rock legends 5 day tour by mini-coach with Back-Roads Touring Co.

TENTATIVE ITINERARY	NIGHTSTOP

DAY ONE - Tuesday
You join our full day ''London's Rock Legends and Beatle sites' tour which departs from the Hard Rock Café at 10.00. You'll see five decades of rock history. See where the legends lived and still live, and where some died. Visit the heart of the Hippies 'Swinging Sixties' and the birthplace of the Seventies Punk Rock movement. See famous gig sites, clubs, rock hotels, record labels, management offices and studios. See where famed album covers were shot. Get your own photo taken at Abbey Road and at the Bill Wyman's (Stones) 'Sticky Fingers' restaurant. See all the most important Beatle sites such as Paul and Ringo's houses, Apple HQ, EMI Studios and many more. This tour takes you where other walking tours can't! Visit Camden, Primrose Hill, Hamstead, Muswell Hill, Highgate, Islington, Chelsea, Kensington, Notting Hill, St John's Wood and Soho! At the conclusion of the tour you're taken to the Kings Cross rail station where you board a train to Liverpool. Your centrally located accommodation is a short walk from both the train station and Liverpool's' famed Cavern Club. Dinner is not included tonight and you're free to explore the city's nightlife in the famed 'Mathews Street' quarter, or perhaps vist the Jacaranda Club, hardly changed since the Beatles themselves played there.	Liverpool
DAY TWO - Wednesday
Mecca or Macca? It's Liverpool and the starting point of the greatest musical adventure yet written. Today you'll see the city that gave birth to those Fab Four, the mop-topped Beatles! This tour will take in over 60 important places around the Beatles' Liverpool. The homes of Paul and John (Mendips, Forthlin Road), Strawberry Field, Penny Lane, St. Peters Woolton, The Art College and the Liverpool Institute, The Casbah, The Cavern, Arnold Grove, Dovedale School. We'll take you to places important in the lives of the Beatles, and give you a true taste of life in the 1960s in this great city, such as taking the ferry across the Mersey! We'll also visit the fantastic Beatles Story Exhibition. This gets us in the mood for a night's entertainment at the world's most famed Rock club, The Cavern, home of the Beatles, and where we'll enjoy a nostalgic night. With live bands on every night, maybe we'll see the 'next ' Beatles!	Liverpool
DAY THREE - Thursday
This morning you take the fifty-minute train ride to Manchester, arriving by 10.30. You're met by your local '24 Hour Party Person' and taken on an amazing journey through this great city's musical heritage. Manchester is the UK's greatest 'hidden' rock secret! 'What Manchester does today London does tomorrow' has been this city proud boast. This is a great and historic city enjoying a cultural renaissance and worth a visit in its own right. Where do we start with the music? Herman's Hermits, Graham Nash and The Hollies, 10CC, Simply Red, Factory Records, Oasis, The Smiths, The Hacienda and Twenty-four Hour party people (Acid House music), Happy Mondays, John Mayall, The Doves, Joy Division, The Buzzcocks, The Bee Gees, Barclay James Harvest, The Verve, The Fall, James, New Order, The Stone Roses, M People, Take That .. the list is endless. There must be something in the water! You'll enjoy a fully guided tour of the rock sites, stars homes, album covers and lyric references. A visit to the local Hard Rock Cafe to see their Manchester 'greats' collection is a must. And tonight you'll be free to either take in a concert (perhaps a university gig) and/or explore one of the UK's most vibrant nightclub scenes. Perhaps you'll catch the next mega-stars before the rest of the world does!	Manchester
DAY FOUR - Friday
Today you fly to Ireland, as today's rock city is Dublin. The flight is just an hour long. We take care of your transfer to the airport and you take the local bus to your accommodation in central Dublin. Home of U2, Thin Lizzy, Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats, Sinead O'Connor, The Cranberries, The Waterboys, Chris De Burgh and many others. This afternoon you'll enjoy a 'rock and stroll' tour of this city seeing sites connected with Dublin's finest. This evening we'll 'hit the town' taking a Rock 'n' Roll pub crawl! This will be a memorable evening enjoying the 'craic' as there's nowhere on earth like a Dublin pub - live music, great drink and food, and the friendliest of locals!	Dublin
DAY FIVE - Saturday
This morning you can continue your Dublin rock explorations. It's a great city for finding that obscure recording you've been looking for. It's also great for city 'buskers' (street musicians) and for simply 'hanging out'. At your own choice of time you can return to London or onward travel to a destination of your choosing. Dublin has direct flights to many North American cities and low cost connections to cities throughout Europe. Transfer and return flights not included in your tour package. Additional nights' accommodation and transfers can be booked separately.