Lucca as base to taste Tuscany from a different point of view. From the sea to the land, from the kitchen to the table, you will be guided by gourmet experts and delighted by Chef’s cookery.
Several specialty weekends proposals to please each kind of Tuscany's lover: excellent rooms and apartments in Lucca city centre, Tuscan cookery, oil and wine tours, bike tours, Puccini concerts etc...
The International Academy of Italian Cuisine, managed by Chef Gianluca Pardini, in partnership with Not Ordinary Ways is glad to propose its Gourmet Tour for 2008. This year we offer a taste of Tuscany from a different point of view. From the sea to the land, from the kitchen to the table, you will be guided by gourmet experts and delighted by Chef Pardini’s cookery.
06-13 Sept. ‘08
27Sept-04Oct 08
Mountain bike holiday in Lucca and Garfagnana
In partnership with upland-adventure.com our Americans friends, we propose eight days of mountain bike tours around the wildest areas of our land discovering its traditions and typical cookery.
Wine, oil and typical food
What is Tuscany famous for
all over the world? Art, food and
wine of course! So, what a better way to know it than a
journey through its vineyards, where several kinds of vines are
cultivated, visiting award-winning wineries where sipping intense reds
or fruity whites guided by expert wine tasters?
We also suggest you not
to forget extra virgin olive oil, traditionally produced and used to
cook in Tuscany since always. Stopping at an old oil mill is one of the
most curious experiences you could do: it often happens to discover
that in some small farms olives are still collected by hands and cold
pressed with ancient millstones. But a gourmet
tours in Tuscany reserves many other surprises to a
traveller: excellent restaurants, country osterias, city wine bars
offer the best of the local wine-and-food production, great chocolate
artists make this territory “The Chocolate Valley”,
fish is superbly cooked along the coasts and mountains give you strong
almost forgotten flavours.
You do not have but to leave and come to
taste all this…
Oil and wine tours in Lucca
countryside:
Tours along Lucca countryside, beetween farmhouses, wineries and
ancient villas, tasting excellent extra-virgin olive oil, quality wines
and typical products...............more info
Bike and Wine around Lucca:
Wine tour in Chianti : Guided visit to
Chianti Classico wineries and lunch at typical stone farmhouse tasting
extravergin olive oil, balsamic vinegar, bread, cheeses, salami,
prosciutto, focaccia...................more
info
Super Tuscan Wine tour in Bolgheri : Guided visit to
Chianti Classico wineries and lunch at typical stone farmhouse tasting
extravergin olive oil, balsamic vinegar, bread, cheeses, salami,
prosciutto, focaccia...................more
info
Bike and Wine weekend in Lucca:Biking
along Lucca’s countryside, having break at country wine bars
for sipping good wine, taste excellent food and having special dinner
with Italian fiends preparing
pizza...........................................more
info
A new way to
enjoy your holiday in Tuscany.
A preferential way to
discover wonderfull landscapes, typical Tuscan villages and great food.
A
not ordinary way to taste Tuscany. Ducati motorbikes, expert
guides, Tuscan landscapes, professionalism and much fun: these
are our tours by motorcycle main ingredients. Here are some example of our "classical" tours:
Classical Tuscan Ducati Day Tour:
This day trip takes you on a ride through Tuscany's classical countryside in a way you will never have experienced before. During the day you will see the historic towns of Volterra, San Gimignano and Siena as well as experiencing the sights, the flavours, the sounds and the smells of Tuscany. Starting point: Lucca ...............................................................more info
Alpi Apuane Ducati Day Tour : This day trip takes you on a ride through the high hills to the North of Tuscany through areas you have never seen! During the day you will see lesser known towns, high mountains and dramatic countryside. We will stop at Piteglio, Abetone, Castiglione di Garfagnana and Castelnuovo di Garfagnana. Starting point: Lucca..............................................more info
Great ideas by our friends in Chianti to enjoy the countryside, discover traditions and ancient works and taste Chianti typical products, vegetables, olives and wines.
Friendly cooking lessons in a Chianti stone
farmhouse : hands-on cooking lessons to enjoy the
wonderfully intense flavours of traditional Italian dishes cooked in an
evocative stone farmhouse in the hills of Chianti, surrounded by
vineyard & olivegroves.
Herbs,
vines and olives walking tour in Chianti : an easy walking
along Chianti countryside, discovering aromatic herbs, different
varieties of olive trees and learning how to recognize and use them,
passing through vineyards, discovering different vine trees, reaching a
“boutique winery” familiar estate to enjoy wine and
oil tasting in its
garden..........................................................more
info
Wonderful sailing
holidays to relax and have fun on a boat, guided by an expert skipper,
along the picturesque villages of Cinque Terre, Lerici, Tellaro,
Portovenere...
Weekend
sailing along Portovenere, Lerici and Cinqueterre:
A wonderful weekend to relax and have fun on a sailing boat, guided by
an expert skipper. From the nautical base in Bocca di Magra, to the
picturesque villages of Cinqueterre, we will sail on a modern and
comfortable boat, along the wonderful East Ligurian Coast...more info
Five
stars sailing cuise along Costa dei Poeti, Lerici, Portovenere and
Cinqueterre : Two mainly features originated
these special sailing cruises along the East Ligurian coasts:
Annamaria’s love for cooking and Alberto’s passion
for sailing. They will welcome you on board of a splendid Cyclade
Beneteau, an over 13 metres sailing boat: 3 double cabins, provided
with private shower bathrooms, completely furnished in good taste by
the home owners..............................................more info
One
week sailing along Elba isle and Capraia isle :
A week sailing along Tuscan coast to discover the famous Elba isle and
the other smaller but equally wonderfull islands of the Tuscan
archipelago............................................................more info
Some of our past offers could give more ideas to specialize your tailor-made holidays
Gourmet
week in Lucca and surroundings:An original mixed
week to discover all the beauties of the northern Tuscany, admiring art
masterpieces, having superb wine and food, tasting famous local
chocolate, learning how to prepare a typical Tuscan menu, relaxing at
the thermal baths, sailing along the coast as far as Cinque
Terre.....................................................................more
info
Gourmet biking weekend in Lucca:Biking
along Lucca’s countryside, having break at country wine bars
for sipping good wine, taste excellent food and having special dinner
with Italian fiends preparing
pizza...........................................more
info
Gourmet
weekend in Lucca: Original Lucca weekend
learning to cook a typical Italian lunch and enjoying countryside and
good wine at local wineries....more
info
Flavours
and flowers in Lucca (weekend) : A pleasant
weekend in Lucca to relax yourself and forget everyday life…propose you a nice stay in a comfortable apartment in the city
centre, a pleasant guided tour along Lucca and a friendly floral design
experience............................................................more
info
Flavours
and flowers in Lucca (week): A pleasant week in Lucca
to relax yourself and forget everyday life…We
propose you a nice stay in a comfortable accomodation in the city
centre or in a Lucca country house.
Biking or walking
along country streets or the enchanting Lucca’walls, cooking
in your house sunny kitchen with Italian friends, playing with flowers
in soft floral design workshops is just a taste of this pleasant
experience in Lucca..................................................................more
info
Gourmet
biking weekend in Garfagnana: Biking along
Garfagnana hills, discovering wild landscapes and hilltop villages,
stopping at local osterias, trattorias and norcinerias to taste
mountain flavours.........................................more
info
Enchanting
weekend in Florence : Stay in a 16th century
villa on the hills overlooking Florence, enjoying its peaceful and
pleasant atmosphere. The villa, after a perfect restoration, offers its
guests elegant rooms, all furnished with the owners personal touch, a
wonderful historical garden, a heated swimming pool and other
facilities. A guided visit to Florence and an unexpected cooking lesson
held by a professional chef, complete this enchanting weekend.............................................more
info
Wine & food tour in Florence :
If Florence does not surprises you anymore, why not to leave the
usual roads looking for alternative itineraries? You will be
guided through the city heart, along high gastronomy and great names,
ancient foods made according to tradition, finest chocolate makers and
organic products coming from country farms. You will discover the most
famous wines and some collector bottles, tasting wine and high quality
extra virgin olive oil at a wine cellar, while cared and
spoiled..........................................................contact us
Gourmet
week in Florence and surroundings: A week
between Florence, discovering its art masterpieces and handicraftsmen
workshops, and the Tuscan countryside, visiting Chianti villages,
meeting friends showing you the secrets of tasting vintage wines and
cooking typical Italian food..............................more
info
Not
Ordinary Ways s.a.s di Luisi Chiara e C., via Burlamacchi 9, 55100
Lucca P.IVA 02066910460 tel. (+39)0583/583397 
