In conjunction with The Art Society West Wycombe we are offering a 6 day fully guided overseas coach tour of The Châteaux and Gardens of Normandy departing 23rd April 2023. Brochures will be avaliable at the next lecture.

For full details and application form see Extended visit to France 

For further information or to book, contact Eileen Gerrard directly  eileenigerrard@gmail.com or Jo tashwvisits@gmail.com

20 members and friends travelled from High Wycombe to Cardiff by executive coach, staying 4 nights at the 4 star Jurys Inn Cardiff between Sunday 22 April and Thursday 26 April.

Our tour included a curator led half day guided visit to Cardiff Castle, and a private guided visit to Fonmon Castle including afternoon tea in the Rococo library, as well as other visits to Tredegar House, Castell Coch, Llandaff Cathedral, St Fagans National Museum of History, National Museum of Wales, Royal Mint, a boat trip across Cardiff Bay, and a behind-the-scenes tour of the Millenium Centre. We managed a wonderful afternoon at Dyrham Park outside Bath , on the way home.

Busy days filled with art, architecture, sculpture, history, gardens ....good food and good friends!

Prompted by interest following the lecture by Eveline Eaton "Dresden Today: Art and Architecture​", we stayed for four nights at the 4 star superior Westin Bellevue Hotel in central Dresden between Sunday 23 April and Thursday 27 April 2017, with 5 days of fully guided visits. Arrival in Dresden via a BA flight from Heathrow to Berlin, visits included Frauenkirche, the Historic Green Vaults, Zwinger Palace and Pfunds Molkerei in Dresden, a full day to Meissen, Pillnitz Palace Gardens, a paddle steamer trip on the Elbe River and Potsdam's Sanssouci Palace - the 'German Versailles'. 

Wanting to have additional activities to enhance the newly formed The Arts Society High Wycombe​, in April 2016 27 members and friends set off by luxury coach from High Wycombe on our first tour, a 4 day visit to Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight and Winchester.

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard occupied us for several hours before taking the ferry across the Solent and checking in to the very comfortable 4* Royal Hotel, Ventnor for 3 nights. Dinner each evening in the hotel's first class restaurant gave us the perfect  opportunity to get to know each other and make new friends. Visits to Dimbola Lodge, Needles Old Battery, Mottistone Manor Gardens, Isle of Wight  Studio Glass Works, Brading Roman Villa  and of course, Osbourne House  and St Mildred's Church, Whippingham, meant there was something for everyone to enjoy. The ferry again blew some cobwebs away, before our return journey via Winchester Cathedral to Laverstoke Mill, to enjoy a hosted experience of Bombay Sapphire's Distillery, be amazed by the stunning Thomas Heatherwick glasshouses and treated to a personalised gin cocktail each. A busy but very rewarding 4 days .

Please  go to our Gallery to see some photos of this tour .