Southern Europe · The Italian & French Coasts

Amalfi & the Rivieras

A private villa above Positano, a yacht along the Côte d'Azur, and a truffle hunt in the Umbrian hills — the Mediterranean at its most effortless.

Best Season: May – June · September
Journey Style: Private · Villa · Yacht

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The Mediterranean coast has been the stage for the good life for a century, and for good reason. Here the pleasures are simple and absolute — a lemon grove, a long lunch, the sea changing colour as the afternoon turns.

This journey strings together the finest of the Italian and French coasts, with a villa to call home and a yacht to widen the horizon.

Access · Not Itinerary

Signature Moments

The coast's quiet pleasures, arranged privately.

A villa above Positano

Wake to the town tumbling toward the sea from the terrace of a private villa, breakfast laid in the morning light.

A yacht on the Côte d'Azur

A crewed yacht carries you between Cap Ferrat and the calanques, lunch and swims on your own schedule.

A truffle hunt in Umbria

Into the oak woods with a hunter and his dogs, followed by a long lunch built around the morning's find.

A Note From Forest Travel Forty years, one hundred and twenty countries,
and a single way of working.

The coast, on its own terms

Positano is famous; what is not famous is how to be there well — a private launch instead of a queue for the road, a trattoria that holds your table by name, an after-hours hour at a closed church. The Italian and French coasts both reward the quietly insistent, and a single advisor knows the doors on both shores.

The Coast, in Frames

FAQ

Planning Questions

May to June and September offer warm seas and golden light without the August crowds — the connoisseur's seasons.

Yes — the yacht is yours alone, with full crew, for the French coast portion of the journey.

Easily. The journey extends naturally to Tuscany, the Italian Lakes or Saint-Tropez at your advisor's hand.

Make It Yours

This is a starting point, not a brochure.

Every journey we design is rewritten around you — your pace, your people, your sense of wonder. A private advisor will shape your own version of this journey, by quiet consultation.