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As foodies, we have never found a travel agent who really understood what we wanted until now. Karen shares our passion for a great food experience when we travel. Her knowledge and willingness to create our perfect holiday was second to none. Thank you.”

Your organization was just exactly as we have found it in the past - perfect. Once again, thank you, and we will be certainly calling on you next time we are heading off.”

We were blown away by the depth of your knowledge, willingness to research our requests and patience with our never ending questions. Your outstanding client service and high standards ensured we had the most amazing holiday.”

Our market tour & private cooking class in Paris was faultless and excellent. We would highly recommend this.”

My husband wanted a wine tour around Burgundy and in my research I found Food and Wine Travel on line. I noticed it was an Australian company and . . . that put my mind at ease. The tour was terrific and Karen’s help was invaluable.”

The restaurants and hotels … were not the usual ones booked by most travel agents. We must thank you organizing this great holiday/tour for us. You were able to arrange our unusual requests when other agents were unable or unwilling.

Thank you once again as it is great to have a travel agent who goes outside the box to find something different and not just the big name tours where often there are just too many people on the tour.

You are the first travel agent (I know concierge!) we have met that actually knows what they are talking about and has actually travelled, unlike the Flight Centre "tribe" We will definitely be using your services in the future and we are already recommending you to friends and family.

Was wonderful and Marjorie is so lovely! great recommendation and wonderful experience. Love the chardonnay (for a change) and the pinot as well as crémant! That is pretty tasty! Had not seen that before and was nice too. Wish we could bring more back! The winery tours were fun (first one on first day with Simon was great – he is British and very knowledgeable). 2nd day also a British guy and went to much smaller boutiques and great again – very different from first day in the large winery. Trains v easy to use. Le Caveau was wonderful! Thanks again for all your help was a great adventure

Thank you so much for a great trip. Your excellent planning, knowledge and expertise really made our three weeks a great adventure. The well-considered internal flight and transfer times meant we were not too tired and that was really great. All the hotels were absolutely beautiful with exceptional locations…especially Paris and Venice! The airport pick-ups really made a great difference too. Overall a wonderful trip and we will certainly do another trip with you in the future. The highlights for us were all the cooking classes and the foodie walking tour in Barcelona. That tour of Barcelona was the best tour in our trip. The guide was so interesting and accommodating and we tasted some of the most amazing foods and meet some wonderful artisans.

Marjorie and her cooking day today was amazing! We all loved it and I would have no hesitation recommending it. We all loved her food, her energy, her family , all of it!!!!

We had a fabulous time! Our tour through France was just great. Train travel was great.... so easy (thanks for all that arrangement and detail. Thank you so much for your work and support.. we couldn’t have done it without you! Keep us informed of any interesting tours coming up... maybe in 2014... we are thinking of Germany & Italy.

Hi Karen, Just wanted to let you know we had a great trip. Thank you again for all your help and organising. The itinerary notes were really helpful so thanks for putting in all the details. We had some great food and wine in Italy and France. Certainly have a better understanding of the French burgundy and bordeaux wines. The classifications are more complicated than I realised. From the relaxed life in Tuscany to the organised world of Champagne - it was all wonderful.

It was a wonderful trip......... all went to plan and enjoyed it all! As I mentioned to you in my last email, I particularly enjoyed Marjorie's workshop - and what can one say about Beaune!!!! Even in Winter! Paris was as beautiful as ever - and London - even though I knew a week wasn't going to be enough time to fit everything in......... it was fabulous!

Have done a lot of travelling over the years and have dealt with many travel agents and I can assure you, you leave everyone else in your industry for dead.

Thank you for being the best travel agent ever. Your notes of what to do at each stop were invaluable. Google maps of where to go for customs, to collect luggage and meet drivers.....excellent. Other passengers marveled at this efficiency by you. We had a marvelous holiday, thank you so much.

Hi Karen, I am now back. Mum and I really enjoyed the food and wine tour that you organized. The accommodation was excellent, the activities were good, the restaurants were great and Fernando (the driver/guide) was extremely courteous, helpful and informative. The only possible complaint I could come up with was that I’m not sure it was possible to eat and drink as much as was offered! (Not actually a complaint, just a failing on my part) Many thanks for all of your assistance.

Hi Karen, I am settling back into my life back here but I have to say my trip was everything and more than I was hoping for. Your arrangements and choice in accommodation were outstanding and perfect. This enabled me to be introduced into world travel as a single person with a huge desire to do it again. It was an excellent idea to be eased into Italy with Jim’s tour, very relaxing and his knowledge of Italy gave me the confidence to take on those 6 days in Rome. The tours and especially the cooking day with the “yummy Fabio” will leave me with wonderful memories. (I am having a girls Italian lunch on Tuesday to show my friends the Italian Delights I have experience) I could go on but seriously I found everyone very helpful and pleasant. I did not once feel nervous or threatened in any way I was aware that I was on my own and did not take too many risks, but I was confident to turn the next corner to see what was there. With huge gratitude Rosie.

San Sebastian was great and the ladies at the food and wine group were really great and very helpful. The guide we had for the pinxtos and cooking class was very entertaining and knowledgeable great personality and the food, it was presented in such a way that I tried dishes I would not have thought of having in a million years. I found Madrid overpowering, (maybe I was a little worn out by then) so many people so I was glad that we had the day trips. Geoff thought Segovia was the best although my favourite places in the tour were Alhambra and Cordoba. Once again thank you for all the hard work.

We had a wonderful tour of India and we were looked after from go to whoa. The organization and arrangements clicked over smoothly and impressively. The food was fabulous and several of the demonstrations were simply outstanding.

I’m not sure if you remember me but I booked a fabulous Tuscany tour for myself and other half (Duncan) through you last year. I feel awful that I haven’t been able to thank you/tell you about it directly (hopefully you were able to see my updates via Facebook at least), but it was truly THE most incredible, unforgettable experience and a perfect way to end our trip. We brought so many wonderful memories and - of course - cooking skills from the amazing Chef Claudio back home with us. A million thank you’s for your fabulous assistance and recommendations. More than 6 months later I’m still totally gushing about it to everyone!

Hi Karen I’m emailing to thank you both so very much for arranging a wonderful and memorable holiday. I can’t begin to tell you how much Simon and I enjoyed ourselves. Apologies it has taken this long to email and thank you but you know how it is when you get back from a holiday ;-) Karen – Thanks again for organising the trip. As I said some time ago, it is a pleasure dealing with a professional!

Just to say hi and a great big thank you for making our Italian holiday so enjoyable and relatively stress free! Your amazing organisation and attention to detail had us on planes, trains, boats and generally finding our way with ease. The hotels were pretty much as we would have expected, small, quiet and with supportive hosts…. The Tuscany week was great. We loved the opportunity to sit back and be taken to such great places to really spend time exploring the medieval villages and eating and drinking such great food and wine without having to worry or make too many decisions beyond what was on the menu! Treviso with Carlo was fabulous. He is also such an engaging and great guy with knowledge, patience and expertise. We thoroughly enjoyed the two days out and about with him. Especially the prosecco area, fabulous hills and wines. We would highly recommend this area ( as you told us! ) to spend more time in. And lastly Menaggio. This was a perfect place to relax and revive before heading home. Just lovely. This little town would have to be the best we saw on the lakes. I would highly recommend it as the place to stay in the general area. Our accommodation was perfect. All in all our time spent on the food and wine packages were the most enjoyable and relaxed, being out in the countryside is certainly less rushed and more our style… we couldn’t have found all those lovely places, eaten all that great food or drunk the wine without the great hosts. Thank you again for making our trip as stress free as possible. I am so glad to have you doing all the hard work…bookings, connections, trains, and tours… It all worked perfectly.