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13-Oct-10 31-Oct-10 19 Day Ultimate New Zealand
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16-Oct-10 22-Oct-10 7 Day Taste of New Zealand
20-Oct-10 31-Oct-10 12 Day South Island Splendour
21-Oct-10 31-Oct-10 11 Day South Island Experience
27-Oct-10 04-Nov-10 9 Day North Island Experience
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30-Oct-10 14-Nov-10 16 Day Experiences NZ
30-Oct-10 05-Nov-10 7 Day Taste of New Zealand
03-Nov-1014-Nov-10 12 Day South Island Splendour
04-Nov-10 14-Nov-10 11 Day South Island Experience
01-Dec-10 09-Dec-10 9 Day North Island Experience
01-Dec-10 19-Dec-10 19 Day Ultimate New Zealand
04-Dec-10 19-Dec-10 16 Day Experiences NZ
04-Dec-10 10-Dec-10 7 Day Taste of New Zealand
08-Dec-10 19-Dec-10 12 Day South Island Splendour
09-Dec-10 19-Dec-10 11 Day South Island Experience
18-Dec-10 01-Jan-11 15 Day White Christmas Tour
12-Jan-11 20-Jan-11 9 Day North Island Experience
12-Jan-11 30-Jan-11 19 Day Ultimate New Zealand
15-Jan-11 30-Jan-11 16 Day Experiences NZ
15-Jan-11 21-Jan-11 7 Day Taste of New Zealand
19-Jan-11 30-Jan-11 12 Day South Island Splendour
20-Jan-11 30-Jan-11 11 Day South Island Experience
26-Jan-11 03-Feb-11 9 Day North Island Experience
26-Jan-11 13-Feb-11 19 Day Ultimate New Zealand
29-Jan-11 13-Feb-11 16 Day Experiences NZ
29-Jan-11 04-Feb-11 7 Day Taste of New Zealand
02-Feb-11 13-Feb-11 12 Day South Island Splendour
03-Feb-11 13-Feb-11 11 Day South Island Experience
16-Feb-11 24-Feb-11 9 Day North Island Experience
16-Feb-11 06-Mar-11 19 Day Ultimate New Zealand
19-Feb-11 06-Mar-11 16 Day Experiences NZ
19-Feb-11 25-Feb-11 7 Day Taste of New Zealand
23-Feb-11 06-Mar-11 12 Day South Island Splendour
24-Feb-11 06-Mar-11 11 Day South Island Experience
02-Mar-11 10-Mar-11 9 Day North Island Experience
02-Mar-11 20-Mar-11 19 Day Ultimate New Zealand
05-Mar-11 20-Mar-11 16 Day Experiences NZ
05-Mar-11 11-Mar-11 7 Day Taste of New Zealand
09-Mar-11 17-Mar-11 9 Day North Island Experience
09-Mar-11 27-Mar-11 19 Day Ultimate New Zealand
09-Mar-11 20-Mar-11 12 Day South Island Splendour
10-Mar-11 20-Mar-11 11 Day South Island Experience
12-Mar-11 27-Mar-11 16 Day Experiences NZ
12-Mar-11 18-Mar-11 7 Day Taste of New Zealand
16-Mar-11 27-Mar-11 12 Day South Island Splendour
17-Mar-11 27-Mar-11 11 Day South Island Experience
23-Mar-11 31-Mar-11 9 Day North Island Experience
23-Mar-11 10-Apr-11 19 Day Ultimate New Zealand
26-Mar-11 10-Apr-11 16 Day Experiences NZ
26-Mar-11 01-Apr-11 7 Day Taste of New Zealand
30-Mar-11 07-Apr-11 9 Day North Island Experience
30-Mar-11 17-Apr-11 19 Day Ultimate New Zealand
30-Mar-11 10-Apr-11 12 Day South Island Splendour
31-Mar-11 10-Apr-11 11 Day South Island Experience
02-Apr-11 17-Apr-11 16 Day Experiences NZ
02-Apr-11 08-Apr-11 7 Day Taste of New Zealand
06-Apr-11 17-Apr-11 12 Day South Island Splendour
07-Apr-11 17-Apr-11 11 Day South Island Experience
04-May-1112-May-119 Day North Island Experience
04-May-1122-May-1119 Day Ultimate New Zealand
07-May-1122-May-1116 Day Experiences NZ
07-May-1113-May-117 Day Taste of New Zealand
11-May-1122-May-1112 Day South Island Splendour
12-May-1122-May-1111 Day South Island Experience
08-Jun-11 16-Jun-11 9 Day North Island Experience
08-Jun-11 26-Jun-11 19 Day Ultimate New Zealand
11-Jun-11 26-Jun-11 16 Day Experiences NZ
11-Jun-11 17-Jun-11 7 Day Taste of New Zealand
15-Jun-11 26-Jun-11 12 Day South Island Splendour
16-Jun-11 26-Jun-11 11 Day South Island Experience
13-Jul-11 21-Jul-11 9 Day North Island Experience
13-Jul-11 31-Jul-11 19 Day Ultimate New Zealand
16-Jul-11 31-Jul-11 16 Day Experiences NZ
16-Jul-11 22-Jul-11 7 Day Taste of New Zealand
20-Jul-11 31-Jul-11 12 Day South Island Splendour
21-Jul-11 31-Jul-11 11 Day South Island Experience
10-Aug-1118-Aug-119 Day North Island Experience
10-Aug-1128-Aug-1119 Day Ultimate New Zealand
13-Aug-1128-Aug-1116 Day Experiences NZ
13-Aug-1119-Aug-117 Day Taste of New Zealand
17-Aug-1128-Aug-1112 Day South Island Splendour
18-Aug-1128-Aug-1111 Day South Island Experience
31-Aug-1108-Sep-11 9 Day North Island Experience
31-Aug-1118-Sep-11 19 Day Ultimate New Zealand
03-Sep-11 18-Sep-11 16 Day Experiences NZ
03-Sep-11 09-Sep-11 7 Day Taste of New Zealand
07-Sep-11 18-Sep-11 12 Day South Island Splendour
08-Sep-11 18-Sep-11 11 Day South Island Experience
26-Oct-11 03-Nov-119 Day North Island Experience
26-Oct-11 13-Nov-1119 Day Ultimate New Zealand
29-Oct-11 13-Nov-1116 Day Experiences NZ
29-Oct-11 04-Nov-117 Day Taste of New Zealand
02-Nov-1111-Nov-119 Day North Island Experience
02-Nov-1120-Nov-1119 Day Ultimate New Zealand
02-Nov-1113-Nov-1112 Day South Island Splendour
03-Nov-1113-Nov-1111 Day South Island Experience
05-Nov-1120-Nov-1116 Day Experiences NZ
05-Nov-1111-Nov-117 Day Taste of New Zealand
09-Nov-1120-Nov-1112 Day South Island Splendour
10-Nov-1120-Nov-1111 Day South Island Experience
16-Nov-1124-Nov-119 Day North Island Experience
16-Nov-1104-Dec-11 19 Day Ultimate New Zealand
19-Nov-1104-Dec-11 16 Day Experiences NZ
19-Nov-1125-Nov-117 Day Taste of New Zealand
23-Nov-1101-Dec-11 9 Day North Island Experience
23-Nov-1111-Dec-11 19 Day Ultimate New Zealand
23-Nov-1104-Dec-11 12 Day South Island Splendour
24-Nov-1104-Dec-11 11 Day South Island Experience
26-Nov-1111-Dec-11 16 Day Experiences NZ
26-Nov-1102-Dec-11 7 Day Taste of New Zealand
30-Nov-1108-Dec-11 9 Day North Island Experience
30-Nov-1118-Dec-11 19 Day Ultimate New Zealand
30-Nov-1111-Dec-11 12 Day South Island Splendour
01-Dec-11 11Dec-11 11 Day South Island Experience
03-Dec-11 18-Dec-11 16 Day Experiences NZ
03-Dec-11 09-Dec-11 7 Day Taste of New Zealand
07-Dec-11 18-Dec-11 12 Day South Island Splendour
08-Dec-11 18-Dec-11 11 Day South Island Experience
14-Dec-11 01-Jan-12 19 Day White Christmas Tour
17-Dec-11 01-Jan-12 16 Day White Christmas Tour

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Tours General Information

This site lists many different types of tours. As a company we have always specialised in making arrangements for whatever you need. We custom design tours to suit your demands.

Tours We Have Organised:
Handling a 747 charter to the opening of 'Cats' in Australia.
Arranging and operating a group of New Zealand farmers to visit the dairy farming industry in Victoria.
A visit by the Australian Historic Houses Trust to visit the Historic Houses of Europe.
Conferences in New Zealand for pharmaceutical companies.
Welsh Rugby supporters tours to Australia and New Zealand.
Argentinean Rugby supporters to Australia.
Doctors conference to New Zealand including as a feature activities on Mt Hutt and at International Antarctic Centre.
Fishing trips in New Zealand for Probus clubs.

If you belong to a special interest group, gardening club, sporting club, social club, music group, Probus or Seniors Club, consider travelling together as a group to save money and tour with like-minded people sharing memorable experiences. We urge groups of all sizes, large or small, young and old, to contact Group Events and talk to us about group touring options. Small groups under 15 people can join a Great Experience New Zealand coach tour (departures every month) and for larger groups, tour in an exclusive, luxury coach doing what YOU want to do. Let us put together a tour based around your group's interests, age and budget.

For further information, itineraries and departure dates, please go to www.greatexperiencesnz.com.au and see for yourself our range of premium New Zealand coach tours.

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An example of a past tour.
Historic Houses and Gardens of England
Historic Houses Trust Members Tour led by Dr James Broadbent
19 May – 10 June 2009

Your Tour Leader
Dr James Broadbent is well known as an historian, conservationist and author. His main area of study is the history of colonial houses in New South Wales, their furnishings, gardens and the society that built and lived in them. Former Senior Curatorial Advisor at the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, his publications, often complementing exhibitions of the same theme and title,
include India, China, Australia, Trade and Society 1788-1850, 2003; The Australian Colonial House, Houses and Society in New South Wales 1788-1842, 1997 and co-authored Francis Greenway, Architect, 1997, The Age of Macquarie, 1992 and Gothic Taste in the Colony of New South Wales, 1980.
James Broadbent lives at The Cottage, Mulgoa (c. 1810), an important early bungalow which he has saved from dereliction. He has advised on the conservation and restoration of many significant Australian houses and gardens, most recently the recreation of the garden at ‘Glenfield’.

Introduction
“What English influences fashioned Australian houses and gardens from the early
nineteenth century to the early twentieth century? The Picturesque and the Gardensque; Gothick and the Gothic Revival; the Aesthetic Movement and the Arts and Crafts Movement; Italianate and Art Nouveau: all these are discovered in this tour of late Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian houses, gardens and collections.

From Arts and Crafts in Sussex and the Classical Revival in Wessex to the Gothic Revival in the West Midlands and the Picturesque in the Lake District. Grand houses, like Madresfield, the home of New South Wales’s Governor, Lord Beauchamp are matched by smaller manor houses such as Lytes Cary, an ancient house restored in the early twentieth century on Ruskinian principles. Landscaped parks like Chatsworth, by intimate gardens like Iford Manor; sophisticated collections like the Regency furnishings of Broughton Hall by the associational collections of Jane Austen’s house or the Bronte parsonage at Haworth.

I invite you to join me in exploring the diversity and richness of ninteenth century design while enjoying the landscapes of the South West, West and North West of England in early summer.”
- Dr James Broadbent

ITINERARY
Included breakfasts, lunches and dinners are indicated with a B, L or D on each day.
Day 1. Tuesday 19 May (Sydney - London)
You will be met at Sydney’s international airport by your tour leaders and travel with Emirates Airlines via Dubai to London’s Gatwick airport.

Day 2. Wednesday 20 May (East Grinstead)
Coach and transfer from Gatwick airport to our accommodation at East Grinstead an ancient market town with a wealth of architectural heritage surrounded by some of the finest countryside in the South East of England.
Welcome dinner.
(D)

Day 3. Thursday 21 May (East Grinstead)
Early morning coach transfer to the 2009 Chelsea Flower Show for a three hour tour of the show. Free time to take in the sights of London.
(B) (D)

Day 4. Friday 22 May (East Grinstead)
Today we begin visiting historic houses and gardens starting with a visit to Great Dixter with its Arts and Crafts garden, latterly gardened by Christopher Lloyd. Free time to lunch in the nearby picturesque town of Rye. Afternoon visit to Scotney Castle, a 14th century moated castle and Elizabethan revival
mansion within an exceptional early Victorian heritage landscape.
(B) (D)

Day 5. Saturday 23 May (East Grinstead – Winchester)
Early morning drive south to Brighton for a special tour of the Royal Pavilion with time to stroll around this favourite summer holiday destination. In the afternoon visit Arundel Castle for lunch and see its recently restored Victorian
interiors and gardens. En route to Winchester we visit the gardeen at West Dean which features some of the finest Victorian glasshouses in England.
(B) (L)

Day 6. Sunday 24 May (Winchester)
Morning visit to the garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll in 1908 at The Manor House Upton Grey. Visit Jane Austens House in the village of Chawton where she wrote her famous novels, then on to Stratfield Saye home to the Dukes of
Wellington since 1817 for a tour of this grand house with its nineteenth century interiors, gardens and collections. We then visit West Green House for drinks and supper with the owner, Marylyn Abbott.
(B) (D)

Day 7. Monday 25 May (Winchester – Isle of Wight – Bath)
We spend the day on the Isle of Wight with an early morning ferry trip from Southampton to East Cowes. Our focus is Osborne House, Queen Victoria’s
palace by the sea, with time to relax and enjoy the gardens. Afternoon return to the mainland and coach transfer to Bath.
(B) (D)

Day 8. Tuesday 26 May (Bath)
Today we visit Iford, an Italianate garden of tranquil beauty and great style, the home of architect and landscape gardener, Harold Peto from 1899 to 1933. Free time to lunch in the beautiful village of Lacock before visiting Lacock Abbey a Medieval cloistered abbey converted into a country house. Being the
home of the Fox Talbot family, it now houses a museum of photography. Afternoon visit to Clifton near Bristol where Frances Greenway practiced as an architect.
(B) (D)

Day 9. Wednesday 27 May (Bath)
Travel south to the heart of rural Somerset to Lytes Cary Manor an ancient manor house restored in the early 20th century, with an Arts & Crafts garden.
Then on to Mapperton, an exceptional example of a West Country manor house, again with an important early 20th century formal garden, hidden in a valley.
(B) (L)

Day 10. Thursday 28 May (Bath – Cheltenham)
Free time this morning to explore the world heritage city of Bath. Afternoon visit to Tyntesfield a complete 19th-century estate recently conserved by the
National Trust. Home to four generations of the Gibbs family, Tyntesfield is the
quintessential Victorian country house.
(B) (D)

Day 11. Friday 29 May (Cheltenham)
Today we travel through the Cotswolds to visit Kelmscott Manor the Tudor farmhouse adjacent to the River Thames, once the home of William Morris, founder of the Arts & Crafts Movement. Then to Rodmarton Manor, the grandest example of a house built, and all its furniture made, according to Arts and Crafts ideals, one of the last country houses to be built by traditional means with all work done by hand with local stone, local timber and local craftsmen. Lastly we visit Woodchester Mansion an unfinished Victorian mansion in an extraordinary landscape.
(B) (L)

Day 12. Saturday 30 May (Cheltenham)
Hidcote Manor Gardens, nestled in the Cotswolds with stunning panoramas across the Vale of Evesham, is one of England's great gardens, an early 20th century masterpiece. Charlecote Park which sums up the 19th century’s ideals of Tudor England with its rich, early Victorian interiors and furnishings including some important objects from William Beckford's gothic Fonthill Abbey.
(B) (D)

Day 13. Sunday 31 May (Cheltenham)
Witley Court and Gardens, a century ago, was one of England's great country houses, hosting many extravagant parties. Today it is a spectacular ruin. Recent restoration work has conserved the splendid Italianate garden, designed by William Nesfield with its splendid Perseus and Andromeda fountain. Madresfield Court was the home of New South Wales’s fascinating Governor, Lord Beauchamp. It has outstanding collections of furniture, pictures, porcelain and objects d’art, and a fine library designed by C.R.Ashbee.
The Chapel served as the model for the chapel in Brideshead Revisited. This afternoon we visit Eastnor Castle a romantic 19thcentury Neo-Norman Castle. (B) (L)

Day 14. Monday 1 June (Cheltenham - Buxton)
We journey north to the Peak District, en route visiting St Giles, Cheadle, the most elaborate and the finest church built by the nineteenth century
architect and designer, A.W.N. Pugin. Then to eccentric Biddulph Grange Garden, a rare survival of a High Victorian garden
(B) (D)

Day 15. Tuesday 2 June (Buxton)
Our destination today is Chatsworth one of the Country's most beautiful landscapes and one of the finest ‘treasure houses’ in England, much
embellished in the early 19th century, with rich and varied collections of art and furnishings made by the 6th Duke of Devonshire, and gardens designed by Sir Jospeh Paxton. We return to Buxton with its 18th century assembly rooms and public gardens.
(B)

Day 16. Wednesday 3 June (Buxton)
Today we travel to Stoke on Trent to visit the Wedgwood and Stafford factories/museums; then spend a leisurely afternoon at Trentham Gardens, a great Victorian Italianate garden, recently restored, with striking modern planting complementing the
Historic layout.
(B) (D)

Day 17. Thursday 4 June (Buxton - Ambleside)
We travel to Tatton Park a neo-classical mansion in 1000 acres of landscaped park. Containing rich furnishings and important collections that reflect the growing wealth and status of the Egerton family at the end of the 18th and during the 19th centuries. From aristocratic affluence to working class reality we visit Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate, one of Britain's greatest industrial heritage sites, including a cotton mill with working machinery, the restored Apprentice.
(B) (L)

Day 18. Friday 5 June (Ambleside)
We travel to Skipton in Yorkshire to visit Broughton Hall, home of the Tempest family since 1097 with its fine furniture collection, Victorian Italianate garden and conservatory. We then discover the fascinating history of the Bronte family as we visit the Bronte Parsonage at Haworth, explore the church yard and village. In the afternoon we get a
taste of the Yorkshire Dales.
(B) (D)

Day 19. Saturday 6 June (Ambleside)
Leighton Hall is the home of the Gillow family, with a fine collection of furniture made by the Gillows firm. High Victorian Holker Hall and gardens boasts
interiors and collections, an arboretum, a conservatory, and a large walled kitchen garden.
(B) (L)

Day 20. Sunday 7 June (Ambleside)
Today we travel to the village of Grasmere and Dove Cottage, the home of William Wordsworth from 1799 to 1808, now the Wordsworth Museum and Art Gallery. We then travel to the lakeside town of Coniston to board the carefully rebuilt steam yacht ‘Gondola’ to cruise on Coniston Water, disembarking at
Brantwood, the home of the Victorian critic and writer, John Ruskin.
(B) (L) (D)

Day 21. Monday 8 June (Ambleside to Manchester)
Visit nearby Blackwell one Britain's finest surviving Arts and Crafts houses designed by M H Baillie Scott. The house has spectacular views of the Lake District from the garden terraces. We then visit Levens Hall an Elizabethan mansion with its topiary gardens, embellished in the 19th century, and regarded by many as the finest in the world.
(B) (L)

Afternoon transfer to Manchester airport for a late evening departure.
Wednesday 10 June (Sydney)
Morning arrival in Sydney. TOUR ENDS

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Telephone: +61 2 9773 1133
Facsimile: +61 2 9773 1899
Freecall: 1800 655 661 (Aust)
Freecall: 0800 442 554 (NZ)
Email: info@groupevents.com.au
Online: www.groupevents.com.au

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