We're a cooking travel club for Baby Boomers, or really any one who likes to cook and travel loose.
What do we
mean by
"travel loose?"
Accommodations for each night are fixed, but
the
days' activities are decided by the group. We figure out what we
want to see the most, and then do it. If it turns out that
there's a
long line and we don't feel like waiting, we can blow it off and
go to
another attraction: there are plenty to choose from.
Our
groups are
small, between 10 and 15 people, so everyone's opinion matters
when
deciding where to go and what to see. You paid for the trip, you
ought to have input. Believe me, when you get to a place and you see a pile of stones, and you say, "What is THAT?", the last thing you want to hear is that the itinerary doesn't permit the time for you to go see it.
Whenever possible, depending on the type of trip, we live as the
locals
live. For cooking trips, we buy locally in shops and markets,
right
alongside permanent residents. We use local transport, i.e.,
trains,
subways, trams. We are committed to green travel, as much as is possible. You disconnect yourself from the people when you
are
herded around in a climate controlled coach, seeing everything
through
tinted glass windows.
Travel in Italy is our focus for 2011, specifically site-seeing and cooking in Rome. The markets there are fantastic in their array of good stuff to cook, ingredients you can't find in most of the U.S. And guess what? We'll be doing our own Italian cooking. Is there anything that makes a foodie happier? Site-seeing in Rome is exceptional. If you've never traveled to Italy and cooked in Rome, you definitely should before you kick off.
You do need to be in reasonably good
physical
condition as there is plenty of walking, especially trips which
are
centered in cities. You see far more on foot than from a coach.
There is nothing quite like walking the back streets of a foreign
city.
The sounds of laughter echoing down the street, the smells of
cooking from
some unseen kitchen, the patterns of faded paint on an old
buildings'
facade, the fall of shadows across cobblestones, the quaint little
market
selling local produce, all these are threads in the tapestry of
human
life, and when you've slowed down and traveled loose, they are
memories
that will stay with you forever.
So take a look around the
site.
We will be adding destinations as interest dictates, so feel free
to send
an email and start some dialog.Wherever you go, travel
loose, baby!
