Final-year school trip to London, Oxford and the Cotswolds: Westminster, Oxford colleges and golden-stone villages (5 days)

Day 1: Departure from your school, Eurotunnel and arrival in London

• Departure from your school early in the morning, at the agreed time, daytime drive to Calais and Channel crossing by Eurotunnel to Folkestone (35 minutes; the UK is one hour behind Belgium).
• Our drivers drive for a maximum of 3 hours, then take a 30-minute break, day and night.
• Arrival in London around midday, free lunch.
• Walk around Westminster: Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament and the Abbey, then St James's Park, Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square.
• Check-in at the accommodation for two nights, dinner and a quiet evening.

Day 2: London, from the museums to the Thames

• Visit to the British Museum (free admission): the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures and the Egyptian mummies.
• Visit to the Tower of London and the Crown Jewels (on request), then a walk across Tower Bridge.
• Free lunch at Borough Market, then a walk along the South Bank to Tate Modern (free admission) and the Millennium Bridge facing St Paul's Cathedral.
• Supervised free time in Covent Garden, dinner and supervised evening.

Day 3: Oxford, the city of colleges

• Rooms vacated and drive to Oxford (about 1.5 hours).
• Visit to Christ Church, its Great Hall and its cathedral (on request).
• Walk led by the teachers: the Radcliffe Camera, Hertford College's Bridge of Sighs and the Covered Market; guided tour of the Bodleian Library (on request).
• Punting on the River Cherwell (on request).
• Check-in at the accommodation in or around Oxford for two nights, dinner and supervised evening.

Day 4: The Cotswold villages

• Coach excursion in the Cotswolds, hills designated a National Landscape (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty).
• Bourton-on-the-Water, nicknamed the "Venice of the Cotswolds", with its little stone bridges over the River Windrush.
• Stow-on-the-Wold and its market square, then Bibury and the weavers' cottages of Arlington Row.
• Stop in Burford, with its high street running down to the river, then return to the accommodation.
• Dinner and supervised evening.

Day 5: Return to Belgium

• Rooms vacated after breakfast.
• Daytime drive to Folkestone (about 3 hours) and Eurotunnel crossing to Calais.
• Daytime drive back to Belgium with regular breaks.
• Arrival at your school in the evening.