• UK debut of renowned director Paul Curran.

• Excursions, talks and walks.

• 5-star hotel in the Cardiff Bay development.

•    Dido and Aeneas: an English opera, by an English composer, performed by an English cast in an English opera house.

•    Handel's Samson and chamber operas by Holst and Vaughan Williams in the glorious Frank Matcham Opera House.

•    Private talk by Andrew Greenwood, artistic director of Buxton Festival.

•    Excursions to two great and contrasting houses, Chatsworth and Haddon.

• Follow the coasts and immediate hinterland of the south of England and the north of France.
• Conceived as a history of the English Channel, it visits many of the most famous sites in Anglo-French history.
• Also includes a variety of art, architecture, townscape and landscape.

• Bristol, Wells and Exeter cathedrals.
• Based in Wells, with a cluster of architecturally eminent parish churches in its surrounding area.
• Led by an architectural historian.

• Short but comprehensive survey of mediaeval ecclesiastical building in Yorkshire.
• Led by an architectural historian.
• Based in York throughout.