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Intergenerational England: Go Undercover in the World of Spies |
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Program Number: |
20796RJ |
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| Duration: |
10 nights |
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England, UK:England
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| Price starting at: |
$2,998.00 - Price may vary based on date, departure city |
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Intergenerational
Intergenerational
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| Meals: |
24;
8 Breakfasts, 7 Lunches, 9 Dinners |
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Low Fat; Vegetarian; Low Salt; Gluten Free |
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Program intended for grandchildren from 9 - 11 years of age.
Enlist your favorite young secret agent to discover the secrets of the world of spies in England. Learn how to analyze fingerprints, decipher codes, identify suspects and become a “master of disguise.” Intelligence expert and author Nigel West uncovers the stories of spies from the CIA, MI6 and the KGB. Explore the grand old city of London and historic Oxford and Cambridge.
Highlights
• Expert-led field trips reveal the secrets of London at sites including the underground Churchill War Rooms, the Tower of London and the Dungeons.
• Learn how to crack codes at Bletchley Park, where English code breakers deciphered enemy secrets during World War II.
• From fiction (James Bond and Sherlock Holmes) to reality (MI6 and the Cambridge Five), investigate exciting cloak and dagger tales.
Activity Particulars
Walking up to two miles per day.
Date Specific Information
7-29-2014
Enjoy the latest in hearing technology — listening devices — on this date.
Itinerary Summary
Arrival London, 6 nights; coach to Cambridge, 3 nights; coach to London for departure.
Overnight flight from the U.S.A. | 1 night | Arrival London | 6 nights |
Learn what it takes to be a spy, from fingerprinting to observation skills to disguises, in London, home of MI6. Take a boat ride on the Thames, journey back in time at the Tower of London, travel through the ages at the Museum of London and enter the 20th century at the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms. Journey to magnificent Blenheim Palace and find your way through its famous maze. Walk among the “dreaming spires” of Oxford and enter the Great Hall — you might know it as the Hogwarts dining hall. Discover the Sherlock Holmes Museum at 221B Baker Street and spy on the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace from the London Eye Ferris wheel. Lodging: Four-star West End hotel.
Coach to Cambridge | 3 nights | Coach to London for departure |
Known for producing scholars, Cambridge also plays an important role in a different type of intelligence. Delve into the story of the Cambridge Five, the notorious Soviet spy ring. Visit Bletchley Park, home of Station X and the Enigma machine, where secret Axis messages were decoded during World War II. Learn what’s real and what’s pure fiction in the James Bond stories. Lodging: Lakeside hotel.
England
It was the seat of an empire on which the sun never set. It has been Merry, Dickensian and Victorian. It has given us common law, Shakespeare, tennis, the Rolls-Royce and the Beatles. England and its people have played an outsize role in shaping world history. It is a country whose past, politics, culture and characters never cease to captivate.
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Accommodations
London: Four-star West End hotel. Cambridge: Lakeside hotel.
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| Road Scholar Instructors | | These instructors are participating on at least one date of this program. Please note that changes may occur. | Nigel West
| | Nigel West is a military historian specializing in intelligence and security issues. In 1989, he was voted The Experts' Expert by a panel of spy writers. He is the European Editor of the Washington D.C.-based International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence and a lecturer at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies in Alexandria, Va. In 2003, he was awarded the U.S. Association of Former Intelligence Officers’ first Lifetime Literature Achievement Award. | | | |
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