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streets - like Steve McQueen flying down One company, Wine in Provence, stood erwise see –through the lens of French

San Francisco streets in the movie “Bullet.” out right away, probably because of the food and wines.”
We made it to the ship with less than five four TripAdvisor Certificates of Excel-
minutes to spare. No problem. lence listed on the bottom of the com- My email to the tour company received
pany’s webpage. I was also reassured by a prompt reply, promising an outstand-
So this time, we almost decided to stay on the fact that they were featured in Rick ing tour of wine country, even if it was
the ship, which would have been sin con- Steves’ guidebooks. A quote from Steves off-season. Done deal.
sidering we were in one of the most beau- on the homepage hit my sweet spot too:
tiful corners of France. To salvage our port “At Wine in Provence, smart, young, It was sunny, but cold and blustery, as
stop, I Googled wine country tours in Tou- and enthusiastic Americans…are eager our party of four headed down the gang-
lon, hoping to find someone who could to help you discover French wine and way for a short walk down the pier and
provide a first class wine country experi- food… Their dream is to show you a through security gates to the controlled
ence and get us back to the ship on time. side of Provence that you wouldn’t oth- chaos of tour guides loading bundled-up

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