A 13 day tour incorporating a 9 day tour of Corsica, France's mediterranean "island of beauty." The scenic tour route to the starting point Nice for our ferry across to Corsica takes four days travelling from St Malo. In Villefranche-sur-Mer just next to Nice we meet up with participants on the 9 day tour who make their own way down and then catch the afternoon ferry from Nice to Bastia on Corsica's north east coast. We then spend the next 9 days driving around the entire island exploring virtually all the coastal roads as well as driving over many mountain passes. Corsica is one of the most beautiful of the Mediterranean islands and is over a 100 miles long and 50 miles wide with mountains reaching 2,700 metres high. With over 600 miles of coastland, Corsica also has the best beaches in the Mediterranean especially on its west coast. It also boasts the most dazzling array of diverse and colourful landscapes in the whole of Europe incorporating; chestnut forests, rocky landscapes, valleys with waterfalls, emerald green mountain lakes, black pine forests and green vineyards. The amazing array of flora and fauna supports over 2000 different plants which come to life each Spring pervading the air with a seductive scent of blossoms. This is why we have timed our car tour in April - also the temperatures in April are far more pleasant!

9-day tour to watch the atmospheric and nostalgic Mille Miglia historic re-run in Italy's Brescia with some 300 classic cars participating.Our tour starts with a Dover -Dunkerque early morning ferry crossing and our route takes us through Belgium with overnight stops in Luxembourg, Alsace and Switzerland before arriving in Italy where our first overnight stop is overlooking Lake Orta a little known, but beautful small lake, a few miles west of Lake Maggiore.After four days of reasonably demanding driving we spend the night here at our hotel in Orto St. Giulio overlooking the charming lake and town.The following day,after four reasonably demanding days of driving, we enjoy a leisurely drive around this pretty lake and explore the bewitching town.Leaving Lake Orta we drive around Lake Maggiore and, via Lake Lugano, continue to Lake Como and our next hotel overlooking the lake where we again spend the night.The following day we tour around the captivating Lake Como.From here we travel across the mountains skirting the nearby Stelvio Pass,( which, unfortunately, will almost certainly still be closed), via Lake Iseo to Desenzano on Lake Garda's southern shoreline.Lake Garda is Italy's largest lake and is our hotel base for the next four nights.On Thursday we take the morning train into nearby Brescia to watch the atmospheric build up to the start of the Mille Miglia.Early evening we return to our hotel in Desenzano, overlooking the lake, where we can watch the cars come through the town after 8.30pm where there is a Mille Miglia checkpoint.On Friday we enjoy a relaxing day driving around Lake Garda and visiting gardens and villas.On Saturday we watch the return of the Mille Miglia cars as they come back to Brescia.On Sunday we say our farewells and return home.

An 8 day tour of the beautiful Dordogne region in Aquitaine in SouthWest France visiting over 20 of the most beautiful villages in France,( les plus beaux villages), as well as visits to chateaux, gardens, prehistoric caves and museums.For the past few years we have spent a couple of days exploring the Dordogne during our popular "Angouleme Circuit des Remparts" tours each September and client feedback has always been "more Dordogne please," so, voila, in 2009 we are devoting an entire tour to the Dordogne! Following an overnight ferry crossing to St. Malo our scenic route takes us across rural France stopping in a 4* luxury chateau hotel in the Loire Valley.From here we drive south through the tranquil Vienne valley to Brantome, one of the prettiest towns in the Dordogne, where we stop for the next two nights.The next day we enjoy a leisurely morning exploring Brantome with a visit to nearby St Jean de Cole, one of France's beaux villages, followed by lunch in a stunning Michelin * restaurant, the Moulin de Roc, a converted walnut oil mill.After lunch we visit Aubeterre in the adjoining Charente region another beautiful village where we visit the amazing monolithic church, Europe's largest.The following day our route takes us south to the area of the Dordogne known as Perigord Noir where we visit no fewer than 5 beautiful villages and Sarlat the jewel in the Dordogne's crown, arguably, the best preserved medieval town in Europe.Our hotel tonight is in Domme overlooking the Dordogne valley.The next day we visit another 6 beautiful villages ending up in Rocamadour which although in the Lot region, not the Dordogne, is too good and too near to miss!We return to Domme early evening.The following day we return to Brantome stopping off en-route to visit chateaux, pre-historic caves, gardens and museums.On our penultimate day, our Dordogne visit over, we return to the Loire valley where our chateau hotel awaits us for our final night celebratory dinner.The following day we drive up to Caen to catch the afternoon ferry.

7-day tour starting with a ferry crossing to North-West Spain.Our scenic route takes us from the Atlantic coast right across the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean on wonderful quiet roads amidst spectacular scenery through timeless villages crossing many mountain passes and driving through scenic gorges.Most nights our accommodation is in stylish Parador hotels on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees.We eventually arrive at a stunningly located Parador hotel on Spain's rugged, yet beautful, Mediterranean north-east coast.

5 day tour to Le Mans to watch the world famous 24 hours race. Starting with a ferry crossing to St.Malo on Wednesday evening we take a scenic route to our sumptuous 4* chateau hotel in the Loire Valley(and our base for the duration of the tour), stopping off at the Le Mans circuit to visit the museum and to familiarise ourselves with parking arrangements over the weekend.On Friday we visit Cande St. Martin,one of France's most beautiful villages, followed by a lunch in Saumur and a visit to a museum and a wine cave.In the afternoon we visit the Abbey of Fontevraud and the chateau of Usse.Over the weekend we visit Le Mans to watch the 24 hours racing.Return ferry Monday afternoon from Caen to Portsmouth.

10-day tour visiting Provence and some of the most stunning gorges in France, visiting along the route twenty of France's most beautiful villages,( les plus beaux villages).Following an overnight ferry crossing to St. Malo our scenic route takes us across rural France stopping in a 4* luxury chateau hotel in the Loire Valley.From here we drive south through the Vienne valley to Brantome in the Dordogne.Our route then takes us along the Dordogne valley via half a dozen beautiful villages through the gorge into stunning Rocamadour perched on a cliff and a centre of pilgrimage for over 900 years.From here we continue on country roads to Conques, another beautiful village, where we drive through the Lot Valley and smaller gorges to Millau where the world's highest and most beautiful suspension bridge spans the Millau gorge.Our hotel for the next two nights is a 16th century chateau hotel nestling in the stunning Gorges du Tarn which we will explore over the next two days.We then drive east into Provence stopping for two nights in the Luberon,( made famous by Peter Mayle as well as other classical French writers) and explore another half a dozen"beaux villages" before continuing east, still in Provence, into the Var and our hotel for the next two nights.We then spend a day driving around Europe's largest gorge, the Gorge du Verdon, France's Grand Canyon and another day visiting more beautiful villages. On our final day we pass through four more beautiful villages and travel through the Gorge de Chateaudouble before driving through the Gorge de Loup in the Alpes Maritimes above Nice arriving on the Mediterranean coastline at Villefranche- sur- Mer for our final evening of the tour.

8 day tour through the spectacular Alps enjoying arguably Europe's most magnificent scenery and driving roads. Our stunning route starts with a channel crossing from Dover and takes us over countless mountain passes and through scenic gorges incorporating 7 countries; France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Monaco.In Switzerland we spend a night relaxing in Montreux on Lake Geneva,( Lac Leman).En-route we visit the world famous Schlumpf classic car collection in Mulhouse's "France National Automobile Museum" and drive over a dozen of Europe's highest mountain passes including the "Col de Bonnette" the highest road in Europe.On our penultimate day our route includes several Monte Carlo rally mountain routes before we arrive on the Mediterranean's Cote d' Azur for a relaxing weekend at Villefranche-sur-Mer just next to Monaco. Altogether an unforgettable trip and an amazing driving experience.

A 7 day tour of the Loire Valley staying throughout at a sumptuous 4* chateau hotel less than a mile from the river Loire..Starting with a ferry crossing to St.Malo we take a scenic route to our chateau hotel in the Loire Valley and our base for the entire tour.Our leisurely tour comprises 6 leisurely days of driving on minor roads and visiting over half a dozen Loire Valley chateaux, museums, two world-renown gardens, wine caves, and the largest medieval abbey in Europe.Our stunning, picturesque route incorporates some of the prettiest towns and villages in the Loire Valley including one of France's most beautiful villages, Candes St. Martin, as well visits to Saumur, Fontevraud, Usse, Azay le Rideau, Villandry, Chinon, Langeais, Bourgueil, Chenonceaux etc.

An 8 day tour to visit, arguably, Europe's largest classic car weekend the "Oldtimer grand prix" held at Germany's world famous Nurburgring circuit in southern Germany.The tour incorporates a visit to the fascinating Sclumpf motor collection in Mulhouse now the official "French National Automobile Museum".Our tour starts with an early morning ferry crossing from Dover to Dunkerque from where we drive on motorways to the south of Belgium before we take to the country roads and cross the border into Luxembourg travelling through pleasant countryside to our 4* country hotel just north of Echternach which will be our base for the next four nights.Over the next three days we drive across the border into Germany to attend the "Oldtimer grand prix"l.After the weekend we leave Luxembourg and head south into the pretty wine region of Alsace where our hotel for the next two nights is situated in one of France's most beautiful villages, Riquewihr.The following morning we visit nearby Colmar another of France's "beaux villages" with its picturesque canal running through the town.We then head south to Mulhouse where we visit the "French National Automobile Museum" which houses the world famous Sclumpf classic car collection.In the afternoon we return to our hotel in Riquewihr where we can take a leisurely stroll around this pretty town before having dinner in a Michelin star restaurant.The following day we leave Alsace and head north- west to the champagne region of Reims where we spend the last night of the tour and, of course, we visit a champagne house! On our ultimate day we drive up to Dunkerque to catch a late afternoon ferry back to Dover.

A 10 day tour to watch the atmospheric Italian Grand Prix in Monza in northern Italy combined with an opportunity to drive over the notorious Stelvio Pass described by Clarkson and chums as the "best driving road in Europe", as well as visiting five of the Italian lakes with five nights on Lake Como, arguably, the most romantic of the lakes.Our tour starts with a Dover -Dunkerque early morning ferry crossing and our route takes us through Belgium with overnight stops in Luxembourg, Alsace,and Switzerland before arriving in Italy where our first overnight stop is overlooking Lake Orta, a little known, but beautful small lake a few miles west of Lake Maggiore.We then travel around Lake Maggiore to Lake Lugano and on to Lake Como where our hotel awaits us on the western shore overlooking the lake.The following day we drive around the stunning Lake Como and across to Bormio where we drive over the Stelvio Pass, 2,757 metres high with 60 hairpins leading to the summit.We stay overnight at Bormio to give us a chance to drive the Stelvio the following morning for a second time before returning to Lake Como where we spend the next three nights.Over the weekend we visit Monza to watch the practising,qualifying and the actual Italian Grand Prix itself which is said to be the most atmospheric grand prix of them all with 100,000 fanatical Italian fans cheering on their beloved Ferraris!

8-day tour to visit the atmospheric Circuit des Remparts classic car street races in Angoulême in South West France.Our scenic route, following our overnight ferry to St. Malo takes us via the Le Mans 24 hours circuit and auto museum to the Loire Valley where our overnight stop is a sumptuous 4* chateau hotel Then we head south through the picturesque Vienne Valley to one of France's most beautiful towns, Brantôme, in the Dordogne, our base for the next 5 nights.On Saturday, before driving up to Angoulême to drive the street circuit and to enjoy the pre-race atmosphere and cars on display, we take you to a stunningly beautiful one star Michelin restaurant. After Sunday's wonderfully evocative and exciting classic car races, with a special category devoted to twenty Bugattis, we enjoy a two-day tour of the Dordogne visiting stunning villages and medieval towns including Sarlat, Domme, Beynac, La Roque Gageac,Aubeterre and St Jean de Cole before returning to the Loire valley and our chateau hotel for our final night.Our trip back to afternoon ferry at Caen incorporates a morning coffee stop at the Hotel de France in La Chartre sur Le Loir which during the 1950's and 60's was the headquarters of the Aston Martin Le Mans racing team.

10-day tour visiting Provence and some of the most stunning gorges in France, visiting along the route twenty of France's most beautiful villages,( les plus beaux villages).Following an overnight ferry crossing to St. Malo our scenic route takes us across rural France stopping in a 4* luxury chateau hotel in the Loire Valley.From here we drive south through the Vienne valley to Brantome in the Dordogne.Our route then takes us along the Dordogne valley via half a dozen beautiful villages through the gorge into stunning Rocamadour perched on a cliff and a centre of pilgrimage for over 900 years.From here we continue on country roads to Conques, another beautiful village, where we drive through the Lot Valley and smaller gorges to Millau where the world's highest and most beautiful suspension bridge spans the Millau gorge.Our hotel for the next two nights is a 16th century chateau hotel nestling in the stunning Gorges du Tarn which we will explore over the next two days.We then drive east into Provence stopping for two nights in the Luberon,( made famous by Peter Mayle as well as other classical French writers) and explore another half a dozen"beaux villages" before continuing east, still in Provence, into the Var and our hotel for the next two nights.We then spend a day driving around Europe's largest gorge, the Gorge du Verdon, France's Grand Canyon and another day visiting more beautiful villages. On our final day we pass through four more beautiful villages and travel through the Gorge de Chateaudouble before driving through the Gorge de Loup in the Alpes Maritimes above Nice arriving on the Mediterranean coastline at Villefranche- sur- Mer for our final evening of the tour.

A 9 day tour of Corsica, France's mediterranean "island of beauty." We catch the afternoon ferry from Nice to Bastia on Corsica's north east coast. We then spend the next 9 days driving around the entire island exploring virtually all the coastal roads as well as driving over many mountain passes. Corsica is one of the most beautiful of the Mediterranean islands and is over a 100 miles long and 50 miles wide with mountains reaching 2,700 metres high. With over 600 miles of coastland, Corsica also has the best beaches in the Mediterranean especially on its west coast. It also boasts the most dazzling array of diverse and colourful landscapes in the whole of Europe incorporating; chestnut forests, rocky landscapes, valleys with waterfalls, emerald green mountain lakes, black pine forests and green vineyards. The amazing array of flora and fauna supports over 2000 different plants pervading the air with a seductive scent of blossoms.

A 7 day tour of Sardinia, part of Italy, which follows on immediately from our Corsica Autumn tour so the two can be done back to back or as stand alone tours. Sardinia is the second largest Mediterranean island less than 10 miles south of Corsica at its nearest point and is 170 miles long and 90 miles wide with a coastline stretching over 1,100 miles. All along the coast you can enjoy crystal clear water gleaming in sunshine between sky blue and emerald green on fine grained sandy beaches and in hidden bays. The interior of the island is characterised by rolling hills covered in macchia; grassland mingled with myrtle, wild thyme, prickly pears and dwarf oaks. The Gennargentu mountains contain a myriad of hidden villages untouched by time and history. In the north east the mountains fall away dramatically to the Costa Smerelda, Sardinia's most exclusive area where the rich and famous and the super rich and the infamous own properties and holiday on their yachts! Further south the shoreline around the Golfo di Orosei remains completely unspoilt.