Fly direct to Canada


with onward connections to Florida & California*


London Gatwick > Toronto


Up to 14 flights a week


London Gatwick > Quebec City


One flight a week


Manchester > Toronto


Up to 6 flights a week


London Gatwick > Montreal


Up to 7 flights a week


Glasgow > Toronto


Up to 7 flights a week


Dublin > Toronto


Up to 6 flights a week


been, but I heard it lasts for three hours,” says Davy, before launching into a rendition of early soul number Walking the Dog, by Rufus Thomas, as we pass by the ‘Welcome to Beale Street’ sign, marking one of America’s most famous entertainment streets. Beale Street provided venues for


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artists BB King, Howlin’ Wolf and, most famously, Elvis Presley. We drive past Presley’s pre-fame home Lauderdale Courts – not far from the clubs and bars of Beale Street – where he lived with his parents after moving from “a shotgun shack in Tupelo”. “Eight years later, Elvis was buying Graceland,” says Davy. The tour also takes in Sun Studio – also known as the ‘birthplace of rock‘n’roll’ – and poignantly the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King was assassinated, but also where Wilson Pickett wrote In the Midnight Hour and where


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Eddie Floyd wrote Knock on Wood. “There were happier times at the


Lorraine Motel,” says Davy. Book it: Experience available as an optional excursion ($30) on Costsaver’s 11-day Rhythms of the South tour, which starts from £1,766 based on a September 23 departure, including accommodation and domestic transport. International flights not included. costsavertour.com


LOUISIANA: THE COASTAL SEAFOOD ADVENTURE While New Orleans may be famous for jazz, daiquiris and Mardi Gras, a nature spot at the edge of the city is home to some of the largest wetlands in the US. On the way there to meet a


fifth-generation oysterman, we pass the 1.8-mile ‘Great Wall of Louisiana’, built after Hurricane Katrina to protect the city from


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