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28 W E S T W O R L D A L B E R T A | S U M M E R 2 0 1 5 (sissinghurst) all canada photos/gardenpics/alamy, (pasta) susan wright 1 English Country Gardens Why we love it: Mannered country elegance incarnate. is 10-day tour of southeast Eng- land starts in London, using the city as a base for day jaunts to Tudor-era Hampton Court Palace and its Privy Gardens; Wisley Gardens, flagship of the Royal Horticultural Society; and Kew Gardens, a royal botanical site with sprawling Victorian glass- houses and indoor galleries. en it's off down the coast, for a series of overnights that plant you close to the nation's horticultural marvels. Highlight: Wandering among the 4,000-bloom rose gardens of 13th-century Hever Castle, once home to Anne Boleyn. ere's also a stop at Sissinghurst. Created in the 1930s by poet and gardening writer Vita Sackville-West and her husband, writer Harold Nicolson, this famed garden is divided into floral "rooms" with different colours and themes. Why it's better on a bus: You visit some of the country's most popular and acclaimed gardens, but you never have to wait in line. e tour packs in plenty of general sightseeing, too, from the Sussex coast and the seaside city of Brighton to the Bluebell Railway, the Cliffs of Dover, the cathedral city of Canterbury and the spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells. ere's also the simple pleasure of watching the countryside unfold as you motor among wildflower-flecked woodlands, grazing cattle, Victorian countr y homes, brick-clad villages and wee corner pubs. Bonnie England! COACH Tours 3 Cool Think you're not a bus traveller? These amazing Europe trips may just change your mind Sip an English cream tea at Mount Ephraim Stately Home & Gardens on Trafalgar's English Country Gardens tour. Departures May to September 2015. From $3,195. Have dinner with a local family in the Chianti hills on the 11-day Flavours of Italy trip. Departures May to October 2015. From $3,125. Trafalgar's Battlefields tour includes La Coupole Museum, a Second World War bunker complex. Departures May to August 2015. From $3,825. AMATravel.ca/Coach Summer brings out the blooms at the Sissinghurst Castle White Garden in Kent, U.K. Trafalgar Tours' Flavours of Italy itinerary makes our mouths water.

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