Explore Leena's destinations abroad

I go to Paris like my home. I've lived there and I have 163 books on Paris. I guide the city I love on all my travels.

There are 3 themes:

1. Paris - mon amour (in which you can see all the sights of Paris).
2. Paris for returnees (in which case, for example, I will tell you about the secret patterns of the Knights Templar on the map of Paris).
3. Relaxed mus-trip (where we go to free concerts and take time to listen to street musicians).

Want to experience France far from mass tourism? Read about this item my blogs.

Treats, history, husky rides and Green Venice in the French countryside.

Three days around Toulouse, 3 days near the city of Souillac.

Truffles, walnut trees, dark red wine, plum liqueur, world-famous goat cheese, chocolate... and mountains, a river valley and the largest cave in Europe.

Enjoying this beautiful seaside town, we take a trip to the mountains for a couple of top chefs in molecular cuisine.

You get an incredible (vegetarian) menu that will never be forgotten.

The world's first natural wine tour to Slovenia! Wine is the last food in which there is no need (at the insistence of the big wine houses) to have a list of nutrients.

It makes you think that your bottle of wine is just a grape, but that's not the case. Perhaps you would like to know how much added sulfite is in your wine? Or chemical yeast? The EU approves 63 substances that can be added to wine.

My partner in Slovenia assured me that they all have “original wines” (like Finnish, I think the silly name goes), but they weren't.

However, he found the president of the Slovenian Association for Natural Wine, which allows this November (2024) wine tour to places that look the same as what is described on the label (even that is not usual), and where the wine is made in a natural way without chemicals. I woke up to this in Padua, Italy.

The lunch restaurant had a big sign saying “Stop chemical wines!”. What do you mean chemical wines, I thought, and I started to find out. I love wine, and I want to know what's in my bottle.

In Slovenia, of course, we also get to know other cultural sites and beautiful landscapes, but the vineyards are really carefully selected.

We will also get acquainted with the difference between these and other wines and how wine is grown in Slovenia.

Do you want to join us? Contact us: leena.immonen@saaritours.fi