This fall we had the absolute pleasure of traveling with two wonderful groups to the Italian Lakes and Paris. In Italy, we lived our best dolce vita on Lake Como and Lake Maggiore. And in Paris we delved into the art of French living with a floral arranging class, a cooking class, visits to antique markets and a shop specializing in the art of the table. Read on to see it all!

Highlights from our spring 2026 small group tours, The Essence of Provence and Gardens of England with the Chelsea Flower Show.

How we chose hotels in Bath, England and the Cotswolds for our newest garden tour itinerary.

Our fall tour schedule included a private trip to the Dordogne region of France followed by our Paris: Art & Antiques tour. Get the full scoop about the gardens, markets, and historical sites we visited.

Laura recaps spending two weeks in France doing site visits in Normandy and Provence. All to build the best small group tours.

Ireland does not have a National Trust-like organization that protects and maintains historic properties as they do in England. This means that many of Ireland’s great historic houses remain in private hands. Our June tour to Ireland focused on 300 years of Irish country houses with a few splendid gardens mixed in (it was June after all!).

This was a special trip: the majority of these houses are closed to the public. Through our connections we arranged private visits with the houses’ owners, lunches in their historic dining rooms, and even a whiskey tasting at the Jameson house.

We just completed our first tour within the US and did we have a marvelous time! This little corner of the US is packed with beautiful gardens, rolling hills, and charming towns. This trip also included weekend at the annual Trade Secrets garden show with visits to the gardens of Bunny Williams and Christopher Spitzmiller. We are proud to be the only company to offer a group tour to this show.

Laura snuck off to Italy for a quick vacation before our spring and summer tour season begins. Venice, Rome, frescoes, palaces, pasta, read on for more!

Our spring scouting trip to France and England was jam-packed with site visits to new hotels, restaurants, and shops in the Cotswolds, Provence, Paris, and the Dordogne.

Winter travels abroad and close to home. The reopening of Notre Dame, a new hotel in Boston, Impressionism in Philadelphia. Read on for more.

Another busy fall for Wingback Travel! In September, Laura dipped into Normandy and Paris, before taking the train south to Provence to lead our fall Art & Antiques trip. Afterwards, she made her way to the Milan and the Italian Lakes to put the final touches on our upcoming trip there (stayed tuned for that!). Read on for more…

At the end of August I enjoyed a last-chance late summer vacation to Italy and Italian-speaking Switzerland. Read on to see where I stayed, my restaurant picks, how I packed, and more.

Every summer I host Ross in Connecticut and we discuss all things travel: how our tours are going, ideas for future trips, and everything else that goes into running a business. Of course, we have lots of fun while doing it!

May is here which means it’s time for our Spring tours! This month we led a private group tour to Provence and a tour to the historic gardens and houses of southern England and the Cotswolds with a visit to the Chelsea Flower show.

Our first tour of 2024 is in the books! Read about our private group trip to Paris, Bordeaux, and the Dordogne.

Just back from Ireland! Read about our recent scouting trip to Ireland and learn more about our future tour the historic gardens and interiors of the Emerald Isle.

Top 23 of 2023. See the top restaurants, museums, gardens and more. Japan, Paris, Provence, England and New England - see my favorite places of 2023.

Read about our fall Art & Antiques trip to Paris and our adventures in Provence! Market visits, antique treasures, small museums, hilltop towns, the rugged Mediterranean coast, and much more.

Laura shares some of her favorite finds from Paris’s antique markets and offers tips for getting your treasure back home. Plus read about her recent summer trip to the French and Italian Alps.