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GREAT GARDENS OF CORNWALL & DEVON JUNE 1-10, 2020 TOUR LEADER: MICHAEL TURNER

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GREAT GARDENS OF CORNWALL & DEVON JUNE 1-10, 2020 TOUR LEADER: MICHAEL TURNER

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Overview This 10-day tour travels through some of the most beautiful countryside in England: from the dramatic coastline of Cornwall, out across the seas to the distant Isles of Scilly, to the wild moors of Devon. From small private gardens to great estates, from rediscovered 18th and 19th century masterpieces to world-famous, ultra-modern concept gardens, the tour takes us back to some of the great names from the past: Gertrude Jekyll and Sir Edwin Lutyens and introduces some of the most innovative names in modern English garden and landscape design: Sir Tim Smit, Keith Wiley and the Bannermans, Julian and Isabel. June is the perfect time to see England in its early summer glory – the last of the trees have come into leaf; the hedgerows and fields are exploding with new life; the air is full of the scent of roses and the sound of birdsong. Along the way we will be staying at three hotels carefully chosen to reflect the diverse nature of this dramatic part of England. The first three nights will be spent in the seaside town of Saint Ives, enjoying sea views in a boutique hotel, steps from Porthminster beach. From the coast, we move inland to the Cornwall Hotel and Spa on the outskirts of St Austell, a quiet countryside retreat. And finally, to the edge of Dartmoor and the dramatic Bovey Castle for our final three nights. The tour has all the characteristics of an Academy Travel tour – stays in carefully selected hotels, background talks before site visits and a maximum group size of just 20.

Your tour leader Michael Turner is a cultural and garden historian. He has a strong personal and academic interest in the art, history, literature, and mythology of the Classical past and how these have shaped the gardens and landscapes of Britain and Italy – from the Renaissance, to the Grand Tour, to the present day. Michael holds a BA (1st class Honours with

University Medal) from the University of Sydney. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in London and in 2018, a Fellow of the Linnean Society, the world’s oldest active biological society. In the early 1990s, following a high-profile career in women’s fashion in London, Michael returned to Australia to pursue his long-held passion for all things Classical. In 2004, he was appointed Senior Curator of the Nicholson Museum, home to the largest collection of antiquities in the Southern hemisphere. Michael lives in Sussex from where he is ideally based to design and develop new garden tours for Academy Travel. “Michael Turner was just great, his enthusiasm about all he showed us was infectious, we were excited every day!” Feedback from Academy Travel’s Gardens of Southern England, 2016.

GREAT GARDENS OF CORNWALL & DEVON

Tour dates: June 1-10, 2020

Tour leader: Michael Turner

Tour Price: $7,495 per person, twin share

Single Supplement: $1,950 for sole use of double room

Booking deposit: $500 per person

Recommended airlines: Qantas, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines and Emirates

Maximum places: 20

Itinerary: Saint Ives (3 nights), St Austell (3 nights), North Bovey (3 nights)

Date published: February 13, 2019

Enquiries and bookings

For further information and to secure a place on this tour please contact Jemma York at Academy Travel on 9235 0023 or 1800 639 699 (outside Sydney) or email [email protected]

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Tour Highlights

THE GARDENS OF ST MICHAEL’S MOUNT A romantic castle set on a rocky island linked to the mainland by a low-tide causeway, St Michael’s Mount is one of the iconic views of Cornwall. Its gardens, begun in 1780 and warmed by both the radiated heat from the granite of the island and the prevailing Gulf Stream, are a sub-tropical paradise where all sorts of unlikely plants flourish.

THE ISLES OF SCILLY Forty-five kilometres to the west of Land’s End lie the Isles of Scilly, an archipelago of some 140 low-lying islands of which just five are inhabited. The unspoilt islands are covered in heathland and fringed by sandy beaches. On Tresco, the second largest of the islands, lie the extraordinary sub-tropical Abbey Gardens begun by Augustus Smith in the 1830s.

TREMATON CASTLE Since 1983, the Bannermans have designed whimsical gardens for the highest in the land: from Prince Charles to the Duke of Norfolk. Their grand architectural gestures, of mock ruins and oaken temples, have made them famous. But greatest of all are the gardens they created for themselves, first at Hanham Court and since 2012 at enchanting Trematon Castle near Plymouth.

THE GENIUS OF TIM SMIT Tim Smit is responsible for two of the internationally best-known gardens in England today, the Eden Project and, less than twenty kilometres away, at The Lost Gardens of Heligan. The first, an extraordinary feat of modern engineering whereby inside two biomes, collections of plants enjoy diverse climates and environments. The second a rediscovered Victorian ‘Gardenesque’ masterpiece.

PERFECTION AT RHS ROSEMOOR Rosemoor, in North Devon, is the loveliest of all the Royal Horticultural Society’s gardens. The private garden of Lady Anne Palmer until 1988 when she gave it to the RHS, Rosemoor is now a riot for the senses. Of special interest are its two rose gardens: the Shrub Rose Garden with its traditional roses and the Queen Mother’s Rose Garden with its modern design.

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Detailed itinerary Included meals are shown with the letters B, L and D.

Monday June 1 Arrive Cornwall

Meet your tour leader Michael Turner at London Gatwick airport to commence the tour. Take a morning group flight to Newquay, then transfer by private coach to our hotel in Saint Ives. In the later afternoon we leave for a guided tour of Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens. Set in a sheltered valley with spectacular views out to sea and across to St Michael’s Mount, Tremenheere’s large-scale exotic and semi-exotic planting provides the perfect backdrop for contemplative but inspirational artworks by such internationally and nationally renowned artists as James Turrell, Kishio Suga, David Nash, Richard Long and Tim Shaw. In the evening we gather for dinner together in our hotel. Overnight Saint Ives (D)

Tuesday June 2 St Michael’s Mount and Godolphin House

Following an introductory talk this morning, we travel by coach to Marazion, where we either, depending on the tide, walk the pilgrims’ causeway or cross by boat to St Michael’s Mount. Once a sister abbey to Mont St Michel off Normandy, the island and castle have been owned since the 17th century by the St Aubyn family. After touring the castle, we explore its extraordinary gardens, parts of which date back to the 18th century. We then pause for our welcome lunch at a local restaurant. This afternoon we travel by coach to Godolphin House, a Tudor and Stuart mansion, complete with early 16th century formal gardens and Elizabethan stables dating to about 1600. The National Trust took over the estate in 2000 to restore the garden, and at the time wrote that “It is so rare to discover a garden such as this which has not been radically altered through the ages, and this is why it is considered to be one of the most important historic gardens in Europe. This garden is not about plants and flowers but about the unique surviving remains of a medieval pattern”. This evening, we go to The Minack Theatre to enjoy an open-air performance of Jane Eyre. Overnight Saint Ives (B, L)

Images left: The hillside garden of St Michael’s Mount; Mounts Bay viewed from Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens; and an aerial view of Godolphin House

Tour start & finish time

The tour starts on Monday June 1 at 7.45am, at London Gatwick airport to take the morning group flight to Newquay.

The tour ends on Wednesday June 10 at 11:35am, when we land in London Gatwick airport, following our group flight back from Newquay.

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Above: an aerial view over Tresco, Isles of Scilly; the ruins and lush gardens at Tresco Abbey Below: inside one of the biomes at Sir Tim Smit’s Eden Project

Wednesday June 3 Tresco Abbey Gardens on the Isles of Scilly

Today, we take an early morning flight from Land’s End airport across the sea to the Isles of Scilly, an archipelago off the Cornish coast. Following our arrival on the island of St Mary’s we take the short picturesque boat trip to Tresco, one of the five inhabited islands. Tresco Abbey Gardens are home to subtropical plants and the Valhalla Museum, displaying wooden figureheads from local shipwrecks. First laid out in the 1830s by Augustus Smith around the ruins of a Benedictine Abbey, Tresco Abbey Gardens are still owned and run by the same family. “Here off the coast of Cornwall, spring comes early, autumn stays late, and winter hardly exists at all”: truly a subtropical paradise, brimming with plants that would stand no chance at all just thirty miles away on the Cornish mainland. The garden is home to species from across the world’s Mediterranean climate zones, from Brazil to the Antipodes, from Burma to South Africa. In the late afternoon we take a flight back to the mainland. Overnight Saint Ives (B)

Thursday June 4 The Lost Gardens of Heligan and Eden Project

We leave Saint Ives and the beautiful Mount’s Bay heading east to our next hotel in the countryside outside St Austell. Our first stop on the way is at the Lost Gardens of Heligan. Laid out in the 19th century they are a classic example of the Victorian ‘Gardenesque’ style and as such are highly prized for their botanical diversity. A genuine secret garden, the once-thriving Heligan estate was lost for decades under dense undergrowth until a door to one of the walled gardens was discovered by accident in 1990. An award-winning restoration project followed and today we’re able to explore 200 acres of subtropical gardens, ancient woodland and a jungle filled with strange and marvellous plants and trees. The world’s attention was focused via television programs on the gardens ‘rediscovery’ in the 1990s, in which one of the central figures was Tim Smit. The experience was to prove pivotal for Smit, now Sir Tim Smit, in the creation of his Eden Project. Opening in 2001, the Project’s central attraction are its two remarkable biomes, the smaller simulating a Mediterranean environment, the larger a rainforest. In addition to this there are miles of paths that twist and turn up and down the slopes. Overnight St Austell (B, D)

Friday June 5 Trematon Castle and Wildside

A day of modern greats: the first stop is Trematon Castle, home, since 2012, to Julian and Isabel Bannerman, the ‘haute Bohemian’ designers of the magical gardens of Highgrove, Woolbeding, and Arundel Castle, among many others. Their Georgian house sits inside the walls of the Castle (dating back to the Norman Conquest) while the garden plays to the Castle’s romantic and pre-Raphaelite glories. It boasts wild flowers,

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woodland and orchards all intensified with bold borders full of scent, colour, lustre and Bannerman panache. In the afternoon we travel to nearby Wildside. Since 2004, the garden has been Kevin Wylie’s experiment in 'new naturalism', a movement which seeks to work in harmony with nature, allowing plants to thrive much as they would in the wild. Overnight St Austell (B)

Saturday June 6 Lanhydrock and Padstow

This morning we visit Lanhydrock, a late Victorian country house, and one of the loveliest National Trust properties in Cornwall. Dating back to the 17th century, much of the house was destroyed by fire in 1881 and subsequently rebuilt. At the same time, the formal gardens as we see them today were laid out. There is time to stroll the extensive gardens admiring the herbaceous borders, a formal parterre and colourful higher gardens filled with camellias, magnolias and rhododendrons. Next we head north to the coastal village of Padstow, famous for its association with celebrity chef Rick Stein. After a lunch at one of Stein’s restaurants the afternoon is free to explore this charming village. Overnight St Austell (B, L)

Sunday June 7 Castle Drogo

Today sees us heading for the wilds of Dartmoor and our hotel for the last three nights, the beautifully situated Bovey Castle, originally the home of the son of newsagent millionaire, WH Smith. On the way we call in at Castle Drogo, the last castle to be built in England. Constructed between 1911 and 1930, it was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, and is now considered one of his finest achievements. Lutyens also designed a beautiful garden influenced by the work he had done in designing New Delhi. Although much of the planting was done by George Dillstone, Lutyens called in his long-time collaborator Gertrude Jekyll for advice. In the evening, we gather at Bovey Castle for dinner. Overnight North Bovey (B, D)

Monday June 8 Montacute House and Barrington Court

Our first stop today is Montacute House: built at the end of the 16th century, Montacute is one of the few Elizabethan houses in England to survive almost unchanged. Its Long Gallery, the longest in England, has, since 1975, been an outpost of the National Portrait Gallery. Its gardens, although replanted in the 19th century, retain much of their original 17th century lay out and form. In the afternoon we drive to Barrington Court. A Tudor mansion, it was the first house acquired by the National Trust in 1907. Its present state of immaculate conservation owes much to the fact that the house was leased by the Trust in the 1920s to Abram Lyle of Tate & Lyle, the sugar conglomerate. The celebrated garden designer, Gertrude Jekyll, was consulted by Colonel Lyle’s wife, Elsie, on the layout and best planting schemes for the garden. At the time, Jekyll was well into her

Above: a glimpse of Trematon Castle and garden, home of Julian and Isabel Bannerman Below: Keith Wiley's Wildside, a riot of naturalistic planting and expansive colour; Castle Drogo, a country house and castle near Drewsteignton, Devon

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seventies and almost blind, but she was able to advise what would grow best in the limy earth just by crumbling the soil, which was sent to her in biscuit tins. Elsie Lyle visited Jekyll to discuss the plans for the garden in person, and much of what you see today was inspired by these early plans. Overnight North Bovey (B)

Tuesday June 9 RHS Rosemoor

The final day of our tour takes us to north Dartmoor to the most beautiful and romantic of all Royal Horticultural Society gardens in England, Rosemoor. The garden was initially created by Lady Anne Palmer and later, when the garden was taken over by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1990, a master plan was produced by Elizabeth Banks Associates to develop the garden. Aptly, given its name, its rose garden alone includes over 2000 plants. Rosemoor is a public display garden offering examples of new and innovative planting using the widest possible variety of plants. Its summer Hot Garden is a perennial favourite. There are also fine examples of trees from around the world. in its arboretum. Our final night sees us gathering for a farewell dinner at an excellent local restaurant. Overnight North Bovey (B, D)

Wednesday June 10 Departure

This morning we travel by coach to Newquay airport for our mid-morning flight to London Gatwick, where the tour ends. (B)

Hotels All of the hotels have been selected principally for their location. Saint Ives, St Ives Harbour Hotel & Spa (3 nights)

www.harbourhotels.co.uk/st-ives

St Austell, The Cornwall Hotel & Spa (3 nights) www.thecornwall.com

North Bovey, Bovey Castle Hotel (3 nights)

www.boveycastle.com

Above: Montacute House and Barrington Court garden, both photographs taken by Michael Turner on a recent visit Below: The sunning Rose Garden at RHS Rosemoor

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The unique giant bubble-like biomes at The Eden Project in Cornwall

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Fitness Requirements of THIS tour

GRADE TWO

It is important both for you and for your fellow travellers that you are fit enough to be able to enjoy all the activities on this tour. To give you an indication of the level of physical fitness required to participate on our tours, we have given them a star grading. Academy Travel’s tours tend to feature extended walking tours and site visits, which require greater fitness than coach touring. We ask you to carefully consider your ability to meet the physical demands of the tour.

Participation criteria for this tour

This Grade Two tour is designed for people who lead active lives and can comfortably participate in up to five hours of physical activity per day on most days, including longer walking tours, challenging archaeological sites, climbing stairs, embarking and disembarking trains and/or boats, and a more demanding tour schedule with one night stops or several internal flights. You should be able to: keep up with the group at all times walk for 4-5 kilometres at a moderate pace with only

short breaks stand for a reasonable length of time in galleries and

museums tolerate uncomfortable climatic conditions such as cold,

humidity and heat walk up and down slopes negotiate steps and slopes on archaeological sites,

which are often uneven and unstable get on and off a large coach with steep stairs, train or

boat unassisted, possibly with luggage move your luggage a short distance if required

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If you are more than 80 years old, or have restricted mobility, it is highly likely that you will find this itinerary challenging. You will have to miss several activities and will not get the full value of the tour. Your booking will not be accepted until after you have contacted Academy Travel to discuss your situation and the exact physical requirements of this tour. While we will do our best to reasonably accommodate the physical needs of all group members, we reserve the right to refuse bookings if we feel that the requirements of the tour are too demanding for you and/or if local conditions mean we cannot reasonably accommodate your condition.

Tour Price The tour price is $7,495 per person, twin share (land content only). The supplement for a single room is $1,950 per person. A non-refundable deposit of $500 per person is required to secure a place on the tour.

Tour Inclusions Included in the tour price Return economy class airfares London-Newquay-London Return flights to the Isles of Scilly Services of an Academy Travel tour leader throughout All accommodation in selected hotels All breakfasts and selected lunches and dinners as

indicated by (L) or (D) in the detailed itinerary Travel during the tour by private coach and boat as

detailed in the itinerary All entrance fees to sights mentioned in the itinerary Qualified local guides at selected sites Background talks and tour notes All tipping to local guides, drivers and restaurants Portage of one piece of luggage at all hotels

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Air travel OPTIONS The tour price quoted is for land content only. For this tour we recommend Qantas, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines or Emirates, who offer flights into and out of London from most Australian cities. Please contact us for further information on airfare options. Please note: an overnight will be necessary near London Gatwick on May 31, prior to the early morning group flight to Newquay on June 1.

Enquiries & bookings For further information and to secure a place on this tour please contact Jemma York at Academy Travel on 9235 0023 or 1800 639 699 (outside Sydney) or email [email protected]

Weather on Tour June is the ideal time to tour gardens in Cornwall and Devon. The days are long, rainfall is low and temperatures are mild to warm, ranging from between 11 to 19 degrees. Nevertheless, you should bring a light jacket and jumpers for the evenings. As we all know, English summers can sometimes be a bit damp, so bring an umbrella!

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About Academy TravelEach year Academy Travel organises around 60 journeys to Europe, the Mediterranean, Asia and the Americas, each focusing on a distinctive historical, artistic or cultural theme. The aim of every Academy Travel journey is to combine the pleasures of independent travel with the benefits and shared enjoyment of a group. Academy Travel is an Australian-owned travel company, founded in 2004. The company’s staff includes both academic experts and travel professionals with over two decades’ industry experience. We also have our own office in Rome which organises our tours in Western Europe. This means we have direct control over the selection of hotels, restaurants, coaches and local guides, guaranteeing superior quality.

Years of experienceAcademy Travel was founded in 2004 by a team with decades of prior experience in small group travel. On average, our tour leaders have over 11 years’ experience, some with 25 or more years. To ensure quality, we have our own office in Rome, Italy and a network of trusted suppliers around the world.

Great itinerariesAcademy Travel works hard to create itineraries that provide a balanced experience – walking tours, museum and gallery visits, live performances, city and countryside. We’re proud to be constantly innovating, from opening up new destinations, creating tours around festivals and special exhibitions, to providing unrivalled depth in our residential tours.

Like-minded groupsOver the years we’ve been in operation, we’ve developed a loyal band of Academy Travellers, some of whom have travelled with us more than 10 times. They say the small groups (maximum 20, average 17) and distinct themes of our tours attract like-minded travellers and create a relaxed, convivial atmosphere.

Long staysFeedback from our clients consistently tells us that creating itineraries with three and four-night stops, or even longer, is far more appealing that rushing from place to place. Wherever possible, we plan our tours around a limited number of stops, making your travels more relaxed and more meaningful.

Special EventsA private viewing of the Sistine Chapel? Tickets to a sold-out concert by the Berlin Philharmonic? A world-famous art fair? Access to private homes and gardens? Behind-the-scenes visits? Many of our tours feature access to places and events that are usually not offered on most group tours.

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