Bespoke Tours 2012

  • 21 Sep - 1 Oct:  ‘Guardsmen down Peninsular Way’. This first of three annual tours covers the earlier years of the tour series  ‘The Guards - From the Corunna to Waterloo’ - Guardsmen formed an important and integral part of Wellington’s Army during the Peninsular War and fought in the most pivotal battles that preceded the culminating epic at Waterloo.  This first of three annual tours covers the earlier years. 
    9 Nights & 10 Days - Ref: cwt Guards 12 Click Here for Tour Itinerary & Details
  • 2-8 Oct: ‘Connaughts Down Peninsular Way’ - In the footsteps of the 88th Regt Foot during the war against Napoleon's Armies in  Spain. The battle grounds of Talavera, Badajoz, Fuentes de Onoro, Ciudad Rodrigo & Salamanca.  
    6 Nights & 7 Days - Ref: cwt 88th 12 Click Here for Tour Itinerary & Details

Bespoke Tours 2013 - 2015

‘The Guards - From the Corunna to Waterloo’

In June 2015 the bi-centennial commemorations of the napoleonic era of will draw to a climax. To relive and commemorate the history of the Guards in Spain, Portugal and Belgium we have put together a sequel of three tours to enable the Brigade of Guards and friends to follow and relive their history by seeing where their forebears fought during those years of the Napoleonic Wars from 1809 -1815.

Attach is the itinerary for the first of the tours to the Peninsula in September this year.

Tour Agenda 2012-2014

  • 2012 Tour:  ‘Guardsmen down Peninsular Way’
    Follow the Guards in Spain and Portugal 1809 – 1812. Tour Dates: 22 Sep – 1st Oct
    9 Nights & 10 Days - Ref: cwt Guards 12 Click Here for Tour Itinerary & Details
  • 2013 Tour:  ‘Guards beyond the Pyrenees’
    This tour starts in Corunna and then visits the 1813 – 1814 battle sites at Vitoria, Sorauren, Bidassoa, Nive, Nivelle, and Bayonne. Tour Dates: Late September 7 Days.
  • 2014 Tour:  ‘Waterloo Guardsmen’
    The Waterloo Campaign battles from Quatre Bras to Waterloo. Dates: Late September 4 Days.

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Previous examples

Susan Band & Friends 'In the Footsteps of Nosey' - September 2009

This 6 Day walking Tour took in the Penisular War battlesites of  Craufurd's action on
the Coa, Almeida Fortress,  Fuentes de Onoro, Ciudad Rodrigo and Salamanca.
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Susan Band and friends on the Pico de Miranda where the 88th Foot captured the
'Jingling Johnny' at Salamanca, Wellington's master piece battle in July 1812.
L-R: Richard Fyjis-Walker, Caroline & Ian Laing, George & Susan Band,
Anthony & Veronica Goodenough

 

Tim Simmons & Friends to 'Passchendaele' - September 2009

Tyne Cot CWGC Cemetery- Passchendaele

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