DAY    1            DEPARTURE FROM NORTH AMERICA
Enjoy full meal service on your scheduled wide-bodied flight to London.

DAY    2            ARRIVE LONDON - OXFORD - GLOUCESTER AREA
                          (4 NIGHTS)
You will be met at the airport by your tour manager/guide where we will board our own private coach and are transferred to the Gloucester area.  En route, we will stop in Oxford, the university city of colleges, noble lawns and dreamy spires.  During our Walking Tour we will visit several colleges, including Christ Church and view the Radcliffe Camera, Bodleian Library and Sheldonian Theater.  We will continue to the Gloucester area for the night..

DAY    3            DAY TRIP TO THE COTSWOLDS
We will begin our day with a visit to Gloucester Cathedral.  This afternoon we will travel through the Cotswolds, one of the most picturesque areas of England.  Made wealthy in the Middle Ages by the wool trade, the villages of the Cotswolds still seem to be part of an earlier age.  Our Driving Tour will take us to Bourton-on-the-Water with its charming cottages which are made of the characteristic golden Cotswold stone, lovely Buford, once one of the chief wool towns of the area, Broadway and Chipping Camden

· Your First Concert Performance will be today

DAY    4            DAY TRIP WORCESTER & LUDLOW
This morning we will enjoy a Walking Tour of the City of Worcester to orient ourselves with its sites and history before visiting the famous Royal Worcester Porcelain Works, founded in 1751.    We will then travel to Ludlow where our Walking Tour will take us around Ludlow’s half-timbered buildings, viewing the 12th century Castle and the black and white facade of the 17th century Feathers Hotel.  We will visit St Laurence’s Church, whose tower dominates the surrounding countryside. There are wonderful 15th century misericords in the choir stalls, which portray allegorical scenes, intermingled with Yorkist and Lancastrian devices

DAY    5            DAY TRIP TO HEREFORD, THE WYE VALLEY AND TINTERN                           ABBEY
Today, we explore some of the wonderful countryside of Britain.  Our day will begin as travel to one of the most English of cities, Hereford, the city is easily explored on a Walking Tour.   We will then journey south through the beautiful landscapes of the Wye Valley.  The River Wye twists and turns through changing landscapes on its course from Plynimon to the Bristol Channel and is clothed in magnificent woodlands of oak, beech, yew and lime.  We will travel to Tintern Abbey, immortalized in Wordsworth’s poem.  We will see much of the 13th abbey which still stands in its picturesque setting among wooded slopes in a winding valley.

DAY    6            GLOUCESTER AREA - CHESTER AREA (2 NIGHTS)
After ample free time this morning in the Gloucester area we then make a journey north to the medieval walled city of Chester, once the Roman outpost of Deva. Upon arrival we will take a Walking Tour of the city around the old city center. The layout of Chester still follows the Roman pattern, and the Roman defensive walls create a pleasant walk

DAY    7            CHESTER
Today we will visit the magnificent red sandstone Cathedral and see the unusual free-standing Bell Tower, or campanile. Built in 1974 it is the first such separate bell tower built in Britain since the fifteenth century. The city abounds in medieval architecture and beautiful half-timbered buildings. The most famous of these is the complex known as "The Rows", a series of covered galleries above street-level shops lining Watergate, Eastgate, and Bridge Street. The layout of The Rows dates back to the 13th century. The rest of the day is free to explore Chester at your leisure.

• Your second concert performance will be today

DAY    8            CHESTER AREA - CAERNARFON – ABERYSTWYTH AREA                           (1  NIGHT)
Today we travel into Wales and we will visit Caernarfon’s magnificent Castle. Commissioned by Henry I back in the 13th century, it is where Prince Charles was invested as Prince of Wales. We will then journey on to the seaside town of Aberystwyth, where we take a Walking Tour. With its crescent of Victorian hotels and boarding houses facing Cardigan Bay, Aberystwyth is not only a seaside resort but also a university town and the home of the National Library of Wales. Dominating the seafront is a pier and the ruins of a castle built in the late 13th century by the English.

DAY    9            ABERYSTWYTH AREA - CARDIFF AREA (1 NIGHT)
Today we journey to our final destination, Cardiff. The city has been capital of Wales since only 1955, but there has been a castle here since Roman times, which we will visit. The Marquees of Bute lavishly restored the castle in the 19th century. The city's highlight is the Civic Centre, a group of dignified buildings built in the early 20th century in classical style amid tree-lined squares and boulevards.

• Your third concert performance will be today

DAY    10          DEPARTURE FROM LONDON
Your enjoyable and rewarding tour will come to an end as your guide accompanies you to the airport for the return flight home