Our Favourite Venues in Our Favourite Cities
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	Introduction - Background - London Module - Stratford-upon-Avon.Module - York.Module - Edinburgh.Module - Modular.Tour.Graphic

Background Information

• The Usual Caution Applies: 'Caveat Emptor', or Let the Buyer Beware

• The reason for the 'Caveat Emptor' is that we have not used this exact itinerary ourselves.  But, please read on...

• With only two exceptions, this tour is based on places that we have visited and enjoyed so much that, in most cases, we have seen them multiple times.

• The module technique allows the holiday to be tailored as 'vacation time' and money allow.  Subsequent trips can pick-up where you left off.

• This plan has the virtue of relying on public transport - trains, tube ['subway'], buses and taxis (albeit expensive) - and does not require hiring a car and self-driving on-the-left. (Do I hear a sigh of relief?)

• The itinerary assumes a knowledgeable, experienced, independent tourist with the willingness to do all of the 'homework' and detail work necessary to pull it all together.

• This type of itinerary may well be suitable for independent travellers who like to do things on their own schedule and not the tour package company's schedule.  Organised tour packages tend to take you to York Minster but not the National Railway Museum and the Castle Museum.  You will see Anne Hathaway's house but not the interiors of the other four Shakespeare properties.  In high season, three hours is not enough for Warwick Castle.  Etcetera.  Etcetera.

• Don't get us wrong.  Coach tours have their weaknesses, but they also tend to be more affordable (compared to independent travel), more convenient (you are not the one sorting out all of the details), more efficient (in keeping you on schedule) and are likely to have a local guide on board to give background information between stops.  

• In fact, this modular tour makes strategic use of a local tour bus in each of the four cities.  Like everything else, there are good ones and there are....

• The four cities chosen have so much to offer that first-timer's can understandably be distracted by myriad choices... it is just too hard to keep to this tight a schedule.

• Most days are heavily scheduled requiring an early start each morning.

• Experienced tourists will know that you can't see and do everything.  It comes down to choices:  'If we see this, we can't see that.'

• No allowance has been made for a 'free' morning or afternoon.  That kind of flexibility is a luxury that costs time and money.  Maximising the return on one's investment (vacation time and money), minimises the last-minute-changed-my-mind school of vacation planning.

• In a way, this long-winded narrative (Remember:  This advice is worth what you paid for it.) has inadvertently become a kind of test.  If you had the patience and thoroughness to read through it all... Congratulations!  Those are the very qualities needed for this type of travel planning.

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