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  What's New!

Two terrific three-day
‘Getaways’ in and around Paris for couples & small groups with your private Driver/Guide. Learn more.

Announcing New Custom Touring and Class Possibilities in Paris, Available Year Round!

Your Great Days in Paris is now partnering with private guides and teaching colleagues in Paris who have added these great possibilities to the rich portfolio of custom options for guides, day trips and classes that we already offer:

  • Gourmet market walks with tastings
  • A bicycle tour to Giverny or to Versailles
  • Focused gallery and atelier tours for contemporary and modern art aficionados
  • A daylong class with a master chocolatier
  • A French Pastry or Baking class in a working patisserie or boulangerie
  • A Family Baking Class to make madeleines, financiers, and tartes
  • A Teenagers’ French Chic Shopping Tour exploring affordable up and coming designers
  • Private (or small group) literary or other historic walks
  • Tours of the historic Roland Garros Tennis Stadium
  • New cooking class options including market visits
  • Backstage At the Eiffel Tower tours
  • A Visit to an Artisanal Chocolate making family’s atelier in the countryside near Paris to learn about and taste French chocolate. (This can combine with a half day to Versailles.)
  • A guided market tour in Versailles followed by a picnic and chat about French cuisine. (Great to do before your visit to the chateau!)

Have an idea or a request?  Chances are we can make your dreams come alive and work within your budget.

sally@yourgreatdaysinparis.com or 781 391 6183


Announcing Your Great Days in Paris’ Newest Tour:

“Off the Beaten Path in Paris”

Paris "Off The Beaten Path" OCTOBER 13-15, 2009

New: Three Days to Explore ‘Hot’ Paris Quarters With Sally Peabody of Your Great Days in Paris

Love Paris but you’ve seen the Louvre, explored the Marais and St. Germain? Looked all over the Latin Quarter? Visited the Eiffel Tower and cruised on the Seine? Sally’s new “Paris Off the Beaten Path” will take inquisitive Francophiles who love food, markets, culinary artisans and vibrant Paris quarters to visit fascinating ‘emerging’ neighborhoods full of the things we all love about Paris.

Experience dynamic up-and-coming Parisian quarters including ‘So-Pi’ and the Rue de Martyrs (South of Pigalle) in the 9th, village-like Batignolles in the 17th, plus two arty, multicultural quarters, Faubourg St. Antoine/Aligre in the 11th and Belleville in the 19th. Gourmet magazine’s September 2008 issue was devoted entirely to Paris and highlighted the ‘hip new Paris’ of the 9th, 11th, 12th, 13th, and 19th arrondissements. Sally will take you there.

Guests will enjoy leisurely lunches in charming bistros, perhaps even in a Moroccan restaurant. We will experience markets and market streets full of top quality food shops and vendors selling fabulous French foods enhanced by the redolent flavors of Paris’ robust immigrant communities. We will enjoy a stroll along the atmospheric Canal St. Martin and explore charming parks like the Parc de Belleville, Parc de Batignolles, the Promenade Plantee, and a hidden gem, the tiny verdant park dedicated to master woodworker Louis Majorelle in the 11th. We will visit remarkable little shops selling edible floral essences for health, traditional French decorative hardware, linens, tablewares, handmade jewelry and much more.

This is a tour for adventurous adults who love Paris and who enjoy food and wine, and who treasure opportunities to explore off-the-beaten-path quarters with much to offer visitors who seek the ‘real Paris’. The tour is an active one involving substantial walking and use of the metro and buses.

Price and Tour Terms: $450 per person per day. Minimum of three guests, maximum of 6 for any given day. Deposit of $200 required to reserve your space payable by check to Your Great Days in Paris. Tour Balance payment 30 days in advance of tour. No refunds after 14 days prior to tour dates. 30-15 days prior to tour, 75% refund if client cancels tour. If Your Great Days in Paris cancels the tours clients will be refunded.

Included: Guiding, lunch with wine daily, metro tickets/passes, patisserie and chocolate shop visit.

The tour is offered without hotel accommodations assuming that guests may wish to participate as part of a longer trip to Paris. If guests want to book hotel through Your Great Days in Paris, we use the Grand Hotel des Balcons, a comfortable, simple, two star hotel, 3 rue Casimir Delavigne, in the 6th just steps from Odeon and from the verdant Luxembourg Gardens. Great location. Double rooms are 120 E, single rooms are 90 E, copious (optional) breakfast is 12 Euros. We also use the Hotel Saint Paul Rive Gauche, a charming three star in the 6th near the Grand Hotel des Balcons which charges 180 E for a double standard room. We can advise on short stay apartment rentals, or, other B&B or hotel options. Please tell these hotels that Your Great Days in Paris referred you.

Interested? Find out more Learn more about this tour

Email sally@yourgreatdaysinparis.com for an itinerary.  Call 781 391 6183

Announcing Sally Peabody’s NEW
Basque Country Culinary Tour October 3-11. 2009

Distinctively delicious regional cuisine, unique culture and architecture, splendidly varied countryside (including world class resorts, atmospheric fishing villages, surf-fringed cliffs, sandy beaches, deep green mountain valleys, tranquil rural villages of charm, vivacious small cities with medieval quarters, cathedrals and cobbled streets) it’s all there for your enjoyment in the French and Spanish Pays Basque.  This nine-day trip will provide a fine taste of the culinary highlights of this delightful region.  In France we explore Biarritz, Bayonne, St. Jean Pied du Port, St. Jean de Luz, & Espelette, in Spain, the Spanish culinary mecca, San Sebastian.  This tour is limited to six guests and includes roundtrip airfare between Bayonne and Paris.

Learn more about the Pays Basque Tour

Paris culinary treasures tour Paris Culinary Treasures Tours: New Seven Day Format

Love French Food and Wine? Join Sally Peabody in Paris for our small group, escorted, Culinary Treasures Tours.

Sally's delightful culinary treasures tours have been featured in International Travel News, Bonjour Paris, the San Diego Union Tribune, Boston Magazine, and other leading travel media.

Take Paris Personally, Your Guide to Discovering Quintessential Paris Take Paris Personally, Discovering Quintessential Paris, fourth edition.  Feel like a ‘Paris Insider’ with this comprehensive e-guide.   This updated guide is invaluable to enjoying a memorable Paris experience. Interested in art, history, antiques, Paris markets, French food and wine, vibrant neighborhoods, gardens, activity clusters and suggested activity clusters, shopping, its all here!  164 pages of useful information for $14.95.   Order & download this indispensable E-guide now.


Your Great Days in Paris’ Invites You!

Culinary & Cultural Treasures of the French-Southwest 2009 Dates TBA

A Delicious Immersion in Regional Cuisine & Wines, Markets, Culinary Artisans, Medieval Villages & Famed Pre-history Sites

Love exploring rural France? Join two expert leaders, Sabine le Dualt of Paris Authentique and Sally Peabody of Your Great Days in Paris for an intimately scaled gastronomic tour in southwest France. Francophiles will delight in visits to the bountiful markets, culinary artisans, charming medieval villages, and, in the wines and cuisine of this glorious area. In addition to its noted gastronomic specialties, this unspoiled region abounds in architectural, cultural, historic and pre-history temptations, such as the world-renowned cave paintings at Pech Merle.

Sabine is a native of Quercy and her local knowledge assures that we will explore, and enjoy each day, on and off the beaten path. The tour is limited to six guests. While this primarily a culinary tour, we will have ample time to visit historic bastide towns and charming medieval villages, noting their architectural treasures.

In the southwest, we will base in comfortable Bed and Breakfast accommodations in the charming village of St. Antonin Noble Val, reputed for its lovely location, ancient town hall and major weekend market. We will enjoy day trips taking us to various villages, farms, vineyards and departments of southwest France including the Dordogne, Quercy, the Aveyron, the Lot, and Tarn et Garonne. A rare opportunity!

Read more about the Southwest France Culinary & Cultural Tour


Getaways
for ‘Girlfriends’ In Paris

Your Great Days in Paris wants women to fall in love…with Paris! We’re offering flexible ‘Getaways’ for savvy women travelers. Everyone IS different after all… Customize these great days in Paris as part of a longer trip, for a long weekend or anytime you choose.

We’ve added a new ‘spa’ focused day, including one where you can enrobe yourself in chocolate!

Experience the incomparable Parisian lifestyle as our convivial expert guides take you to shop, savor and sample your way across the City of Light.   Ideal for women of all ages, multi-generational families, Getaways for Girlfriends are available all year.  Pick one, two, or enjoy all of these delightful custom days in Paris.  And talk to us about your other ideas for custom touring… chances are we can design a great day for you.


Paris Tea and Chocolate TourTea.. Chocolate.. Paris
March 22 to 25, 2009

NEW FOUR DAY FORMAT  FOR SPRING 2009

Paris, capital of the world for chocolate? For fabulous pastries? Well known. Paris, capital of the world for fine teas? Yes! But less well-known!

If fine tea and chocolate are two of your favorite food groups this is absolutely an experience for you! Sally Peabody, Your Great Days in Paris, and will take six guests, maximum, to immerse in Paris’ very best tea, chocolate and patisserie, all over the city of light.  We'll enjoy tastings and visits to the most atmospheric chocolatiers, tea salons, tea-sellers and patisseries. We will explore how the French Art of Tea includes creative uses of tea in chocolate making and in crafting irresistible pastries, financiers and macarons. A most delicious and revelatory experience of tea (and chocolate) in the pot, in the cup and on your plate.

Learn more about this tour

For more information about any tour please email Sally


   

 

 

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