a
CONTACT

 
-

COMMENTARY
& OPINION

REAL LIFE
INTENSELY
COMPRESSED

select
———
-

2010
TRAVEL

PACKAGES
& PRICES:


BRITAIN & IRELAND:
select
SCOTLAND    
2010 PRICES

UP TO 19% BELOW 2009 LEVELS!



IRELAND       
2010 PRICES

UP TO 12% BELOW 2009 LEVELS!

-  


LONDON        
2010 PRICES

UP TO 19% BELOW 2009 LEVELS!

-
-
ENGLAND       
 
2010 PRICES 

UP TO 19% BELOW 2009 LEVELS!

••
WALES
        
2010 PRICES

UP TO 29% BELOW 2009 LEVELS!

select
Booking Your Trip to
BRITAIN/IRELAND

select

-

select
SCANDINAVIA:
select
DENMARK 
ctNORWAY .   
ctSWEDEN     
ct
2010 PRICES     
UP TO 23% BELOW 2009 LEVELS!

select

Booking Your Trip
to SCANDINAVIA

select

select
NEW ZEALAND:
sa
NORTH ISLAND
SOUTH ISLAND.
2010 PRICES     
UP TO 33% BELOW 2009 LEVELS!
select
Booking Your Trip
to NEW ZEALAND

a
———
a
Got Yours Yet?
ORDER A FREE

'VACATIONS'
CATALOG!

select
Got your 2009 Vacations Catalog yet?

select
——
select
DEALS AND
SPECIAL OFFERS

select

——
select
GET A FREE
TRIP PROPOSAL!

select

——
select
SUBSCRIBE TO:
HomEzine
our

FREE
TRAVEL
NEWSLETTER

sent by e-mail!
Each issue includes
the latest
Deals,
News and Features!
See the

CURRENT ISSUE.

select
———
select
CURRENT
FEATURES:

select
ADVENTURE
select
GOLF
select
LODGING
select
PEOPLE
select

———
select
CONTACT:
HOME AT FIRST
(800) 523-5842

info@homeatfirst.com
a
HOME AT FIRST

 

 

-
Great Castles of Britain


        The classic castle, like great art, is difficult to define. Ask anyone to describe his or her idealized castle and you may get the same answer you commonly hear for great art: "I know what I like, and I’ll know it when I see it."
-

        Almost everyone who travels to Britain wants to visit at least one castle. And Britain, fortunately, is chock a bloc with castles, fortresses, and palaces of all ages, styles, and sizes. There are large, royal, venerable fortresses with imposing histories and lavish interiors, like Windsor in England and Edinburgh in Scotland. There are romantic, fairytale castles, and private family castles like Leeds Castle in Kent, or the Queen’s Balmoral Castle and Andrew Carnegie’s Skibo Castle in Scotland. There are great tottering fortresses that played important rolls in the conquest of Britain like the Norman castles dotting England (Dover Castle and the Tower of London are famous examples), King Edward I’s foreboding chain of castles (Harlech, Caernarfon, Beaumaris, and Conwy), stretching around the northwest coast of Wales, and the superb Stirling Castle in Scotland.

Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, England. Photo © Home At First.

 

Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, England. Photo © Home At First

-
        We love castles of all shapes and sizes and all states of repair. We have our favorites, too, just like we have our favorite music and painters. In this series we present castles we have enjoyed and hope our enthusiasm compels the reader to make their own pilgrimage to these great shrines of history and monuments to imagination. Vicariously visit some of the Great Castles of Britain by clicking the following selections:
 

Caernarfon Castle

Caernarfon Castle

Caernarfon Castle

Caernarfon Castle

Caernarfon Castle

Caernarfon Castle

Caernarfon Castle

Caernarfon Castle

Caernarfon Castle

Caernarfon Castle

 

YOUR DREAM TRIP BEGINS BY CONTACTING
a
— HOME AT FIRST —


       
You can visit castles in all parts of Scotland, Wales, and England
as part of your trip with
Home At First. Our exclusive Activity Guides
tell you all about how to do it well. Start planning your next visit
to Britain with a visit to
Home At First.