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Are you a passionate foodie and traveler? Then you might fancy new Michelin Food & Travel tours, Michelin-themed trips around the world.
Michelin, the world hotel and restaurant guide creator, works with niche tour operator Roadtrips Inc. to create Michelin Food & Travel experiences.
The luxury culinary travel tours feature unique experiences with chefs and establishments that have received the Michelin star-rating.
Foodie holiday in Europe, anyone? Learning holiday specialist GoLearnTo.com has added new specialist cookery courses ranging from making olive oil in Florence to crepes suzette in Brittany.
“(Our) customers have been cooking up a storm all over the world, with typical 3 course menus no longer cutting it for these foodie fanatics,” says GoLearnTo.com.
The company offers 100+ cookery holidays including cooking and yoga; cooking and horse riding and cooking and language learning.
Here are 10 new Foodie Holidays:
Feel like chilling out in Tuscany with your family? Then check out the family-friendly, Italian spa Hotel Adler Thermae Spa & Relax Resort.
In the Tuscan Hills, the 90-room retreat features sculpted pools of thermal waters for bathing, morning yoga, fitness classes, 130+ custom spa treatments and local cuisine.
Resort rooms have rich wood furnishings, warm-toned draperies and private terraces or balconies overlooking the Orcia Valley.
The Sanoner brothers, the spa owners, “like to live and feel well, relax and have their families with them”, the philosophy behind Adler Thermae.
The spa offers country walks to the village of Bagno Vignoni, nearby cheese factory or vineyards. Guests can borrow bicycles to explore the hills or go on guided excursions.
A daily schedule for children includes arts, crafts, videos, swimming, yoga, exercises and walking or bus excursions. A teen lounge features video games, hiking, mountain biking, trips to local farms and vineyards and special spa treatments.
For more info, check out Adler Thermae online.
Image courtesy of the Italian Tourist Board
Walking in the mountains can be transforming travel experiences. From walking the Scottish Highlands to hiking the U.S. Rockies to trekking in Nepal, there are adventures for every mountain lover.
At LiveTravelMountains.com, our sister travel blog, we’re dedicated to mountain travel and living around the world. Recently, we learned that World Expeditions is launching a new tour along the Great Himalaya Trail,the world’s longest alpine walking track.
Here are 5 more mountain adventures:
Are you a green romantic getting married? Take heart, if you’re planning a destination wedding, elopement or overseas honeymoon, you can always wedding travel greener.
Let’s say every eco-resort is fully booked, do your best to reduce your carbon footprint wherever you can. Think about packing lighter, greening your transportation, conserving water, reducing/reusing/recycling and more.
When you’re planning the big day(s), support local culture and communities through ways including hiring locally-owned businesses, buying local products and services and choosing authentic experiences.
What are the top 10 most popular overseas wedding destinations? Foreign exchange specialist Caxton FX and UK bridal consultant Lisa Burton suggest these:
Happy Terra Madre Day! Today is the first worldwide day to promote sustainable food and eating locally.
On the occasion of Slow Food International’s 20th birthday, Terra Madre Day is being marked by 100,000+ farmers, producers, cooks, students and consumers around the world.
Terra Madre Day celebrates “locally produced food that is good, clean and fair: food that tastes good and is produced without harming the environment and taking social justice issues into consideration.” Across 150 countries, Slow Food’s 1,300 convivia (local chapters) and the Terra Madre network of 2,000 food communities will participate in this global occasion.
Terra Madre Day celebrations will range from communal meals, themed film screenings and cultural events to excursions to producers, campaigns, meetings and discussions, food and taste education activities and local gatherings of producers, cooks or youth.
Check out the above world map here on the Terra Madre Day website to find events going on in a community nearest you.
What will you be doing this Terra Madre Day? If you’re interested, join the local celebration in your community. Or you can plan your own personal celebration wherever you are, from dining out at Venice restaurants, finding green NYC restaurants or buying local food at a Vancouver market.
Here are some of the Terra Madre Day activities around the world:
For more info, check out Terra Madre Day online.
Images courtesy of Slow Food International
Are you an eco-conscious traveler with style? Take heart, eco-friendly fashion seems more available everywhere.
Around the world, companies are creating original designs from all types of greener materials including hemp, linen, organic cotton and wool, recycled polyester fleece, wild silk, bamboo and more.
Italy’s Cehoz.com recently sent traveling greener one of the company’s stylish, organic cotton t-shirts to review. Soft, silky and comfortable, these are Euro eco-chic answers to the classic black t-shirt.
The raw cotton used by Cehoz comes from organic agriculture in Turkey. Spinning of the cotton, fabrics, weaving, dyeing and finishing are all done by an Italian organic certified company.
Cehoz.com allocates part of its income to NutriAid humanitarian organization and funds raised to Nets4Children campaign to buy mosquito nets to prevent malaria. Cehoz.com is offering a special 5% discount for traveling greener readers: coupon 5J4yQe7, Valid until 15/04/2010.
Here are 10 Eco-Fashion Sites You’ll Love:
Fancy taking a new walking tour in Italy?
Walking tour expert Context Travel has unveiled a new tour, “Saper Fare: Artisan Traditions of Florence”, centered on the traditions of local craftsmanship in Florence, Italy.
The new walk, part of the company’s “Made in Florence” program, explores family-run artisan workshops in the medieval streets surrounding the Duomo. Walks in the program raise funds for Context’s local sustainable tourism project, a co-op scholarship program at a local trade school.
Context is a network of English-speaking scholars and professionals who organize and lead didactic walking seminars in Florence, Rome, Venice, Naples, Paris, London, New York, Istanbul, and Philadelphia.
