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SGT Scheduled Tour Calendar

Our SGT scheduled tours have fixed departure dates and are available for the individual traveler, couples and small groups of friends to join. Please contact us for availability on your itinerary/travel date of choice. SGT also offers the product of other quality, small group tour operators. Please visit the sidebar links for your region or tour theme of interest for even more scheduled itinerary choices!

 

2013 Scheduled Tours

06 - 14 April  Canadian European Battlefields of WWI & WWII (9 days; Paris/Amsterdam)

16 - 20 April  Holland Tulip Time featuring Holland Flower Parade (5 days; Amsterdam)

23 - 27 April   Yorkshire Gardens & Harrogate Flower Show (5 days; York)

05 - 10 May     West Country Writers (6 days; London) Daphne du Maurier Festival, Dartmoor & Cornish coast

15 - 23 May  Chelsea Flower Show, Gardens of Kent & Cotswolds (6 days; London) Chelsea Member Day

24 - 27 May Gardens of Belgium and Southern Holland (4 days; Brussels) links with Chelsea Flower Show

28 - 31 May   Paris Gardens & 'Jardin Jardins aux Tuileries' Flower Show (4 days; Paris) links Belgium Gardens

 

02 - 07 June  6-Day Canadian European Battlefields of WWI & WWII (6 days; Paris) links Paris Gardens

12 - 16 June   Kent Literary Landscapes including Broadstairs Charles Dickens Festival (5 days; London)

Gardens of Cornwall and Hampton Court Flower Show (7 days; London)

14 - 18 July Jane Austen’s Hampshire (5 days; London) Links with Heart of England and Yorkshire Literary Landscapes

19 - 23 July Heart of England: Cotswolds & Peak District (5 days; begins Bath/finishes Manchester)

24 - 27 July Yorkshire Literary Landscapes (4 days; Manchester) links with Heart of England or Lake District

31 July-3 Aug  North Wales, Celts and Gardens (4 days; Manchester) links withSouth Wales

04 - 07 Aug South Wales Heritage Trail (4 days; London) links with North Wales Celts and Gardens

11 - 15 Aug     Scotland Literary Heritage (Inverness/Edinburgh) Inverness & Edinburgh Book Festivals              

06 - 14 Sep English Literary Festivals Tour (9 days; London) Agatha Christie Festival & Jane Austen Festival

08 - 12 Sep Jane Austen’s Hampshire (5 days; London) Coincides with Bath Jane Austen Festival

15 - 22 Sep England Quilts & Antiques: The Classic Route (London) Bath, Cotwolds, York, Cambridge

 

21 - 29 Sep  Canadian European Battlefields of WWI & WWII (9 days; Paris/Amsterdam)

18 - 23 Sep   Sacred Places, South Wales & Pembroke (6 days; London)

20 - 26 Oct Welsh Quilts & Malvern Quilts UK Quilting Show (London)

30 Nov-7 Dec Victorian Christmas, Dickens Rochester Festival and London Holiday Lights, Markets and Shopping

 

All SGT itineraries are available for private departures, from 2 guests and up on the date of your choice. The cost of a private tour is based on how many guests in the party. All itineraries below are suggestions and can be modified to specifically suit your travel requirements/requests.

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“Name the Date” some of our SGT Suggested Itineraries for Private Groups, from 2 guests and up:

1 day, Literary Day Trips from London

3 days, Jane Austen Country (London) Hampshire

3 days, Short Harry Potter (London) Heart of England, South Wales

3 days, Literary Lake District (Manchester)

3 days, Herriot Country, Yorkshire (Manchester)

3 days, Literary Peak District & Regency Film Sites (Manchester)

3 days, Literary Kent & Sussex (London)

4 days, North Wales, Celts and Gardens (Manchester)

4 days, South Wales Heritage Trail (London; can link with North Wales Celts and Gardens)

4 days, Shakespeare Country (London) Heart of England

4 days, Robin Hood and the Heroes of England (Manchester) Nottingham & Peak District

8 days, Literary Scotland: Borders Book Festival (Edinburgh)

8 days, Literary Scotland: Wigtown Book Festival - Scotland’s National Book Town! (Edinburgh)

8 days, Cornish Landscapes: King Arthur & Mythical England (London) West Country

8 days, The Bookworm Literary England & Wales (London) Kent, Heart of England, West Wales

9 days, Literary England: ‘The Classic’ Route (London) London, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Oxford, Bath, Stonehenge

9 days, Literary England: Highlights Sampler (London) Kent, Hampshire, Dorset, Cotwolds, Lake District

9 days, “That Boy Wizard” Harry Potter (London) London, Somerset, Heart of England

9 days, Unlock the DaVinci Code (Rome/Paris/London) Capitol cities, Kent, Borders

12 days, Literary Heritage in South England & Wales (London) Kent, Hampshire, SW Wales, Heart of England

 

1 day, Garden Day Trips from London

3 days, Hampshire Gardens (London)

4 days, Gardens of Kent and Sussex (London)

4 days, Gardens in the Heart of England (London)

6 days, Gardens of England: Kent, Sussex and Hampshire (London)

10 days, Gardens of Wales (Manchester) South, North Wales

6 days, Gardens of Belgium & Holland (Brussels)

4 days, Irish Gardens (Dublin) Birr, Wicklow

5 days, French Gardens (Paris) Loire Valley, Northern France

9 days, July, Footsteps of a Queen: Gardens, Tudor Heritage & Hampton Court Flower Show (London)

12 days, Gardens of Cornwall and the West Country (London)

 

TBA, Artist Inspirations in East Anglia (London)

TBA, Artist Inspirations in Cornwall (London)

14 days, Art and Artists (London) Kent, Sussex, East Anglia, Midlands, Cheshire, Wiltshire

4 days, Mediaeval Belgium (Brussels)

4 days, Gastronomic Flanders (Brussels)

5 days, Flemish Lace, Tapestries & Textiles (Brussels)

6 days, Holland Art Cities (Amsterdam)

14 days, Exploring the Low Countries, Flemish Artists & Culinary Delights (Brussels) Belgium & Holland

 

4 days, Rock & Roll UK (London) London, Manchester, Liverpool

4 days, Classical Experience, Musical sites of Britain (London) Heart of England

9 days, Beatle Radio’s BEATLEFEST tour, London, Manchester, Liverpool during Beatles Festival (London)

 

3 days, Roman Britain North (Manchester) Cheshire, Borders, Lake District

4 days, Roman Britain South (London) Hampshire, South Wales

6 days, Caesar’s Britain, Roman Sites sampler tour (London/Manchester) Sussex, South Wales, Borders, Lakes

11 days, In Search of Roman Britain (London) Sussex, Wessex, South Wales, Chester, York

14 days, Land of the Celts (London) Cornwall, South Wales, West Wales

 

4 days, Discover Churchill’s England (London) Kent, Heart of England, London

4 days, Battle of Britain (London) East Anglia, Kent, London

4 days, Bond...James Bond, Film Sites & Real Espionage in Britain (London) Kent, East Anglia, London

4 days, England’s Home Front North (Manchester) Yorkshire, Liverpool, North Wales, Manchester

9 days, Britain at War, Life in the 40s (London) Kent, Heart of England, Liverpool, London

14 days, Commonwealth Battlefields, Portsmouth, Kent, Normandy and the Western Front (London)

 

4 days, Legendary Englishmen & Women (London) Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire

4 days, Medical England (London) Heart of England, London

6 days, Wales Wildlife (Cardiff or London) South, West Wales

TBA, Spires and Steeples religious heritage of Britain (London)

TBA, Haunted Britain (London/Manchester) Wessex, Heart of England, Yorkshire

12 days, Wales Sacred Places (London/Manchester) South, West, North Wales

 

flexible, Scottish Gardens and Golf (Edinburgh)

3 days, Scottish Borders (Edinburgh or Glasgow)

4 days, Eastern England (London) Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk & Essex

4 days, Wessex and the Isle of Wight (London)

9 days, Wales and Ireland: Coasts and Rivers (Dublin) Eastern Ireland, Pembroke & North Wales

12 days, Wales, Land of Song (begins London/finishes Manchester)

14 days, The Great North Country (Manchester) Yorkshire, Lake District, Peak District, North Wales

14 days, England, Wales, Scotland sampler tour (London)

14 days, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England “WISE” Islands sampler tour (London)

14 days, Both Sides of the Channel, Suffolk, Kent, Holland, Belgium and Northern France sampler (London)

11 - 14 days, Channel Islands & Normandy (London) includes Portsmouth, Kent

 

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