Sample itinerary · France
Long lunches & lavender
Length
11 days
From
£5,600 pp
Based on
2 sharing
Planner
Paris
Eleven days that meet France at the right hour — Paris before it wakes, the Loire at château pace, the lavender roads of Provence, and a slow finish on the Côte d’Azur. Designed by Camille, our Paris planner, around the two-hour lunch.
Day by day
Days 1–3
Paris, before nine
A small hotel in the Marais. Mornings begin at a boulangerie counter before the city fills; private early entry to one museum before the doors open; a long lunch we build each day around. Evenings: dinners where no menu is in English.
Day 4
Into the Loire
A late-morning train and a private transfer into the Loire Valley. The afternoon is yours in the gardens between the great houses; dinner at the château where you will stay the night.
Days 5–6
Châteaux & vineyards
Slow days among the Loire’s great houses and the vineyards between them. A private cellar lunch with a winemaker, an afternoon cycling the river path, evenings back at the château.
Day 7
South to Provence
A fast train south to Avignon, then a drive into the Luberon. You settle into a stone farmhouse with a long table and a cook who does not measure anything.
Days 8–9
Provence, at market pace
Market mornings in Apt and Gordes, lavender roads in season, hilltop villages with a café in every one. The afternoons are deliberately empty. The point of Provence is the part everyone rushes.
Day 10
To the Côte d’Azur
A coastal drive to old-town Nice. A boat off Cap Ferrat in the afternoon, then a long Mediterranean evening at the water’s edge.
Day 11
A slow last morning
The flower market, a final café, and a private transfer to Nice airport — timed, as ever, so nothing is rushed.
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