Leave Stansted mid-morning; arrive Pau early afternoon.
Light lunch at Château de Bouillon.
After lunch, there will be a white wine tasting with 8 wines. The level 1 course will look at pairs of wines from the same grape variety, grown in different climates. The Level 2 tasting will have a theme, for example the effects of oak on our appreciation of wine.

After the tasting, there will be a cup of tea in the drawing room before leaving for your hotel, where you will have time to unpack and relax.

We will meet before dinner, to compare a couple of champagnes.

You can have a leisurely breakfast in your hotel, after which we will visit an excellent local vineyard such as Domaine de Cabidos. It has recently been replanted and is producing superb dry and sweet white wine.

Lunch will be in a local auberge. You might try delicious home-grown duck, grilled on an open fire.

In the afternoon, you can indulge in the luxurious thermal spa treatments at Eugénie-les-Bains or perhaps play a round of golf. You can either play on an attractive 9-hole course or slightly further afield on the oldest course on the Continent, near Pau.

In the evening, you can choose to dine in a one rosette restaurant 'Pain Adour et Fantaisie' or in Michel Guérard's famed 3 rosette restaurant 'Les Prés d'Eugénie'.

This morning, there will be a tasting of 8 red wines, either with pairs of grape varieties for Level 1 or a theme for level 2. There will be plenty of time for any questions you want to ask and I can organise a short, light-hearted quiz.

You can have a light lunch at the airport and buy your foie gras and wine (a good selection, guaranteed to be at the same price as at the vineyard). Your flight leaves early afternoon for Stansted.