Local Days out all at £25 & 10am first pick up

Many local residents often comment they have never visited parts of the county they live in.  Why not enjoy a day out in the local area around Norfolk and beyond.  Dates all-year round from stately homes and gardens to Mystery Tours!  Numbers limited on our 16-seater coach.  Trips will take you to various locations with time at leisure.  Cost includes travel only and meal or other costs are extra.

All are £25 and depart Taverham 10am and arrive back about 5pm

Route 1:  Drayton, Taverham, Costessey, Thickthorn, Wymondham, Attleborough

Route 2:  Wymondham, Thickthorn, Costessey, Taverham

Saturday 12th February
Southwold – Route 1

Tuesday 15^th February
Saffron Walden Market Day – Route 1

Saturday 19^th February
North Norfolk Coast -  Route 2

Sunday 20^th February
St Ives Cambs – Route 1

Monday 21^st February
Hunstanton & Wells – Route 2

Saturday 5th March

Bury St Edmunds & Market Day – Route 1

How to Book

Imperial War Museum Duxford is a branch of the Imperial War Museum near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, England. Britain’s largest aviation museum, Duxford houses the museum’s large exhibits, including nearly 200 aircraft, military vehicles, artillery and minor naval vessels in seven main exhibition buildings. The site also provides storage space for the museum’s other collections of material such as film, photographs, documents, books and artefacts.

PRICES

Coach & Admission: £38

Departs 9am

Tickets are non-refundable unless resold. This will incur a £5 administration charge.

How to Book

Thursday 7th April 2022

Departure Time: 9:45am

Let us do the driving and enjoy some of Norfolk's best tipples and a lunch!

We shall start the day with a trip to East Harling to the Norfolk Whisky Company to enjoy a tour of the distillery followed by a few samples (!) and lunch.  In the afternoon we shall head to North Norfolk and visit the award winning Moongazer Brewery for maybe a few more tastings.....

The English Whisky Company

"We are England's oldest and most prestigious whisky distillery. An independent family owned business, born out of the Nelstrop families passion for single malt Whisky and built for the sole intention of handcrafting the finest English Single Malt Whisky.

Based in Norfolk, using locally sourced barley and fresh water from the Brecklands aquifer, which runs beneath the distillery, our Master Distiller meticulously handcrafts the spirit, which is then filled into the finest oak casks and left to mature for years. Once matured to perfection, specific casks are selected to be hand bottled on site and released as English Single Malt Whisky.

We supply a large range of businesses across the UK, from small farm shops and delis to specialist wine and spirits suppliers and wholesalers and distribute to many countries across the world.

Take a guided tour of our magnificent distilling floor and barrel warehouse. Discover how our wonderful single malt whiskies are made and how St George’s Distillery became the first distillery in England to produce whisky in over 100 years. Finish your tour with the tasting of 1 award winning English Whisky and 1 liqueur. Receive a £5 discount voucher which can be redeemed on English Whisky branded items (RRP over £30) - (see terms and conditions) and receive a mini tasting glass to take home (over 18’s only)."

Moongazer Brewery

"The Norfolk Brewhouse is owned and run by Rachel and David Holliday – a couple with a passion for crafting distinctive, high-quality beers. Our brewery has breathed new life into a redundant old barn, on an arable farm, in North Norfolk. Its rural setting – right in the heart of the country’s finest malting barley region – is just the start.

We make the most of all that is around us; chalk-filtered water from the brewery’s own well and Norfolk’s finest malting barley. Incidentally, we feed the brewing grains to some very grateful cows.

Even the names of our beers – Moon Gazer Ale and StubbleStag premium lager – were inspired by the wildlife around us, reflecting as they do the stunning sight of wild hares transfixed by the moon.  All great stuff, but add to this some modern thinking, modern hop varieties, nifty innovation and some very up-to-date brewing kit and you get hand-crafted beers which ensure that every drop is as good as the last."

IC Travel Price - Adult £60 including tours/tastings/lunch and travel

How to Book

Wednesday 13th April 2022

Join us on this popular trip on the Suffolk & Essex border as we call in at Lavenham  for a short while before heading to Dedham, Constables birth place where you will have time for a spot of lunch.  After lunch we head to Flatford Mill, scene of some of Constables most famous paintings.  If you feel fit you may want to walk across the footpaths to the Mill!

A visit to Flatford Mill in Flatford, East Bergholt, makes for a relaxing day out. The scene has been immortalised by John Constable in his painting of The Haywain, and the Mill is still recognisable. Attached to the Mill, which is a Grade 1-listed watermill originally built in 1733, is a 17th-Century miller’s cottage which is also Grade I listed. The Watermill is located in the centre of Dedham Vale, a wonderfully English village close to the border with Essex. This is part of the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty so take your time to savour the area. The Mill was once owned by Constable’s father and Constable made both the Mill and the surrounding area the subjects of many of his works of art, which are now world famous.

8am Departure

£32 per person - (excludes meals.) includes admissions

How to Book

Thursday 14th April 2022

Departure Time: 8:30am

Welcome to Colchester Zoo! Home to 220 species set in 60 acres of parkland and lakes!

''As you navigate your way around Colchester Zoo you’ll visit many different habitats, from the humid home of our Komodo Dragons to our very own Africa plain, Kingdom of the Wild, home to white rhino, giraffes, ostrich, zebra and kudu.

We also have many fantastic undercover areas, so you can stay warm and dry on even the wettest of days with our ‘Bad Weather’ map. Stop by the Orangutan Forest and see if you can hang for as long as an orangutan, feed our rainbow lorikeets in their tropical walkthrough aviary, Australian Rainbows. PLUS you can also walkthrough areas such as Worlds Apart, the perfect place to warm up on a chilly day!

Colchester Zoo also offers a range of delicious food options so there’s no need to worry about a picnic! PLUS there are loads of gifts and treats in our shop, so you can find the perfect souvenir to remember your day! The Outpost is accessible without having to enter the zoo so you can even pop by for a spot of shopping or to find the perfect gift for a loved one.

Fun to fund conservation…

Colchester Zoo has always cared passionately about the world’s threatened species, and created its charity Action for the Wild to assist conservation projects worldwide. This includes our own project, the UmPhafa Private Nature Reserve in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.

Since receiving charity status in 2004 Action for the Wild has donated over £1.2million to conservation programmes, as well as supporting conservation research. As a privately owned zoo, funding the zoo’s further development as well as assisting these projects in the wild is only possible with the support of the community, through all your visits and the funds Colchester Zoo receive from retail and catering sales. Thank you!''

IC Travel Price - Adult £46 Child £32

How to Book

Wednesday 20th April 2022

There is a vibrant and bustling market in Bury St Edmunds on Wednesdays and Saturdays that attracts thousands of people every week.

With more than 80 stalls on Saturdays and 60 on Wednesdays, Bury St Edmunds Market has an excellent food offer including fruit and vegetables, meat, and fish stalls with fresh locally sourced seasonal produce.

Not only is there a wonderful array of foods you can also find everything from authentic Italian shirts, Portuguese pottery, vintage clothes and colourful plants and flowers.

Foodies will also love the market with its wonderful selection of food and drink from around the world.

Depart 9am

PRICES

Coach travel  :  £20

Bookings may be made by calling IC Travel on Norwich (01603) 868680, or email info@ictravel.co.uk

Thursday 2nd June 2022

Meet the top notch Blue Badge Tour Guide at 10.30am at one of the UK's newest architectural treasures - the Cambridge Eco Mosque.

There will be time for morning refreshments at the Mosque (included) before being taken on a guided tour. Worshippers and visitors (all are welcome, men and women of all faiths) enter via the Islamic garden before passing through a covered portico and then an atrium, preparing them gradually for the contemplation of the prayer hall, facing Mecca. This combination of gardens with whispering fountains and vaulted prayer spaces has been used to great effect throughout Islamic history.

The building is an Eco-Mosque, constructed to run on as little fuel as possible, to recycle rainwater, to make maximum use of natural light and to harness the power of the sun.

On leaving the Mosque we head to the heart of Cambridge to break for time to buy lunch which will include the free time option to visit the "greatest little museum in the world". The Fitzwilliam Museum is a glittering jewel in the crown of the University of Cambridge.  You will have time for private exploration plus a highlights tour of the Fitzwilliam with our Blue Badge Guide. This mini British Museum holds the University's art collection so prepare to be impressed..

We round off our entertaining and erudite day out with one last visit to a Cambridge Cultural Icon - the Orchard Tea Gardens in Grantchester for a cream tea (included in tour price). For over 700 years, students such as Newton, Darwin, Cromwell, Milton, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson, Marlow and Spenser have walked, ridden or boated from Cambridge to Grantchester Village. Once best known for the Old Vicarage and Rupert Brooke's Stands the clock at ten to three, Granchester is now also recognised the world over for the erudite and eponymous detective drama.

You'll be ready to make tracks for home at 4.45pm.

Tour Timings
10.30am Arrive Cambridge Central Mosque for Morning Refreshments (included)
11.00am Guided Tour of Cambridge Central Mosque
12.30pm Free time for lunch in Cambridge with Fitzwilliam visit option
3.30pm Cream Tea at Orchard Gardens, Grantchester
4.45pm Head Home

PRICE

Travel, tours, morning refreshments and Cream Tea - £55

8am departure

Pick Ups selected from  - Drayton, Taverham, Costessey Longwater, Thickthorn, Wymondham, Attleborough & Thetford