For the sixth year, return tour to Cornwall’s premier gardens in April including the Lost Gardens of Heligan, Glendurgan, Trebah, St Ives Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, St Michael's Mount and Tresco Abbey Garden on the Isles of Scilly. Together with the Eden Project, they make an unforgettable holiday for plant lovers from all over the world.
Sunday 23 May to Sunday 30 May 2010
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the jewel in the crown of England's gardening calendar, the topiary at Levens Hall, the laburnum arch at Bodnant, the rhododendrons at Tatton Park are just four of the unforgettable highlights of this week-long programme of garden visiting enhanced by English conversation classes.
Price: £925 (UK pounds sterling)
The package includes:
- English conversation classes
- Seven nights home stay in the pleasant suburb of Didsbury, South Manchester (bed, breakfast, sandwich lunches and evening meals)
- Transport and garden admission
- Return day rail ticket Manchester to London (2 hours)
- Entry to the RHS Flower Show 2009
- Expert guide accompanying every visit
- Manchester Airport transfers
- Optional theatre / symphony concert performances
- Personal & baggage insurance
Sunday 6 June - Sunday 13 June 2010
In this week we visit a rich variety of interpretations of the traditional English country garden. Garden designers continue to find inspiration in this tradition from the suburbs of Manchester to the Yorkshire and Lancashire moors to the rich countryside of Shropshire. All the gardens we visit will have roses by David Austin. To visit his own rose gardens is to see a superb presentation of the world of roses.
Price: £875 (UK pounds sterling)
The package includes:
- English conversation classes
- Seven nights home stay in the pleasant suburb of Didsbury, South Manchester (bed, breakfast and evening meals)
- Transport and garden admission
- Expert guide accompanying every visit
- Manchester Airport transfers
- Optional theatre / symphony concert performances
- Personal & baggage insurance
Friday 18 to Friday 25 June 2010
The long tradition of gardening in Scotland has responded to the magnificent landscape, to the climate with the West Coast influenced by the gulf stream and to the contributions of the many plant hunters native to Scotland. The results impressively surround historic castles, create picturesque gardens that concentrate the details of the landscape in small areas and above all display horticultural excellence in settings both architectural and natural.
This is a two centre study tour based in Edinburgh four nights and Oban (West Coast) two nights, including visits to the Royal Botanical Gardens (Edinburgh), Little Sparta (probably the last great British 20th century garden), Dunmore, Drummond Castle, The Hermitage (Perthshire), Torosay (Isle of Mull), Arduaine and Inverary Castle
Price: £1,180 (UK pounds sterling)
The package includes:
- Seven nights bed and breakfast accommodation: four nights University of Edinburgh Pollack Halls of Residence, three nights Ardmaddy Castle or estate cottage
- Five evening meals in local restaurants
- Garden briefing; small-group discussion on garden-related themes
- Transport and garden admission
- Expert guide accompanying every excursion
- Edinburgh Airport transfers
- Personal & baggage insurance
Saturday 3 July to Saturday 10 July 2010
Return visit to the magnificent gardens of East Anglia promising another exceptional week.
Accommodation and dinners are provided by our hosts David Adlard and Diana Lowe. Gardens include The Plantation, Hoveton Hall, The Fairhaven Garden, East Ruston Vicarage, Somerleyton Hall, Bressingam Gardens and nursery, Helmingham Hall, Sandringham, Houghton Hall, Blickling Hall and Sheringham Park.
Price: £1,200 (UK pounds sterling); single room supplement £108
The package includes:
- Seven nights bed and breakfast accommodation in West Somerton
- Evening meal prepared by David Adlard White House Farm (six nights)
- Garden briefings; small-group discussion on garden-related themes
- Watercolour painting class
- Transport and garden admission
- Expert guide accompanying every excursion
- Stansted Airport transfers
- Personal & baggage insurance
Sunday 1 to Saturday 8 August 2010
This tour takes place when English gardens are at their most glorious. Roses merge into herbaceous borders and the walls of gardens and country houses are covered with climbing plants. The six magnificent gardens and areas we visit include Dunham Massey, Levens Hall and a seven lake tour of the English Lake District, Arley Hall garden, the Peak District palace of Chatsworth, Wollerton Old Hall and Powis Castle, Wales.
Price: £855 (UK pounds sterling)
The package includes:
- English conversation classes
- Seven nights home stay in the pleasant suburb of Didsbury, South Manchester (bed, breakfast, sandwich lunches and evening meals)
- Transport and garden admission
- Expert guide accompanying every visit
- Manchester Airport transfers
- Optional theatre / symphony concert performances
- Personal & baggage insurance
Sunday October 10 to Sunday October 17 2010
Nature perfected through the work of William Wordsworth, John Ruskin and Beatrix Potter. Picturesque landscape, romantic poetry, philosophy and fables in a sublime setting.
The mild English climate prolongs garden visiting into the autumn months. Nowhere is then more beautiful than the Lake District and no greater testimony to this than the literature it inspired. Gardens surround cottages and houses in the vernacular architecture concentrating natural beauty into contained spaces. These spaces however, are enclosed by panoramic ‘borrowed’ views that invite exploration into the wider landscape. Mountains, lakes and waterfalls are strong attractions and the scale of this scenery makes it easily accessible. Boundaries between gardens and landscape merge and become invisible.
English tourism started in the Lake District and it was William Wordsworth who invented the idea of a national park inviting all people so inclined to visit this national property as long as they had “an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy”.
Walking boots are a must for this tour and the stimulus of the landscape will transform conversation into poetry and photographs into works of art!
Price: £1,050 (UK pounds sterling); single room supplement £108
The package includes:
- English lessons preparing for each day’s excursion
- Bed & breakfast accommodation at Nab Cottage Language School & Guest House (www.nabcottage.com)
- Seven nights evening meals in local restaurants
- Transport and entrance charges on excursions
- Theatre ticket (Theatre by the Lake)
- Baggage and personal insurance
- Manchester airport transfers
Visit: http://www.lakelandcam.co.uk/
For further information contact:
Bill Godfrey
Manchester Language School Ltd
Email: info@manlangschool.co.uk
Tel: 0044 161 448 8372
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