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Think Britain, Think Paull Your Personal Travel Advisor
Issue 308 | 18th December 2019
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Welcome |
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If 2, 4 or 6 of your clients are planning to visit to UK next year, let’s talk about an itinerary that can meet their interests, time frame and budget. Flower Shows provide a very good focal point for tours that include stately homes, cathedrals, literary and on location visits, ancient pubs for lunch and interesting places for English Afternoon Tea. This week’s collection offers some imaginative starting points for a profitable conversation.
As there will be no Inside Track on 25th December, we’d like to wish you and your family a very happy Christmas.
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Chantilly and RHS Chelsea |
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The Journées des Plantes is the go-to event in French gardening. It takes place between 15th-17th May at the Domaine de Chantilly just north of Paris, the week prior to the Chelsea Flower Show in London. This tour brings them both together in a way that will inspire many of your London Paris-loving clients. |
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RHS Chelsea and Chichester |
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For green-fingered clients who’ve not been to the Chelsea Flower Show, offer them this itinerary which includes the Chichester Festival of Flowers where over 200 flower arrangers will transform the 900-year old Cathedral into a stunning visual array of beautiful floral arrangements. It also includes visits in/around the cathedral cities of Winchester and Salisbury. |
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RHS Chatsworth, Welsh Castles and Dublin |
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Most of your clients won’t have seen this England, Wales and Ireland tour but they’ll instantly recognise some of the key attractions in the itinerary – the RHS Chatsworth Flower Show, Wedgwood, Caernarfon Castle and Dublin. It works equally well starting in Dublin before flying home from Manchester or with a 2-day extension to London. |
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Two Flower Shows and an Edible Garden |
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The Blenheim Palace Flower Show (26th-28th June) and Woburn Abbey Garden Show (27th-28th June) combine well together. Woburn Abbey is where Duchess Anna Maria, wife of the 7th Duke popularised the English social custom of taking afternoon tea. Returning to London, add an edible flower demonstration and “hands on” session followed by a floral lunch. |
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Rose Tinted Gardens |
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Packed with no fewer than 7 former winners of the prestigious Historic Houses /Christies Garden of the Year Award, this travel less, see more Cotswolds tour concludes with a colour and scent filled day at the annual Hampton Court Flower Show. It is very likely that your gardening contacts won’t have seen this itinerary before. |
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Third Gold for Clovelly |
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The local residents and the Clovelly Court Gardening team have won Gold at the South West In Bloom Awards for the 3rd year running! As one of the outstanding Victorian gardens in south west England, Clovelly Court is an RHS Partner Garden because of the “outstanding and exceptionally high standards of planting and design”. |
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