| Thursday
Morning departure with coffee stop enroute to Welford Park Gardens near Newbury for their snowdrop display. The snowdrops at Welford Park were most probably planted by the Norman
monks to decorate their Church for the feast of Candlemas, and also for
medicinal use. The monks harvested snowdrops and used to rub them on the
temple of people suffering from “mal au tete” (wrong in the head). Close to the snowdrop
woods have also been found wild aconitum, petasites and mistletoe all of
which have strong healing properties.
The most spectacular display of the snowdrops at Welford Park is in the beech wood covering approximately 5 acres alongside the River Lambourn.
There is a tea rooms and heated tent serving tea/coffee, soup, jacket potatoes & their own Welford Park sausages & mash.
After we travel to our hotel the Marriott Swindon
Chance to use the leisure facilities & gym before dinner.
Friday
A chance to use the leisure facilites before a good breakfast to set us up for our second day.
Depart for WWT Slimbridge
There are guided walks & besides the usual birds there are flamingo's, cranes, otters & amphibians both with talks, however the highlight of our visit to Slimbridge must be
to watch the magical winter spectacle of their daily commentated bird feed from the comfort of the heated observatory and listen to the warden's commentary as he feeds the thousands of wintering wild birds and hundreds of Bewick's swans that have flown all the way from arctic Russia.
Included in the price of the break
Coach with pickups, Forde Park, Railway
Station, B&Q Newton Abbot, Next & Greenhill Way Kingsteignton
Bed Breakfast & 3 course dinner at Marriott Swindon
Entry to Welford Park Gardens
Entry to Slimbridge
COST £99.00 PER PERSON SHARING
£22 SINGLE SUPPLEMENT
£25 Deposit
Balance by 1st January
PLEASE NOTE INSURANCE IS NOT
INCLUDED | 
