Sheffield U3A Travel
Details of Day Trips and Holidays
Trips organised by Sheffield U3A Travel are open to all (and only to) Sheffield U3A members.
Holidays and day trips are listed here for your information but bookings can only be made from the booking forms printed in Links.
Port Sunlight
Thursday 21 August 2008
This visit takes us back to the late 19th century and a site of great social impact. At a time when most industrial workers lived in grinding poverty and squalor, William Hesketh Lever founded a model village for his soap factory workers on the Wirral. We shall see and learn of the vision and ideals of this great man and what he did to revolutionise the lives of his employees. On arrival, we see a short film and spend time in the Sunlight Vision Museum, followed by lunch at the Lady Lever Art Gallery. Afterwards, we have a guided coach tour of the village and explore the renowned Art Gallery. There will be time to explore the village on foot, see the workers houses, the church, the Lever and War Memorials, the village tea rooms, the Bridge Inn and the Garden Centre, before returning to Sheffield. You will also receive a complementary tablet of Sunlight soap to commemorate your visit!
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Suffolk
7-11 September 2008
For this short five day break we will be staying at the Holiday Inn, Ipswich, for four nights' half board. During our time in Suffolk we will be visiting Constable Country and Flatford Bridge cottage, as well as Gainsborough's house in Sudbury. In Aldeburgh we will have a tour of Benjamin Britten's home, The Red House, and the Britten-Pears library.
Visits to Sutton Hoo burial ground of Anglo-Saxon Kings, the National Stud, Beth Chatto Gardens, Lavenham Guildhall and a cruise on the River Orwell are included. On our journey to Ipswich we will visit Tattershall Castle and on the way home to sheffield at the end of the holiday our stop will be at Woolsthorpe Manor, home of Sir Isaac Newton.
Price per person is £350.00 (single supplement £105). The cost includes coach, hotel accommodation, tips for the driver and hotel staff and entrance to some of the places we will visit. There are also five National Trust properties on our itinerary, so non-members will have to pay admission to these places. The costs of the lunches are not included.
To reserve a place on this short break, please complete the booking slip at the end of the February issue of Links and send a deposit of £70 per person (cheque made payable to Sheffield U3A Travel) with a stamped addressed envelope (9x61/2inches / 22.5 x 16cm) to Margaret Bullivant, to arrive no later than Monday 31 March 2008.
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Tatton Park, Knutsford, Cheshire
Wednesday 17 September 2008
The highlights of this experience will include a visit to the historic mansion; 50 acres of award winning gardens, including the beautiful Japanese Garden and the parkland to explore at one’s leisure. A two course ploughman’s lunch will be served in the Stables Restaurant.
The total cost including visits to the mansion, gardens, parkland and lunch will be £28 per person or £25 if a National Trust member.
To reserve a place, please complete the booking form at the end of this issue and send to Peter Frost. Please note National Trust members must show their card on the day.
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Colour Museum, Bradford, and Temple Newsam House, Leeds
Wednesday 8 October 2008
Explore the world of light and colour in the award winning museum. It is the world’s only museum dedicated to colour and is an educational resource of the Society of Dyers and Colourists. We will have coffee on arrival, at about 10.00 am, followed by a guided tour and a chance to explore the interactive displays.
We leave the museum about 12.30 pm for the short journey to Temple Newsam House. One of the great country houses of England, this Tudor-Jacobean mansion was the birthplace of Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and was home to the Ingram family for 300 years. In newly restored interiors there are fine examples of silver, ceramics and paintings, textiles and Furniture, including Chippendale. The house is set in Capability Brown parkland with formal and wooded gardens and national plant collections. We will have a lunch of soup and sandwiches before taking an audio tour of the house.
The cost is £27.50 per person. This includes coach, tip for the driver, entrance to both venues, coffee, lunch and a cup of tea before we leave for home at 4.45 pm.
To reserve a place, please complete the reply slip at the end of the August ‘Links’ and send with a DL size (110 x 220 mm - 4.3 x 8.6 in) stamped addressed envelope to Margaret Bullivant, to arrive no later than 14 September 2008.
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Highlights of Turkey
5- 18 October 2008
Come and join us on a very varied tour of Turkey; half board, 14 days/13 nights, staying in 4 star hotels, flying from Manchester airport. Hotel stays of 3,1,3,2,1,2 and 1 night.
We will stay three nights in Istanbul, seeing the Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace, and much more, including a cruise on the Bosporus. On to Ankara then Cappadocia seeing Yazilikaya the rock sanctuary depicting the Hittite divinities. We tour the Goreme valley, stroll through the underground galleries of Ozkonak, visit Soganh village, Perge and Aspendos, whose theatre is the best preserved Roman theatre in Asia Minor.
We visit Antalya, then cross the Taurus mountains to Aphrodisias, the ancient city dedicated to Aphrodite. Ephesus is a must, one of the most fascinating complete cities of antiquity in the entire world. The Pergamum and the Acropolis are included in the tour on our way to the legendary city of Troy, whose history covers a period of about 3,400 years. We complete our return to Istanbul by ferry crossing the Strait of the Dardanelles.
The cost is £1,170 (single supplement £199) and includes flights, taxes, hotels, half board, coach throughout, tour manager, entrance fees, tips for driver and the tour manager, but NOT the hotels.
Full comprehensive insurance MUST be arranged by each member.
To reserve a place on this holiday, please complete the slip at the end of the February issue of Links and send a deposit of £150 (cheque made out to Sheffield U3A Travel) with a stamped addressed envelope (9 x 6 1/2 inches / 22.5 x 16cm) to Shirley Marney as soon as possible.
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Short Break in Northumberland
10 - 14 May 2009
The North East of England combines beautiful rolling countryside with a turbulent history and we shall have both aspects. Our Blue Badge Guide will take us on a Tyne Valley panoramic tour. We shall go to Cragside (National Trust), former home of Lord Armstrong - the famous Victorian industrialist, inventor and landscape genius - the first house in the world lit by hydro-electricity. Alnwick Castle and Garden are another treat. The garden, with its fabulous new water features, is the inspiration of the current Duchess of Northumberland, offering a combination of traditional and contemporary. We shall also visit Holy Island with its Priory (English Heritage) and the castle (optional – National Trust), not forgetting the Grace Darling Memorial Museum in Bamburgh.
On the way north, we shall call in at the Hartlepool Maritime Experience, and HMS Trincomalee; and we shall be returning via Durham, with free time for the Cathedral or Castle (not included) and a visit to the Durham University Oriental Museum.
For this short break, we shall be staying at the Holiday Inn, Seaton Burn, Newcastle. The cost is £350 per person (single supplement £68) and includes bed, breakfast and evening meal in the hotel, coach throughout and all gratuities and entrance fees, except for National Trust properties.
Members must arrange their own comprehensive travel insurance and send a photocopy to the organiser as soon as possible.
To reserve a place, complete the booking slip at the end of the August ‘Links’ and send it with a deposit of £35 per person and a C5 size (162 x 229 mm - 9 x 6.4 in) stamped addressed envelope to Barbara Robertshaw, to arrive no later than 15 August 2008.
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