Flight-free Travel Tours
No-fly travel opens up the world at your feet, and with a Martin Randall small-group cultural tour, you can access Europe's finest art, architecture, food and music without stepping foot in an airport.
Enjoy Europe Flight-Free
We offer flight-free tours in France, Belgium and the Netherlands - beginning with travel in Eurostar’s serene and spacious Standard Premier coaches.
It helps of course that the countries just across the Channel have been such hot-beds of creativity. Vermeer in Delft, Rubens in Antwerp and Monet in Giverny are just some of the great artistic moments we explore on our expert-led tours. Meanwhile, the fascinatingly complex evolution of Gothic architecture provides a spectacular theme for our journey across northern France that includes the cathedrals at Amiens, Reims, St Denis and Chartres.
There are music festivals to consider too - notably The Rhine Piano Festival - as well as the Ice Age cave paintings of the Dordogne. But whatever the subject, our experienced tour managers work alongside guest lecturers to make the travel as effortless as possible - knitting together trains, coach transfers and first-rate hotels into a seamless whole.
Needless to say, the complete absence of airport queues and overcrowding - as well as the satisfaction that comes from lowering our collective carbon footprint - adds to the sense of pleasure.
Flight-free tours
Exploring the UK
Our busy programme of UK-based itineraries helps you see some of the finest culture England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have to offer. Many of our cultural tours in England, Scotland and Wales start or end at railway stations, allowing you to join seamlessly from points across the network.
Our UK tours may take place in seemingly remote locations – the great gardens of southern England, or in the depths of Yorkshire's moorlands for early music festival – but coaches take our participants to and from mainline stations, allowing for stress-free joining. Otherwise, our chamber music weekends in Taunton are conveniently situated for quick access, via trains hurtling between the North, London and the West Country.
We scour the galleries and art collections of the UK on several of our tours, all by rail and coach. Our Arts & Crafts tours of the Lake District and Cotswolds begin at Penrith and Oxford stations respectively. The well-stocked galleries of Scotland are not neglected – Our Scottish art tour begins in Glasgow and includes a day trip by rail to Aberdeen, to view Old Masters, French Impressionists and historic British works in its city art gallery.
Easy access to our domestic tours creates ravishing opportunities across a broad spectrum of themes and locations: pick from the castles of Wales to the landscapes of JMW Turner, from Cornish breweries to the haunts of the venerable Bede – and everything between.
The railway need not be soley your way of joining our tours and events, but even the subject matter itself. In the bicentenary of the UK’s railways, it is perhaps the most apt time to celebrate the earliest locomotives, or indeed the geniuses of modern engineering like Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
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