Provence Tour based from a 15th Century French Parish House located near Provence Avignon, France.

My 15th C. PARISH HOUSE is nestled within the Old Medieval Ramparts of the "City of the Popes"... AVIGNON! From this Bed and Breakfast-style "base camp", you never unpack, and your AMERICAN tour leader, acting as your Host and Guide, leads you on NINE (9) daily tours of Provence, in our air-conditioned luxury tour van. We fill up each year for TWO basic reasons:

A. Our $3100 Two-Week (15 days) tour is TWICE as long, at about half the cost, per day, as our nearest Provence competitor. With us you get a full Seven (7) days, 68 hours of accompanied, guided touring, not 48. In addition, you get 6 strategically-interspersed days of rest to recuperate and relax, or to explore, shop, cafe-hop, museum-hop (3 art, 2 Roman, 3 Renaissance), attend our Provence Gourmet Cooking School, even go to the Opera!

AVIGNON is compact and sophisticated, with the fragrance of Provence's lavender and sunflower countryside just outside the door!

B. This is a SMALL tour group, limited to EIGHT (8) guests. Savvy travelers stick to SMALL tour groups which give you entree into small gourmet restaurants, expand your choices, and make it a tour to remember. No 30-passenger bus tour here, but the real out-of-the-way Provence (see Itinerary) with an AMERICAN tour leader whose LOCAL KNOWLEDGE has been highlighted in three issues of ITN ("International Travel News") Magazine. He even speaks the local dialect.

TWO FULL WEEKS of Provence for $3100/3200** (depending on choice of suites).

ONE WEEK $2500, includes a custom itinerary of your choice.
The Provence Tour starts the 1st and 16th of each month, April to October

2009 TOUR DE FRANCE BIKE TOUR
July 12-26, 2009

The "Giant of Provence" stage: Montelimar to Mont Ventoux
Saturday July 18 we climb Mont Ventoux from the base camp town of Malaucene
Saturday July 25 we cheer Lance Armstrong on actual Race-Day to his 8th victory

This is the "make-or-break" etape of the 2009 Tour de France, marking the return of Lance Armstrong to the mountain that "makes or breaks 'em". Its the day you can say, "I was there".

Today we'll leave early so that we can park on the mountain and cheer Lance on to the top with our American stars and stripes flying. We'll leave early, eat a sumptuous breakfast on the mountain, then take a short hike up through the conifer canopy, making it back in time to cheer Lance on, with our American stars and stripes flying. For those who choose to make the ascent on July 18, its 20 kms with a climb of 1900 meters, at an average grade of 7+ percent . This is that Once-in-a-Lifetime event.

Includes Avignon's famous 14th of July Bastille Day street celebration.. All-inclusive, $3200 per person.

StRemy, Vaison, Arles, Pont du Gard, Isle-sur-Sorgues, the lavender fields of the Luberon Valley, AND Cezanne's Aix-en-Provence. Email us for our complete 2009 9-venue Daytrip Itinerary.

Reach us via e-mail at: "toursofprovence@aol.com" . . Telephone (970) 241-5034 8AM to 9PM Weekdays, and 10 AM to 9 PM Weekends MST. Our email response is the best in the business, we respond to all your Provence inquiries within 8 hours.

** Does not include airfare
Per person, double Occupancy rate, 9 day trips with Continental breakfast. Does not include airfare, entrance fees to castles and roman sites ($38, including mediterranean boat trip), or any dinners.

For more information, please contact me at:
toursofprovence@aol.com or or call 970.241.5034

PROVENCE!.... 3000 years of history, a lifetime of remembrance