was watching a programme on the imminent Tokyo Olympics when I remembered that since the year of 1662, the Cotswolds market town of Chipping Campden have been staging their own Olimpick Games (note the different spelling) which includes the World Shin Kicking Championships. Taking place in June, it set me thinking about some of the other early summer events you could use to build a customised tour for a couple of clients, four friends travelling together or even a small group of ten.
Step forward the annual flower shows taking place over the same end of June weekend at Blenheim Palace and Woburn Abbey and the early July masterpiece that is the Royal Horticultural Society Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. The left hand Read More will reveal more as it takes you into a world of strawberries, lavender and roses….
In case you missed it last week, the right hand Read More introduces the York Mystery Plays, a form of medieval, living history theatre staged every four years in the streets of the great Viking city.
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