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Trip Includes

• A Catholic priest will be with the group to celebrate Mass. Daily Mass is available.
• Round-trip airfare from your hometown connecting in a major city to fly overseas is included. If your city has a direct flight to your destination, we will guarantee a direct flight as long as it is available.
• Airport Taxes, Security Fees, and Fuel Surcharges!
• Exclusively 4 or 5 star hotels in downtown areas.
• All breakfasts and all dinners. Wine is included with all dinners.
• Transportation with luxury bus.
• All entrance fees to all the sites.
• All tips to everyone involved in the tour.
• The tour fees for our guides. Our tour guides are well educated, caring, and professional. Most of them have their PhD's in Church history, archeology, philosophy, languages, or Theology.
• Luggage handling. Please pack light, one piece of luggage and one carry-on.
• If you are traveling alone and you allow us to find you a roommate, you don't have to pay the $900 single supplement. If you wish to have your own room and you are not open to the idea of rooming with another passenger, then $900 is what you pay for single supplement fee.
• Dress casually all throughout the trip. Shoulders and knees should be covered when visiting Basilicas or churches.
• Wheelchair can be provided for those passengers who cannot walk, with prior notice at registration for $150. A traveling companion has to push the wheelchair throughout the trip.
• NOTE: If you wish to deepen your knowledge of the Catholic Faith as a preparation for this pilgrimage, we recommend the following book as it is faithful to the teachings of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church (Imprimatur by ARCHBISHOP FELIPE AGUIRRE FRANCO): The Catholic Faith in Easy Terms. Introduction, Nihil Obstat, and Imprimatur by Archbishop Felipe Aguirre Franco.
• At the time of registration, as a part of the total balance, a non-refundable $500 is due in the form of a credit card. For example, if your trip costs $3,700, when you sign up, you pay a $500 deposit, then your balance would be $3,200 and is due 4 months before departure date in the form of cash, personal check, cashiers check, or money order. If you sign up after the final payment due date or at the last minute, you pay the entire cost of the trip at registration.
• 1 month after registration, a $1,000 additional deposit is due only in the form of cash, personal check, cashiers check, or money order.

Trip Does Not Include

• Lunch
• Insurance ~ The total trip cost is non-refundable, so we recommend trip insurance to protect your investment.

Trip Itinerary

Day 1: Departure from USA to London.

Day 2: Arrival. Tour of London by bus. Enjoy an overview of the city and learn the history of a country that governed a big part of our world in the past. Visit Christ Church College and its beautiful Cathedral, attended by Blessed John Henry Newman. Dinner and overnight in London.

Day 3 : After Breakfast, We visit in Swindon, Tour of Bath: Visit the Roman Baths, Bath Abbey, Bath's Georgian Roots: Royal Crescent and see Pulteney Bridge. Dinner and overnight in London.

Day 4 : After Breakfast, we drive to stratford upon Avon, explore the wonders of Henley streets, one Stratford upon avon’s most popular area. Visit William shakespear’s birthplace. We browse Stratford-upon avon’s farmers and craft market. After lunch, we visit warwick castle, built by a king, the seat of a kingmaker and vital stronghold in the Wars of the Roses and the English Civil War. Go for dinner at El Greco. Overnight in London.

Day 5: After breakfast, Drive to the holy village of Walsingham, that has been one of England’s most important pilgrimage sites ever since the 1061, when an apparition of the Virgin Mary appeared to one of the townswomen. After lunch, visit Catholic National Shrine & Basilica of Our Lady known as the slipper chapel, so named because pilgrims would leave their shoes there and walk the final mile to the shrine. Late afternoon we return to Cambridge for some free time before dinner. Overnight in London.

Day 6: We start our morning with Mass at Westminster Cathedral, the Catholic Cathedral of London, we will then enjoy a panoramic tour of London which will include views of Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and Piccadilly. We will stop to see the changing of the guard ceremony (if held) and then continue to tour the tower of London. We continue to tour the Tower of London where Thomas More was imprisoned in the Bell Tower for more than a year for refusing to swear to the Act of Succession and the Oath of Supremacy. He was found guilty of treason and beheaded on Tower Hill. His final words were, "The King’s good servant, but God’s First” Finally, we arrive on the banks of the River Thames to enjoy a river cruise sightseeing tour. This evening we have a closing dinner at a local London restaurant and overnight in London.

Day 7: This morning we will depart to Aylesford, pass through the Kent countryside to visit Friars Priory were the first general chapter of the order outside the holy land. Then we visit the Shrine of our lady of the assumption, the shrine at Aylesford is dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption, and beautiful chapels dedicated to the saints of Carmel (notably St. Simon Stock) have been described as "prayers in stone". After lunch, back to London, to visit London Oratory,founded by Blessed John Henry Newman, internationally recognised as one of the outstanding custodians of sacred music in the Catholic tradition. Enjoy a dinner in the city of St. Kathrine Docks. Overnight in London.

Day 8: This morning we will visit milk street a prosperous residential area where Thomas more was born. We will see the plaque commemorating his birthplace. ST Lawrence Jewry was the family parish church and where Thomas more lectured as young lawyer on Augustine’s city of god. We will enjoy a tour of the guildhall. We visit Lincoln’s inn, one the oldest and best law schools in England, after lunch, we visit St. Paul’s cathedral. Christopher wren’s masterpiece where Thomas mores good friend and spiritual advisor, Fr john Colet was rector. This evening we have dinner at local London restaurant and we attend a Shakespeare play at the globe theatre tonight. Thomas more was a major influence on Shakespeare.

Day 9 : We will have an early start as we head out to Stonehenge to see the ancient monoliths placed in position nearly 2000 years before the birth of Christ and which were once used to calculate the eclipses and equinoxes. Next, we have an excursion to Winchester Cathedral. It was built as a Catholic church, became Church of England under Henry VIII, returned to Roman Catholicism by Henry’s daughter, Mary Tudor, who married her Spanish husband here, but has since returned to the Church of England. One of the largest cathedrals in England, Winchester is part of a former monastic settlement originally founded by the Benedictines in 642. Elements of the monastic buildings may still be traced throughout the Cathedral Close. Dinner and overnight in London.

Day 10: Fly Home.

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