also follows in the footsteps of Agatha Christie and Winston Churchill with high tea on the terraces of the Old Cataract Hotel, adding a traditional felucca boat sailing and a party wearing traditional Egyptian dress. Book it: Insight Vacations’ seven- day Gold tour, Elegance of Egypt, sandwiches a three-night Nile cruise between four days’ sightseeing in Cairo and Giza, priced from £1,850 including B&B accommodation, transfers and sightseeing; flights extra. insightvacations.com


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SCOTTISH ISLANDS AND ICELAND The highlands and islands of the British Isles might


not sound like natural bedfellows with Reykjavik, but go back a few centuries and there was actually a lot of crossover between bonny Scotland and the Nordic regions. Those links of landscape and culture


come to the fore when explored in a single trip, which is why Great Rail


Journeys runs a 15-day tour combining Scotland with a cruise through the Icelandic fjords. Starting with a walking tour of


Glasgow, the trip features a heritage train journey along the Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway, tour of Stirling Castle, and sightseeing around Edinburgh, before heading to Leith to board the 800-passenger Marco Polo. From there, cruise stops include


colourful Torshavn in the Faroe Islands, one of the world’s smallest capitals, then Icelandic fishing town Seydisfjordur, scenic Isafjordur, plus sightseeing excursions at Reykjavik to the Blue Lagoon, Gullfoss Waterfall and Unesco-protected Thingvellir National Park. Finish with stops at Iceland’s


Westmann Islands, Lerwick in the Shetlands, and finally Orkneys’ capital Kirkwall, and the similarities between these remote regions becomes even more apparent. Book it: Great Rail Journeys’ Scotland & The Northern Isles Cruise starts at


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