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Cooking vacations – the red hot travel trend

Cooking vacations – the red hot travel trend

Why do you travel? Some travel for the sense of adventure and freedom. Some travel for self-discovery. A great many of us travel to discover places, people and cultures. Discerning travellers are beginning to recognise food as an integral part of this culture. And what better way is there to [...]

by November 19, 2013 GoLearnTo.com news and travel advice
Cookery holiday in Toulouse featured in Staffordshire Living today

Cookery holiday in Toulouse featured in Staffordshire Living today

Christmas is in the air. Lifestyle magazine Staffordshire Living featured our cookery holiday in Toulouse in its Christmas issue, fresh from the press today.  Need some Christmas gift ideas? Read on! The gift that keeps on giving We’ve now come leaps and bounds beyond the original Red Letter Days with [...]

A cookery lesson in foie gras

A cookery lesson in foie gras

Just last year, foie gras was like a mystery food from France to me. A sophisticated-sounding mystery, making it all the more intriguing. I knew it’s French, and it’s some sort of food made from the insides of some animal. And it’s served at the tables of expensive restaurants. That [...]

by October 11, 2013 Cooking holidays and wine
The Great Bordeaux Bake hOliday

The Great Bordeaux Bake hOliday

(Pronouncing “holiday” the French way sounds something like “oliday”. So that gives you the Great Bordeaux Bake Oliday – GBBO! Completely legit.) Did you watch The Great British Bake Off last night? It made us so hungry. When Kimberley said that her sister, her resident food taster, “literally walks right [...]

Cooking holidays featured in The Observer

Cooking holidays featured in The Observer

We’re hot in the press this week, with some juicy deals on our cooking holidays featured in the Observer: Luxury Italian cooking holiday 6 nights from £2,045pp- Special offer – 35% off 2013 departures This intimate course, led by experienced cooks and locals, will combine guided practical lessons with culinary [...]

Spanish Cooking Holidays

Spanish Cooking Holidays

Have a passion for Spanish cuisine? Want to get off the tourist trail and see what this fascinating culture really has to offer?  We’ve searched the globe to curate an eclectic mix of holidays which are indulgent, relaxing and revitalising with inspiring teachers in glorious locations. Take a look at [...]

Cook your way across northern Italy in a week

Cook your way across northern Italy in a week

What would you do with a week in northern Italy? Forget the Scrovini Chapel or the Milan Shopping. We’re talking real Italy. Taking a hint from towns named Parma and Bologna that immediately strike cravings for hearty Italian food into our bellies, here’s an idea for an alternative northern Italy [...]

“You meet great people when you go places and cook things”

“You meet great people when you go places and cook things”

Cynthia, a teacher from the USA now living in the UAE, is what we call a super learner. She has a passion for inspired travel. She loves to try new things and is bored by the tired beach holiday. “I’m not a beach holiday person – unless there is scuba [...]

Holidays in Greece featured in Travel Weekly – Find the real Greece

Holidays in Greece featured in Travel Weekly – Find the real Greece

Our learning holidays in Greece have been featured in Travel Weekly as Meera Dattani seeks an authentic Greek holiday. And GoLearnTo.com does authenticity best, with many of our holidays featuring home stays and learning directly from the locals. Read on to find out about our cooking and creative holidays in [...]

Top 5 cooking vacations in France

Top 5 cooking vacations in France

“Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.” – Norman Douglas, British novelist. The French love their food, and are indisputably good at creating those exquisite culinary delights such [...]