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With the travel and leisure industry suffering incredible disruption and financial difficulty at this time, it is good to hear from GTOs who have experienced especially good service from travel operators whilst re-arranging their plans. One such is GTO Pat King of Buckden Friends, who wrote to us to express her appreciation of the
Shakespeare’s Globe has been preparing a raft of new digital content to continue to engage its audiences with Shakespeare’s works. GTOs can see some of the Globe’s productions from the comfort of their home as the company release six films for free over the next couple of months on YouTube. The schedule from April includes Hamlet (2018), Romeo
GTO magazine’s Readers’ Day to Waddesdon and Blenheim will be rescheduled to later this year, due to the coronavirus pandemic. In the meantime, GTOs can explore both the rooms and gardens of Waddesdon Manor via virtual tours and videos on their website. Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire was built at the end of the 19th century
The National Theatre in London will be streaming several plays weekly from April. If you missed the hit production of One Man, Two Guvnors – now’s your chance to catch this acclaimed comedy if you get in quick. It is available for free on the National Theatre’s YouTube channel until 9th April. James Corden won a
The Royal Collection has an array of delights for GTOs to enjoy from their homes including a virtual tour of Buckingham Palace, virtual exhibition walkthroughs, and behind-the-scenes films. You can even read Queen Victoria’s diaries! Virtual visitors can browse more than 250,000 works of art online from this, one of the largest and most important art collections
Edinburgh’s famous International Festival and Festival Fringe, as well as the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh Art Festival and The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, which normally take place in August, have now been cancelled for the first time in over 70 years due to concerns around the Covid-19 pandemic. Together, the five festivals hold over 5,000 events across Scotland’s capital
In a UK first, Hastings Contemporary, an independent art gallery on the south coast, has responded to the current lockdown by teaming up with Bristol Robotics Laboratory to provide remote access to its exhibitions by utilising robotics technology. Members and audiences can continue to visit the gallery via the Double, a two-wheeled video-conferencing robot that can
At the beginning of March we brought you news of the 2020 season opening of North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR). Unfortunately, this has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic and the charity has now launched a crisis appeal to secure its livelihood and keep it on track to reopen later this year. The attraction was
Victoria Baths is opening its new season with a brand new tour that will take visitors ‘Behind the Screens’, as Manchester’s Water Palace reveals its starring role in some of the most popular TV dramas of recent times. This will be a new addition to its regular weekly tour programme that takes place between April and October 2020. Peaky Blinders, Houdini & Doyle, Cold Feet, Mrs Biggs, World
Bletchley Park, in Milton Keynes, the former top-secret home of the British World War Two Codebreakers and birthplace of modern computing, is to be the first venue to host Never Alone: What Happens When Everything is Connected?, based on an exhibition created by the National Science and Media Museum Opening on 3rd April and running until