New Scotland and Eire experiences from Audley Journey

Customized tour operator Audley Journey surveyed premium travellers about their previous and future journey plans, with Western Europe the most well-liked area for journeys over the past 5 years (49 p.c*) and the identical quantity intend to journey within the subsequent two years. New, genuine and immersive experiences in Scotland and Eire have been added to the portfolio for 2024 to proceed to fulfill this demand.

Heritage experiences in Scotland 

Scottish Wool & Whisky Explorer, Speyside

Shoppers can expertise two iconic facets of Scottish heritage, wool and whisky, on a brand new tour by Moray and Speyside. At Glenlivet Whisky Distillery Tour, situated within the eponymous northwest area and neighbour of the Cairngorms Nationwide Park, shoppers will study in regards to the technique of whisky making and style the completed product. From whisky to wool, at Johnstons of Elgin wool and cashmere mill, who’ve been crafting high quality luxurious merchandise in their very own Scottish mills for 225 years, the tour will unearth the processes behind design, from uncooked fiber to closing product, earlier than ending with a conventional afternoon tea.  Their website within the city of Elgin homes the one vertical weaving mill in Scotland and demonstrates thirty totally different processes of wool and cashmere manufacturing.

Off-road Land Rover Expertise, Cairngorms

Adventurous explorers can take to the wheel and drive a prime vary Land Rover by over 150 miles of personal tracks throughout the fascinating surroundings of the Scottish countryside. After a brief briefing, shoppers can take a look at their abilities over a collection of difficult obstacles, and as soon as mastered, take pleasure in a scrumptious lunch overlooking the loch. After lunch, shoppers will navigate a number of terrains with the professional teacher together with inclines, descents, water, rock crawls and bridges that make up this breathtaking and secluded panorama.

Harris Tweed® Bag Making Workshop, Edinburgh

For hundreds of years, the inhabitants of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland have woven a phenomenal and complicated material often known as Harris Tweed®. At this time, this humble material is acknowledged all over the world for its high quality and authenticity and is synonymous with Scottish heritage. Throughout a one-hour bespoke workshop, Audley shoppers visiting Edinburgh can now create a satchel full with their very own piece of Harris Tweed to take house and treasure.

A 12-day customized ‘Scenic Scotland’ journey together with the Scottish Wool & Whisky Explorer, off-road Land Rover and Harris Tweed® Bag Making Workshop experiences prices from $14,200 per individual (primarily based on two sharing) and consists of transfers, lodging and excursions.

Coastal exploration in Eire

Non-public yacht cruise from Kinsale Harbour

Initially a Norman walled city, Kinsale was a thriving fishing port and residential to a mackerel fishery that supported the residents for hundreds of years. Setting sail from the harbor, a personal information and skipper will take shoppers alongside the gorgeous Irish shoreline on a personal luxurious yacht. The skipper will discover the proper scenic spot to dock, providing the chance to calm down on deck and even take a dip within the water, adopted by a locally-sourced gourmand picnic.

Paddleboarding and farmhouse lunch

Strangford Lough is the biggest sea lough within the British Isles and residential to a wealth of wildlife, unmatched wherever else in Europe. It’s house to a number of marine nature reserves and one of the best spot for a paddleboarding expertise, able to discover this designated space of excellent pure magnificence from the water. The lough is house to greater than 300 islands providing a lot to see whereas the information will clarify extra about environmental initiatives that purpose to restrict disturbance to native wildlife. From lough to roaring fireplace in close by Tracey’s Farmhouse, a Belfast tea and home made truffles might be ready, adopted the prospect to witness the making of conventional Northern Irish soda bread and a home made two-course lunch created from contemporary substances produced on the farm.

Horseback using on the Wild Atlantic Means

The Tullan Strand is a 1.2 mile stretch of seashore alongside the Wild Atlantic Means in County Donegal. With the Sligo-Leitrim mountains within the background, Audley shoppers will take an unforgettable journey on horseback alongside this lovely a part of the Irish shoreline. In addition to studying the best way to groom, saddle and bridle the horse, shoppers will journey alongside the sand dunes and onto the lengthy expanse of white seashore beneath.

A 15-day customized ‘Highlights of Eire self-drive’ journey together with Non-public Yacht Cruise from Kinsale Harbour, Paddleboarding on Strangford Lough, and Horseback Using on the Wild Atlantic Means prices from $10,460 per individual (primarily based on two sharing) and consists of transfers, lodging and excursions.