Insider’s Italy Themed Trips
Learning
Learning a skill or handcraft
Learning trips seem to us a multiple joy: while learning a skill or handcraft, you are supporting an artisan and an artisan activity sustaining sustainable, slow tourism. Your participation in Italian artisanship helps to actually keep artisans’ doors open.
All learning activities are behind-the-scenes and your teachers are the artisans themselves. Some are on an observer basis: watching buffalo mozzarella being made in the Campania region, or Parmigiano Reggiano in Emilia Romagna, or cheeses in Umbria and Tuscany, or aceto balsamico in Emilia. Others are directly participatory — for example, olive and grape picking, and following the processes of transformation, returning home with bottles of your own oil and wine.
More hands-on courses are in Tuscan sausage preparation, mosaic production, ceramics, weaving, gelato making and of course cooking, glorious cooking; this in many regional styles.
We’re pleased to offer learning activities only in conjunction with our defined planning services.
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Meet Marjorie
Insider’s Italy is an experienced family business that draws on my family’s four generations of life in Italy. I personally plan your travels. It is my great joy to share with you my family’s hundred-year-plus archive of Italian delights, discoveries and special friends.
Barbara Cook