Celtic Lands
With Mark Cudek
May 23 - June 1, 2016
From $6195 plus air
Join this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the historic D-Day landings during this eight-night Celtic Lands voyage. By exclusive arrangement, walk the hallowed beaches of Normandy, France, with Dwight David Eisenhower II, grandson of General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and meet Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill, cousin of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. Cruise aboard the exclusively chartered, Five-Star small ship M.S. LE BORÉAL from Glasgow, Scotland, to Ireland, Wales and France, with guided excursions in each port of call. Travel into the Scottish Highlands aboard The Jacobite steam train, “one of the great railway journeys of the world;” visit the UNESCO World Heritage site of Caernarfon Castle near Holyhead, Wales; lose yourself in the austere beauty of the Inner Hebridean isles of Iona, Mull and Skye and their historical treasures of Iona Abbey and Duart Castle; walk in the footsteps of medieval and present-day princes in North Wales; and view treasures of rich Celtic heritage in Dublin, including the Book of Kells. Glasgow and Edinburgh Pre-Cruise and Paris Post-Cruise Options available.