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Scott "Serge" Bernhard - tour director |
We just love this part. "Dinner next to Lake Annecy" in 1999.
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Scott "Serge" Bernhard - tour director |
S & E Tours LLC is a company that specializes in small scale tours for lovers of small French villages, fine French food and fine French wines. Our tours have a maximum of 26 participants which travel France in small buses. "Serge", who teaches French, and "Elroi", who teaches art, at North Seattle Community College are the tour leaders.
S & E Tours LLC has generally been doing only one tour every two years for a special group of travelers. Our activities have usually included bicycling, hiking, sketching, playing boules, singing around a few bottles of wine and generally having a great time. The "Villages of France" was adopted by the Continuing Education Division of North Seattle Community College for travel promotion in 2007. We try to pick locations that are little visited by the common American tourists and enjoy exploring regions for their local flavor.
The Guides of S & E Tours LLC
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"Serge" has been a teacher
of French and head of the Language Department at North
Seattle Community College for many years. Although he
teaches Spanish along with French, he adores France and
speaks French as a native Parisian. He has led many
tours of France both independently and as a tour guide
for other companys. "Serge" is an accomplished musician
and entertainer who brings his guitar along on the trips
for frequent song fests into the night. He has written
books on French language for the traveler and is an avid
historian of French culture.
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"Elroi" has been an art
teacher for thirty-four years and head of the Art
Department of North Seattle Community College for about
27 years. He has traveled world-wide but likes France
best of other European countries. "Elroi" has worked
with "Serge" on several trips to the Dordogne, Provence
and the Luberon. He handles the teaching of art history,
watercolor and sketching techniques. He was a featured
"artist in action" in a film on travels in Provence.
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Vaison-la-Romaine is in the northern part of Provence still only a brief trip to Arles and St. Remy where Van Gogh and Gauguin worked. Vaison is a old Roman town that has a later Medieval castle constructed by the Counts of Toulouse. The city today is not on many tourists routes and therefore maintains its own laid-back French cultural charm. There is much great wine and food in the region along with one of the great Sunday markets France. more detailed itinerary of "The Best of S & E Tours -" |
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Easy to print version of the entire tour on this page.
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