When was the last time you broke bread with a shepherd? Were you sitting at a stone table

in his garden, a Sardinian breeze rustling the leaves, with a corkwood plate of his homemade specialties? It's a simple and simply remarkable event, just one of many we'll arrange for you in this amazing week. The isles of Sardinia and Corsica are eight miles and worlds apart. Corsica—part of France, but defiantly non-French—is blanketed in fragrant herbs, dotted with quaint villages. Sardinia is more rustic, mysterious, with a few thousand years of Phoenician, Spanish and Italian blood in its veins. Together, these two gorgeous islands are some of the least-touristed spots in Europe. When you leave behind the yacht-studded harbors for the mountains, pastures and vineyards of the interior, you have the rarest of privileges—to see and experience countryside and culture that seem to have stood still in time.