HERZERL
TOURS
PRESENTS
for the first time
Spring 2010

NOTE: Herzerl Tours
now offers all tours in three versions:
Group tours – 10 people or more; mini groups – 4 to 8 people; and FIT’s* –
minimum 2 people.
Quoted prices are for group tours; contact us for details.

*full planned individual tours

 

Risotto

The Venetian cuisine, especially that in the city, is full of traditional dishes that are mostly made using all types of fish and vegetables, with only one limit: the seasons.

The cicchetti, the pasta dishes, the risotto – risi e bisi (the doges loved to eat that on St. Marco Day – and I grew up in Vienna eating that at my family's table), fish, seafood and meat dishes – and of course all these wonderful dishes must be accompanied by Venetian wines: Prosecco di Conegliano,Valpolicella, Bianco di Custoza and Amarone.

Venice Culinary Tour Dates 2010:

TOUR DATES –TBA mid-November 2010

TOUR PRICE: $2,925.00 per person, land only, double occupancy.

Cancellation Policy please read.

The tour price is based on a group of 10 participants; for mini groups or FIT’s contact us at sms@herzerltours.com. Herzerl Tours can assist with your airline reservations.

(Single supplements are available for an extra charge)

The price is based on the current exchange rate of the Euro vs. the Dollar (Jan 2010) i.e. any cost increases caused by a weakening dollar shall have to be passed along to client

• 3 half day cooking classes with lunch and 1/4 wine and mineral water
• 1 pm resuming lesson and trophy assignment
• 1 pastry demonstration & coffee and cake
• 1 wine tasting at famous Burano Island
• 1 evening classical concert in held in a church or palace
• Welcome and farewell dinners with 1/4 wine and mineral water
• Meet and greet and transfers from/to airport and hotel chosen
• One suitcase free porterage in the motor launch during transfers
• 7 days free Pass on Public Services
• 2 half days city sight seeing with professional guide
• 1 gondola ride
• Certificate of attendance to Italian cooking lessons

COSTS DO NOT INCLUDE :

• Porterage at airport / hotel and boat piers
• Gratuities and personal expenses

For more details and booking information call Herzerl Tours at
1-800-684-8488 or 914-771-8558 or send an e-mail to
sms@herzerltours.com
web site - www.herzerltours.com.

Venice – "City of Water, Bridges and Light"

AM - Arrive at Venice Marco Polo Airport - meet and greet - transfer by motor launch to your hotel

PM - Gondola ride - ride along the Grand Canal and smaller ones (rii); discover aunusual Venice lulled by the gentle lapping of the water and the rowing of an expert gondolier

EVE - Welcome dinner in a local restaurant
(3 course menu)

Gondola passing under
the Rialto Bridge

St. Mark's Basilica

Buffet breakfast at hotel

AM - Guided city walking tour - enchanting tour through the history:

• St. Mark's Square and Basilica showing its richness of marbles and mosaics
• The Doge's Palace an impressive fourteenth century Palace from which Venetians ruled all eastern and southern coasts of the Mediterranean
• The famous prisons of bridge of Sighs from where Casanova escaped

PM - Free at leisure

Pasta with Prosciutto, Radicchio, Gorgonzola, and Dried Figs

Buffet breakfast at hotel

AM - Three hours hands-on cooking lesson taught by one of Venice leading chefs

Lunch prepared during lessons

PM - Your day four continues with:

• Excursion to the islands of Murano (famous for its glass blowing factories)
• Burano (embroidery centre and old fishermen island)
• Torcello (Cathedral and a remote atmosphere chosen by Hemingway for his stays in Venice)

Interior of La Fenice in 1837. Original at Museo Correr

Buffet breakfast at hotel

AM - Three hours cooking lesson

Lunch prepared during lessons

PM - Guided walk through history:

• Learn anecdotes and way of living of ancient Venetians,
• Visit La Fenice Theatre (just restored),
• The beautifiul and hidden Scala del Bovolo and Rialto Bridge

Buffet breakfast at hotel

AM - Three hours cooking lesson

Lunch prepared during lessons

PM - Free for your own discoveries

EVE - Classical Music performance in one of the beautiful churches of the city

Buffet breakfast at hotel

AM - Attend a lecture at Harry's Dolci (Harry's Bar new Initiative)

PM - Final cooking LESSON and consignment of cooking degrees with trophy to best one elected

Farewell Dinner in a local restaurant

Marco Polo Airport

Buffet breakfast at hotel

Meet and greet and transfer to Marco Polo airport for return flight to the USA