18Th World Rose Convention Tour Ex Nz with Lynda Hallinan 21 June – 14 July 2018
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18TH WORLD ROSE CONVENTION TOUR EX NZ WITH LYNDA HALLINAN 21 JUNE – 14 JULY 2018 helloworld Te Rapa - Jacqui Currall [email protected] 027 548 2090 or 07 849 0449 ROSE TOUR WITH LYNDA HALLINAN ITINERARY THURSDAY 21ST JUNE – SATURDAY 14TH JULY 2018 THURSDAY 21ST JUNE The harbour, old streets, historic mansions and town houses all make Faaborg a pleasant city for visitors. Its many restaurants serve a wide variety DAY 1: DEPART AUCKLAND 12:10PM ON of Danish and foreign dishes. Plougs Gård on Vestergade, built around 1790, SQ286 - ARRIVE SINGAPORE 7:00PM is one of the finest buildings in the town with its Neoclassical façade On arrival at Changi Airport make your way through customs Re-join the coach for the transfer to Egeskov Castle where a visit and immigration to the arrivals hall and meet your coach driver has been arranged for the transfer to the Novotel Clarke Quay (or similar) where The house as we see it today, was built by Frands Brockenhuus and was accommodation has been arranged for the next two nights on a bed completed in 1554. A few years prior to this, he had married Anne Tinhuus and breakfast basis who had taken over the original estate from her parents. In those days, political unrest, the Reformation and the Counts’ Feud caused many Overnight Singapore landowners to build their houses as well-protected castles, and Frands Brockenhuus was no exception. He built his castle in the middle of a lake on FRIDAY 22ND JUNE a foundation of oak pilings, according to legend, in such quantities that “it DAY 2: SINGAPORE took an oak forest to do it” Breakfast is served in the hotel restaurant At the end of your visit, re-join the coach for the transfer back to the After breakfast, meet your coach, driver and guide for a full day tour Grand Hotel of sightseeing and visits. You will start with a guided tour of the city Overnight Odense and then visits have been arranged to the Gardens by the Bay and to the Botanic Garden TUESDAY 26TH JUNE The Gardens by the Bay are led by a multidisciplinary team of professionals DAY 6: ODENSE TO AARHUS who have been involved in the greening of Singapore and had worked Breakfast is served in the hotel restaurant alongside international and local experts to develop the Gardens. They have an in-house team of skilled landscape designers, horticulturists, arborists, After breakfast, check out of the hotel and join the coach and engineers, plant health, garden and turf management experts, as well as driver. You will also meet your guide for your guided tour of Hans plant research and orchid breeding professionals, who leverage on the Christian Andersen’s Copenhagen. As part of the tour, visits have extensive global network of plant sources cultivated during the development been arranged to the Hans Christian Andersen Museum and his days, to continuously curate and grow the Gardens childhood home The idea of a national garden in Singapore started in 1822 when Sir At the end of the tour, say goodbye to the guide and start the journey Stamford Raffles developed the first “Botanical and Experimental Garden” to Aarhus which will take approx. 2 hours at Fort Canning. It was only in 1859 that the Garden at its present site was founded and laid out in the English Landscape Movement’s style. The On arrival in Aarhus you will be taken to the First Atlantic Hotel (or Garden was soon handed over to the British colonial Government and a similar) where accommodation has been arranged for the next two series of Kew trained botanists saw the Garden blossom into an important nights on a bed and breakfast basis botanical institute over the following decades Overnight Aarhus Overnight Singapore WEDNESDAY 27TH JUNE SATURDAY 23RD JUNE DAY 7: VISITS FROM AARHUS DAY 3: TRAVEL TO DENMARK Breakfast is served in the hotel restaurant Breakfast is served in the hotel restaurant After breakfast, meet your coach and driver for the start of today’s Free day to discover Singapore. Late check out included until 7pm visits. Your first visit will be to the grounds of Marselisborg Castle Transfer to Singapore Airport to meet the flight (subject to the Royal Family NOT being in residence) Depart Singapore 11:50pm on SQ352 Marselisborg Palace is located in Aarhus and is the royal couple’s summer residence. The castle is surrounded by an English-style park with ponds, a SUNDAY 24TH JUNE rose garden and a number of works of art DAY 4: ARRIVE COPENHAGEN 06:25AM Re-join the coach and you will transfer to Aalestrup which is approx. 1½ hours’ drive away. On arrival, you will be taken to the Jutland Once the group is gathered please join the coach and driver for the Rose Park where you will have some free time to admire the roses transfer to Odense. This journey will take approx. 2½ hours and will take you across the Storebaelt Bridge During the afternoon, you will be taken back to Aarhus where a visit to the Aros Art Museum has been arranged On arrival in Odense you will be taken to the Grand Hotel Odense (or similar) where accommodation has been arranged for the next 3000 square metres of art distributed on two floors mark the beginning of the narrative about 400 years of human interaction with nature two nights on a bed and breakfast basis After your visit, transfer back to the hotel Overnight Odense Overnight Aarhus MONDAY 25TH JUNE DAY 5: VISITS FROM ODENSE THURSDAY 28TH JUNE DAY 8: AARHUS TO COPENHAGEN Breakfast is served in the hotel restaurant Breakfast is served in the hotel restaurant After breakfast, meet the coach and driver for the start of today’s visits. Your first visit will be to the town of Faaborg where you will After breakfast, check out of the hotel and join the coach and driver. have free time to explore This morning you will visit Den Gamle By – The Old Town Den Gamle By is an open-air town museum located in the Aarhus Botanical ROSE TOUR WITH LYNDA HALLINAN ITINERARY THURSDAY 21ST JUNE – SATURDAY 14TH JULY 2018 Gardens. In 1914 the museum opened as the world’s first open-air museum Roses, and North German Kordes Roses and Tantau Roses will of its kind, concentrating on town culture rather than village culture, and create a display with their most fragrant roses, just as at famous to this day it remains one of just a few top rated Danish museums outside flower shows. Participants are invited to vote for the most beautiful Copenhagen. The museum buildings are organized into a small town of rose and for the most fragrant rose. The winners will be announced chiefly half-timbered structures originally erected between 1550 and the late 19th century in various parts of the country and later moved to Aarhus during at the celebration the following day in Valby Park. Make sure you the 20th century. In all there are some 27 rooms, chambers or kitchens, arrive in front of Rosenborg Castle no later than 13.45 hours 34 workshops, 10 groceries or shops, 5 historical gardens, a post office, At 14.00, Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary will baptise a customs office, a school and a theatre spread throughout the town with the convention rose, bred by Poulsen Roses. You will also have museum staff working in the roles of town figures i.e. merchant, blacksmith the opportunity to take a walk in the King’s Garden and visit the etc. adding to the illusion of a “living” town Renaissance Rose Garden as well as exploring the castle and the After the visit, re-join the coach and you will be taken to the port exhibition of the Crown Jewels where you will join the ferry which will take you from Aarhus to Cold and hot drinks and light snacks will be available throughout Odden. This crossing will take approx. 1½ hours. When you have landed in Odden you will be taken onto Copenhagen – 1½ hours the afternoon and to the Tivoli Hotel (or similar) where accommodation has been The Queen’s Guard close the gates at 17.00 hours arranged for the next seven nights on a bed and breakfast basis Make your way at leisure back to the hotel On arrival, you will need to make yourself known at the Tivoli Overnight Copenhagen Congress Centre for registration for A Fairytale of Roses – the 18th World Rose Convention SATURDAY 30TH JUNE 18.00-20.00 hours DAY 10: WORLD ROSE CONVENTION Meet and greet at Copenhagen City Hall Breakfast is served in the hotel restaurant The impressive 19th century Copenhagen City Hall in the very heart 8.30-12.00 hours of Copenhagen will house the informal meet and greet. The Danish Nordic lectures will take place in the Tivoli Congress Centre – all Rose Society has obtained exclusive use of the beautiful hall for lectures will be in English exhibitions during the Convention. The winning entries in the photo 08.30-09.30 hours Denmark contest will be displayed on the movable exhibition walls as well as 09.30-10.00 hours Sweden unique artwork in patch-work, all set in an ambience of roses and 10.00-10.30 hours BREAK fairy tales. The meet and greet is a great opportunity to enjoy the 10.30-11.00 hours Iceland exhibition. The very next afternoon, the Danish florists will fill the 11.00-11.30 hours Norway City Hall.