Culinary Concoctions: Why a Holiday Is No Longer Just About Lying On the Beach

The High-Concept Society

Increasingly as a society we seem eager to bundle ideas and concepts together into quick new constellations. Sometimes it is out of necessity or pragmatism. After all if your bookshop needs new customers why not bundle it with a café?

In other ways it is a symptom of a world that is diversifying continually, looking for niches within niches. So people when they holiday today are not just going somewhere to relax. They are going with a plan. People are not just going to interesting places. They are now going there to do interesting things, perhaps to learn something new, perhaps to volunteer or even to improve their well-being. Why not go someplace new and pursue things you love doing?

Why a Culinary Tour?

For the foodies of the world, the natural extension of this is the culinary tour. The whole idea behind a culinary tour is that it’s a focused and alternative way of experiencing another culture. You get to know a lot about people from the food they eat. Just as much perhaps as you would from seeing their paintings or their architecture. Food has long been an integral part of encountering another country but now it is becoming central.

Which Culinary Tour?

Well, let’s take a leap into the darkness here and assume that you’re a wine lover.  What would be more appealing than to travel around Spain’s Wine and Castle Country? 

The culinary tour lasts five nights and takes in three, sometimes four hotels. Among the attractions is the famous Museum of Wine.  Each morning you’ll energize yourself with a continental buffet breakfast before setting out in a rented car, to wind your way through archaic villages under ancient castles where Cervantes’s characters once walked.  

Purpose is Preferred

Maybe we are becoming a high–concept society but we are also becoming more sensitive to the ways in which we spend our time. If you are going to journey to the other side of the world, it might as well be with a purpose. Too many people go on holiday and leave the best part of themselves behind; their interests, their hobbies, their obsessions. The Rioja Wine Country trip is just one of many culinary tours offered by Holidays for Humanity. All our high concept packages are constructed around the ideal of an ethical travel experience. See if we have something for you.

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Spain's Culinary Tour