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Highclere Castle and Grounds including the Egyptian Exhibition FULLY BOOKED
Sunday 20th April 2025We have been lucky enough to book a visit to Highclere Castle. These group bookings are very limited and we are delighted to have managed this. The first written records of the estate date back to 749 AD when an Anglo-Saxon King granted the estate to the Bishops of Winchester. Bishop William of Wykeham built [...] Read more
Hampton Court Tulip Festival
Tuesday 22nd April 2025The popular Hampton Court Palace Tulip Festival is back with over 100,000 tulip bulbs erupting in colour at one of the UK’s biggest displays of planted tulips. Recognised as Britain’s Largest and Greatest Tulip Heritage Garden at the prestigious World Tulip Summit in 2024, this year’s Tulip Festival promises a floral spectacle like no other. [...] Read more
Playhouse Creatures at Yvonne Arnaud.
Thursday 24th April 2025I’m an actress. They’ve never had one of those before. I’m a novelty. It’s the swinging (16)60s, and ‘the merry monarch’ Charles II is on the throne. After violent civil war, England’s theatres have finally reopened and, for the first time, women are allowed to perform in public. In the West End, Grande Dame Mrs [...] Read more
The Great Stink and River Cruise with a Blue Badge Guide
Wednesday 30th April 2025The day includes a top-notch Blue Badge Tour Guide, a Thames Cruise, the tour at Crossness plus morning coffee and a cup of tea at the end of the afternoon. Two thousand years ago the Romans enjoyed indoor plumbing but until a couple of hundred years ago Londoners were still emptying their chamber pots out [...] Read more
Exbury Gardens, Southampton
Tuesday 6th May 2025The gardens were created by Lionel de Rothschild in 1919 and are still lovingly managed by the family today. They offer woodland walks, world famous displays of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias, art and sculpture exhibitions and a miniature steam railway that follows a scenic route through parts of the gardens previously inaccessible to the public [...] Read more
Handbagged at Yvonne Arnaud
Thursday 8th May 2025Moira Buffini’s clever and fiercely funny comedy is a fly-on-the-wall look at what might have happened when Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher came face-to-face in the privacy of the palace. Over the course of a decade did the Monarch and the Iron Lady ever find a common ground, or did their stiff upper lips [...] Read more
Hamilton at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London
Thursday 15th May 2025Hamilton is the story of America’s Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington’s right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and helped shape the very foundations of the America we know today. The score blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B and Broadway – the story of America then, as [...] Read more
Tutankhamun – The Immersive Experience at Excel
Monday 19th May 2025Discover the legend of the Boy King like never before! Step into ancient Egypt with stunning 8m-high video mapping, a 360º VR journey, an interactive Metaverse, authentic artefacts from Cairo, and a world-first hologram unveiling the secrets of Tutankhamun’s mummification. Explore a civilisation shrouded in mystery, where grand temples and the gods of the pyramid [...] Read more