Swindon • Stratford-upon-Avon • Walsingham • Westminster Cathedral
- 10 Days - THIS PRICE INCLUDES AIRFARE FROM ANYWHERE IN THE U.S.
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- Flights from anywhere in the United States and flights between countries as per your itinerary (all necessary flights on your trip are included).
- Daily Mass will be scheduled.
- Airport Taxes, Security Fees & Fuel Surcharges Saving you an average of $400-$600!
- Transfers as per itinerary.
- 4 or 5 star hotels in downtown areas.
- Transportation with luxury bus.
- All breakfasts and all dinners. Wine included with all dinners.
- All tips to driver, hotel, and tour guide. If you feel that the tour guide did a great job, offering them extra tips is greatly appreciated.
- Guided Tours and Tour Fees ~ Our tour guides are very caring, licensed, and well educated. Many of our guides have their PhD's.
- Luggage handling (1 suitcase and 1 carry-on per person).
- Single Supplement (as long as the passengers is willing to room with someone and allows us to provide them with a roommate. If the passenger wants a guaranteed room to of their own, then they have to pay the $900 single supplement).
- Remember: Our trips are not more expensive during high season ~ Passengers will never be expected to pay extra for anything while on 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.
- Lunch
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- The balance is due 4 months before the trip departure date. The balance is paid ONLY in the form of Check (personal, money order, or bank check).
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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.