The Tour de France

 Hi guys,  hope you are all well and settling back into your respective time zones!  

As Joe posted on WhatsApp the other day, The Tour de France bicycle race is heading into the Alps and will make the climb up Mont Ventoux in Provence tomorrow (Tuesday).  The Peacock Channel has sole rights to the broadcast here in the US,,,  

Having just been to the Summit of Mont Ventoux on our Provençal Classique Road Rally, you might be interested in watching this stage of the race, as it finishes at the Summit!  If you don't have the "Peacock Channel"  (it's a pay channel), you can sign up for it online, and yesterday we found a "Promo Code" online that gives you the first 3 months for free and the ability to "cancel at any time".   So if you want to watch this Stage of the race, you'll need to sign up...  Here's the Promo Code we used and it worked just fine:   PEAGZ7LNYFN44OEJ6

It's not happiness that makes us grateful... It's gratefulness that makes us happy! Thanks for the memories!

 By now, most all of us have returned back to the good ol' USA and hopefully you're adjusting well to the time zone changes... We're reminded that while it's wonderful to travel, see a bit of the world & experience different cultures, it's really nice to come back home, see our loved ones, our kittens & puppy dogs, and sleep in our own beds!

Terese & I feel so very blessed to get to do what we do... and with our Tour Groups being so small, we tend to make friends and we love to keep in touch with our guests... A few of you in these groups, we've known  for years...  And it was so nice to spend time with you again...   

just click on any of the pics to zoom in!

And for those of you who we've more recently met, we truly hope this trip is just the beginning of a long friendship, and we hope you'll keep in touch with us and with each other!  We've all shared something pretty special, and we like to think of you as part of our Adventures to Tuscany Family... We try to keep in touch with all our guests by sending out a short newsletter a couple times a year with updates on what we're doing and news on recent & upcoming Tours... 

We always say that, to share your vacation pictures with your friends is nice... but to actually share your vacation with your friends is something that creates memories that will truly last forever! A virtual bond that survives thru time knowing that the group of you have taken off traveling around the globe together, experiencing some of the most awesome adventures and beautiful sights the world has to offer...

These magical moments are not necessarily measured by the experience itself, but often by our reaction to them! And when as a group, we can share those experiences and our reactions to them together, the memories increase a hundredfold! These most recent Adventures to Provence, were by all accounts, magical experiences... We had a truly magnificent Villa, some really great foods and wines, an outstanding group of people, and truly, a ton of fun!

And when we savor these memories and joys over the years, it's important to realize what these experiences mean to us, and the real joy and total impact they have on our lives... Whether tasting a new food, a different wine, a foreign language,  or something as simple as dancing with someone from another culture... experiential travel expands our horizons and expands our lives to make us more dynamic individuals... We truly believe it changes your life forever...

At Adventures to Tuscany, we market our Tours as truly unique, authentic & immersive, escorted & guided, experiential adventure expeditions!  This is a lot of adjectives, and can be a hefty promise, so we truly hope the Tour was everything we promised you and everything you were expecting...  From our exclusive personalized BLOG... to our very unique & authentic 400 year old Provençal Villa...  to immersive experiences within our group of local Provençal friends that we've developed over the years...  We always say: what makes us different, makes all the difference in the world!  We work hard to live up to the promises, and we truly hope you recognized & felt those differences!

Our Trips, as you know by now, are lifestyle focused... And it's a very fine line to balance our expeditions with active touring and free leisure time... Too much touring and of course guests can get fatigued... Too little touring and you might go home saying "we didn't really do much..."  We try to boil it all down to "Memories." We're in the business of creating memories...  So it might be that first impression that you get from that incredible cypress lined. driveway through the vineyards and olive groves... or the first time you step into that amazing post & beam Solarium and see those classic Provençal sunsets... 

Or maybe our awe-inspiring Provençal Classique Road Rally passing all the bikers on our way up the face of Mont Ventoux!  There's no doubt our Champagne Toast celebration at the Summit of the mountain with our souvenir "Petites Coupes à Champagne" is one of our favorite memories! And our fabulous luncheon on the Terrace at Le Belvedere was so much fun!  (we had our fingers crossed ~ this was our very first year at Le Belvedere).  

There were so many other great memories and experiences as well;  Arles, Le Baux-de-Provence, Carrières de Lumiéres, Le Cours de Pâtisserie, Gordes, The Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque,  Roussillon, our fun~filled Soirée Blanche garden-party celebration with Mitch & Juliette... Those amazing Lavender Fields!...  Our Le Cours de Pâtisserie with the souvenir aprons, The Pont du Gard... and of course our Tasting Tour & Chic~Pique-neek at Chateau Pesquie with your keepsake corkscrews!  These were all the "active touring" experiences... And our more relaxing moments of our leisurely Breakfasts Buffets... our daily afternoon Champagne Swim Parties, our Happy Hours, our amazing Appetizers on the Terrace and Coralie & Fabien's wonderful Dinner Parties with those scrumptious desserts!

A great big Thank You goes out to everyone on our Adventures To Provence Team; many of whom you met,  including our amazing Chefs Coralie & Fabien... their  (up & coming) Pastry Chef son Nathan... and their incredibly cute daughter Appollina... Our outstanding Tour Guide Isabelle... Our amazing Sexy Duet of Mitch & Julliete...  Our newest host Damien, at Le Belvedere...  and at Chateau Pesquie, our incredibly beautiful & fun friend Celine...  and also to the many folks behind the scenes without whom our programs and immersive experiences would not be possible! From our wine consultants & travel insurance affiliates, to our accountants and car rental affiliates, our Tour Operator Insurance providers, and our legal counsel at The National Tour Association, none of what we do would be possible without the incredible of help we receive from all these folks!  And lastly we hope you had the chance during our Soirée Blanche to meet a few of our close local friends from Provence; Chantal & John Paul (Polo) and Beatrice & Luc...

We of course just want to take this moment to say Merci Beacoup to all of you, our guests, for having the sense of adventure to sign up for this truly alternative experience! We know you have choices when it comes to travel; Thank You for choosing us, and we we hope you'll consider traveling with us again in the future!  Our Guest return rate is 58% and we love to reward our returning Alumni with a whole host of perks & discounts;

Alumni Loyalty Program; we offer you a $75 per person ($150 per couple) discount for every prior trip you've taken with us. 

Referral Discount Program; once you've traveled with us, we offer you a courtesy referral bonus for anyone (new) that you refer to us. ($100 discount per double room booked)

Real Reviews from Real People: write a short review/testimonial for our website within the next 30 days and get another $75 discount off your next trip with us! - (one review per room).  Just email it to us and we'll copy & paste it to our website... (see examples at: https://adventurestotuscany.com/reviews/ )

Early Sign Up Program - sign up for your next Tour within 60 days of the end date of your last Tour and receive another $50 per person / $100 per couple discount.

Thank You from "the bottom of our heart"
(yes, right here ~ this is the bottom!) 😂

Discounts are cumulative & limited to a maximum of $500 per person / $1000 per couple (per trip)*** 

And with that being said, all of our 2026 Tours are filled, and we have very limited availability in 2027. If you're thinking of our Friends Food & Fun Under The Tuscan Sun Expedition, there's just a couple rooms left in 2027, but we will announce 2028  Tuscany Tours later this year, and as Alumni, you'll see these Tours announced before we release them to the public.  

We really appreciate the trust you placed in us by signing up to come with us on one of our Adventures To Provence Expeditions... We hope you could tell how much we love Provence and how passionate we are about it... And like anyone who loves something dearly, we hope that the people we show it to, fall in love with it as well... We hope the trip lived up to all the promises we made you... and again, Thank You from the bottom of our hearts... You make it possible for us to live a life we are so very grateful for...  and we never-ever take it for granted.  Remember; "The way you choose to see the world, creates the world you see"

We love you guys! Please stay in touch with us!

So please don't think of this as "goodbye..."  We like to think you're now part of our Adventures To Tuscany Family!"  

All our Love, Tommy & Terese, and the whole team at Adventures to Tuscany... It's where the Magic is!

***(Adventures to Tuscany reserves the right to change our prices and the terms of our discount programs at any time... but those prices & discounts are always locked-in once you sign-up for a Tour).

We truly hope you had the time of your life!