Overview

5 Day Coach Tour

Highlights

Inclusions

• Transportation throughout by modern touring coach
• Services of an experienced driver/guide
• 4 nights accommodation in Three or Four Star hotels
• All rooms ensuite
• Full English breakfast daily
• 3 table d'hote evening meals in hotels
• Cruise on Lake Windermere
• Admissions to:

• Warwick Castle
• Levens Hall
• Dove Cottage
• Hill Top Cottage
• Yew Tree Farm - afternoon tea
• Yorkshire Cheese Farm
• York Minster
• Yorkshire Brewery visit

• Baggage handling at all tour hotels

Itinerary

Day 1 - Monday
Chester
Today we will travel out of London and drive to the Roman city of Chester and our home for the night. On the way we will enjoy a visit to William Shakespeare's home town, Stratford-upon-Avon for a tour of the bard's birthplace. Onwards then to the medieval Warwick Castle, one of the finest castles in England. Here you will hear tales of treachery, passion and power, and may even see a medieval jousting or falconry display.
Dinner/Overnight - Crabwall Manor, Chester

Day 2 - Tuesday
Liverpool & Lake District
Our first visit of the day is to Liverpool, Europe's Capital of Culture for 2008. Here you will enjoy a panoramic tour of the city famously known as the home of The Beatles. Onwards then to the Lake District National Park where we will visit Levens Hall, an Elizabethan mansion built around a 13th century tower, and home to the famous Topiary Gardens. Tour through the house and wonderful gardens. After our visit we will drive along the shores of the largest natural lake in England, Lake Windermere, before enjoying a cruise along the waters. From here we make our way to our lakeside hotel.
Dinner/ Overnight - Castle Green Hotel, Lake District

Day 3 - Wednesday
Grasmere & Beatrix Potter
This morning we will travel to the delightful town of Grasmere for a visit to Dove Cottage, one of William Wordsworth's former homes, where he lived until 1808. Here you will see many of the Wordsworth family's possessions, portraits and pieces of furniture. We then continue with our tour of the Lake District with a visit to Hill Top, the farmhouse formerly owned by Beatrix Potter, and the location where many of her famous stories were written. Continuing onto Coniston and to another former Beatrix Potter home, Yew Tree Farm recently seen in the movie Miss Potter. Here we will enjoy a tour of the grounds followed by afternoon tea in the tea room furnished by Beatrix Potter herself in 1930.
Overnight - Castle Green Hotel, Lake District

Day 4 - Thursday
Yorkshire
Today we drive through the beautiful Yorkshire Dales National Park before arriving in Settle, a busy market town. We then drive through the heart of the Yorkshire Dales to a local cheese farm. In the afternoon we continue through the National Park to Masham where we will visit a traditional Yorkshire brewery. Learn how the ales are made before sampling the drink yourself.
Dinner/Overnight - Ramada Fairfield, York

Day 5 - Friday
York & Cambridge
We travel to the medieval city of York, where we will enjoy a panoramic walking tour. See the Shambles and the city walls before visiting the York Castle Museum and the historic York Minster, a stunning architectural masterpiece. Tour through the Tower, the Gothic style Chapter House and the Undercroft. After our tour of York, we will continue our journey back to London where our tour ends. Before arriving we will enjoy a final visit, in the University town of Cambridge.

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