GRP Travel Trips Arranged

Monthly meetings – 2nd Tuesday of the month.

Next meeting Tuesday March 14th 2023 at 2.00 pm.

We will travel to the home where Dylan Thomas lived as a young man, in Cwmdonkin Drive and have a guided tour lasting approximately 90 minutes.  Then we will travel onto Swansea about 15 minutes away to spend the rest of the day to explore. There is the National Waterfront Museum with its coal industry artefacts, the Swansea Museum, the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea Castle, St David’s Priory Catholic Church, various art galleries, an indoor shopping precinct and the indoor market selling local produce and crafts.

Departing from Malvern Splash at 08.45 and leaving from Swansea at 15.30, arriving back in Malvern at approximately 18.00

Cost to include coach travel, driver’s tip and admission to Dylan Thomas’s house:  £24.

All payment to be received  by 14th March

Tel: 01684 565268

Enjoy a day trip to Stratford upon Avon, including a boat trip on the river.

Departing from Malvern Splash at 09.00 and returning to Malvern at approximately 17.30

Price TBC

Tel 01684 566451

Enjoy a day out at Symonds Yat and a  Boat Voyage of Discovery along the glorious Wye Valley, (from 10.30 till 11.15)

Departing from Malvern Splash at 09.00 am and returning at 4.00 pm arriving back in Malvern at approximately 5.15 pm.

Cost to include coach travel, driver’s tip and boat trip – £19.  Cheques made payable to “Malvern U3A Travel Group”

Other activities are available (not included in the price) close by, including:

(1)        Lunch at a restaurant on site – or just across the road The Grade II star listed manor or court building  “The Old Court Hotel”.  Or have a picnic – weather permitting! 

(2)       The Wye Valley Butterly Zoo – Butterflies from around the world – Highly recommended (I’ve been there) – walk with free flying exotic butterflies and see them supping nectar, finding their mates and laying eggs.   They will land on you if you keep still – £5 entrance fee 

(3)        The Amazing ‘Hedge Puzzle’ – Jubilee Maze & Museum of Mazes.  Add £3 to the cost of the Butterfly Zoo – Total £8.

Tel 01684 566650

North East Italy – Veneto & Alto Adige

Day 1 – Coach to London Gatwick then fly to VERONA – coach to Boutique Hotel Scalzi

(Bed & breakfast for 8 nights – all vineyard visits by A/C coach and lunch included)

Day 2 – Vicenza then Marcato, Colli Berici vineyard/tasting + visit Padua

Day 3 – Brescia – then Majolini, Franciacorta vineyard/tasting + visit Lago d’Iseo

Day 4 – Visit Parma then Azienda Agricola Lamoretti vineyard/tasting

Day 5 – Free day in Verona

Day 6 – Valpolicella, Guiarrieri Rizzardi vineyard/tasting

Day 7 – Visit Bolzano then Cantina Termina Hofstaetter vineyard tasting

Day 8 – Visit Trento then Cantina Dorigati vineyard/tasting –

return via Riva del Garda

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Tel 01684 572801

This visit is to the timber framed hunting lodge where King Charles 11 hid in the oak tree during the Civil War. There will be a 40 minute tour of the house and then there will the opportunity to see the walled &  knot garden and the farmyard with rare breads.   You will then be able to walk to the famous oak tree and White Ladies Priory.

There is a tea room on site selling hot and cold food.

Members of  English Heritage should get a reduced entrance fee (TBC)

Departing from Malvern Splash at 09.00 am, return leaving from Boscopel House at 15.00

Cost to be confirmed, (estimated to be approximately £24)

Names and payment to be taken at our April and May meetings

Tel: 01684 565268

Join us on a visit to the National History museum, near Cardiff. The museum stands in the grounds of the magnificent St Fagans Castle and gardens, a late 16th-century manor house donated to the people of Wales by the Earl of Plymouth in 1948. Since 1948 over forty original buildings from different historical periods have been re-erected in the 100-acre parkland, among them houses, a farm, a school, a chapel and a splendid Workmen’s Institute.

Times and Costs TBC

Tel: 01684 565268

Join us on a visit to these 2 National Trust properties, near Henley on Thames.  Nuffield Place was the home of Sir William Morris, who became Lord Nuffield, the founder of The Morris Motor Company.  We will then travel on to Greys Court, the home of the Brunner family.

Departing from Malvern Splash at 08.45  and returning from Greys Court at 15.30, arriving back in Malvern at approximately 18.00

Cost and final details TBC

Tel: 01684 565268