For those looking to forage further afield one can go truffle-hunting in Italy. Villa Campestri, in Piedmont, promotes itself as the world's first olive -oil resort, but that's not why you go there.
The prized white truffles grow in its woods, and if you join the estate's resident truffle hunter and his dog, you could come home with a pocket full of white gold.
Two nights start at €203, B&B based on two sharing. book through Sawdays (00 39 0558 490107, sawdyas.co.uk)
Flights to Pisa start at €89 with airlines including Ryanair and Jet2.
