Itinerary: Flying Singapore Airlines to London with coach travel throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. At the conclusion of the tour you have the option of returning later from London or any European city serviced by Singapore Airlines for no additional cost.
Highlights: As with all Australian Farmers Tours you will get off the tourist track visiting, sheep, beef, dairying and cropping properties as well as attending the Lincolnshire Agricultural Show and the Scottish Highland Show, Britain’s premier agricultural event with an unrivalled display of farm exhibits and livestock. Apart from these valuable on-farm and technical visits the tour has been designed as a business trip, which may qualify as a tax-deductible expense. To this end your tour leader Frank Jones will maintain a detailed daily diary for you to submit with your income tax return. However, it is not all work and no play as the tour also includes leisure and sightseeing to provide a well rounded itinerary including the National Irish Horse Stud, William Wordsworth’s beautiful Lake District, Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon, the Isle of Skye, England’s scenic West Country and lots, lots more.
Tour Cost: The cost is fully inclusive of airfares, all breakfasts, some lunches and dinners and staying at mostly first class hotels.
Tour Leader: Frank Jones is the former Elders Ltd State Wool Manager for Victoria & Riverina. He also held senior management positions for Elders in Newcastle and New England NSW and was Victorian Producers’ (VPC) Hamilton branch manager. When Frank was based in Hamilton he led two Australian Farmers tours to Great Britain & Ireland and Europe, USA & Canada, around Australia and several Australian Farmers tours to New Zealand. Frank led the highly acclaimed 2008 Australian Farmers China Tour and in 2009 the most successful Northern & Eastern European Farming Tour and this year the 36-Day South American Farming Tour.
About Us: Australian Farmers Travel, registered in Victoria and owned and operated by Andrew Curry is Australia’s leading agricultural tour operator. It commenced in 1973 as a service to primary producers and shareholders of the then major rural co-operatives Victorian Producers’ (now Elders), Westralian Farmers (now AWB Landmark), Primaries (now Elders), Gippsland and Northern, Bennetts Farmers and Farmers & Graziers. Our tours offer the chance to see how farming is practised worldwide and also provide a sense of fellowship and a chance to meet other farm families from all over Australia. Friendships formed on an Australian Farmers Tour often last a lifetime. We value the loyalty of our past tour members and appreciate the fact that many of them continue to book with us year after year. We feel this is a mark of the quality of our tours and tour leaders and we continue to strive to attain the high standards that we set ourselves. |
