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Visit UK & Ireland:  Literature Tour

9 Days/8 Nights

 

DAY 1: HOME – LONDON

Board your transatlantic flight and fly through the night to London.

DAY 2: LONDON

Welcome to the United Kingdom! Meet your Prométour Tour Director upon arrival at the airport.

Transfer to your hotel to drop off your luggage, check-in will be done later.

While in London, travel as the locals do, by walking or taking public transportation.

Guided visit of Westminster Abbey, where English Royalty have been crowned since 1066.

Meet your local guide for a fascinating journey through streets, alleyways, inn yards and riverside paths that were well known to both Dickens and Shakespeare.

Explore the Charles Dickens Museum – see the world’s most important collection relating to this novelist and social campaigner.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight accommodation in London.

DAY 3: LONDON

Breakfast at the hotel.

Visit British Library -holding around 170 million items from many countries, in many languages and in many formats; both print and digital.

Enjoy lunch on your own.

Enter the Sherlock Holmes Museum – a privately-run museum dedicated to the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.

Leisure time to explore London at your own pace.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight accommodation in London.

DAY 4: LONDON – STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

Breakfast at the hotel.

Board your bus and travel to Bath.

Upon arrival, visit the Jane Austen Center – celebrating Bath’s most famous resident. The Centre offers a snapshot of what it would be like to live in the Regency times – the fashion, food, society – everything that would have inspired Austen’s timeless novels.

Enjoy lunch on your own.

Partake in a walking tour of the city – it will provide insight into the Bath of Jane Austen. See Pulteney Bridge, Sydney House; the house where Austen lived with her parents for 5 years, and the Georgian splendors of the Royal Crescent and the Circus.

Continue your route to Stratford-upon-Avon.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight accommodation in the Stratford area.

DAY 5: STRATFORD-UPON-AVON – MANCHESTER

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel.

Stratford-upon-Avon is the home of the most quoted playwright in the world! With a local guide, discover the Shakespeare houses, Mary Arden’s farm, Trinity Church, the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Visit Shakespeare’s Birthplace, the house where he was born in 1564, and wander through the Shakespeare Exhibition.

Enjoy lunch on your own.

Board your bus and travel to Manchester.

Visit the oldest public library in the English-speaking world, The Chetham’s Library.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight accommodation in Manchester.

DAY 6: MANCHESTER – LAKE DISTRICT

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel.

Visit the Bronte Parsonage Museum – the largest and most important in the world and continue to inspire scholars, writers and artists.

Enjoy lunch on your own.

Board your bus and travel to the Lake District.

Stop at Sarah Nelson’s Grasmere Gingerbread Shop to taste their famous gingerbread!

Enjoy some leisure time the charming English village of Grasmere, William Wordsworth called it “the loveliest spot that man hath ever found”.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight accommodation in the Lake District region.

DAY 7: LAKE DISTRICT – DUMFRIES

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel.

Visit the Beatrix Potter Museum and learn all about the Peter Rabbit famed author!

Explore the village of Windermere at your own pace, enjoy the lake shore!

Enjoy lunch on your own.

Board your bus and travel to Dumfries.

Enter the Robert Burns Center and learn about the famed poet. He spent the final years of his life in Dumfries and the exhibition has many of his original manuscripts and belongings.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight accommodation in Dumfries.

DAY 8: DUMFRIES – EDINBURGH

Breakfast at the hotel.

Board your bus and travel to Edinburgh.

Enjoy lunch on your own upon arrival.

Follow a local guide on a literary tour of Edinburgh – go on the footsteps on Sir Conan Arthur Doyle, J.K. Rowling, Robert Louis Stevenson and more!

Have some leisure time to explore Edinburgh at your own pace. Stop at The Traverse Theatre Café where JK Rowling wrote most of her Harry Potter books!

Dinner at a local restaurant

Overnight accommodation in Edinburgh.

DAY 9: EDINBURGH – HOME

Breakfast at the hotel.

Transfer to the airport.

Say a fond Goodbye to your Prométour Tour Director.

Board your transatlantic flight from Edinburgh and fly back home.

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