CV Travels top `foodie houses

from Thai cookery courses to houses in close proximity to fine restaurants, properties for foraging for truffles and houses with a cook. Cornish stone Mill House, sea-food heaven, from £250 per person The Padstow area has a long list of renowned restaurants, now numbering Rick Stein’s `The Seafood Restaurant’ and Jamie Oliver’s `Fifteen Cornwall’ among the local chef-restauranteurs. The Old Mill House is a really special house with superb coastal views towards Tintagel and the Atlantic and the lovely sandy beach at Trebarwith Strand just 20 minutes’ walk away. Within walking distance of the house are two pubs, while at nearby Port Isaac is The Harbour, specialising in seafood and steaks. Or for those who like to eat in, CV Travel can arrange sea-going fishing trips or gourmet deliveries from Padstow restaurant `Number 6’. A week’s rental of The Old Mill house costs from £2000, for up to 8 guests (£250 / person) through CV Travel, 020 7401 1086 and www.cvtravel.co.uk http://www.cvtravel.co.uk/villas/Great-Britain_Cornwall_ ... Corfiot house with cook, from £590 per person As if the wonderful tavernas and fish restaurants in the harbour of San Stefano on Corfu’s north east coast aren’t enough of a draw for foodies, the lovely villa `Kokkokila’ in the hills above the tiny harbour has its own cook to prepare meals 6 days a week to serve on the house’s lovely sun-baked terraces. The house is available through CV Travel, who can also organise Greek cookery demonstrations in nearby Kassiopi. A week’s rental of Kokokilas, with return Gatwick flights, transfers, maid and cook service costs from £590 to £1050 per person, based on 6 sharing. Contact CV Travel on 020 7401 1026 and www.cvtravel.co.uk http://www.cvtravel.co.uk/villas/Greece_Corfu_Kokkokilas ... Villa in Koh Samui with Thai cookery lesson, from £285 per person A full lunchtime or dinnertime Thai cookery lesson at the Samai Institute of Culinary Arts is included with a week’s rental of Ban Khao, a beautiful coastal villa for six guests with an horizon pool that blends into the ocean. Each guest is invited to try out Thai cookery at the Institute, learning to prepare Thai curry pastes and three other dishes in a 3 hour hands-on session from either 11am or 4pm, lunch or dinner, preparing meat or fish freshly selected from the local markets. A week’s stay at Ban Khao costs from £285 per person, based on six sharing, including villa rental, transfers, cookery lessons, maid service and breakfast. Flights can be booked independently or through CV Travel. Contact CV Travel on 020 7401 1050 and www.cvtravel.co.uk http://www.cvtravel.co.uk/Villas/Thailand_Koh-Samui-_Bop ... Spanish country house, with cook from £200 per person The lovely Casa Gandolfo, a country house with private pool set amid spacious gardens in the Andalucian hills, comes with its own cook, who works 5 days a week to prepare lunches and dinners, traditional Spanish meals, barbecues, picnics and al-fresco lunches and leaves breakfast ready for the next morning. Local Spanish markets abound with lovely fresh fruit and vegetables and fresh fish markets are within around 50kms on the Costa del Sol. A week’s rental of Casa Gandolfo for up to 10 guests costs from £200 per person (based on 10 sharing), rising to £430 per person per week in high season, excluding flights which can be booked independently or through CV Travel into Malaga. Contact CV Travel on 020 7401 1035 and www.cvtravel.co.uk http://www.cvtravel.co.uk/Villas/Spain_Andalucia_Gaucin_Casa-Gandolfo--Gaucin.cfm Provencal produce, local markets and French wines, from £208 per person Truffles, local wines of the Duché d'Uzès, olives, abundant market garden produce and a glorious market every Saturday and Wednesday offering a profusion of regional products, with all the warm and colourful atmosphere of Provencal markets, make Uzes a good spot for a holiday for food lovers. La Petite Pousterle is a wonderful and traditional house from which to enjoy the Uzes region, a traditional and beautifully restored ochre-washed Provencal house, set around a central courtyard with a small pool, a 5 minute walk to a local bakery, patisserie and restaurants at St Bonnet du Gard, within 2kms of restaurants at Remoulins 2kms and 15kms from Uzes. A week’s rental of La Petite Pousterle costs from £1250 to £1800, ie. £208 to £300 per person, based on 6 sharing, and can be booked through CV Travel, 020 7401 1044, www.cvtravel.co.uk http://www.cvtravel.co.uk/Villas/France_Provence_Near-Uzes_La-Petite-Pousterle--Pont-du-Gard.cfm Umbrian holidays, with truffles, chocolate and pizza, from £211 per person The individual stone propertiess that make up the tiny, private Umbrian hamlet of Borgo San Biagio, are in the heart of truffle growing Italian countryside and just 55kms from Perugia, which hosts an annual chocoholics festival `Eurochocolate’. This year the event is from 16 October 2009 to 25 October 2009 and includes chocolate sculptures, stalls, tastings and demonstrations. Truffle hunting can be arranged through CV Travel, with a local estate owner, taking dogs into the forest and tasting the results for lunch afterwards. The owner of this tiny, private hamlet will also organise pizza baking parties in the traditional pizza ovens in the gardens. A week’s stay at Borgo san Biagio at `Casa di Venere’, a house for 4 with its own Jacuzzi and garden and shared use of the pool and gardens, costs from £845 to £1840, (£211 to £460 per person, based on 4 sharing). Flights can be booked either through CV Travel or independently into Perugia. Contact CV Travel 020 7401 1039 and www.cvtravel.co.uk http://www.cvtravel.co.uk/Villas/Italy_Umbria_Umbria-Tuscany-Borders_Casa-di-Venere---Borgo-San-Biagio--nr-Umbertide.cfm


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CV Travel started as Corfu Villas in 1972, as specialists in villa and family holidays in Greece. Our 2009 collection ranges from luxury villas and hotels to converted trulli houses, renovated mas, sun-soaked fincas, peaceful riads, quirky towers for two and even entire palaces.

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