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AMedway
Mosaic
In the morning we explore the
beautiful rolling landscapes of
the little known Hoo Peninsula
with wonderful views of both
the Thames and the Medway
rivers. In the afternoon we
enjoy lovely Rochester, a real
Kentish gem. Add in morning
coffee with biscuits and a
chicken lunch in the pub next
to Charles Dickens’ House and
you have a great day out.
This tour is available weekdays
throughout the year.
Adults & Seniors: £19.95
Coach Mileage: 20
Then it’s up to you – maybe pop in to see the
cathedral. It is free to visit the cathedral as an
individual although of course donations are
always welcomed. Groups can opt at the time
of booking this tour to include a cathedral
tour with our guide for which the cathedral
asks an admission fee of £2.00 per person.
Some of your folk may enjoy a browse in the
antique and collectable shops or a visit the
Six Poor Travellers House (free admission)
that is an unusual and atmospheric survivor
of an old form of English hospitality.
There will be time to buy tea before
returning to the coach to head home
at 4.45pm.
unmistakably Kentish imprint of orchard and
oast house. We will stop at the pretty little
church where Dickens set one of the world’s
most famous literary scenes – the meeting
between Pip and the convict at the start of
Great Expectations. The tiny cockleshell
vestry and haunting “Pip’s Graves” are
unforgettable.
Lunch back at the pub today is chicken
with potatoes and seasonal vegetables or a
vegetarian option included in your tour fee.
Group members can choose and pay for any
drinks or desserts they fancy on the day.
After lunch a short coach transfer takes us
into Rochester for the afternoon.
Dickens loved
cheery little
Rochester and
the compact
centre is ideal
for people who
cannot walk as
far as they once
could. We’ll
take a little tour
to show you
the castle and
cathedral and the
perfect Victorian
high street with
its jolly bunting.
Come and meet
the tour guide at
10.30am at
Higham, near
Rochester for
morning coffee
and biscuits
included in the
tour fee. This
morning’s coach
tour is a real
treat – a mosaic
of chalk downs
and vast vistas of
marsh and estuary
with the
A Day in the
New Forest
The New Forest is a varied
landscape of woods and glades,
heaths and moors. Dotted with
tiny villages and roamed at
will by deer, ponies, donkeys
and pigs there is nowhere else
quite like it. This relaxing and
entertaining day trip gives you
a real flavour of the forest with
a string of beautiful places
to see and visit throughout
the day. And at £19.95 per
person including morning
refreshments and lunch it is
good value too.
This trip is available with
coffee and lunch included
weekdays throughout the year.
Adults & Seniors: £19.95
Coach Mileage: 40
Our New Forest
guide will meet you
at a country pub
near Landford off
the A36 Salisbury
Road at 10.30am, for
morning coffee or tea
with biscuits. From
here we slip into
the forest following
in the footsteps of
kings and queens,
commoners and
gypsies, smugglers
and lovers.
Over the past millennium a wealth of myth
and legend has wound itself around the
forest trees like a clinging vine. Your expert
guide will chart a course to the heart of this
enchanting world. You’ll see the Rufus Stone
commemorating the controversial death
of flame haired William II and see picture
postcard villages including one that had to
go to court to decide if it was in the forest or
not.
We return for lunch at the pub. A main
course set meal of homemade cottage pie or
a vegetarian option is included in the tour fee
with group members able to choose and pay
for their own hot and cold drinks or a dessert
the forest and a highlight of our afternoon is
the deer enclosure and the ornamental drive
at Bolderwood where huge trees including
California Redwoods line our route.
Finally we stop in Beaulieu, “the Historic
Heart of the New Forest”, its origins date
back to the 13
th
century and the days of King
John. The name means beautiful and it is. No
other place in the forest can match Beaulieu
for historic interest. There are two or three
places selling tea to round off an enjoyable
day out. We leave Beaulieu at 4.45pm to
begin the drive home.
from the blackboard.
After lunch we
are off to a lovely
thatched village and
a 13
th
century church
guarded by an
ancient yew where
Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, the creator
of Sherlock Holmes,
lies buried.
We’ll take you
through Lyndhurst
the “Capital” of
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