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THE BATH CONNECTION: LONDON TO BATH MINI-TOUR, 17-22 JULY 1999
CHURCHILL CONFERENCE XVI • BATH, ENGLAND, 22-25 JULY 1999

Registration Packets will be in the mail. To be sure of a place, register with this information now.

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We have scheduled this tour to encourage as many as possible to attend the Bath Conference. We have planned it with first-time visitors in mind, and have kept it simple to hold costs to a minimum. This is an attractive option to traveling to Bath on your own, adding enjoyable dimensions to the Conference itself.

•Note: the tour is not available to anyone not attending the Conference. Price includes all Conference fees including extras, but not accommodation at the Francis Hotel, which we reserve for you.

Led by Barbara and Richard Langworth and Garry Clark, hosts of eight previous Churchill Tours, you will be accommodated in two fine hotels en route to Bath. As usual, you may expect those special entrees, not available to the general public, that make Churchill tours unique.

Friday 16th July:

Flying day to London.

Saturday 17th July:

Our hotel is the Strand Palace (upgraded club class rooms) convenient to the theatre district, and we can book play tickets for Saturday night. A welcoming reception and dinner will be held at 5PM. Retire early if jetlagged!

Sunday 18th July:

Thames River cruise to Greenwich aboard the Havengore, which had the honour of bearing Sir Winston’s coffin up the Thames in 1 965. Lunch and a visit to the Royal Observatory and the famous clipper ship Cutty Sark. Dinner tonight is on your own and we will be pleased to direct you to interesting London restaurants.

Monday 19th July:

Early morning visit to the Cabinet War Rooms, Winston Churchill’s WW2 bunker; then by motor coach to Chartwell, which will be closed to the public for our private enjoyment. View the many improvements including the excellent exhibit of Churchill’s life and times and the Nemon statue of WSC and Clementine. Dinner tonight at our hotel, the historic Bell at Hurley, on a lovely stretch of the Thames where yachts, canoes and motor launches perambulate.

Tuesday 20th July:

By special arrangement, a visit and lunch at RAF Uxbridge: the “the hole in the ground” where, on 17 September 1940, Churchill saw all aircraft aloft at the height of the Battle of Britain, a military museum not open to the public. Afternoon in Windsor with its famous castle. At dinner tonight, Anthony Montague Browne will relate his experience as Sir Winston’s private secretary, 1952-65.

Wednesday 21st July:

To Woodstock, Blenheim Palace and the restored Churchill graves at Bladon. Our route takes us through the Cotswolds, the traditional heart of England, with their golden villages and beautiful countryside.

Thursday 22nd July:

Departing the Bell, we visit the “connoisseur’s stone circles” at Avebury and the “tourist’s version” at Stonehenge, arriving at the 1728 Francis Hotel by tea time. Rates: single rooms £90 ($150), doubles or twins £120 ($200). From the Francis, it is an easy walk to the conference and center of Bath, a city we consider the most beautiful in England.

Sunday 25th July:

The Tour includes your return to central London after the conference ends.

HOW TO REGISTER FOR THE TOUR (Including Conference)

Cost for the Bath Mini-Tour, including full Conference registrations, dinners and optional extras (but not accommodation in Bath on July 22nd-25th) is $1995 per person (single occupancy surcharge $400). This includes, on July 17-21st, all hotel accommodation, transportation, gratuities, entry fees, full English breakfasts, four dinners, four lunches, expertise of the tour hosts, local guides and speakers, a welcome packet, tour bulletins, reading lists and maps, and return transport to London after the tour ends at mid-day July 25th.

Personal checks to Specialist Tours, P.O. Box 385, Contoocook, NH 03229. A deposit of $500 is due upon registering and is returnable in full if you cancel before 31 March 1999.

Not included are: dinner July 18th, any lunches when the group is not together, beverage bills (excluding wine served at dinners), room and valet service, passport fees, any expenses we incur in making individual arrangements, and other items not specifically included. Airfare to London and airport transfers are also not included. Members find this preferable, enabling them to make their own arrangements from any departure location. The tour reserves the right to make adjustments in the itinerary.

Churchill Tours always book up rapidly and sell out fast—especially when they are connected to a Churchill Conference. We have a limit of 45, so we advise you to book early. To reserve places or for information contact the Churchill Center NH offices. Telephone Barbara Langworth toll free on weekdays: (888) 4542275, fax (603) 746-4260. F.mail: [email protected]