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Chopin in Warsaw
Full details of the Chopin in Warsaw tour (25 August – 1 September 2010), a new tour for 2010 celebrating the bicentenary of Chopin's birth, are now available.
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Wexford Opera Festival
The small-group tour to the 2010 opera festival in Wexford takes place from 18 to 22 October. Final details will be confirmed and placed online soon or you can register to receive advance information.
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Van Gogh and Dutch Art
There are places still available on this tour for Friends of the Royal Academy, timed to follow the current Van Gogh exhibition at the Royal Academy.
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Writers at the Castle 2010
We are delighted to confirm the details of this year's Writers at the Castle weekend (5–7 November 2010), which focuses on the nature, writing and study of history.
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Battlefield Tours
Places are still available on one of our battlefield tours taking place this summer, The Battle of Waterloo.
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Launch of Opera in Macerata & Pesaro
We are pleased to confirm the newly launched itinerary for Opera in Macerata and Pesaro (6–13 August 2010), a small-group tour attending operas at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and in the open air arena at the Macerata Opera Festival.
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North West Italy in May
Two tours in May visit the north west of Italy, a relatively and undeservedly neglected area of the country.
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Gaudì & the Guggenheim
Some places are still available on this tour examining the art and architecture of Bilbao and Barcelona.
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Danube Music Festival
Full details of the seventeenth annual Danube Music Festival are now available online.
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The Lucerne Festival
The Lucerne Festival is one of the most prestigious of the many music festivals that take place throughout Europe every summer. Details of our small-group tour that attends some of the festival's concerts are now online.
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Shakespeare & his World
We are pleased to announce details of this new tour, attending plays and visiting Shakespearean sites in Stratford and London.
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MRT adverts win award
Our recent advertising campaign won Silver prize in the 'Best use of copy' category at the Direct Marketing Awards, held last night in London.
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Launch of Budapest Spring 2010 tour
We are pleased to announce the itinerary for the Budapest Spring small-group tour (26–31 March 2010), which attends concerts at the annual Budapest Spring Festival.
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A History of Impressionism
With two prior departures for A History of Impressionism already fully booked, we have launched a third departure for this new tour, in September 2010.
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Fitzwilliam Quartet at the Castle
As part of our 2009/10 Music at the Castle season, the Fitzwilliam Quartet will be performing five concerts at the Castle Hotel in Taunton, the weekend of 15–17 January 2010.
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Opera in Aix & Orange
We are pleased to announce details of our Opera in Aix & Orange tour, which attends performances at two of Europe's finest summer music festivals in July 2010.
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Christmas tours 2009
As with previous years, our Christmas tours are proving to be immensely popular. Most are fully booked but there is limited space still available on two of the tours taking place over Christmas and new year.
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The Schubertiade (17–23 June 2010)
Details of our tour to the annual music festival in the Vorarlberg are now available online.
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The Johann Sebastian Bach Journey
We are delighted to announce the launch of our second all-inclusive music festival in 2010, The Johann Sebastian Bach Journey (20–26 June 2010).
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MRT and the postal strike
Due to the ongoing postal strike in the UK, MRT is experiencing an irregular postal service. We therefore advise clients who have sent us a booking form but have not received a booking confirmation after a week to contact us in order to check that we have received your booking.
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Iran: The North West
Launching a new tour to Iran in 2010. Iran: The North West is a journey through lesser-know Iran, north and west of Tehran, to Tabriz and beyond.
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Tours by Train
We have an ever-expanding roster of tours travelling to Europe by train.
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More new tour departures
Announcing new departures for some more of our best-selling tours in 2010, including Oberammergau and the History of Impressionism, amongst others.
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Music at the Castle 2009/10
Full details of the 34th season of Music at the Castle are now available online.
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Tours for RA Friends now online
Every year, Martin Randall Travel operates tours exclusively for the Friends of the Royal Academy. The eight tours for the Friends of the RA taking place in 2010 are now online.
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Music in Palladian Villas
We are pleased to announce the launch of the first all-inclusive music festival in 2010: Music in Palladian Villas (10–14 May 2010). Full details and a booking form are now available online.
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Essential Syria - a new departure
Overwhelming demand has led us to set up an additional departure for our Essential Syria tour, a remarkable and comprehensive exploration of this wonderful country.
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UK Tours in 2010
From Edinburgh to the South Downs and many points in between, 2010 sees the launch of our largest ever programme of tours within the UK, many of them new itineraries.
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Lecturer Podcasts
Lecturers on the In Pursuit of Caravaggio and Ancient Greek Philosophy cruises and The Danube Music Festival are recorded in conversation with Martin Randall, giving a taste of the erudition, wit and intellectual stimulation that awaits.
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Forthcoming Tours in 2010
We are pleased to announce several tours next year for which details are not yet finalised. Please register your interest to recieve complete information as soon as it becomes available.
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MRT and Responsible Tourism
MRT has long taken seriously the degradation of the world's natural and cultural heritage. Our policies for minimising the environmental impact of our holidays have recently been revised and published.
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Italian Music Festivals
In the second entry on MRT's new blog, Operations Manager Tara Latimer remembers some of the organisational triumphs over natural disasters that have been a feature of previous festivals, and looks forward to Music in Palladian Villas next year.
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New Tours for 2010
MRT is pleased to introduce nineteen new itineraries for 2010, many of them in Great Britain, which are ready to book online now.
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2010 tours now online
We are pleased to announce the launch of our c. 160 tours for 2010, now available to book online.
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MRT blog: Dispatches from Tehran
MRT has a new blog. In the first entry, Operations Executive Lucy Crisfield reports on her prospecting trip to Iran, and the disruptions that can arise when faced with a crowd chanting "Death to the British"
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Haydn in Vienna
There are places still available on this one-off music festival, commemorating the bicentenary of the death of Josef Haydn, one of the most celebrated and influential composers in history.
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On a cruise to Libya
Writer Ian Irvine travelled on last autumn's The Romans in Africa cruise and his article on the cruise has just been published in the Financial Times.
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National Geographic 'Tour of a Lifetime'
The May/June edition of National Geographic's Traveler, the world's most widely-read travel magazine, names an MRT tour as part of its '50 Tours of a Lifetime' feature.
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A smarter approach to travel
Renowned travel writer and long-time Martin Randall Travel advocate Arthur Frommer recently wrote a piece extolling the virtues of our tours and highlighting the reduction in prices for US travellers due to the favourable exchange rate.
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MRT wins Travel Company of the Year
We are delighted to announce that, for the third time in four years, MRT has won the AITO Travel Company of the Year award.
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Tours to the United States of America
Contemporary art, architecture and opera on the American continent.
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On the Trail of a 16th Century Killer
Seasoned travel writer Sarah Lucas joined the first ever Martin Randall Travel Mediterranean cruise - In Pursuit of Caravaggio - and wrote up her experience for The Mail on Sunday.
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2009 tours now online
Full details of all next year's small-group tours are now online. They can also be booked directly on the website.
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No surcharges
Martin Randall Travel pledges not to levy surcharges to cover higher fuel or currency costs.
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