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All Inclusive Cooking Vacations
Category: Italy Wine and Cooking Vacations/Tuscany and Umbria Cooking Vacations
... or click here to view the video in High Definition or click here to view our 2008 Tuscany Cooking Vacation Video Join Us for the Experience of a Lifetime ...Friday, 23 October 2009 -
Our Cooking Vacation Itineraries
Category: Italy Vacations/Schedules and Itineraries
Wine & Cooking Under the Tuscan & Umbrian Sun 8 Days, 7 Nights All-Inclusive Cooking Vacation focusing on wineries & sights in Tuscany & Umbria $3,395.00 per ...Tuesday, 17 November 2009 -
2010 Tour Calendar
Category: Italy Vacations/Schedules and Itineraries
... Umbrian Sun(Discover Spring in Tuscany) 8 / 7 $3,395.00 Sold Out Get on the Wait List May 15 – May 22 Wine, Cooking & The Roads Less Traveled (Discover ...Friday, 23 October 2009 -
Guided Tours of Italy
Category: Italy Guided Tours/Guided Coach Tours of Italy
... area between Tuscany and Venice is not just a long stretch of freeway, but it is where one discovers some of Italy's most incredible contributions to the world, such as Parmesan cheese, Ferrari & Lamborghini, ...Friday, 23 October 2009 -
Explore Our Vacations
Category: Italy Vacations/Schedules and Itineraries
... as you will discover Italy in a way other tours don't. We'll be like family for 16 days, and tour Italy like Italians! All-Inclusive Tuscany & Umbria Cooking Vacations • Click Here to ...Friday, 23 October 2009 -
Wine, Cooking & The Roads Less Traveled
Category: Italy Wine and Cooking Vacations/Tuscany and Umbria Cooking Vacations
Vacation Type: All-Inclusive Cooking Vacation Length: 8 Days, 7 Nights Group Size: About ...Monday, 26 October 2009 -
Video and Photo Galleries
Category: Galleries/Videos
Video Gallery A collection of dozens of videos made during our vacations that give our future guests a strong sense of what traveling ...Sunday, 06 December 2009 -
About Michael and Paola
Category: About Us/About
... (in Pienza, Tuscany) Paola (at Villa Eddarella) Michael (at a Village Grocer) Sara (in the Teaching Kitchen) Hi! We are Michael ...Monday, 16 November 2009 -
Imagine a day as our guest
Category: Italy Wine and Cooking Vacations/Tuscany and Umbria Cooking Vacations
... Imagine walking into the 350 year old country villa in the rolling hills of the Tiber valley. As you walk toward the villa you gaze at the hills of Umbria and Tuscany, littered with olive ...Sunday, 15 November 2009 -
Video Gallery
Category: Galleries/Videos
... it Compilation Videos from our Vacations Imagine - A Video Montage from our 2009 Tuscany Cooking Vacations A video highlighting our 2009 season of cooking ...Thursday, 03 December 2009 -
Our Mission
Category: About Us/About
Wedding in a small Italian village Porchetta Panini in Umbria Local Festivals Cooking Class at Villa Eddarella Visiting ...Monday, 23 November 2009 -
Our Location
Category: Italy Wine and Cooking Vacations/Tuscany and Umbria Cooking Vacations
Our cooking vacations are all based in Soriano nel Cimino, which is right at the border between Lazio, Umbria and Tuscany. We are also within 15 minutes of Italy's major rail lines and ...Sunday, 15 November 2009 -
Olive Harvest & Cooking in Rome, Florence & Tuscany
Category: Italy Guided Tours/Guided Coach Tours of Italy
Vacation Type: Harvest & Cooking Vacation Length: 8 Days, 7 Nights Group Size: Less ...Wednesday, 18 November 2009 -
Where is Soriano nel Cimino?
Category: About Soriano nel Cimino/Soriano nel Cimino Info
... of the Tuscany border. This map is interactive. You can pan, zoom, and overlay satellite imagery. • Soriano is marked in RED • The regions of Tuscany, Umbria and Latium are marked in GREEN ...Tuesday, 01 December 2009 -
It's All About Family
Category: About Us/About
Picture yourself as a visiting relative... Dinner in Tuscany Meeting Leonardo & Serena Brian & Andrea Marco & Kathy ...Monday, 23 November 2009 -
Custom Tours & Destination Management in Italy
Category: Italy Custom Tours/Customized Tours of Italy
... in designing unique 'out of the box' experiences from group cooking competitions in the hills of Tuscany, to wine-making and olive harvests. From weddings in majestic castles to unique archeological digs. ...Friday, 23 October 2009 -
Travel Agents
Category: About Us/About
Welcome Travel Professionals DiscoverSoriano.com, LLC, CultureDiscovery Vacations' parent company is proud to be a Tour Operator member of ASTA ...Sunday, 22 November 2009 -
The Four-Day Cooking & Tuscany Wine Getaway
Category: Italy Wine and Cooking Vacations/Tuscany and Umbria Cooking Vacations
Vacation Type: All-Inclusive Cooking Vacation Length: 4 Days, 3 Nights Group Size: ...Saturday, 16 January 2010 -
Our Guided Tours
Category: Italy Vacations/Schedules and Itineraries
... track, visits to outlets, and much more. Read More... Olive Harvest & Cooking in Rome, Florence & Tuscany 8 Days, 7 Nights All-Inclusive that includes harvesting ...Friday, 20 November 2009 -
Where is Discover Soriano?
Category: About Us/About
... We had a villa in the small town of Soriano nel Cimino, Italy (usually simply called Soriano for short) near the Tuscany and Umbria border. It was a place that had not yet been ravaged by mass tourism. ...Wednesday, 02 December 2009 -
Accommodations
Category: Italy Wine and Cooking Vacations/Tuscany and Umbria Cooking Vacations
... with a queen and a bathroom. The location is breathtaking with an amazing view of Soriano, the Tiber Valley and onward toward Umbria and Tuscany. While the rooms are extremely beautiful and comfortable, ...Friday, 23 October 2009 -
Compare to Other Cooking Vacations
Category: Italy Wine and Cooking Vacations/Tuscany and Umbria Cooking Vacations
... the various regions in Italy, but they know certain buzzwords like 'Tuscany' or 'Umbria'. People often tell us they want to go to Tuscany and Florence. That is like hearing someone say they want ...Tuesday, 17 November 2009 -
Video Testing
Category: Galleries/Videos
Monday, 28 December 2009 -
The Five-Day Cooking & Tuscany Wine Getaway
Category: Italy Wine and Cooking Vacations/Tuscany and Umbria Cooking Vacations
Vacation Type: All-Inclusive Cooking Vacation Length: 5 Days, 4 Nights Group Size: ...Friday, 05 February 2010 -
Our Cooking School
Category: Italy Wine and Cooking Vacations/Tuscany and Umbria Cooking Vacations
... it would get much better use as a kitchen. So we designed what we felt would be the ultimate kitchen to teach and learn in... naturally respecting the beauty of Tuscany and Umbria! In July of 2008 ...Sunday, 27 September 2009 -
Is This For You?
Category: Italy Wine and Cooking Vacations/Tuscany and Umbria Cooking Vacations
Is This For You? We get all kinds of questions from people trying to determine if this type of trip is right for them. Read on and you will get most of your answers: Attitude is Everything! ...Monday, 26 October 2009 -
Your Hosts
Category: Italy Wine and Cooking Vacations/Tuscany and Umbria Cooking Vacations
Your Hosts Michael and Paola Kovnick, the founders of CultureDiscovery, split their time between Italy and The United States (read their story here). ...Monday, 16 November 2009 -
Prices in different currencies
Category: Italy Vacations/Schedules and Itineraries
... & Cooking in Rome, Florence & Tuscany 8 / 7 $3,495.00 €2,595.00 £2,395.00 $3,995.00 $4,095.00 La Belissima Italian Experience ...Monday, 30 November 2009 -
The FAMILY feeling of our vacations explained
Category: Blogging Tuscany and Umbria Italy/Personal
Our future guests often ask me what our tours are going to be like, and I try to explain the feeling of ‘family’, and how it is so different than anything else out there. Oddly, it is a ...Friday, 13 March 2009 -
Recession-proof your vacation with Culture Discovery Vacations
Category: Blogging Tuscany and Umbria Italy/Travel Tips
... border area between Rome, Tuscany and Umbria… extremely close to all of it, but not specifically in any of those places. Our area is not as touristy as many of the places we go to on excursions, ...Tuesday, 07 October 2008 -
Cooking & Touring Tuscany, Umbria & Lazio in 2008, a look back
Category: Blogging Tuscany and Umbria Italy/Travel Tips
7 months, 17 tours, 56 cooking classes, 144 guests and over 35,000 miles of Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio are behind us. That was the 2008 season for us at Culture Discovery. As with last year, ...Tuesday, 25 November 2008 -
Kathy and Marco - Cleveland, Ohio - USA
Category: Testimonials/Letters form our guests
"Thank you for our best trip to Italy ever!" - Kathy & Marco - Cleveland, Ohio - USA Dear Michael & Paola, Thank you for our best trip to Italy ever! ...Friday, 11 December 2009 -
Olive Garden cooking school in Tuscany?
Category: Blogging Tuscany and Umbria Italy/Tuscany
... know your name, let alone consider you family? Do we actually buy into this stuff? OK, marketing marketing marketing. But now their commercials focus on their 'Culinary Institute' in Tuscany? They imply ...Saturday, 26 May 2007 -
Jules and Jim - Washington State - USA
Category: Testimonials/Letters form our guests
"You shared the sights & sounds plus of course the food & wine as if we were part of your family." - Jules & Jim Washington State - USA Michael, ...Friday, 11 December 2009 -
One too many Margaritas for Uncle Ben
Category: Blogging Tuscany and Umbria Italy/Personal
As you travel the world, you continuously run across things you never thought you might. Some are big, some are minor. All Uncle Ben is good for in the states is rice, but it seems he has been ...Thursday, 05 October 2006 -
How to avoid getting ripped off as a tourist in Italy
Category: Blogging Tuscany and Umbria Italy/Travel Tips
... tourists in Rome or Tuscany get ’special’ menus with inflated prices, and I have seen tourists in Soriano nel Cimino get special menus with lower prices than the locals get! Food: It is ...Monday, 02 October 2006 -
Discovering the True Italian life when vacationing in Italy
Category: Blogging Tuscany and Umbria Italy/Lazio
... of the amazing culture that Italy offers. You cannot experience the true Italy from a traditional tour, or by visiting the standard tourist destinations like Rome, Tuscany, Venice, etc. ...Tuesday, 03 October 2006 -
Finding Italy through London Fog this XMas
Category: Blogging Tuscany and Umbria Italy/Travel Tips
On Tuesday, December 19th at around 4:30 PM we sat at the departure gate in Los Angeles waiting to board our flight. It had already been a very long day for us, and we were looking forward to a 10 ...Thursday, 28 December 2006 -
You can travel to Italy without worrying about the weak Dollar
Category: Blogging Tuscany and Umbria Italy/Travel Tips
In the past year, the value of the dollar has fallen 10% against the Euro. That means if the price of something in Europe has not changed, it costs you 10% more if you earn your money in US Dollars. ...Wednesday, 26 September 2007 -
Marcia and Christina - Florida - USA
Category: Testimonials/Letters form our guests
"We appreciate your attention to detail in making sure we felt like house guests visiting relatives" - Marcia & Christina Florida - USA Dear Michael, Spartaco, ...Saturday, 17 October 2009 -
Slow down and let your vacation happen
Category: Blogging Tuscany and Umbria Italy/Travel Tips
Have you ever been on a vacation and come home having the feeling that you need a vacation from your vacation? Have you ever phoned home and said something to the effect of ‘We’re exhausted, ...Monday, 10 September 2007 -
Your second trip to Italy may be your first
Category: Blogging Tuscany and Umbria Italy/Travel Tips
We’ve been renting homes to travelers for over a year now, and I’ve noticed two distinct groups of people: ‘Italy first-timers’ and ‘Italian culture chasers’. ...Sunday, 09 September 2007 -
Florida Italophiles Unite!
Category: Blogging Tuscany and Umbria Italy/Personal
Wow… I’ve been away from Italy now for a total of 3 and a half months. That is the longest stretch in more than 2 years. When I am in the states, I’m not immersed in ...Monday, 28 January 2008 -
Italian... So lost in translation
Category: Blogging Tuscany and Umbria Italy/Personal
“My daughter speaks perfect English. After all, she spent a month in England with a native family”. That was the quote that caused me to simply give up, and it speaks volumes about Italian ...Friday, 29 February 2008 -
Where has the time gone?
Category: Blogging Tuscany and Umbria Italy/Personal
So it has been an incredibly busy season for us this year… o the point that we sold out most of the tours this year. Not bad when you hear all over the news how Americans just aren’t ...Wednesday, 27 August 2008 -
Is Soriano in Tuscany or Umbria?
Category: Tour FAQs/Cooking Vacation FAQ
To Italians, Tuscany and Umbria are regions that define political boundaries. You might consider them the way we consider counties. To foreigners, the names Tuscany and Umbria represent a picture we ...Friday, 27 November 2009 -
September Weather and Holidays
Category: Travel Planning Help/Weather and Holidays in Italy
... of light rain. Weather in Central (Soriano nel Cimino, Tuscany, Umbria, Florence, Rome, etc.) The average temperatures range between the low 60's to high 70's (17 to 26 C). Expect sunshine, but you ...Tuesday, 01 December 2009 -
Imagine - Cooking Vacations & Culinary Tours in Tuscany and Umbria Italy with Culture Discovery Vacations
Category: podcast/Culture Discovery Vacations - Tuscany and Umbria I
Imagine - Cooking Vacations & Culinary Tours in Tuscany and Umbria Italy with Culture Discovery Vacations ...Saturday, 16 January 2010
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