Around The World Literary Tour
June 25th - July 17th 2005
(In association with licensed Travel Agent: Flight Centre # 2TA002719)

Day 1 Saturday 25th June

• Travel
  • 5.00pm - Sydney to Dublin via Singapore and London
  • - 5.00pm Sydney Int. AP SQ 222 - Arrive Singapore 9.55pm Singapore Airlines
  • - 11.20pm Changi AP SQ 322 - Arrive London 5.30am (26th June) Singapore Airlines
  • - 7.00am London/Heathrow BD 121 - Arrive Dublin 8.15am British Midland

Day 2 Sunday 26th June

• Transfer
  • 8.15am - Arrive Dublin
• Sightseeing, Literary Tours & References
• - In Dublin
  • Dublin City Trail Tour- The Old City & Georgian District. Including - O'Connell St, St. Patricks, Trinity College, Dublin Castle, Merrion Square, St. Stephens Green, Temple Bar
  • Homes and places of interest of Dublin Writers.
    • Oscar Wilde
    • Bram Stoker
• pm
  • Dublin Writers Museum - References to Jonathon Swift, G.B. Shaw, Oscar Wilde, W.S.Yeats, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Brendan Behan...

Day 3. Monday 27th June

• Sightseeing & Tours
• am
  • Trinity College/Book of Kells
  • James Joyce Centre
• pm
  • Travel to County Wicklow & Glendalough monastic site.

Day 4. Tuesday 28th June

• Travel
  • Dublin to Limerick
• Sightseeing & Tours
  • Clonmacnoise monastic site & Thoor Ballylee, Co. Galway
  • Cliffs of Moher. Co. Clare
• Literary Tours & References
  • Thoor Ballylee Tower House.
  • W B Yeats House & Museum.
• In Limerick
  • King Johns Castle, Castle Lane Heritage Area, Glin Castle, Custom House/Hunt Museum.
• Overnight
  • In Limerick
    

Day 5 Wednesday 29th June

• Literary Tours & References
  • In Limerick
  • Pulitzer Prize Winner, Frank McCourt- Angela’s Ashes Walking Tour of Limerick.
• Travel - Charter Coach
  • pm to Dublin via Tipperary
• Sightseeing
  • Rock of Cashel
• Travel
  • 7.55pm Dublin to London
  • - 7.55pm Dublin BD 132. - Arrive London/Heathrow 9.15pm British Midland
• Hotel
  • Holiday Inn - Central London

Day 6 Thursday 30th June

• Sightseeing
  • Trafalgar Square, Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Whitehall/Downing St, Picadilly Circus, Knightsbridge..
• pm
  • Covent Garden, (Lunch) West End Theatre District.
  • St. Pauls Cathedral, Bank of England, The Mansion House, Great Fire Monument, London Bridge.
• Tours
  • Tower of London, White Tower, Crown Jewels.
  • London Dungeon.
• Evening
  • Oxford Street or Harrods at Knightsbridge.
  • Dinner - Hard Rock Café.
• Literary Tours & References
  • Westminster Abbey/Poets Corner. (Addison, Browning, Chaucer, Dickens, Hardy, Johnson, Kipling, Spenser, Tennyson, Thomas, Wadsworth, Poets of WW1
  • Covent Garden - George Bernard Shaws "Pygmalion".
  • Samuel Pepys.
  • "The Da Vinci Code" Locations.

Day 7 Friday 1st July

• Sightseeing & Tours
  • Bloomsbury.
  • Russell Square, British Museum "Highlights" Tour (Lunch).
• pm
  • Charles Dickens House & Museum.
  • Southwark, George Inn, Districts of Dickens Novels & Characters.
  • Shakespeares Southwark Tour.
  • Southwark Cathedral, "Rose" & Globe Theatre Sites.
  • New Globe Theatre.
• Evening
  • Dinner - Pizza Express ( New Globe Theatre Area)
  • 7.30pm New Globe Theatre Performance. Program TBA
• Sightseeing, Literary Tour & References
  • London Writers & Literary Bloomsbury - Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, George Orwell.
  • British Museum - Magna Carta, Lindisfarnes Gospels, Writers Letters, Beatles Lyrics…
  • Districts of Dickens Novels and Characters. incl. Oliver Twist/Nancy’s Steps; Pickwick Papers/The Inns of Court; David Copperfield/The Marshalsea; Little Dorritt/The Roman Wall.
  • Shakespeares London Tour. Including Middle Temple Hall, Grays Inn Hall, Southwark Cathedral, Blackfriars Playhouse, Bear Gardens, Ireland Yard, The George.

Day 8 Saturday 2nd July

• Travel & Sightseeing, Travel & Tours
  • 8.30am London to Canterbury.
  • Canterbury - St. Martins Church, Westgate Towers, Kings School
  • Canterbury Cathedral Tour
  • Chaucer Centre/Canterbury Tales
• Literary Tour & References
  • Chaucer/Canterbury Tales, Christopher Marlowe, Somerset Maugham.
• Travel
  • 3.30pm Return to London
• Church Service
  • 6.00pm Westminster Cathedral.
• Evening
  • Dinner - Seafresh Restaurant
  • 9.30pm Flight on "London Eye".

Day 9 Sunday 3rd July

• Travel & Sightseeing
  • 9.00am To Bath via Stonehenge World Heritage Site.
• In Bath
  • (Lunch), Bath Abbey, Roman Baths & Georgian Pump Room, Broad/Milsom & Walcot Sts, Queens Square, Riverside Walk and Pulteney Bridge.
  • The Circus and Royal Crescent, Assembly Rooms & Costume Museum.
• Literary Tours & References
  • Jane Austen House
  • The Saracens Head Tavern (Pickwick Papers/Shakespeare)
  • Terrace Walk-Writers Plaques
• Evening
  • Dinner - Pizza Cafe
• Hotel
  • Holiday Inn - Bath

Day 10 Monday 4th July.

• Travel & Tours & Sightseeing
  • 9.30am Visit to Australia Chapel St Nicholas Church-Bathhampton
  • To Warwick via Stratford on Avon and The Cotswolds.
  • Cotwolds Village - Bourton on Water (Lunch).
• Evening
  • Stratford on Avon Walking Tour - Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Shakespeare’s Birthplace, River Avon, Halls Croft , Holy Trinity Church…
  • Swan Theatre/High/Chapel Sts, Waterside, Rother Market and White Swan Inn.
  • Dinner - Stratford on Avon. Venue TBA.
• Hotel
  • Holiday Inn - Warwick
• Literary Tours & References
  • Shakespeares Stratford on Avon.
  • Characters of Shakespeare.

Day 11 Tuesday 5th July

• Tours & Sightseeing
  • Warwick Castle, (Lunch).
• pm
  • Shakespeare Properties - Shakespeare Birth Place, Anne Hathaways Cottage, Mary Ardens Cottage
• Evening
  • Dinner - Marlowes.
  • Royal Shakespeare Theatre Production - "Midsummer Nights Dream".
  • Literary Tours & References
  • Shakespeares Stratford on Avon
  • Plays & Characters of Shakespeare

Day 12 Wednesday 6th July

• Travel
  • Stratford on Avon to Heathrow Int. AP via Oxford
• Tours and Sightseeing - In Oxford
  • Walking Tour of the "City of Dreaming Spires".
  • Brasenose College & Christchurch College.
  • Wren’s Sheldonian Theatre, Martyrs Memorial and "Bridge of Sighs".
  • Carfax Tower, Covered Market, (Lunch)Broad St & Cornmarket St
• Literary Tours & References
  • Oxfords literary connections: Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Lewis Carrol, C S Lewis, J R R Tolkein, Phillip Pullman.
  • Christchurch College - Harry Potter References & Connections.
• Travel
  • London to Paris/CDG AP
  • 7.00pm London/Heathrow BD 183 - Arrive Paris/CDG AP 9.10pm British Midland
  • 9.30pm Transfer to Disneyland-Paris Area
• Hotel
  • My Travel Explorers - Disneyland Paris Area.

Day 13 Thursday 7th July

• Paris Sightseeing
  • Transfer to Paris - Champs Elysee, Place de La Concorde, Place Vendome/Madeleine, Palais Royale, Rue St. Honore, Paris Opera, Place de Vosges, St. Germain des Pres District, Eiffel Tower, Place d’Invalides
• Literary Tours & References
  • Palais-Royal, Comédie Française (theatre) Molière. Writers who lived nearby: Stendhal, Alfred de Vigny, Colette, Cocteau
  • Place des Vosges (Victor Hugo house and museum)
  • St. Germain des Pres Neighbourhood. (French writers such as Paul Valéry, André Gide and Paul Claudel would meet at "la Maison des Amis du Livre"; The anglo-saxons - James Joyce, T.S. Elliot, Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein at "Shakespeare and Company" bookshop)
  • Literary Cafes and Legendary Haunts of the Hemingway crowd. (Deux Magot Café, Café Flore and Brasserie Lipp)
  • Montmatre District & Sacre Couer Cathedra
• pm/evening
  • Disneyland - Paris Theme Parks at Leisure

Day 14 Friday 8th July

• Paris Sightseeing
  • Palace of Versailles, Montparnasse, Marais District, Bastille, Ille de Citie, Notre Dame Cathedral (Forecourt), Left Bank, Latin Quarter/Sorbonne
• Literary Tours & Sightseeing
  • Montparnasse - Neighborhood of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Samuel Beckett and Ernest Hemmingway in 1920s
  • Notre Dame Cathedral-Hugo’s "Hunchback of Notre Dame"
  • The Pantheon- Burial Sites of Voltaire, Hugo, Dumas, Zola, Rousseau...
  • Latin Quarter & Quai de Montebello
  • Cathedral of St. Sulphice, Dan Browne's "The Da Vinci Code"
• pm/evening
  • The Louvre Guided Tour including The Grand Gallery and "Mona Lisa" and "Madonna at the Rock" references to The Da Vinci Code.
• Evening Tour
  • Forum des Halles, Champs Elysee, Eiffel Tower Observation Decks, Ile de Cite, Monmatre

Day 15 Saturday 9th July.

• Transfer - Charter Coach
  • Amiens/The Somme via Senlis/Cathedral
  • The Somme-Australian Battlefields & Memorial Cemeteries, Peronne, Corbie (Red Baron Site), Thieval Monument, Albert (Somme Museum)
  • Victoria School and Franco-Australian Museum at Villers-Bretonneux. "Remember the Australians" - A tribute to Australia. Australian Memorial Victoria Cemetery/Villers- Bretonneux
• Literary Tour & References
  • Poetry & Literature of the Soldiers of World War 1
  • Jules Verne "An ideal city, Amiens in the year 2000". House/Museum/Cemetery

• Sightseeing - Amiens
  • Notre Dame Cathedral/The Circus/St Leu District/Town Hall & Pedestrian Square, Jules Verne House & Museum
  Travel
  • Return to Disneyland - Paris

Day 16 Sunday 10th July.

• Travel
  • 10.00am to CDG AP
  • Flight to Washington D.C.Arrive 3.25pm
• Sightseeing
  • In D.C.
  • White House
  • The Pentagon, Pentagon City
  • Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln Memorials
  • Korean and Vietnam Vets Memorials
• Transfer to Hotel
  • Holiday Inn Dumfries, VA

Day 17 Monday 11th July.

• Tours and Sightseeing
  • Manassas National Civil War Battlefield Site
  • Literary Reference - Walt Whitman, 19th Century Author
• In D.C.
  • Arlington Cemetery- Lee House, JFK Gravesite...
  • Iwo Jima Memorial
  • Fords Theatre /Lincoln Museum/Petersen House
  • FBI Building/Post Office Pavilion/Govt. Buildings
  • LaFayette Park/White House
  • National Mall & Smithsonian Institution Museums including
    • Smithsonian Castle
    • National Museum of Air & Space
    • National Museum of Art
    • National Museum of Natural History
    • National Museum of American History
• pm Shopping Option
  • Potomac Mills Factory Outlets

Day 18 Tuesday 12th July

• Sightseeing & Tours
  • Capitol Building
  • National Mall Options to 2.00pm
• Literary References
  • Library of Congress
  • Folger Shakespeare Library
• Travel
  • 4.00pm Washington D.C. to New York/LGA AP
  • Transfer to Midtown-Manhattan
• New York Sightseeing
  • Rockerfeller Centre, Grand Central Station, Empire State Building Observation Deck
  • Transfer to Secaucas, N.J via Broadway/Times Square and Theatre District
• Hotel
  • Holiday Inn-Secaucas, NJ

Day 19 Wednesday 13th July.

• New York Sightseeing
  • Central Park
• Literary Themes
  • Literary Trails and Garretts in New York
  • The Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Hemingway, Mailer, O’Neill, Margaret Mitchell, Steinbeck, Tennessee Williams, Miller...
• Literary Tours & References
  • Greenwich Village, Madison Square, Gramercy Park & Soho. (Fenimore Cooper, Twain, O’Neill, Cummings, Mailer, Poe, Djuna Barnes, E.E. Cummings, Dylan Thomas, Wilde, O’Henry, Edna St. Vincent Milay, P.G. Wodehouse, James Agee, James Baldwin, Hemingway)

• New York Sightseeing
  • Places in NY where the movies (of the books) were made
  • pm South Street Sea Port
  • United Nations, World Trade Centre Site, Wall St, NY Stock Exchange, City Hall
  • Battery Park/Clinton Castle/Statue of Liberty Tour
• Evening
  • Broadway Theatre
  • "Phantom of the Opera" - Majestic Theatre.

Day 20 Thursday 14th July

• Literary Tours & References
  • Harlem Tour and Literary Haunts of Harlem/Writers of Harlem Renaissance
  • Literary - The Edgar Awards and The NY Mystery Book Shop
  • "The Da Vinci Code" References and Locations.
• New York at Leisure
  • NY Metropolitan Museum of Art (Museum Row Options)
  • New York Shopping
    

Day 21 Friday 15th July

• Travel - United Airlines
  • 8.30am New York to Los Angeles. Arrive 11.26pm
• Sightseeing - Los Angeles
  • Beverley Hills/Rodeo Drive/Farmers Market
  • Hollywood/ Hollywood/Sunset Boulevarde, Walk of Fame, Griffith Park and /or Universal Studios/ Universal Citywalk
• Travel
  • 7.00pm Transfer to LAX. Via Century City or Beverley Centre. Los Angeles to Sydney

Day 22 Saturday 16th July

• Travel
  • Day Lost in Flight

Day 23 Sunday 17th July

• Travel
  • Arrive Sydney 8.30am