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In your hotel, situated very close to Avignon and Gordes, you will feel at home, you will be able to go for a nice walk and discover the unique light and atmosphere in the heart of Provence. Then you will have a welcome dinner in a restaurant close to the hotel. Very fine Provence cuisine with wines.
Transfer from the Avignon TGV (fast train) station (recommended) or from the Avignon airport (via Paris) to your Hotel, where we will have a welcome drink while we talk about the tour.
 
After a complete breakfast at the hotel,  you will meet your Chef Pierre for your first cooking lesson. He will introduce you to the Provence products and recepies.
At 12h00 we will have our lunch of what cooked. Complete menu with wines. Pierre will have lunch with us. Then we will go on to Avignon for a visit of the Palais des Papes, and from its garden you will see the famous "pont d'Avignon". Very close to the Palais, we will have our dinner in a typical Provence restaurant.Complete menu with wines.
Lunch will be in a famous restaurant specialised in fish soup where you will have a "bouillabaisse" with french wines to accompany.After lunch, on our way to Cap Canaille, we will stop so you can have a view of the whole bay of Cassis.
Today, after a complete breakfast at the hotel, we will go on to Cassis, a magnificient village on the coast, near Marseille. If we get good weather we will have a short boat trip to see the famous "calanques of Cassis".
After a complete breakfast at the hotel, we will go to a nearby market in a village where you will meet your Chef Pierre, with whom we will choose the ingredients for your second cooking lesson. Then, of course, we will have a complete menu of what cooked with wines.
This morning you will have two options to choose from:

OPTION  1:
OPTION  2 (with an extra 45€):
After breakfast, we will go to Joel Corre's home, our oenologist friend, near Aix-en-Provence, who will delight us with a fantastic wine tasting of some of the best french wines. Then we will follow the paths of the famous painter Cézanne, near his mountain Sainte Victoire, in Aix-en-Provence. With some of Joel's wines, goat cheeses, hams and other delights we will make a picnic to enjoy life as simple as it can be.
IN THE AFTERNOON:
We will go to Châteauneuf du Pape, a town and commune in the Vaucluse.Its name derives from a castle built by the Popes when they ruled from Avignon. It is the most renowned appellation of the southern part of the Rhône Valley. We will visit a wine cellar and have a wine tasting.
After the wine and chocolate tasting, we will go back to Avignon for a Provence cuisine dinner in a fantastic restaurant. Complete menu with wines.
For dinner we will take you to a fabulous one michelin stared Relais Chateau restaurant at Les Baux de Provence, one of the most unique sightseen areas of Provence. Complete tasting menu with wines.
This morning, after a full breakfast at the hotel, we will visit some villages of the Luberon, made famous by Peter Mayle's A year in Provence. We will first visit the village of Gordes, from where you can see a fantastic view of the Luberon on our way to lunch in a typical "bistrot". We will also visit Roussillon, a village classed among the most beautiful in France. Your afternoon will be free to relax by the pool at the hotel, or have a walk in the countryside.
We will take you back to the train station or airport hoping you have spent an unforgettable time with us.
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For desert we will visit a very fine pastry shop in Cassis where the Chef will make a short explanation of his tricks for us and prepare a sweet tasting of some of his specialities. Back to the hotel for a relaxation by the pool. Our dinner tonight will be prepared by our Chef Pierre at the hotel. Complete menu with wines.