The home of great football, bold new architectural projects and the pivotal City of Britain's Industrial Revolution, Manchester still retains a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. Travel to the Trafford Centre, paradise for shop-o-holics! See the world's first railway terminus, find out the connection between the railways and the football teams, and visit the world's first Urban Heritage Park!

You can hop on and off as many times as you like aboard this open-top double-decker bus. There are 15 stops and the entire route takes approximately 55 minutes. The bus departs every 30 to 60 minutes from each stop. Tickets are valid for 24 hours from first use.

Nothing in Britain surpasses the grandeur of Lakeland's central mountains. The route is that fashioned by Emperor Hadrians's Roman legions in the first century AD. Over Wrynose and Hardknott Passes, the steepest in England, pausing to view the extensive remains of Hardknott Roman Fort, before descending into lovely Eskdale.

Following lunch you will embark on the famous steam railway journey through Eskdale and onward to Wasdale and Wastwater (England's deepest and most dramatic lake).

The next destination is the splendid 14th century castle of Muncaster, a treasure chest of fine period furniture, tapestries, silverware, paintings, portraits and porcelain. In its internationally acclaimed gardens you will find magnificent examples of azaleas, camellias and rhododendrons and also have opportunity to visit the World Owl Trust.

The beautiful scenery of the Coniston Fells and Coniston Water bring to an end this classic of all Lake District tours.

Tour Highlights

• Hardknott and Wrynose Mountain Passes - the steepest and most exhilarating in England
• Ravenglass and Eskdale Steam Railway
• 14th Century Muncaster Castle - fabulous gardens
• The internationally renowned World Owl Trust
• Central and Western Lakes including Wastwater - England's deepest lake
• Coniston Water - associated with John Ruskin, Arthur Ransome and Donald Campbell
• Hardknott Roman Fort - with magnificent views to Scafell and central mountain peaks

Want to tour the back roads of Lincolnshire but don't want to join a large coach group? Looking for a little flexibility and spontaneity in your itinerary? Do you have a few days to really get deep into the English countryside?

These are three days packed with variety and interest in a region perhaps ignored by those not in on its secrets. Until recently, the ancient city of Lincoln was an unknown to many visitors, despite it having one of the country's finest Norman cathedrals. However, the "Da Vinci Code" film, where the cathedral doubled for Westminster Abbey, has put it firmly on the tourist map.

Lincoln green is a color associated with the legendary outlaw of Sherwood Forest, Robin Hood. Not everybody realizes they can actually stand under Robin's great oak during a forest walk. Nearby you can find sites associated with those 17th century heroes who set sail on the "Mayflower" for a new world and heroes of a modern time are commemorated at the "Battle of Britain Flight" memorial and museum at Coningsby. And we must not forget Mr Straw, the anonymous hero and "every man" who battled everyday early 20th century life.

Add to these fine sites the incredible scenery of the Peak District and a range of truly unspoiled picturesque villages and towns, and you have a tour difficult to surpass. It's time you were in on the secret!

With a maximum group size of 11 and a university educated guide/driver, you are sure to have a memorable and personal experience.

Enjoy two nights stay at Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel located close to Lake Windermere. This comfortable hotel, formerly owned by Beatrix Potter is set in 6 acres of mature gardens and offers superb accommodation and fine dinning in it's award winning restaurant. Views over the lake and to the fells are spectacular anytime of the year.

Your short break also includes the High Mountain Passes Spectacular. The route is one fashioned by Emperor Hadrian's Roman legions in the first century. Over the Wrynose and Hardknott passes, the steepest in England, pausing to view the extensive remains of Hardknott Roman Fort, before descending to lovely Eskdale. Following lunch you embark on the famous steam railway journey through Eskdale and onwards to Wasdale and Wastwater (England's deepest and most dramatic lake).

The next destination is the splendid 14th century castle of Muncaster, a treasure chest of fine period furniture, tapestries, silverware, paintings, portraits and porcelain. In its internationally acclaimed gardens you will find magnificent examples of azaleas, camellias and rhododendrons and also have the opportunity to visit the World Owl Trust. The beautiful scenery of the Coniston Fells and Coniston Water bring to an end this classic of all Lake District tours.

Enjoy two nights stay at Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel located close to Lake Windermere. This comfortable hotel, formerly owned by Beatrix Potter is set in 6 acres of mature gardens and offers superb accommodation and fine dinning in it's award winning restaurant. Views over the lake and to the fells are spectacular anytime of the year.

On Day 2 you will join the Ten Lakes Spectacular to Ullswater, Borrowdale, Buttermere and Beyond tour which covers Ten Lakes, three mountain passes and an extended lake cruise from the mountains to moorland on Ullswater - "Queen of the English Lakes", a beautiful waterfall, Castlerigg Stone Circle and the ancient township of Keswick for lunch.

Certainly the most comprehensive, popular and satisfying tour in the Lake District, visiting central, north, north-west and north-east parts of Cumbria with so many stops for photographs and short walks.

Enjoy two nights stay in a comfortable family run guest house in Windermere Village within easy walking distance of the railway station, shops and restaurants.

Your short break also includes the Beatrix Potter's Lakeland and Wordsworth Tour. A visit to Hilltop farm is the highlight of this tour but lovers of Beatrix Potter know that her world extended throughout the Lake District, from Sawrey, Hawkshead, Tarn Hows and Yewdale in the south to Derwentwater and Newlands in the north and the head of the Troutbeck Valley in the east.

The tour also visits location used in the making of the "Miss Potter" movie staring Rene Zellweger. Likewise William Wordsworth traveled extensively throughout the Lake District and this tour is especially designed to visit particular places that can be associated with the areas two most famous literary figures. All will be explained during this wonderful 14 lakes and tarns tour with stops for photographs and short walks.

Enjoy two nights stay at Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel located close to Lake Windermere. This comfortable hotel, formerly owned by Beatrix Potter is set in 6 acres of mature gardens and offers superb accommodation and fine dinning in it's award winning restaurant. Views over the lake and to the fells are spectacular anytime of the year.

Your short break also includes the Beatrix Potter's Lakeland and Wordsworth Tour: A visit to Hilltop farm is the highlight of this tour but lovers of Beatrix Potter know that her world extended throughout the Lake District, from Sawrey, Hawkshead, Tarn Hows and Yewdale in the south to Derwentwater and Newlands in the north and the head of the Troutbeck Valley in the east.

The tour also visits location used in the making of the "Miss Potter" movie staring Rene Zellweger. Likewise William Wordsworth traveled extensively throughout the Lake District and this tour is especially designed to visit particular places that can be associated with the areas two most famous literary figures. All will be explained during this wonderful 14 lakes and tarns tour with stops for photographs and short walks.

Enjoy two nights stay in a comfortable family run guest house in Windermere Village within easy walking distance of the railway station, shops and restaurants.

On Day 2 you will join the Ten Lakes Spectacular to Ullswater, Borrowdale, Buttermere and Beyond tour which covers Ten Lakes, three mountain passes and an extended lake cruise from the mountains to moorland on Ullswater - "Queen of the English Lakes", a beautiful waterfall, Castlerigg Stone Circle and the ancient township of Keswick for lunch.

Certainly the most comprehensive, popular and satisfying tour in the Lake District, visiting central, north, north-west and north-east parts of Cumbria with so many stops for photographs and short walks.

Want to tour the back roads of Yorkshire but don't want to join a large coach group? Looking for a little flexibility and spontaneity in your itinerary? Do you have a few days to really get deep into the countryside?

It is hardly surprising that the region has been used extensively for film and TV locations. It is perhaps one of the most varied scenic regions in the country. However, it is perhaps as well-known for being at the very heart of England's Viking past, when the Norsemen ran their "Danelaw" from the great settlement of Jorvic. Later, it became the medieval walled city of York and there rose the greatest of all English cathedrals. On this tour you'll see the austere, heather covered moorlands of Jane Eyre, the hills and lakes of the north eastern Peaks, Captain Cook's north east coast, and the rolling landscape of the Dales.

With a maximum group size of 11 and a university educated guide/driver, you are sure to have a memorable and personal experience.

Enjoy three nights stay in a comfortable family run guest house in Windermere Village within easy walking distance of the railway station, shops and restaurants.

Ten Lakes Spectacular tour covers Ten Lakes, three mountain passes and an extended lake cruise from the mountains to moorland on Ullswater - "Queen of the English Lakes", a beautiful waterfall, Castlerigg Stone Circle and the ancient township of Keswick for lunch. Certainly the most comprehensive, popular and satisfying tour in the Lake District, visiting central, north, north-west and north-east parts of Cumbria with so many stops for photographs and short walks.

Your short break also includes the High Mountain Passes Spectacular. The route is one fashioned by Emperor Hadrian's Roman legions in the first century. Over the Wrynose and Hardknott passes, the steepest in England, pausing to view the extensive remains of Hardknott Roman Fort, before descending to lovely Eskdale. Following lunch you embark on the famous steam railway journey through Eskdale and onwards to Wasdale and Wastwater (England's deepest and most dramatic lake).

The next destination is the splendid 14th century castle of Muncaster, a treasure chest of fine period furniture, tapestries, silverware, paintings, portraits and porcelain. In its internationally acclaimed gardens you will find magnificent examples of azaleas, camellias and rhododendrons and also have opportunity to visit the World Owl Trust.

The beautiful scenery of the Coniston Fells and Coniston Water bring to an end this classic of all Lake District tours.

This wonderful morning tour provides a feast of fabulous mountain scenery, eight of the most beautiful lakes, dramatic mountain passes, a delightful waterfall and a visit to the pre-historic Castlerigg Stone Circle. Ample opportunities are offered throughout the tour for photographs.

Tour Highlights:

• Central, Northern and Western Lakeland
• Derwentwater, Buttermere and Crummock Water
• 3 Mountain Passes
• 4,000 year old Castlerigg Stone Circle
• Moss Force Waterfall

A visit to Hilltop farm is a highlight of this tour but lovers of Beatrix Potter know that her world extended throughout the Lake District, from Sawrey, Hawkshead, Tarn Hows and Yewdale in the south to Derwentwater in the north and to the head of the Troutbeck Valley in the east.

The tour also visits location used in the making of the "Miss Potter" movie staring Rene Zellweger.

Likewise William Wordsworth traveled extensively throughout the Lake District and this tour is especially designed to visit particular places that can be associated with the areas two most famous literary figures. All will be explained during this wonderful 14 lakes and tarns tour with stops for photographs and short walks. Your tour also includes a lake cruise of Ullswater - "Queen of the English Lakes".

Tour Highlights

• Beatrix Potter's Hilltop Farm - home of Peter Rabbit (40 minute stopover)
• Jeremy Fisher's Esthwaite Water
• Jemimah Puddleduck's village of Near Sawrey
• Squirrel Nutkin's Derwentwater
• Stunningly beautiful Tarn Hows
• Coniston Water - lake cruise
• Hawkshead Village and Wordsworth's Grammar School
• Ullswater - "Queen of the English Lakes"
• Aira Force Waterfall - the Lake District's most dramatic waterfall
• Castlerigg Stone Circle - the enigmatic ancient stone circle
• William Wordsworth's Dove Cottage
• Grasmere - stopover in village for lunch (own expense)

What better way to explore the southern and central Lake District? This tour allows sufficient time to relax and enjoy nine lakes and tarns, to stroll at beautiful Tarn Hows, visit the ancient villages of Hawkshead, Grasmere, Sawrey and Elterwater.

Tour Highlights:

• Hilltop, Beatrix Potter's Farm - 40 minute stop over
• Hawkshead - the ancient village and church of St Michael and all the Angels
• Wordsworth's School - 16th Century Hawkshead Grammar School
• Tarn Hows - "England's Most Beautiful View"
• Elterwater, Grasmere, Rydal Water and Coniston Water
• Wordsworth's Dove Cottage - photo opportunity
• Coniston Water - lake cruise

Enjoy three nights stay in a comfortable family run guest house in Windermere Village within easy walking distance of the railway station, shops and restaurants.

Ten Lakes Spectacular tour covers Ten Lakes, three mountain passes and an extended lake cruise from the mountains to moorland on Ullswater - "Queen of the English Lakes", a beautiful waterfall, Castlerigg Stone Circle and the ancient township of Keswick for lunch. Certainly the most comprehensive, popular and satisfying tour in the Lake District, visiting central, north, north-west and north-east parts of Cumbria with so many stops for photographs and short walks.

Your short break also includes the Beatrix Potter's Lakeland and Wordsworth Tour. A visit to Hilltop farm is the highlight of this tour but lovers of Beatrix Potter know that her world extended throughout the Lake District, from Sawrey, Hawkshead, Tarn Hows and Yewdale in the south to Derwentwater and Newlands in the north and the head of the Troutbeck Valley in the east.

The tour also visits location used in the making of the "Miss Potter" movie staring Rene Zellweger. Likewise William Wordsworth traveled extensively throughout the Lake District and this tour is especially designed to visit particular places that can be associated with the areas two most famous literary figures. All will be explained during this wonderful 14 lakes and tarns tour with stops for photographs and short walks.

Want to tour the back roads of Devon and Cornwall but don't want to join a large coach group? Looking for a little flexibility and spontaneity in your itinerary? Do you have a few days to really get deep into the countryside?

Had we not had "the Lakes," we might not now be enjoying Wordsworth! But there's more to the region than this. There are picturesque villages and towns, country houses and museums, and interesting historical sites from prehistory to the birthplace of the humble pencil.

With a maximum group size of 11 and a university educated guide/driver, you are sure to have a memorable and personal experience.

Want to tour the back roads of North Wales but don't want to join a large coach group? Looking for a little flexibility and spontaneity in your itinerary? Do you have a few days to really get deep into the Welsh countryside?

Wales, derived from the Saxon word for foreigner. It was to these hills that England original Celtic inhabitants retreated before the conquering Roman, Saxon and Norman armies. Where "foreigners" established their Celtic redoubt and preserved their culture. It is here that you find the living heart of the modern Welsh culture. The hills are alive, both with singing and the second oldest language spoken in Europe. But, despite the retreat and preservation of an ancient culture made possible by the protection of the magnificent mountains, the invader left his tell tale sign in castles, settlement and industry.

With a maximum group size of 11 and a university educated guide/driver, you are sure to have a memorable and personal experience.

Enjoy two nights stay in a comfortable family run guest house in Windermere Village within easy walking distance of the railway station, shops and restaurants.

Your short break also includes the High Mountain Passes Spectacular. The route is one fashioned by Emperor Hadrian's Roman legions in the first century. Over the Wrynose and Hardknott passes, the steepest in England, pausing to view the extensive remains of Hardknott Roman Fort, before descending to lovely Eskdale. Following lunch you embark on the famous steam railway journey through Eskdale and onwards to Wasdale and Wastwater (England's deepest and most dramatic lake).

The next destination is the splendid 14th century castle of Muncaster, a treasure chest of fine period furniture, tapestries, silverware, paintings, portraits and porcelain. In its internationally acclaimed gardens you will find magnificent examples of azaleas, camellias and rhododendrons and also have the opportunity to visit the World Owl Trust. The beautiful scenery of the Coniston Fells and Coniston Water bring to an end this classic of all Lake District tours.

Enjoy three nights stay at Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel located close to Lake Windermere. This comfortable hotel, formerly owned by Beatrix Potter is set in 6 acres of mature gardens and offers superb accommodation and fine dinning in it's award winning restaurant. Views over the lake and to the fells are spectacular anytime of the year.

Ten Lakes Spectacular tour covers Ten Lakes, three mountain passes and an extended lake cruise from the mountains to moorland on Ullswater - "Queen of the English Lakes", a beautiful waterfall, Castlerigg Stone Circle and the ancient township of Keswick for lunch. Certainly the most comprehensive, popular and satisfying tour in the Lake District, visiting central, north, north-west and north-east parts of Cumbria with so many stops for photographs and short walks.

Your short break also includes the High Mountain Passes Spectacular. The route is one fashioned by Emperor Hadrian's Roman legions in the first century. Over the Wrynose and Hardknott passes, the steepest in England, pausing to view the extensive remains of Hardknott Roman Fort, before descending to lovely Eskdale. Following lunch you embark on the famous steam railway journey through Eskdale and onwards to Wasdale and Wastwater (England's deepest and most dramatic lake).

The next destination is the splendid 14th century castle of Muncaster, a treasure chest of fine period furniture, tapestries, silverware, paintings, portraits and porcelain. In its internationally acclaimed gardens you will find magnificent examples of azaleas, camellias and rhododendrons and also have opportunity to visit the World Owl Trust.

The beautiful scenery of the Coniston Fells and Coniston Water bring to an end this classic of all Lake District tours.

This tour covers Ten Lakes, three mountain passes and an extended lake cruise from the mountains to moorland on Ullswater - "Queen of the English Lakes", a beautiful waterfall, Castlerigg Stone Circle and the ancient township of Keswick for lunch. Certainly the most comprehensive, popular and satisfying tour in the Lake District, visiting central, north, north-west and north-east parts of Cumbria with so many stops for photographs and short walks.

Tour Highlights

• Troutbeck Village and Valley
• Kirkstone Pass - Lakeland's highest mountain pass
• Ullswater - lake cruise
• Castlerigg Stone Circle - 4,000 year old stone circle
• Ashness Bridge and Surprise View
• Keswick - stopover in town center for lunch
• Borrowdale
• Honister Mountain Pass
• Buttermere Valley and Crummock Water
• Newland Pass
• Moss Force Waterfall
• Thirlmere
• Grasmere

Enjoy three nights stay at Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel located close to Lake Windermere. This comfortable hotel, formerly owned by Beatrix Potter is set in 6 acres of mature gardens and offers superb accommodation and fine dinning in it's award winning restaurant. Views over the lake and to the fells are spectacular anytime of the year.

Ten Lakes Spectacular tour covers Ten Lakes, three mountain passes and an extended lake cruise from the mountains to moorland on Ullswater - "Queen of the English Lakes", a beautiful waterfall, Castlerigg Stone Circle and the ancient township of Keswick for lunch. Certainly the most comprehensive, popular and satisfying tour in the Lake District, visiting central, north, north-west and north-east parts of Cumbria with so many stops for photographs and short walks.

Your short break also includes the Beatrix Potter's Lakeland and Wordsworth Tour. A visit to Hilltop farm is the highlight of this tour but lovers of Beatrix Potter know that her world extended throughout the Lake District, from Sawrey, Hawkshead, Tarn Hows and Yewdale in the south to Derwentwater and Newlands in the north and the head of the Troutbeck Valley in the east.

The tour also visits location used in the making of the "Miss Potter" movie staring Rene Zellweger. Likewise William Wordsworth traveled extensively throughout the Lake District and this tour is especially designed to visit particular places that can be associated with the areas two most famous literary figures. All will be explained during this wonderful 14 lakes and tarns tour with stops for photographs and short walks.