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Tour Of London
We will take a wonderful tour around London and show you historic buildings and landmarks, such as Tower of London – home of the Crown Jewels and the ravens, but once a place of imprisonment and execution.
Tower Bridge-a Victorian masterpiece and the only bridge in London which opens to let ships through St Paul’s Cathedral-the masterpiece of Sir Christopher Wren and burial place of Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington.
Westminster Abbey - one of the most beautiful buildings in London, a place of coronations , as well as the burial place of most of Britain’s monarchs since the 11th century.
Houses of Parliament - the seat of Government, dominated by the world’s most famous clock tower, ‘Big Ben’.
We will take you to one of the best places in London for lunch. Fancy traditional fish and chips? Or would you like to eat your lunch where William Shakespeare wrote and showed his great plays? Or perhaps where the Pickwick Club met in the Charles Dickens novel?
We can tailor the tour of London for 4 hours or we can keep you busy in this beautiful town for your entire visit! As the great Samuel Jonson, compiler of the first dictionary once said: “ If you are tired of London, you are tired of life!”
Jack The Ripper Tour
Jewish London Tour
Southwark-South London
Highgate-North London
Windsor Castle
Oxford
The Cotswolds
Stonehenge
City of Bath
Mainland Europe Tours
Jack The Ripper Tour
'A man they called Jack' - Take a trip to the darker side of London, a London both Charles Dickens and the fictional Sherlock Holmes would have known very well. We will tell you about the exploits of this city's most notorious serial killer - and they never caught him! But be warned, this story is both graphic and disturbing. Can you handle it?
From Chaucer to Chicken Soup - an exploration of Jewish London
Colorful, charismatic and, at times, crazy, the Jews left an indelible mark on the East End of London. You will hear the stories, meet the characters and discover a few surprises. This walk may make you think, might even make you cry but will almost definitely make you laugh!Southwark-South London
Southwark - The Naughty Borough
In Elizabethan England, Southwark was London's seedy borough, where the theatres were
allowed to thrive, pubs were always bustling and those with 'alternative' life-styles liked to
hang out. Known intimately by both Shakespeare and Dickens, our aim is leave you with
an intimate knowledge of it too.
Highgate-North LondonHidden Treasure of Highgate,
Associated with Dick Whittington, Dick Turpin and Dickens, Highgate is surely one of London's most dramatic and fascinating villages. Come and meet a lady who lived with cannibals, a hermit and one or two celebrities in this beautiul area, which has changed very little over the last 200 years.Windsor Castle
We will take you to Windsor Castle-one of three official residences of
Her Majesty The Queen. It has been home to the Sovereign for over 900 years. The Castle is the largest inhabited castle in the world and the oldest in continuous occupation. The imposing towers and battlements of the Castle loom large from every approach to the town, creating one of the world's most spectacular skylines.
Visitors can walk around the State Apartments, extensive suites of rooms at the heart of the working palace; in Winter visitors can also see the Semi State rooms, which are some of the most splendid interiors in the castle. They are furnished with treasures from the Royal Collection including paintings by Holbein, Rubens, Van Dyck and Lawrence; fine tapestries and porcelain; sculpture and armour.
Within the Castle complex there are many additional attractions. In the Drawings Gallery regular exhibitions of treasures from the Royal Library are mounted. Another popular feature is Queen Mary's Dolls' House, a miniature mansion built to perfection.
Every two days there is a changing of the guard at 11am with full marching brass band.
On top of all this we can take you for lunch to one of the traditional English countryside pubs or, if you prefer, to one of the best restaurants in this area interestingly named “The Fat Duck” , situated in the nearby village of Bray
We will show you Oxford and the different colleges that collectively make up the University of Oxford. There are several such sites, the best of which include Christchurch College, the dining hall of which was used in the filming of Harry Potter and is still used by the students. Whilst in the centre of Oxford, visit the Bodleian library, generally considered to be one of the world’s greatest libraries, housing some 5 million books, manuscripts and maps, many dating back to medieval times.
It is known as the city of dreaming spires and we would not be doing our job if we did not also show you the spectacular site of St Mary the Virgin and the Radcliffe Camera.
This is one of the most 'quintessentially English' and unspoiled regions of England, UK
Popular with both the English themselves and international visitors from all over the world, the area is well known for gentle hillsides (‘wolds’), outstanding countryside with river valleys, water meadows and beech woods, sleepy ancient limestone villages, historic market towns. It is a place where time has stood still for over 300 years.
Throughout the Cotswolds stone features in buildings and stone walls act as a common thread in seamlessly blending the historic towns & villages with their surrounding landscape.
There are famous cities such as Bath, well-known beautiful towns like Cheltenham and hundreds of delightful villages such as Burford, Stow-on-the-Wold and Castle Combe. Above all, the local honey-coloured limestone, used for everything from the stone floors in the houses to the tiles on the roof, has ensured that the area has a magical uniformity of architecture.
Not all villages are well known, and today many still hold their secrets. Amongst the treasures to be found are perhaps a hidden village off the beaten track, perhaps Painswick, Biddestone, Winchcombe or Woodstock, or an un-spoilt historic church, such as at Northleach often called the “Cathedral of the Cotswolds” – open the church door and you will discover a hidden world of history.Stonehenge
Stonehenge is probably the most important prehistoric monument in the
whole of Britain and has attracted visitors from earliest times. It stands as a timeless monument to the people who built it and is a listed World Heritage Site - not bad for something that has been baffling historians to this day. Maybe you can find the answer!
. It reaches to us across the ages - two hundred generations of people, from our prehistoric ancestors who left no writing that we can discern, to us with all the trappings of our post-industrial world...
Bath is set among the rolling green hills of Avon valley. According to legend, the city owes its origin to the Celtic King Bladud, who discovered the curative properties of its natural hot spring in 860 BC.
In the first century, the Romans built baths around the spring and a temple dedicated to the goddess Sulis Minerva. The open air great bath, which stands at the heart of the Roman spa complex, was reopened in 1870 to the general public after the baths had fallen into ruin. Extensive excavations have revealed the Romans used the baths for nearly 400 years before leaving Britain in 410AD. Today, you can see where Julius Caesar bathed in water, which is the same temperature of 115 F as it was then.
You can also visit Bath Abbey in the heart of the city. Dating back to the 8th century, the church is perpendicular style with Norman arches and superb gothic moldings. The west front carvings represent angels ascending and descending from heaven after a dream the founder and bishop, Oliver King, had one night.
For the lunch-why not to try The Royal Crescent. One of the best restaurants in Bath set on the hill of the river Avon with the beautiful view of the Avon Valley.We have a few ideas for tours around Europe.
France: D-Day landing, Reims, Champagne region or Paris being one of them.
Vienna, Salzburg, Prague, Cracow-some of the most interesting places in Europe!
Please contact us for special, tailor made to your needs itineraries.For bookings, availability and quotations please send us an e-mail to:
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