Winston Churchill

INTERNATIONAL CHURCHILL TOUR AND CONFERENCE XVI
THE BATH CONNECTION: LONDON TO BATH MINI-TOUR, 17-22 JULY 1999
CHURCHILL CONFERENCE XVI • BATH, ENGLAND, 22-25 JULY 1999
Registration Packets will be in the mail. To be sure of a place, register with this information now 1 .
THE BATH CONNECTION (Speaker: Anthony Montague Browne, CBE, DFC)
W
r e have scheduled this tour to encourage
as many as possible to attend the
Bath Conference. We have planned it with
first-time visitors in mind, and have kept it
simple to hold costs to a minimum. This is
an attractive option to traveling to Bath on
your own, adding enjoyable dimensions to
the Conference itself.
•Note: the tour is not available to
anyone not attending the Conference.
Price includes all Conference fees including
extras, but not accommodation at the
Francis Hotel, which we reserve for you.
Led by Barbara and Richard Langworth
and Garry Clark, hosts of eight previous
Churchill Tours, you will be accommodated
in two fine hotels en route to
Bath. As usual, you may expect those special
entrees, not available to the general
public, that make Churchill tours unique.
Friday 16th July:
Flying day to London.
Saturday 17th July:
Our hotel is the Strand Palace (upgraded
club class rooms) convenient to
the theatre district, and we can book play
tickets for Saturday night. A welcoming
reception and dinner will be held at 5PM.
Retire early if jetlagged!
Sunday 18th July:
Thames River cruise to Greenwich
aboard the Havengore, which had the
honour of bearing Sir Winston's coffin up
the Thames in 1 965. Lunch and a visit to
the Royal Observatory and the famous
clipper ship Cutty Sark. Dinner tonight is
on your own and we will be pleased to direct
you to interesting
London
restaurants.
Monday 19th July:
Early morning
visit to the
Cabinet War
Rooms, Winston
Churchill's WW2
bunker; then by
motor coach to Chartwell, which will be
closed to the public for our private enjoyment.
View the many improvements including
the excellent exhibit of
Churchill's life and times and the Nemon
statue of WSC and Clementine. Dinner
tonight at our hotel, the historic Bell at
Hurley, on a lovely stretch of the Thames
where yachts, canoes and motor launches
perambulate.
Tuesday 20th July:
By special arrangement, a visit and
lunch at RAF Uxbridge: the "the hole in
the ground" where, on 17 September
1940, Churchill saw all aircraft aloft at
the height of the Battle of Britain, a military
museum not open to the public. Afternoon
in Windsor with its famous castle.
At dinner tonight, Anthony Montague
Browne will relate his experience as
Sir Winston's private secretary, 1952-65.
Wednesday 21 st July:
To Woodstock, Blenheim Palace and
the restored Churchill graves at Bladon.
Our route takes us through the Cotswolds,
the traditional heart of England, with their
golden villages and beautiful countryside.
Thursday 22nd July:
Departing the Bell, we visit the "connoisseur's
stone circles" at Avebury and
the "tourist's version" at Stonehenge, arriving
at the 1728 Francis Hotel by tea
time. Rates: single rooms £90 ($150),
doubles or twins £120 ($200). From the
Francis, it is an easy walk to the conference
and center of Bath, a city we consider
the most beautiful in England.
Sunday 25 th July:
The Tour includes your return to
central London after the conference ends.
HOW TO REGISTER FOR
THE TOUR (Including Conference)
Cost for the Bath Mini-Tour, including
full Conference registrations, dinners
and optional extras (but not accommodation
in Bath on July 22nd-25th) is $1995
per person (single occupancy surcharge
$400). This includes, on July 17-21st, all
hotel accommodation, transportation,
gratuities, entry fees, full English breakfasts,
four dinners, four lunches, expertise
of the tour hosts, local guides and speakers,
a welcome packet, tour bulletins,
reading lists and maps, and return transport
to London after the tour ends at
mid-day July 25th.
Personal checks to Specialist Tours,
P.O. Box 385, Contoocook, NH 03229.
A deposit of $500 is due upon registering
and is returnable in full if you cancel before
31 March 1999.
Not included are: dinner July 18th,
any lunches when the group is not together,
beverage bills (excluding wine
served at dinners), room and valet service,
passport fees, any expenses we incur in
making individual arrangements, and
other items not specifically included. Airfare
to London and airport transfers are
also not included. Members find this
preferable, enabling them to make their
own arrangements from any departure location.
The tour reserves the right to
make adjustments in the itinerary.
Churchill Tours always book up
rapidly and sell out fast—especially when
they are connected to a Churchill Conference.
We have a limit of 45, so we advise
you to book early. To reserve places or for
information contact the Churchill Center
NH offices. Telephone Barbara Langworth
toll free on weekdays: (888) 454-
2275, fax (603) 746-4260.
F.mail: b_langworth@conknet.com >>>
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