Our Finest Hour: The Battle Of Britain
- Duration: 5 days
- Board Basis: Mixed Board
- Tour Ref: D2TLEGOFH
Holiday Summary
- Travel Type: Coach
PLEASE NOTE: Price is per person and based on two people sharing a twin/double room. Single room supplements and upgrades are not included.
Itinerary
Day 1
Regional departure by coach then travel to Kent. We visit the Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel-le-Ferne, seeing the memorials, replica aircraft and visitor’s centre, setting the scene for the tour. We then see one of the very few remaining Battle of Britain Luftwaffe graves left in Kent at Lenham before proceeding to our hotel in Maidstone for a two-night stay.
Meals - Dinner
Day 2 - Battle of Britain
Today we have a full day looking at the Battle of Britain in Kent. We start at the Battle of Britain Museum at Hawkinge, a former RAF base where much of the 1960s film about the battle was filmed; the museum has many of the aircraft used in the film plus an incredible collection of memorabilia. We then visit RAF graves in the nearby cemetery at Hawkinge and have lunchtime in Canterbury.In the afternoon we travel across Kent to former RAF Manston where we see the Spitfire and Hurricane Museum and small museum dedicated to the RAF Station, as well as graves in the nearby cemetery.
Meals - Breakfast, Dinner
Day 3 - Bentley Priory Museum & Runnymede Memorial
This morning we depart for North-West London to visit Bentley Priory Museum, which was Fighter Command Headquarters in 1940. Here there is an amazing array of RAF material on display in this historically important building. We then travel to the Battle of Britain Bunker near Uxbridge to see an original 1940 Operations Room used in the battle. From here we visit The Runnymede Memorial, where many of ‘The Few’ are commemorated before we return to Kent and take a ferry to France for two nights at our hotel in De Panne on the Belgian Coast.
Meals - Breakfast
Day 4 - Operation Dynamo
On our final day we are in France where we link the story of Operation Dynamo, the evacuation at Dunkirk, to the Battle of Britain. We see the evacuation beaches and Dunkirk Mole, Dunkirk War Cemetery and Dunkirk Museum, as well as look at the story of RAF pilots shot down during the Battle of Britain who crashed in the channel or in France.
Meals - Breakfast
Day 5
Return home.
Meals - Breakfast