MUSIC PERFORMANCE TOURS
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Music Performance Tour of Southern England

DAY 1 (U.S.A./Aloft)

Depart the United States aboard your overnight transAtlantic flight to Europe. The night will pass quickly, and you will soon be landing in London.

DAY 2 (Arrive LONDON - BATH - BRISTOL)

Welcome to London. After passing through necessary customs formalities, you will be met by your Tour Director and your coach and driver for the drive to Bristol. On the way you will make a brief stop in Bath for an optional lunch break. Bath is a beautiful wellplanned city with a wealth of Georgian houses, squares and terraces. Despite recent construction, Bath maintains a Regency atmosphere. Discovered by the Romans many centuries ago, Bath is noted for its hot springs. Following your stop in Bath, you will continue to Bristol for dinner and overnight at your hotel.

DAY 3 (BRISTOL - STRATFORD - BIRMINGHAM)

Breakfast at your hotel. This morning you will be given an orientation tour of Bristol before continuing to Stratford-Upon-Avon. You will travel through the gentle Cotswold Hills to StratforduponAvon. Old Will couldn't have picked a more perfect town if he'd built it as a stage set himself! You'll visit Shakespeare's birthplace and the pictureperfect thatched cottage of Anne Hathaway, his bride. Dinner and overnight in Birmingham.

DAY 4 (BIRMINGHAM - STRATFORD - BIRMINGHAM)

Breakfast at your hotel. Following breakfast you will board your motorcoach for the short drive to Stratford for a sightseeing tour. Sightseeing here will include a visit to the Holy Trinity Church (which contains Shakespeare's grave and monument), the Grammar School where the Bard was educated, the Memorial Museum and lastly Shakespeare's birthplace. After some free time for lunch you will give a concert performance in the Stratford Guild House. Return to Birmingham late this afternoon for dinner and overnight.

DAY 5 (BIRMINGHAM - LONDON)

Breakfast at your hotel. Board your motorcoach for the drive south to London. Passing through the English countryside you will arrive London in mid-afternoon. Dinner and overnight at your London hotel.

DAY 6 (LONDON)

Breakfast at your hotel. The city of Elizabeth and Charles Dickens, Lord Nelson and Peter Pan, fills your halfday guided sightseeing tour with sights unlimited. Your route includes Buckingham Palace with the traditional Changing of the Guard (if held), Marble Arch and Hyde Park, the Mall, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, St. James Palace, Parliament, Big Ben, and the major shopping streets. Following some free time for lunch, you will be transferred to the barbican Centre where you will give a concert performance. Return to your hotel for diner and overnight.

DAY 7 (LONDON - CHICAGO)

Breakfast at your hotel. Transfer to the airport for your return flight to Chicago.

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