My sister and I loved our day with Olivia. We visited Carcassonne medieval castle/village.
We then returned to Toulouse for lunch and a walking tour of the city.
Olivia is very knowledgeable about the area and told many stories of the history really bringing it to life.
She also checked in with us regularly to see if we were doing ok with the walking. It was very flexible and tailored to suit us.
If you are travelling in the area we highly recommend this company. We would have been happy to have had longer!
Hi Karen, I had a wonderful day with you and your sister! You 2 are very kind and always the smile on your faces...I wish I had you longer with me.
I hope everything is ok for you in Bordeaux and that you are enjoying their wines! but next time come and taste our wine here...it is even better!! ahah
kind regards
I just returned from a five day tour with Olivia Gotti in southwest France : Carcassonne,Canal du Midi, Norbonne, Groissan, the Cather castles, Toulouse, Albi,
Lascaux, Rocamadour, and Sarlat; all wonderful places but made even better by the expert guiding and driving of Ms Gotti. She was knowledgable, focused on every detail, enthusiastic, with a delightful personality; in a word : superb! She also added a few fun surprises like a picnic at the beach with lunch from the local market, a wonderful touch.
Having travelled to 160 countries and major territories I have had hundreds of guides and Olivia is one of the very very best and I unequivocally recommend her.
Thank you for a perfect tour.
Ken
Hi Ken,
My answer to your nice comment on tripadvisor is arriving late but my memories from our trip is still in my head and in my heart.. I really hopa that you are well, and that I will see you again!
kind regards
Olivia
Olivia Gotti first took us to the town of Mirepoix for market day. Then off we went to climb Montségur to see a Cathar Castle Ruin. It was a rainy, foggy day and never having hiked up a mountain, it took me longer than expected. Due to time and bad weather, after lunch Olivia arranged a wonderful wine tour to Domaine Saint Martin Winery, where the owner let us taste the wine each step in the process. Olivia is very well informed tour guide. We really enjoyed the day.
Hi Julia,
I am really sorry that I didn't reply to your comment before... I remember well that day, it was challenging for you but you've made it, and that's the most important! I am proud of you :) And I had so much fun with you, you are such a funny and warm personnaity! :)
I hope you are all very well…
kind regards
Olivia
We had a superb day with Olivia Gotti today who runs this company. We are staying at Carcassonne and wanted to visit some of the other Cathar sites and surrounding areas. Olivia picked us up from the hotel and drove us in a very comfortable vehicle to both these castles and lunch. She was very knowledgable, great fun and extremely helpful. She does tours to many other places around here too and we would highly recommend her. We had a great tour. Thank you Olivia.
Hi Kay,
thank you so much for such a beautiful day and so much laugh... I really hope to see you again ! :)
Thank you or taking time in writting a nice comment on my tripadvisor...
kind regards
We contacted Olivia well in advance of our planned stay in Carcassonne and were quickly able to arrange to spend one of our seven days there becoming familiar with the wine culture of the area, which was completely new to us (for the most part, the small producers that we had the privilege of meeting through Olivia distribute only in Europe). We had arranged that Olivia, who is the proprietor of this business, would pick us up at 10 AM at our B&B in Carcassonne, and she appeared promptly as scheduled. What followed was a day of remarkable discoveries as we visited three very different producers of regional wines. We did not merely taste the wines: we observed the process and walked the vineyards with the owners and Olivia, who served as translator (my French is very limited and my husband does not speak French). The experience of meeting these proprietors would have been completely impossible in any other way. Each of the vineyards we visited had its specialty: the local sparkling wine (which predates Champagne) Blanquette de Limoux at the first winery, organic agricultural practice at the second, and a longstanding family history of vinification at the third. In between the first and second wineries, Olivia took us to a wonderful traditional French restaurant in a very small village and made sure we were comfortable there before leaving us to enjoy a very French two-hour lunch. She also shared freely her knowledge of the region as well as the wines and made many suggestions for other villages and areas in the region that we might want to visit. We took advantage of her recommendations to make changes to our plans, very much for the better. We cannot recommend highly enough Olivia's expertise and ability to translate the local culture and history of the Languedoc for English-speaking visitors. She immeasurably enriched our experience of the area.
Hi!
Thank you for writing such a nice comment on my tripadvisor, I am really glad to hear that you loved your day, and it was such a pleasure to share with you my region...
I hope that you will come back and that I 'll be able to show you more of the area!
Thank you again, your comment makes me feel very happy :)
kind regards
Olivia
