Tuesday, May 16:
Board your overnight transatlantic flight to Gatwick.
Wednesday, May 17:
Arrive in London. Hotel check in. Afternoon free for rest and your independent sightseeing. Lunch on your own; 5 p.m. performance:
Three Romantics: BYRON, KEATS & SHELLEY!
followed at 6 p.m. by a Welcome Cocktail and Dinner.
Thursday, May 18:
Transportation to the National Portrait Gallery. See portraits of everyone mentioned on the tour. Lunch on your own at the Gallery or nearby. Leave at 1 p.m. for the Charles Dickens Museum. Back to the hotel at 3 p.m. or sightseeing on your own. Tonight, an exciting optional dinner excursion - a tasty four course dinner with wine at a specially selected first class restaurant followed by a guided illumination cruise on the River Thames.
Friday, May 19:
Transportation in the morning to Keats House Museum in Hampstead. From 4 to 5 p.m. at the hotel, performance:
Yours Affectionately, JOHN KEATS.
Lunch, Dinner, and Evening at leisure.
Saturday, May 20:
Luxury coach (140 miles; about 3 hours including a rest stop) to Newstead Abbey, the Byron estate near Nottingham, for a tour of the house and gardens. Lunch on your own at the Abbey. Then to the nearby town of Hucknall to see the Church where Byron is buried. Dinner at your hotel at 6:30 p.m., followed by the performance at 8 p.m.:
BYRON: His Life & Loves
Sunday, May 21:
Luxury coach (100 miles; about 2½ hours including a rest stop) to the Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth, Yorkshire. Afternoon with the Brontes. See the quaint town; roam the moors (the setting for the Bronte novels). Lunch on your own. Late afternoon coach to York, to your hotel and Dinner on your own.
Monday, May 22:
Luxury coach (120 miles; about 2½ hours including a rest stop ) to Dove Cottage, the Wordsworth House and Museum, Grasmere. Lunch on your own. Afternoon with Wordsworth. Included Dinner at your hotel.
Tuesday, May 23:
Luxury coach (200 miles; 3¾ hours including a rest stop) to Stratford upon Avon. See Anne Hathaway’s Cottage and visit Shakespeare’s birthplace. The Royal Shakespeare Company production of Much Ado About Nothing, at 7:30 p.m. Lunch and Dinner on your own.
Wednesday, May 24:
Luxury coach (150 miles; 2¾ hours including a rest stop) to the Regency seaside resort of Brighton, going by Field Place, the ancestral home of Percy Shelley. Visit the Royal Pavilion; 6:30 p.m. performance:
SHELLEY: The Rebel Heart
followed by a Farewell Dinner. Lunch on your own.
Thursday, May 25:
Luxury coach (30 miles; less than 1 hour) to Gatwick Airport.