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Meet your French chef Alain in Biarritz at Les Halles, the maincovered food market, to select the best foods to use in your cooking lesson. Before heading to the chef’s home for the lesson, you may well stop and taste fresh seafood and later sample wines from one of the top “cavists” in France. Then head to Alain's home with a professional kitchen and have a hands-on cooking lesson and lunch. [more]
Visit off-the-beaten-path wine · cellars where the clients will be able to taste wines with the owner of the cellars, not someone from their marketing or sales staff. Clients will revel in the different owners’ passion for winemaking. The A Season Away VillaHosts can make recommendations. [more]
To tell you the truth, some of the best shopping comes from the local markets and antique fairs. A Season Away VillaHosts can steer you in the right direction. [more]
The seaside of the Basque country is the home of Thalasso therapy, or salt water treatments. Let A Season Away arrange one or more sessions to some of the top local spas in Biarritz and St. Jean de Luz for a relaxing and rejuvenating treatment. [more]
Spend a day touring in the hills of the Basque Country. Minutes away from the bustle of the more sophisticated Basque coast lays the essence of the Basque Country, its villages. A proud people with traditions dating back to the beginning of time, the history of the Basque people is ingrained in “interior” country. Enjoy the leisurely pace of another time and place while visiting 6 villages, including a lunch in Itxassou, the “cherry” producing village of the region. [more]
Being by the sea and close to the Pyrenees Mountains invites many sporting activities, including: [more]
