FRIENDS ARE THE FAMILY YOU CHOSE...
The next touring experience for Julie Reece Tours is something very special. The 'Thelma & Louise (without the messy ending!!) Tour' is all about friendship and the power of travel to change your life.
My now, very dear friend Jo Kirlew ( aka 'Louise') and I will be driving, walking and training it around the UK catching up with close friends and also doing some planning and meetings for future tours.
This friendship originally came about because of one of my W.W.1 adult commemorative tours to the battlefields back in 2011. I originally met Jo at a Lions Club meeting where I was a guest speaker and then later at a local school we were both doing relief teaching. We started talking and the topic came up about her grandfather Walter Kirlew who was killed in WW1 and buried on the Somme. I offered to include a visit to her grandfather's grave and to do a commemoration on Jo's behalf in the tour that year.
From that point on the amazing connection blossomed where in 2013 Jo came on the 'Champagne & Battlefields Tour' and for the first time she was able to visit the resting place of her beloved Walter. To add to the power of that visit Jo placed the ashes of her father Joe Kirlew with his father Walter. Since 2013 Jo has been part of three of my tours and hopefully there will be many more in the future.
And so on October 7th 'Thelma & Louise' take off on the next adventure...
- Eight days in a cottage in Somerset
- Three days in Sutton Veny with dear friends Nicky and Rob Barnard
- Overnight to the university town of Cambridge to meet with the groups' manager at the Gonville Hotel (one of the hotels in the 'Garden Views' 2016 tour)
- One nighter in London...just HAVE to take 'Louise' to the Camden Markets
- Onto Canterbury ..business + pleasure AND yet another meal at the oldest pub in Canterbury 'The Parrot' with long time mates Keith and Rosemary
- Several days in the Cotswolds ...Worcestor and Cheltenham
- Finally it is off to Liverpool to be with Ali and Phil McGinity and their kiddies+ a weekend in Angelsey...while Jo takes off to Hereford AND will meet her idol Jules from 'Escape to the Country'
NICKY & ROB AT SUTTON VENY...TRAMPING THE FIELDS WITH THE EXPERTS!
So stay tuned as we return to the place we both love to be with friends we hold dear plus to the new locales we are yet to experience.
Let's just hope the Thelma and Louise tour does NOT have a messy ending!!! Avoid all canyons and cliffs. xxx
THE BEST PUB IN THE WORLD..'THE WHEATSHEAF' WITH SOUL MATE ALI....
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