Learn

If your desire is to be more than a spectator when you visit other lands, then Lavender Blue Travel has the answer. Make your holiday an opportunity to gain a fresh skill or see how the experts do it  at first hand, learn something new, returning home restored and enthused.

Cooking classes in Muscat -‘Sober Jameel’  (patience is beautiful) and ‘shuwa’  a dish cooked for up to 2 days in an underground clay oven and marinated with herbs and spices; well worth the wait. Learn how to make this and other  delicious traditional foods with an Omani family.

Belly Dance  – the authentic, Egyptian way.

Learn to belly dance in Cairo – it may be all the rage in the UK but come to Cairo and learn from the experts.  We will arrange intensive or  relaxed lesson programmes to suit your fancy, including visits to costumiers to kit  you out  and shows to inspire  you.

Classes in Mosaic making - In Madaba, Jordan at  the Archaeological  museum’s Mosaic school, where  exquisite works of art are restored and preserved – learn this ancient skill first hand  in  the entrancing surroundings of the Madaba plateau.

Marquetry in Damascus - wood working and cabinet making has always been of a particularly sophisticated  quality in  Syria,  and we  invite you  to  see how  the craftsmen  produce their meticulously  fine inlaid  work  or ‘intarsia’

Italy – Land of fast cars and slow food – choose your food festival and learn how to make regional specialties from  The Festa of the Duck  at Lake Garda to the Wild Boar Festival in Capalbio in Tuscany to the Octupus Fest in Portovenere and much more! Stay in the Valpolicella and taste your way through  some of the finest wines of Italy including the great Recioto Amarone.

Contact us to put together your unique journey.