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Think Britain, Think Paull Your Personal Travel Advisor
Issue 317 | 26th February 2020
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Welcome |
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If you like the idea of parking your client’s jetlag in the English countryside before reaching London, check out my first two stories. It enables them to reach London more in tune with GMT and in the early afternoon when their rooms are ready. The tours also double up as imaginative pre or post cruise add-ons.
Use the next three stories (and the 14 literary tours on my website) to start a conversation about a customised UK tour for your Readers Circle and other literary connections. Music lovers will really like my final story.
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A Pot Pourri Of Pleasant Surprises |
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This fragrant, colour filled tour includes visits to 13th century, moated Hever Castle, Churchill’s former home at Chartwell and the Collector Earl’s Garden at Arundel Castle. Chichester Cathedral’s contemporary art collection, a touch of Jane Austen and a visit to the RHS flagship garden at Wisley complete this leisurely swing through the south of England. |
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Travelling through Time |
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This tour takes you on a fascinating walking tour of Winchester, inspired by the English Romantic poet John Keats before heading for 2 nights in Salisbury where your journey through time will include prehistoric Stonehenge, the quintessentially 18th century Mompesson House townhouse and Choral Evensong in spectacular Salisbury Cathedral. The final night is in London.
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Tour of Your Bookshelf |
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In alphabetical order: Jane Austen, The Brontës, Lewis Carrol, Agatha Christie, Colin Dexter, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dick Francis, Thomas Hardy, James Herriot, Laurie Lee, C S Lewis, Beatrix Potter, William Shakespeare, Bram Stoker, JRR Tolkien, William Wordsworth. Use the Read More and discover how Fiction can be converted into Profitable Reality. |
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Sherlock Holmes and Alice |
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Add something a bit special to a literary-themed UK tour. 30 minutes west of Southampton in the New Forest, you’ll find the final resting place of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. 5 minutes further on, you’ll discover the grave of Alice Hargreaves, née Liddell, the inspiration for the Alice in Wonderland stories.
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Celebrating All Things Dickens |
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The cathedral city of Rochester greatly inspired Charles Dickens and to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his death, they’ve created a jam-packed, year-long calendar of exhibitions, poetry trails, art projects, guided walks, dramatic adaptations and open top bus tours. The annual Dickens Festival (13th-14th June) comes alive with street theatre, performances, readings, roaming characters and parades. |
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Striking All The Right Notes |
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As part of a castles and gardens tour of south east England, invite your clients to see and hear the Richard Burnett Collection of 14 original and important period keyboard instruments dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A tour, a short recital, tea and cakes on the lawn, this musical experience is hard to beat.
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