You'll experience the real, authentic, and genuine France - far from mass tourism, big tourist coaches and hotels. This is the France your bilingual local guide/host wants to share with you.
Typical itinerary (customizable):
Day 1:
Morning with Rodez airport or train transits. Welcome, cheer. greet, participants introduction, Lunch at the Baraqueville. Visit of Moyrazès. Discover Planques. Visit of Bruéjouls. Enjoy Panat. Experience a typical aveyronnaise farm. Farmers' market, local produces. Visit of Cassagnes with its panorama. Drinks at Marcillac. Vineyard visit. Wine tasting. Visit Planques.Dinner.
Day 2:
Meander through Saint Léons streets. Visit Roquefort. Cheese tasting at the cellars. Picnic: wine, cheese, and local goodies. Millau viaduct. Visit the best preserved templar towns: La Couvertoirade. Millau visit. Dinner.
Day 3:
Private visit with great great niece of Toulouse-Lautrec. Visit Boussac fortified church. Admire middle-age Belcastel Château. Picnic by the Aveyron River. Peyrusse-le-Roc Château. Refreshments. Dinner farmers' market.
Day 4:
Experience Baraqueville's market. Lunch at Baraqueville house. Fresh, local produce from the market, and Sunday cakes. Discover the pilgrimage town Conques. Visit the village, its abbey, its treasures and enjoy a tea time break. Meander through Salles-la-Source. Discover its Romanesque-style church. Visit Marcillac, its red stone village houses. Enjoy dinner at restaurant.
Day 5:
Be impressed by Bozouls. Visit of Espalion like a pilgrim, the Chapelle de Perse. Love Estaing. Refreshments. Visit Laguiole and a knives' factory. Dinner.
Day 6:
Visit Albi, Toulouse Lautrec Museum, Ste Cécile Cathedral, its gardens. Learn about Lapérouse. Get seduced by Cordes and dinner.
Day 7:
Visit Brousse-le-Château, the château. Picnic by the river. Enjoy the Cistercian Sylvanès. Spend time at St. Affrique where Véronique lived a few years. Refreshments. Dinner.
Day 8:
Visit the town Villefranche de Rouergue, its famous market, the Collégiale. Lunch. Cahors, your next visit heritage-filled stop. Enjoy a panorama above Saint-Cirq Lapopie. Visit. Dinner.
Day 9:
Najac fortress. Lunch: aligot and confit. Experience Rodez, its cathedral, the Fenaille and Soulages Museums. Sauveterre. Dinner at the farmers' market!
Day 10:
Transit to Rodez Airport or train station.
Note: The "typical 10-day schedule" described above might be adjusted, hence customized to your needs, wants, desires as well as current availability or weather or season of the year. This tour is all-inclusive: food, wine, entry fees and land transportation.
