FITNESS, FORAGING AND FARM TO FORK
Our new WoWSunTours initiative Fitness, Foraging, Farm to Fork, is a truly inspired idea and one which we feel is both topical and appropriate to current sustainable ideologies.
Our FFFF week focuses on good living, whilst incorporating all the other more laid back elements of our standard Tuscan holiday. With an emphasis on fitness, each day’s activity, after a light breakfast, will start in the grounds of your charming agriturismo accommodation, with an hour or so of formal functional training, encompassing breathing, yoga, pilates and stretching.
Thereafter, as far as we are able, our ensuing walk/jog/outdoor activity will revolve around the the harvesting of local foods that we hope to be able to offer as part of your evening dining experience, especially during days where there are cookery classes. The success of popular TV series such as Clarkson’s Farm ( like him or loathe him) which follow the journey of farm produce, literally from it’s inception to your plate, shows a growing public awareness and resolve of the fact that you are, quite literally, what you eat.
Being able to trace the journey of what you put in your tum, ensuring it is as FreeFrom as possible, promotes good health and true cyclical sustainability, quite apart from the huge personal satisfaction from any input you made into its production. Dipping your homemade bread into bright green freshly pressed olive oil, squeezed from the olives you harvested yourself, toiling with rakes, nets and ladders, then humphed to the local press, takes on an extraordinary significance and sense of wellbeing. Jugs of organic wine made from local grapes and nurtured on untainted soil, feels a slightly healthier option. Vegetables and fruit handpicked from the plant from your own allotment or orto tastes completely different, honey taken direct from the hives is another taste entirely, with all sorts of medicinal properties, and meat and game reared naturally or indeed wildly, is a world away from supermarket offerings.
Our FFFF weeks aim to take the naturally occuring agricultural cycle of the Tuscan landscape to offer an all round WellBeing Week, with your body renewed through exercise, outdoor air and sunshine, and organically sourced food, cooked to perfection by either your personal chef or in specifically chosen local restaurants.
The base for all this splendid living is as usual, the beautiful medieval hilltop town of Cortona, squeezed between the two bigger cities of Arezzo and Perugia, within the expansive greenness of the Valdichiana. Our weekly tours include the usual sense of Dolce Vita in a host of enchanting venues, from spa bathing in forest rivers, picnic lunches ( shared with a beady eyed peacock) overlooking the quintessential Tuscany of the Crete Senesi, local lake swimming, hand prepared feasts in hidden gem local homes, or boisterous local festivals celebrating the seasonal harvest of a much prized foodstuff.
