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OUTINGS  2025   

Page updated:  13 April 2025

STOP PRESS: The Outings Committee are conducting a Survey to help them plan ahead.

Please click on the green button to have a look & share your thoughts. 

The Survey closes mid-day 26th May.

Bookings are issued by email to members, usually with the monthly Newsletter, about a month or two ahead. ​

Bookings are only accepted with payment.

Outings are arranged for members usually every month.

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A short four or five day holiday is included in the itinerary every year & previous destinations have included Normandy, Salzburg, Ireland, Tuscany, Madrid, Slovenia.


They are organised at cost price, with transport, tickets & gratuities included. 


Ideas for future outings
are very welcome.

2025:

  • Outings Committee had a break Jan & Feb

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Attractions:  The Mary Rose Museum , HMS Victory, HMS Warrior, HMS M.33, The National, Museum of the Royal Navy 

And over the water in Gosport: The Royal Navy Submarine Museum, The Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower​

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  • 22nd May – Hever Castle & Gardens in Kent

Dating back to the 14th century, Hever Castle was once the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII and Mother of Elizabeth I.

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  • 26th June – Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria and Prince Albert bought Osborne in 1845 and it was used as a family home for over 50 years, the Queen finding solace there after Albert’s death in 1861. She said that “it is impossible to imagine a prettier spot.”

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  • July –The Tower of London, possibly including a Thames cruise from Westminster Pier

  • Aug – Poole Harbour, with a 4-hour river cruise from Frome to Wareham

  • Sep/Oct – A holiday in Kent

2024:

  • Jan & Feb -  No Outing

  • Mar -  Churchill War Rooms (cancelled)

  • Apr - Neasden Temple

  • May - RHS Malvern Spring Festival

  • Jun - The American Museum and Bath

  • Jul - Avebury & Lacock

  • Aug – 3 Rivers Cruise, Southampton

  • Sept – Sudeley Castle

  • Oct – 7-day Holiday in Normandy

  • Nov – Theatre Trip, Rhythm of Dance, Wycombe Swan Theatre

  • Dec – see above

2023:

  • Feb   Bovington Tank Museum (cancelled)

  • Mar   Wallace Collection & Chelsea Hospital

  • April  Highclere Castle

  • May  The Cotswolds - Gloucester Railway & Broadway

  • June  Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

  • July   Weald and Downland Museum with Gridshell Building

  • Aug   Cowes

  • Sept  The Hawk Conservancy, Andover

  • Oct    Annual Holiday to Salzburg and the Austrian Lakes

  • Nov   Milestones Museum

  • Dec   The Mill at Sonning for a performance of High Society

2022:

  • Feb  Museum trip to London

  • Mar   Cirencester Museum & the Mansion Cirencester Park  Apr   Brighton Pavilion      

  • May  The Watercress Line  

  • June  Little Venice, Regents Canal & Camden Market

  • Aug   Gilbert White's house, garden & Oates Collection

  • Sep   Holiday in Southern Ireland - 5 days

  • Oct   Coventry Cathedral & Coventry Transport Museum

  • Nov   Natural History Museum, Tring

2021:

  • June/July - 4 days in Northumbria

  • July - Cruise to the Isle of Wight

  • Aug - Butser Ancient Farm 

  • Sept - Salisbury

  • Oct - Gloucester

  • Nov - Aerospace Bristol

  • Dec - The Mill at Sonning

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2020:​

Then Lockdown happened & the following outings were cancelled or postponed . . .

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2019:

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Past Holidays

 Sicily 2019

Six days of the History of Western Sicily & Palermo. Highlights of the trip included the medieval town of Erice, the Norman Cathedral at Monreale, a tour of Palermo & a boat trip to the island of Mozia. An excellent time had by all.

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Sept 2018 to Romania

To Bucharest, a city of extremes, then to Transylvania in the Carpathians, an area of natural beauty & home to wonderful scenery, Dracula’s Castle (quite ‘sort of interesting’) and Peles Castle, a truly wonderful 19th century chateau filled with highly decorated rooms, set in the most picturesque setting.  A most enjoyable holiday with a happy group of members.

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2017

Lake Bled, Slovenia & Koblenz in the Rhineland

A group of 38 of our members had a memorable six day holiday based at Lake Bled.  There were many highlights including a visit to Postojna, one of the world’s largest cave systems & a wonderful day at Piran, a medieval town with a Venetian influence, a typical Mediterranean look &, on the day itself, a very Mediterranean climate.

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Many more memorable holidays in the years before....​​

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