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Meet Oli & Flo, the team behind our Italian gastronomic adventures in Tuscany

Meet Oli & Flo, the team behind our Italian gastronomic adventures in Tuscany

Oli & Flo make a great team. Their previous careers and skills have blended perfectly to create everything great holiday hosts need. Add to that their love of food and passion for locally sourced produce and you get the ultimate foodie getaway off the tourist trail in Tuscany. But how […]

by January 16, 2019 Cooking holidays and wine, Our chefs
New stunning rural painting holiday in the Algarve, Portugal

New stunning rural painting holiday in the Algarve, Portugal

We’ve been searching far and wide for a painting holiday that lives up to the expectations of our regular travelling painters and we’re pleased to have found one for the new year – and it is just stunning. Whether you have been painting for years, or just getting started, this […]

by January 15, 2019 Creative holidays, Travel news
Not once but twice – GoLearnTo in The Times 50 best Italian holidays for 2019

Not once but twice – GoLearnTo in The Times 50 best Italian holidays for 2019

Annabelle Thorpe picked her top trips in Italy for 2019 last week and GoLearnTo made the list twice! First up at number 20 in the ‘best for foodies’ section was our fantastic gluten-free cookery break in Tuscany with our amazing chef Rita. Here’s what Annabelle had to say about the […]

by January 14, 2019 GoLearnTo in the press
Meet Mary and Pat, our photography holiday hosts in the Algarve, Portugal

Meet Mary and Pat, our photography holiday hosts in the Algarve, Portugal

Portugal really does have it all – food, history, culture and breathtaking landscapes. And our photography holiday has been created so keen photographers have the opportunity to capture it all. Host Mary and photographer Pat have created a special week by holding the holiday in two locations during the week […]

by January 14, 2019 Creative holidays, Our artists
Discover the Algarve on this new coast to coast photography holiday

Discover the Algarve on this new coast to coast photography holiday

Our brand new photography holiday ensures you’ll see the best of the Algarve as you learn to get the most out of your equipment while capturing the stunning contrast of landscapes across the region. Whether you’re inspired by the ocean, medieval architecture, local life or cliffs, you’ll improve your photography […]

by January 13, 2019 Creative holidays, Travel news
Introducing our new fitness holiday in Portugal – just for women!

Introducing our new fitness holiday in Portugal – just for women!

We’ve dropped this exclusive women’s only fitness bootcamp in just in time for the new year and all those healthy resolutions people tend to make. And when we say bootcamp, we don’t mean waking up at the crack of dawn to go to the dark cold park to be screamed […]

by January 10, 2019 Travel news, Wellbeing holidays
Your guide to Portugal: what to eat and drink

Your guide to Portugal: what to eat and drink

Portugal has been a cultural hot pot for thousands of years, with Romans, Moors, Catholics, Eastern shipments of spice and Jewish communities all settling over the centuries. Add to that ports and fishing villages, mountains and wild forests, all of this has led to a rich cuisine with dishes based […]

by January 8, 2019 Travel advice
Meet Kerry & Tomas, photography and painting holiday hosts in the Dordogne, France

Meet Kerry & Tomas, photography and painting holiday hosts in the Dordogne, France

What better place to stay on your painting and photography holiday than a 5-star rated, 300 year-old manor house in the southwest of France? British host Kerry and her husband, Tomas, run creative holidays from their stunning base in France and it sounds like a dream job to us here […]

by January 7, 2019 Creative holidays, Our artists
Meet Darren, our photography holiday host in Essaouira, Morocco

Meet Darren, our photography holiday host in Essaouira, Morocco

Photography has been Darren’s life from a very young age, and he has built his career and life around his passion. After his own documentary about a local Moroccan music scene brought to the country for the first time, he eventually settled in the Moroccan countryside just outside the laid-back […]

by January 7, 2019 Creative holidays, Our artists
Enjoy some ‘me time’ on our new yoga retreat in Santorini, Greece

Enjoy some ‘me time’ on our new yoga retreat in Santorini, Greece

Our yoga and Pilates holidays in Fuerteventura have gone from strength to strength recently, with returning guests often rating the experience no less than 5 stars. So, you can imagine how happy we are to now also offer their sister yoga retreat on the stunning Greek island of Santorini with […]

by January 4, 2019 Travel news, Wellbeing holidays