UK & IRELAND SEASONS DESTINATIONS


ABOVE: The Tennerfest food festival in Jersey and Guernsey


LEFT: Blackpool Illuminations


flamboyant costumes, carnival- style street parties and Guinness aplenty. Just put March 17 in your diary for next year. Go on an egg hunt: Easter has its own set of festivities, with annual family-friendly egg hunts at castles, palaces and National Trust properties across the UK, but for those wanting to make a full getaway of it, suggest a trip to Butlin’s. Its three resorts will be hosting various activities in 2019 including an all-singing, all-dancing Easter Parade, a chocolate-filled arts and crafts session and an egg hunt. Guests coming at this time of year will also be able to see the Spring Farmyard, home to donkeys, rabbits, piglets and other cute creatures (prices from £94 per person based on four sharing a two-bedroom apartment in Minehead, for a trip starting on April 5, 2019). See the UK in bloom: Spring is also the time when the UK’s gardens burst into colour, and


gardens across the country, from Chatsworth to Chelsea, get out their glad rags and put on their flower shows. Great Rail Journeys offers a


Cornwall Spring Flower Show trip for guests wanting to see the daffodils, magnolias and myriad other flora filling Cornwall’s picturesque Boconnoc Estate in April, combining it with visits to the Eden Project and the Lost Gardens of Heligan, and adding in a ride on the Bodmin & Wenford Steam Railway (from £595 per person, departing April 5, 2019). Just Go Holidays, meanwhile,


takes clients to the Cotswolds on a gardens and villages-themed trip as part of its new National Trust range, stopping at Hidcote and Snowshill Manor Garden and exploring the grey-stone, quintessentially English towns that scatter the region, with prices from £510 per person self-drive or £655 by coach (for four nights’ half-board).


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PICTURE: JERSEY TOURISM/GARETH SAMBRIDGE


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