The Yarn Market Hotel is situated in a historic building in the heart of Dunster, in Exmoor National Park. It offers ensuite bedrooms and restaurant with choice menu. There is very limited lift access, most rooms are accessed via stairs

Travel 200 years into the past at two miles per hour aboard one of the very last remaining horse-drawn passenger barges in Great Britain. As your majestic heavy horse sets off along the 200-year-old Grand Western Canal, the world slows to a gentler pace. Listen to the rhythmic clip-clop of hooves, watch sunlight dance on the water, and spot brightly coloured dragonflies and flag iris along the banks. It felt like stepping back into a slower, more peaceful time – with crew dressed in clothing of a bygone era, this is living heritage at its most tranquil and enchanting

Step into a village where time seems to pause. Dunster, nestled between the wooded hills of Exmoor and the sea, has often been described as one of England's best-preserved medieval villages. Your guided tour reveals cobbled streets leading to the Yarn Market, built in 1609 – a monument to Dunster's once-flourishing cloth trade still bearing the damage caused by cannon fire in the Civil War. Above it all rises magnificent Dunster Castle, developed over 1,000 years from a Norman fortress into a comfortable Victorian country house, home to 18 generations of the Luttrell family, where we have included entry after your tour

The whistle sounds, steam billows, and suddenly you're transported to the golden age of rail travel. Britain's longest standard-gauge heritage railway carries you on a 23-mile journey through rolling Somerset countryside, passing through the Quantocks before running alongside the sea toward Minehead. Settle into your vintage carriage as the beautifully cared-for engines take you back to another era, with wild flowers blooming along the embankments and stations ablaze with colour. We enjoy a delicious cream tea onboard before spending the afternoon exploring Minehead's seaside charms

This holiday departs from our Main Pick Up Points:

Corby, Desborough, Higham Ferrers, Kettering, Lutterworth, Market Harborough, Northampton, Oadby, Rothwell, Rushden, Thrapston, Wellingborough