We have organised a 3 day / 2 night trip departing on 21st October including seeing the Marriage of Figaro at Glyndebourne and some great country houses. Please click here for the brochure and booking form. You can also access the tour on Tailored Travel website at www.tailored-travel.co.uk and quote hamd261 . 

Please note that no one can book onto the tour online – they must complete and return the booking form with their deposit payment (either cheque or credit card details on form) to me. However, once booked on the tour, they are invited on the invoice they receive from Tailored Travel to pay their final balance online. They can, of course, still pay their final balance by cheque or by debit card on the phone to TailoredTravel.

Tailored Travel are holding rooms at the Hydro Hotel Eastbourne until 8th May. If you wish to come on this trip please let me know as soon as possible, particularly if you want a single room. Please can you email me your intention to join the trip to gordonrustin@gmail.com  but you will not have a confirmed place until I have received your booking form with either a cheque or completed credit card details sent to:

Gordon Rustin 15 Wellgarth Road, London NW117HP.

Located within the north-eastern borders of Italy is the undiscovered region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Bounded by Austria, Slovenia, the Veneto and the Adriatic, its long-standing domination by Austria has resulted in a remarkable fusion of architectural styles and culture to savour and explore. Nowhere is the legacy of the Hapsburg Empire more apparent than in Trieste and its envirions, Under the Austrians, its grrat Adriatic port and adjoining coastline rose in importance and the city became a progressive and posperous international melting pot until the 20th Centyry, when it was riven by borders and often contested. The city was returned to Italy in 1954, but its history has gifted us an eclectic blend of ethnic, linguistic and cultural varieties, Based in the border city of Trieste, our tour will highliight the charming cities and Roman settlements of this lesser known region of Italy.

For the full brochure and booking form, please click here.

We have an exciting foreign trip planned for 2023, our first trip abroad since Covid.  We are  going to Madrid from 8th to 12th May; highlights will include visits to the Prado, the Palacio Real, El Escorial, and a day in Toledo. The cost is £1475 (single supplement £165) and tickets are selling fast. For more information please contact our Tours Secretary, Michael Franklin at mikepfrank@btinternet.com.

For a Brochure, please click here

Art and Architecture of Glasgow

Monday 05 - Friday 09 September 2022

After two very difficult years for us all, we are pleased to offer an away trip to visit the beautiful city of Glasgow and the surrounding areas.     

This tour is now fully booked

Please click here for full details

2nd to 6th June 2020. Details TBD

For our tour of 2018 we shall be visiting Naples. Highights will include:

• Capodimonte Palace
• Cappella Sansevero
• San Lorenzo Maggiore Complex
• Giardini La Mortella (Ischia)
• The Excavations of Herculaneum
• National Archaeological Museum

Click here for further tour information, and here for booking information

This year's International tour is to Croatia and Montenegro. For full details, please click here