TUSCANY SUMMER TOUR 2011

11 day tour, to Italy's Tuscany region with a stunning route through Luxembourg, France's Alsace region, ( where we visit the Schlumpf classic car museum), Germany's Black Forest and Switzerland where we stay just south of Lake Lucerne before arriving in Italy. Here we spend our first night in Italy in Orta San Giulio on Lake Orta before heading to Maranello, home of Ferrari where we also stay overnight.From here we drive south to Tuscany where, at Montespertoli, 20 kms south west of Florence, our hotel for the next 5 nights is located.Over the next 5 days we enjoy relaxed excursions to Tuscany treasures including cities such as Florence, Siena and Pisa and magical towns including Arezzo, Cortona and Lucca and beautiful medieval villages such as San Gimignano with its famous towers, or, the relatively tiny jewel of Pienza in the heart of stunning pastoral countryside.

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ALPS SUMMER/STELVIO PASS TOUR 2011

10-day tour starting with an 8.00am ferry from Dover to Dunkerque and travelling through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy back in to France and ending in Monaco.En-route we drive through the spectacular Alps crossing all the famous passes including the Stelvio Pass and experiencing some of Europe's most stunning scenery and its best driving roads before arriving a week later on the Mediterranean coast at Villefranche-sur-Mer where our hotel for the final night is based.Our route takes us over 35 mountain passes with a combined height above sea level of over 69,000 metres or, over seven times the height of Mount Everest ! Included in the "cols" or passes we drive over is Europe's highest road, the Col de La Bonnette at 2,802 metres or 9,192 feet and the most iconic and notorious Stelvio Pass at 2,760 metres, (9,055 ft).

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