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    Scott "Serge" Bernhard - tour director
    Elroy "Elroi" Christenson - managing director


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We just love this part. "Dinner next to Lake Annecy" in 1999.

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


Scott "Serge" Bernhard, tour director
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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.
Elroy "Elroi" Christenson, managing director
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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.
See his watercolors here.



    Summer 2012
"Paris and the Best of S & E Village France Tours"
Paris, Loire Valley, Périgord, Tarn Gorges, Provence/Mediterranean, French Alps (21 days)
     July 26 August 16, 2012

This is a bit of a change for us since most of our previous tours because we will be touring some of our favorite areas rather than breaking new ground.  We have fewer stop with longer stays in the ones that we do make.  We also will be doing the driving ourselves as we did when we first started touring together back in 1990.  We intend to make this tour a more in depth study of the regions in which we stay.  We plan for more time for language, culture and art works.  These are some of our favorite locations in France which we have always felt we could spend more time.  


For more information elroy@next1000.com

Photos of previous S & E Tours || Comments from past travelers
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 Elroy's France Watercolors
||  Elroy's Watercolor Travel Kits

Elroy's Watercolors from 2008
Luxembourg from the valley


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