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- LONDON
- Tate Museum
- Battersea House
- Little Holland House
- COTSWOLDS - BURFORD
- Cheltenham Museum
- Kelmscott Manor
- LIVERPOOL - CHESTER
- Lady Lever
- Sunlight Village
- LAKE DISTRICT
- Hawkshead
- Brantwood
- Mirehouse
- Rydal Mount & Gardens
- SCOTLAND
- Glasgow
- Loch Lomond
- Helensburgh
- Hill House
- Glasgow School of Art
- Hunterian Museum
- Mackintosh Society at Queen's Cross
- Glasgow Architectural
- MuseumHouse for an Art Lover
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- Some meals
- Gratuities
- All items of a personal nature
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Sample
Itinerary two
9 days In England & Scotland
| Day 1 |
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- Everyone has made their own independent
arrangements to get to the hotel where after an independent
lunch/coffee the coach will arrive at 12.00pm to take
you on a city sightseeing tour. We will see the
London Eye, 1 Poultry and the new Tate Museum along
the river.
- This evening we will have a welcome
reception at 7.00pm followed
at 7.30pm by dinner at
our hotel, the Rembrandt.
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| Day
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- After breakfast this morning at 8.15am
your local guide, Caroline Macdonald Haig will join the
group. Departing at 8.30am you will journey to Battersea
House where
you have made your own arrangements for a private visit. All
being well the independent lunch today will be at Black
Friars public house, a pub famous for its arts and crafts
decoration.
- Following lunch it's off to another London
suburb for a 2.30pm private visit to Little Holland House,
a house entirely built and decorated by an turn-of-the-20th
century English artisan as his private home.
- Returning to the hotel to drop Caroline off and to freshen
up before an independent dinner this evening is independent.
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| Day
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- Following breakfast, we depart London at 9.00am
to start our travels north to the Cotswold's village
of Burford for some free time to wander on the high
streets and take an independent lunch. On to
the Cheltenham Museum at 3.00pm for a private visit
with their director, Mary Greensted, author of several
books on Cotswolds Arts & Crafts, and a viewing
of their exceptional collection from the period.
- Tonight we will have a wonderful dinner at 7.30pm in
our 17th century coaching inn hotel, The Unicorn.
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| Day 4 |
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- This morning we check out slightly
earlier at 8.45am to journey to the first visit which
will be a 10.00am private tour of Morris's home at *Kelmscott
Manor. Or
an 11.30am visit to Wightwick Manor
in the Midlands. After our
tour there, we will take a packed lunch on the coach
en route to our next visit. We travel through
the Cotswolds and north for a stop at 3.00pm to see one
of the largest collections of Pre-Raphaelite paintings
at the Lady Lever Gallery near Liverpool,
and a walk-around in Sunlight Village,
a turn-of-the-century utopian experiment in employer-provided
housing.
- We will stay overnight in the Roman City of Chester where
our hotel for the evening will be Crabwell Manor.
- Dinner will be served at the hotel at 7.30pm.
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| Day
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- After breakfast today we depart at 9.00am
to continue north into the Lake District, a special
favourite of all travellers in England. When
we arrive we will make a stop in Hawkshead for some
free time before taking the 1.30pm ferry across Coniston
Water for 1.55pm a visit to Brantwood, the
private home of Ruskin. The return ferry will depart
at 4.10pm.
- We will have dinner tonight at 7.30pm in the little pub
built into the Ruskin stables, the Jumping Jenny, after
checking into our Lakes hotel, The Red Lion in Grasmere.
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| Day
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- Depart the hotel at 9.00am this morning
as we continue our visits in the Lake District with a
10.00am guided tour to Mirehouse in Keswick. We will
continue on to Ambleside, where we will have time for
an Independent lunch at 12.00pm. At 1.30pm we will visit
Rydal Mount & Gardens, the historic house of
William Wordsworth from 1813 until his death in 1850.
- We will continue from Rydal to Grasmere
and stop at the churchyard grave of Wordsworth and the
nearby church, which
inspired Elbert Hubbard in the design of the Roycroft
Inn.
- Dinner tonight will be served at 7.30pm in the hotel.
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| Day
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- After breakfast today, we set off at 9.00am
directly north to our final destination, Scotland. We
will be in the Glasgow area in time for a short stop
at Loch Lomond before arriving at our city hotel, near
the famous Sauchiehall Street.
- There may be time before dark for a walk around the area
before a 7.30pm dinner in our hotel, the Malmaison.
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| Day
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- Depart at 9.00am this morning for a
drive to Helensburgh and at 10.30am a welcome talk at
Mackintosh's masterpiece, Hill House. There will be time
to absorb the beauty of the house and grounds and a stop
at their shop before driving back to the city area.
- Today we will continue to experience the
turn-of-the-century Mackintosh influences with a 1.30pm
lunch in the flamboyant Salon Deluxe at Miss Cranston's
Willow Tea Room.
- At 3.00pm this afternoon we will have
a private guided tour of the first of Mackintosh's commissions,
the nearby Glasgow School of Art.
- Dinner tonight is independent with many choices
in the city.
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| Day
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- Today after breakfast we depart at
9.00am to continue our Mackintosh experience, local guide
Audret Shirra will meet us a 8.45am in the foyer of the
hotel and we will all board the coach for a 10am visit
to the Hunterian Museum that includes the private home
of Mackintosh and his wife, Margaret MacDonald - a permanent
installation at the Museum.
- Then to the home of the Mackintosh Society
at Queen's Cross Church for 1.30 pm where you will
be met for a short introductory talk and coffee and shortbread. From
here it's off for a short architectural tour of Glasgow
with a stop at their new architectural museum in a Mackintosh
building.
- Then this evening the highlight of our
time in Glasgow - perhaps of the entire trip - dinner at
7.30pm at the House for an Art Lover, designed by Mackintosh
for a competition in 1901, but only constructed in the
late 1990's - exactly duplicating his plans. What an end
to a spectacular tour!
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