Two cities,
not six.
The museum before it opens, a table where people speak the local language, and afternoons left deliberately empty.
Begin a journeyBreakfast three floors up, and the whole morning still ahead of you.
Most city itineraries are a list of things you have already seen photographs of. We plan for one considered thing a day and enough time to be somewhere long enough to notice it.
Private access before opening hours, a historian rather than a guide, and reservations made in March for a table of four in September.
Cities we know well
Five to consider- 01
Royal Loire Valley — Châteaux, Gardens & the Art of Living
France · April — OctoberPrivate château visits, remarkable gardens and long lunches in a landscape made for taking your time.
Explore - 02
Paris & Champagne — From City Light to Vineyard Gold
France · April — OctoberParis at its most elegant, followed by cellar doors, vineyard roads and Champagne poured where it is made.
Explore - 03
Normandy in Light — From Monet to Mont Saint-Michel
France · April — OctoberMonet’s gardens, dramatic coastline and Mont Saint-Michel, with oysters and quiet villages in between.
Explore - 04
Madrid & the Castilian Soul — Art, Flamenco, Toledo & Segovia
Spain · March — May, September — NovemberGreat art in the morning, flamenco after dark, and centuries of Castilian history just beyond the city.
Explore - 05
Sardinia: Wild Coast & Ancient Traditions
Italy · May — OctoberHidden coves, mountain villages and ancient traditions beyond Sardinia’s polished beach clubs.
Explore
Two we return to
All city journeys →
Madeira — Gardens Above the Atlantic
A private five-night Madeira journey through tropical gardens, living craft traditions, volcanic trails and the Laurissilva forest above the Atlantic.
Provence Art de Vivre — Villages, Markets & Southern Light
A private Provence journey through Aix, the Luberon and the Alpilles.
The details we plan around
Anna R.
“People come back talking about the morning nothing was planned. That morning takes as much work as the rest of the trip.”
I plan the journeys that need someone awake while you are asleep — Africa and Asia, mostly. You will have my number for the whole trip, and it will be me who answers.