This NEW tour to East Anglia concentrates on the tastes of the area at the renowned Tiptree Jams in Essex, the National Food Museum and visit to National Horeseracing Heritage Centre to round of the holiday.
Holiday Highlights
Tiptree Jam - Essex
National Museum Of Food
National Horseracing Centre
Lavenham & Bury St Edmunds
City Of Ipswich
Monday
We depart and make our way to East
Anglia arriving late afternoon at our hotel for the
next 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast.Tea/coffee
and biscuits are served on arrival and there will be hotel
entertainment on two evening.
During your stay
• A ride to the medieval village of Lavenham in
the heart of Suffolk with chance to explore
this historic gem, including the famous
Guildhall and streets with delightful timber
framed houses.
• We visit the town of Stowmarket, the home
of the recently created National Museum of
Food which offers a multi-sensory experience
telling the story of society relationship with
food through the ages.
• We head south into Essex and Wilkin’s
Tiptree Jam Museum, tea room and shop
where we enjoy a Cream Tea.
• Visit to Newmarket – Home of Horseracing
where we visit the National Horseracing
Centre and learn all about the history of
‘The Sport of Kings’ and perhaps the Packard
Galleries of Sporting Art.
• Bury St Edmunds with its famous Abbey
Gardens, connections with Dickens and The
Nutshell, reputedly the smallest pub in the
country.
Friday
After breakfast we leave for home.
Your Hotel
The Best Western Ipswich Hotel nestles in
the quaint village of Copdock just outside
historic Ipswich. An ideal place to unwind
after your day out is the comfortable bar
overlooking the walled garden. All bedrooms
are en suite with TV, telephone and tea/
coffee making facilities. The hotel has a lift.
Below is a list of pick-up points available on this tour.
Below is a list of pick-up points available on this tour.
Name | Address | Contact Details |
---|---|---|
Bath | Bath Odd Down Park and Ride Coach Park | |
Bridgwater | Bridgwater Mount Street Bus Stop Rear of Angel Place Shopping centre | |
Chippenham | Chippenham The Bridge Outside Rivo Lounge or Megabet. | |
Cirencester | Cirencester Little Chef/Burger King Hare Bushes Services, A429 Burford Road, GL7 5DS | |
Clevedon | Clevedon Miles Morgan Travel Agency, Triangle Bus Stop | |
Exeter Services | Exeter Services - M5 - Pickups from here may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach | |
Frome | Frome Market Place | |
Gloucester | Gloucester outside the British Heart Foundation Shop, Northgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1SL | |
Gordano | Gordano M5 Services CAR PARK | |
Highbridge | Highbridge, Church Street Bus Stop Near to Church | |
Ivybridge | Ivybridge Leisure Centre Car Park - Pickups may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach | |
Junction 27 M5 | J27 M5 - Burger King/ Travelodge Pick ups maybe fed to Gordano Services | |
Leigh Delamere Services | Leigh Delamere - Outbound - Eastbound Side Return - Westbound Side - Coach Park | |
M5 Junction 13 | M5 Junction 13, Starbucks Formerly Little Chef | |
Melksham | Melksham Town Hall. | |
Midsomer Norton | Midsomer Norton Town Hall | |
Minehead | Minehead Railway Station | |
Newton Abbot | Newton Abbot Railway Station Lay By Pickups may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 | |
Plymouth | Plymouth Railway Station SE Bound Bus Stop Pennycomequick Hill/ Saltash Road | |
Shepton Mallet | Shepton Mallet Station Road Car Park Bus Stop near Monument | |
Somerton | Somerton The Cross - Pickups from here may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach | |
Street | Street Bayliss Centre | |
Stroud | Stroud Merrywalks Bus Station | |
Taunton Herons | Taunton - Hankeridge Farm Bus Stop, Herons Gate by Halfords Superstore. | |
Thornbury | Thornbury Aldi Lay-by | |
Torquay | Torquay Coach Station | |
Trowbridge | Trowbridge Town Hall | |
Wells | Wells Princes Road Car Park | |
Westbury | Westbury Haynes Road bus stop | |
Weston-super-Mare | Weston-super-Mare Locking Road Car Park | |
Yeovil | Yeovil Bus Station - Pickups may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach |