European Treasures, Country Pleasures

August 20-21, 2012

$199.00 per person double    $189.00 p.p. triple   $179.00 p.p. quad.   $269.00 single      

 Includes:  Transportation, overnight accommodations, 1-Dinner and 1-Breakfast, admissions per itinerary, taxes and Imperial Escort. 
Departure:  Depart Lafayette at 7:00am.  Pick-ups en route may be arranged.

                                                  

We begin in the country with a visit toExplore over 12,000 trees featuring 26 varieties of apples via  a tractor pulled wagon. Visit the Apple Barn for fresh-picked apples, raspberries, and peaches. Maybe try a fresh cider donut from their bakery.

Next is Sanfilippo “Place de la Musique”, known worldwide for its magnificent collections of beautifully restored
            antique music machines, phonographs, arcade and gambling machines, chandeliers, the world’s largest restored theater pipe organ,  the most spectacular European salon carousel in existence, street and tower clocks and steam engines, all displayed within a breathtaking French Second Empire setting.

    The next day we visit Historic Woodstock Square,  listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 
Shop for locally grown and produced items at their Farmers Market, shop stores around the brick paved square, tour the 1889 Gothic-style
Woodstock Opera House, and the 1857 Old Courthouse Arts Center. 
The 1993 movie Groundhog Day was filmed here and you can follow a walking tour of the movie sites.
 We’ll visit Grace Farm Studios, producers of organically grown raspberries, raspberry sweets. Learn about dehydrating fresh berries and
other summer goodies from a local homesteader. You can shop for Icelandic and llama fleece, yarn, handmade  wool rugs and apparel; fiber art
quilts, and custom hardwood fiber art tools.  Visit with Grace Farm's resident fiber llama, "Gulliver," and watch a fiber artist spin yarn from
processed Icelandic wool or llama fiber. " Before we depart for home we’ll spend some time in the Gardens of Woodstock. 
The Gardens feature several waterfalls and ponds. Stroll the meandering brick walks and patios complemented by lush colorful landscaping.
You will find many new and unusual plants that they have sought out at unique nurseries throughout the United States.

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