Classic Tractor Tour in 2002, photo taken by Tom Gamage, Agrotours

 

Tour Highlights:

 

Day 1 –

 

Meet at Newark International Airport for your group flight, or choose to use airline miles or book your own flights!

 

Day 2 –

 

Arrive at London’s International Airport in the morning.

 

Your deluxe charter coach takes you into the city for a half-day city sightseeing tour with a local licensed guide!

 

Enjoy a “welcome” dinner at the hotel.

 

Day 3 –

 

A free day to enjoy shopping and sightseeing! Your guide will have suggestions, perhaps Harrods department store for the ladies, and the Science Museum with old tools and tractors for the men folk.

 

Perhaps choose to go to a theatre production this evening!

 

Day 4 –

 

Travel out to Bromyard in County Herefordshire to attend the annual gala “Country Show and Steam Rally” with hundreds of tractors to photograph!

 

Sample British specialties like “fish and chips” for lunch while watching the steam tractors perform!

 

 

Classic Tractor Tour in 2002, photos taken by Tom Gamage, Agrotours

 

Overnight at Great Malvern.

 

Day 5 –

 

Drive through the Welsh countryside with beautiful scenery, farms, hills, sheep grazing on the hillsides toward the town of Fishguard.

 

Visit a privately owned tractor collection.

 

Board the Stenaline ferry across the Irish sea! Overnight in Wexford.

 

Day 6 –

 

Inspect a David Brown dismantler and restorer of vintage tractors.

 

Tour Kilkenny Castle.

 

Visit the large Looby private collection near Kilkenny.

 

Overnight in Kilkenny.

 

Day 7 –

 

Travel toward Cork, Ireland’s second largest city, and tour Blarney Castle and the adjoining Blarney Woolen Mills for shopping bargains!

 

Visit the Olde Jameson’s Distillery.

 

Enjoy another private tractor collection! Overnight at Imperial Hotel, Cork.

 

Day 8 –

 

Drive toward Killarney and tour a collection of stationary engines.

 

Afternoon visit to beautiful Muckross Park and Gardens, and Muckross Farm.

 

Return to Cork for dinner.

 

Day 9 –

 

A full day tour of the Ring of Kerry!

 

BBQ dinner with members of the Kerry Vintage Tractor Club!

 

Day 10 –

 

After breakfast, drive to Portlalaoise. Visit with the president of the Irish Vintage Engine and Tractor Association.

 

Huge display of vintage tractors and equipment.

 

Day 11 –

 

Enjoy a Dublin city sightseeing tour!

 

See famed St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Trinity College and the Book of Kells.

 

Finish our tour at the Merry Ploughman’s Pub with a “farewell” dinner and an evening of Irish song and dance!

 

Day 12 –

 

Depart from Dublin’s international airport for the USA!