Vintage Beaujolais - Classic ridges & wines

7 nights - £540 - 6 days walking between guest houses

Varied independent walking through beautiful hilly countryside with famous vines (vintage Beaujolais crus), upland pasture and forests. This holiday is best known for sweeping views from lovely ridges, great food, wine tasting and B&B's full of charm and character.

Beaujolais - Medieval village tour

7 nights - £525 - 6 days walking between guest houses

This independent walking holiday involves fairly gentle walking through vines and a collection of unspoilt historic villages built from a warm golden limestone set in panoramic rolling countrside. Historic chateaux, churches and countryhouses pepper the landscape. Gastronomic region and B&B's full of charm and character.

Haute Loire - La France Profonde

8 nights - £565 - 7 days walking between guest houses

Starting and finishing at Puy en Velay, the world heritage town, this walking tour explores an upland plateau landscape in the southern Auvergne punctuated with intimate valleys and volcanic domes (sucs). You'll stay in small B&B style historic properties often located in small forgotten hamlets of sturdy stone and thatched houses.

Unspoilt Burgundy - Roman tour

7 nights - £590 - 6 days walking between guest houses

The southern Burgundy is a French treasure of historic chateaux, villages, and romanesque churches set in rolling countryside carpeted with vines and forests. A number of rocky outcrops punctuate the vineyards such as the celebrated “roche de Solutré” important for its pre-historic human activity. Your walking holiday includes plenty of time to visit the historic town of Cluny. Great food in lovely B&B style guest houses

Auvergne: Lakes, volcanoes and historic villages

7 nights -£495, single-centre based, day walks (requiring a car)

Discover the contrasting volcanic regions of the northern Auvergne in central France. The Puy de Dome landscape varies from rugged peaks to open moorland and perfect volcanic cones. Dramatic waterfalls, varied lakes and pretty historic villages with fine roman churches all form part of this moderate week's guided walking.

Alsace - Vineyards and mountains

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7 nights - £675 - 6 days walking between guest houses

This independent walking holiday explores the famous Alsace vineyards and the Vosges hills. As well as their vintage wines the area features some remarkable chateaux and pretty unspoilt villages, their cobbled alleyways lined with typical Alsace houses. The Vosges offer panoramic views over their rounded summits. Hotel accommodation and night in mountain auberge

Cantal Mountains - the rugged heart of France

7 nights - £510 - 6 days walking, single centre

This walking holiday explores the Cantal massif in the southern Auvergne which is the extinct remains of a huge volcano. Erosion has since created a series of rugged ridges, rocky peaks and green valleys of stunning beauty. Exciting self-guided walking in an untamed lansdcape with rich wildlife. Small B&B style guest houses in historic buildings. Warm welcome.

Tour of Queyras - An Alpine secret

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8 nights - 7 days trekking between guest houses

Dramatic walking in an unspoilt, rugged region of the French Alps with breathtaking scenery. A sunny climate and good paths makes this an ideal alpine destination for the fit novice and experienced alpine walker alike. Luggage transported between guest houses. Rich alpine flora and fauna.

Trekking Tour of the Vanoise

7 nights - 6 days trekking with back-pack between mountain huts

The tour of the Vanoise is a circular trek which allows you to be at close quarters with elegant high mountain peaks and stunning alpine glaciers. Designated a National Park, the Vanoise offers an ideal natural, unspoilt wilderness for walking and trekking holidays where souring alpine peaks with pristine glaciers rise majestically above wild, remote valleys.

Lyon World heritage city: All year round

Tailor-made, flexible self-guided or independent walking holiday, staying in hotel of your choice in the heart of the world heritage city. Roman ampitheatres, medieval quarter, renaissance town. Gastronomic capital of France. Choice of walks and plenty of occassion to relax.