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Bringing Quilts to Life
We talked to Heather Audin, Curator of the Quilt Museum and Gallery in York about the exhibitions that will be on display in the UK’s first dedicated quilt museum and her role in the new Quilts Alive sessions hosted there. … Continue reading
Posted in City Break, Culture, Destination guide, History, Interview, Tour, Travel tips, UK, Uncategorized
Tagged British Tapestry Group, Christine Morton, ECT, ECT Travel, European Connoisseurs Travel, exhibition, Grandmothers flower garden, Great Hall, Heather Audin, history, medieval guildhall, mosaic, museum practice, partnership, patchwork, Quilt, Quilt museum, Quilt museum and Gallery, Quilt tour, Quilting, Quilts Alive, Richard Forsyth, textiles, The Knitting and Stitching Show, The Quilters Guild, The Quilters Guild of the British Isles, travel, York
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Mingling with gardening royalty at Longstock
Graham Parker attends the Longstock silent plant auction event run by our new partners, Plant Heritage. Despite the threatening weather, Graham has a memorable day involving rare plants, a tractor ride and time spent with celebrity gardener, Mr Alan Titchmarsh. … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Horticulture, Memoirs of a travel guide, Tour, UK, Uncategorized
Tagged Alan Titchmarsh, auction, ECT, ECT Travel, endangered, European Connoisseurs Travel, garden, gardening, gardens, Graham Parker, Hampshire, lake, Longstock, national collections, Plant Heritage, plants, pond, preservation, rare plants, species, tractor, trees, waitrose, weather
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An Education in Flowers
ECT Tour Manager, Graham Parker, enjoys his work heading to Keukenhof in The Netherlands, with a student tour group. Anyone who knows me will agree that I go away with groups with as much excitement now after 10 years, as … Continue reading
Posted in Destination guide, Europe, Floristry, Gardening, Horticulture, Memoirs of a travel guide, Tour
Tagged auction, bulbs, ECT, ECT Travel, europe, European Connoissuers Travel, Flora Holland, floral, floristry, flower design, flowers, flowers. floral, gardens, Graham Parker, Keukenhof, Southhampton college, students, the netherlands, tour, tourism, travel
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A Place to Remember
World war one was a turning point in our history and one that still resonates with its message of self- sacrifice. Tours to the locations on the frontline reveal a special kind of travel experience – with more depth and … Continue reading
Posted in City Break, Destination guide, Europe, History, Tour, Uncategorized
Tagged battlefields, belgium, commemorative, ECT, European Connoisseurs Travel, Flanders, Flanders fields, Graham Parker, I, Menin gate, museum, poppy, remember, tour, travel, world war, world war one, Ypres
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Wendy Andrade returns from Alden Biesen
Internationally renowned florist, Wendy Andrade travelled with ECT to The Flower Event at the National Commandery, Alden Biesen, Belgium in September. Her career is going from strength to strength with her new book coming out next year. ECT talked to … Continue reading
Posted in Destination guide, Europe, fashion, Floristry, Horticulture, Interview, Tour, Uncategorized
Tagged Alden Biesen, arrangments, belgium, Chelsea Flower Show, Designers, ECT, ECT Travel, European Connoiseurs Travel, floral, floristry, Flower Event, gilt medals, group tour, Hadlow college, interview, National Commandery, oscars, pasadena rose, philadelphia flower show, September, tour, travel, Wendy, wendy Andrade
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My year with Monet
The Englishman, James Priest, details his first changes to Monet’s Garden. James will appear at Chelsea Flower Show May 20 – 21. His visit is being sponsored by ECT Travel. James Priest, the horticulturalist from Lancashire who was appointed head … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Destination guide, Europe, Floristry, Gardening, Horticulture, Interview
Tagged Chelsea Flower Show, ECT, Foundation Claude Monet, Foundation Claude Monet Giverny, France, garden tour, garden tours, Giverney, group tours, horticulture, James Priest, Monet's gardens, tours, travel
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CEO Life – Getting ready for Southport and the National Show
The NAFAS National Show is being hosted in Southport this year. As this is a new destination for us, with new hotels, I wished to make a visit in person, to make sure I was happy with our arrangements. By … Continue reading
Posted in CEO Life, City Break, Destination guide, Floristry, Shopping, UK, Uncategorized
Tagged best western, ECT, ECT Travel, floristry, floristry event, floristry tour, florists, Liverpool, NAFAS, National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies, National show, red squirrels, royal clifton hotel & spa, shopping, southport, Theresa Mc Dermott, v-spa, vincent hotel, wayfarers shopping arcade
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Victoria Richards – The one to watch in UK floristry
ECT Travel talks to Victoria Richards, a bright new star in the floristry trade, flying the flag for the UK by winning a Medallion of Excellence in the WorldSkills competition 2011. For a girl who originally wanted to be a … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Floristry, Interview, UK
Tagged Chelsea Flower Show, college day, Competition, ECT, European Connoisseurs Travel, f, floral arrangements, floral decoration, floral exhibition, floration decorations, floristry exhibition, florists, floristy, flower market, Flower Market College Day, foristry group tours, Gregor Learch, group travel, Joe Massie, new covent garden college days, New Covent Garden Flower Market, Theresa Mc Dermott, Victoria Richards, Worldskills
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The Bonn Experience
Bonn is sure to come as a wonderful surprise to those who visit it for the first time. ECT Travel regularly takes tour groups to this German city throughout the year and for the world famous Christmas Market. It has … Continue reading
Posted in City Break, Destination guide, Europe, Memoirs of a travel guide, Shopping, Tour, Travel tips, We love Christmas markets
Tagged air travel, Bonn at Christmas, Bonn at Xmas, Bonn Christmas Market, Bonn Xmas Market, Christmas, Christmas break holidays, Christmas Market, City break, ECT, European Connoisseurs Travel, German Christmas Market, German Christmas Markets, German Xmas Market, German Xmas Markets, Graham Parker, group travel, shopping tour, visit Bonn
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The Business of Inspiration
Liz Anderson from London’s new Covent Garden market talks to ECT Travel about Flower Market College Day, a day where students get to experience the cut and thrust of commercial buying and a day that ECT is proudly sponsoring on … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Destination guide, Floristry, Gardening, Horticulture, Interview, UK
Tagged college day, Covent Garden, Covent Garden market, ECT, Floral demonstration, florist and wholesale buyer, floristry, floristry student, florists, flower market, Flower Market College Day, flowers, Liz Anderson, magazine, market, NCGM, new covent garden college days
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