New "My Private Italy" Tour Includes Wine Tasting & Cooking Class with La Contadina Travel & Tours

Oct. 6, 2009 - PRLog -- As the founder and owner of La Contadina Travels and Tours, I am very pleased to announce a new tour itinerary, named "My Private Italy," after the documentary film of the same name, written, filmed and produced by filmmaker Steven Robert McCurdy.  La Contadina offers numerous tour itineraries, including tours in Umbria, Piedmont, Veneto/Dolomites, Sicily, and the "Postcards from Italy" tour which visits Calabria, Lazio and Umbria.  Our new "My Private Italy" tour is a 6-night, 7-day itinerary that visits some of the finest sites in Liguria, Tuscany and Umbria.   This tour includes both wine tastings and a cooking class.  

The "My Private Italy" tour is co-led by La Contadina Tour Guide Marybeth Janerich and by my friend and documentary filmmaker, Steven McCurdy.  Steve is partnering with La Contadina to co-lead this new 7-day tour.  The towns you will visit on this tour are some of the ones shown in Steve’s film, “My Private Italy,” including the towns of the Cinque Terre, Pisa, Florence, and Spoleto.  Steve and Marybeth will also show you the lovely towns of Lucca and San Gimignano.  And December is a lovely time to visit these areas and shop for very special holiday gifts!

We are offering a 10% Holiday Booking Discount for guests making their deposits by November 1, 2009.  This Booking Discount also applies to my hugely successful repeat tour, "Italy for the Soul," which I led in Umbria last spring with Andria Carver, our energy therapist, and which we are repeating this March, 2010.  Andria leads our ladies on daily holistic exercises before or after our other tour activities (canoeing, wine tasting, shopping, cooking class, horseback riding, etc!) .   See some of the ladies enjoying themselves in Umbria last year on our Slow Travel ad:   http://www.slowtrav.com/cl/detail.asp?l=3645

Please visit my website, www.lacontadina.com, to learn more about the tours and review the detailed itineraries, and please write to us at  lacontadina@yahoo.com  if you would like to receive a copy of Steve's film, "My Private Italy," or if you would like to discuss any of our other tours.  We also offer customized itineraries and consulting services.  

Our ad on Slow Travel:  http://www.slowtrav.com/cl/detail.asp?l=3645

Tour Guide Marybeth's personal Italy blog:  mbitalytour.blogspot.com

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La Contadina Travels & Tours has been leading small-group tours to Italy for over 18 years and provides travel consulting services & custom itineraries. To learn more about our tours and tour planning services, please visit: www.lacontadina.com