Manager who are experts in local history, art and architecture, flora and fauna, and food and wine. But they can also drive the support van that’s laden with refresh- ments and can pick up tired walkers. The Walk Manager transfers your luggage from hotel to hotel each day – so you don’t have to. You walk with a light day pack and a water bottle. That’s it. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are arranged, the table is set, your place is waiting.
Then there’s the matter of the walk itself. The Wayfarers explore, create, and edit all of their walks and make them as seamless as possible. In the best of circumstances, this literally means walking inn-to-inn. On some days, a short van transfer is necessary to get you to the optimum starting point or to pick you up, the idea being that leaving out the boring bits and much of the 21st century is part of the goal.
Take Chianti, in the heart of Tuscany. Much of the Chianti countryside still looks like the back- drop of a Renaissance painting. Those famed Tuscan hills are laced with a network of gravel roads that meander through oak forests, wheat fields and vine- yards, past impeccably restored villas and tumbledown ruins awaiting the touch of the next Frances Mayes. But obviously, there are modern aspects to this countryside that you didn’t come all this way to see, like noisy bottling plants that send those fermented grapes all over the world,
Call us at 1-800-249-4620 (US & Canada)
“It’s marvelous to walk in beautiful surroundings without all the hassle of wondering if you’re on the right path.”
Frank Doyle (who has walked with The Wayfarers 57 times)
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Judi Hermann
Julie Vanek
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