England's Great Garden Heritage, From Sissinghurst to Chelsea
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Overview
Highlights
- Spend a day at the world-famous Chelsea Flower Show.
- Venture through the Cotswolds to Chipping Campden and the unique spa town of Bath.
- Accompanied throughout by horticulturist, botanist and garden historian and designer Dr. Jane Longland.
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Trip includes
- 10 nights of accommodations
- 28 meals: 10 breakfasts, 8 lunches, 10 dinners
- 6 Expert-led lectures
- 15 Field trips
- Learning led by expert instructors who are authorities in the field of study.
- An experienced Group Leader attuned to the needs of Road Scholar participants.
- Customary gratuities throughout the program that you would normally pay yourself.
- The Road Scholar Travel Assistance Plan, which is purchased on behalf of every participant and provides 24-hour-a-day emergency assistance services coverage.
- Taxes
- State-of-the-art QUIETVOX listening devices.
Itinerary
Depart From: North America for overnight transatlantic flights.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Ashford International Hotel
Morning: Transfers by private car to Ashford.
Lunch: In hotel dining room.
Afternoon: Free afternoon. Introduction to the programme with Jane Longland, our Course Director, at 5:00 pm. Welcome meeting and introductions.
Dinner: In hotel dining room.
Evening: Free evening.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Ashford International Hotel
Breakfast: Full English breakfast in hotel dining room.
Morning: Our lecture this morning considers "10th to 17th Century Gardens" and "The 18th Century English Landscape S...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Ashford International Hotel
Breakfast: Full English breakfast in hotel dining room.
Morning: Hear two lectures: "Victorian Gardens" and "Edwardian Gardens".
Lunch: Packed lunch.
Afternoo...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Ashford International Hotel
Breakfast: Full English breakfast in hotel dining room.
Morning: This morning our lecture brings us up to date with "Modern Gardens" before a video of the Chelsea Flower Sh...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Cheltenham Chase Hotel
Breakfast: Full English breakfast in the hotel.
Morning: Transfer by coach to the Cotswolds via RHS Wisley, Woking. The Royal Horticultural Society's Wisley is one of Britain’s ...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Cheltenham Chase Hotel
Breakfast: Full English breakfast in the hotel dining room.
Morning: Explore the "Jewel of the Cotswolds" on a field trip to Chipping Campden as we pass through the surrounding ...
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Accommodation: Cheltenham Chase Hotel
Breakfast: Full English breakfast in the hotel dining room.
Morning: Journeying to the beautiful Cotswold town of Painswick we explore the honey-stone architecture before stepping back...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Cheltenham Chase Hotel
Breakfast: Full English breakfast in the hotel dining room.
Morning: After an early breakfast and start our excursion to Bath takes us through history from Roman Baths to magnif...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Radisson Vanderbilt.
Breakfast: Full English breakfast in the hotel dining room.
Morning: We transfer to London via the birthplace of Winston Churchill, Blenheim Palace. The Palace is a Baroque master...
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Accommodation: Radisson Vanderbilt.
Breakfast: Continental breakfast in the hotel dining room.
Morning: Our gardens experience culminates in a field trip to world famous Chelsea Flower Show. We depart early to avoid the cr...
Meals: Breakfast
Breakfast: Continental breakfast in the hotel dining room unless departures are too early.
Morning: Car transfers to the airport for transatlantic flights.
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