paris for an intimately scaled gastronomic tour in southwest France. This unique tour offers Francophiles an immersion in the bountiful markets, charming villages, and in the wine and cuisine of this glorious region of rural France. In addition to its gastronomic specialties, this unspoiled region abounds in architectural, cultural and historic temptations. Sabine is a native of Quercy and her local knowledge assures that we will explore, experience and enjoy each day, on and off the beaten path.
The tour is limited to six guests. While this tour is primarily a culinary tour, we will have ample time to visit historic bastide towns and charming medieval villages, many of which were important sites during the era of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. We will visit the superb pre-history site, the caves of Pech Merle.
Once in the southwest, we will base in comfortable Bed and Breakfast accommodations in the charming village of St. Antonin Noble Val, reputed for its lovely location, ancient town hall and major weekend market. We will enjoy day trips taking us into various villages and departments of southwest France including the Dordogne, Quercy, the Aveyron, the Lot, and Tarn et Garonne.
Tour Details:
Included: Two nights hotel in Paris, four nights B&B in southwest France, double occupancy. Breakfast daily. Lunch or dinner daily including wine, coffee/tea. Visits to artisans, various tastings, visit to a winemaker. Admissions: Pech-Merle, Gouffre de Padirac. Two leaders, transportation via Sabine le Dualt’s Renault mini-van. Not included: airfares, airport transfers in Paris.
Price: $3,375 double-occupancy. Single supplement: $350. Deposit: $350 via check to Your Great Days in Paris, LLC Balance due with signed Tour Agreement 70 days prior to departure. Payable by major credit card or check.
Interested?
Call Sally Peabody at 781 391 6183 or email:
sally@yourgreatdaysinparis.com
We will get you to the best in Paris.
Questions? Ask Sally Peabody sally@yourgreatdaysinparis.com