Beloved by fans of English literature all over the world, literary group tour specialists Select Travel can bring your group to a quiet corner of the English countryside for a more intimate look at the life and sites associated with the novels of Jane Austen.

Spend the day on a comfortable walk through the quiet corner of the English county of Hampshire. Pass through areas seemingly lost in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century which inspired two famous writers - the naturalist Gilbert White and Jane Austen. Walk into the delightful arcadia of woods and hidden pastures that surround Selborne, stop for lunch at The Queens Hotel before walking across Selborne Common and dowland to Chawton, the home of Jane Austen for the last eight, and most productive, years of her life. On the way you can reflect on Austen’s remark in ‘Persuasion’ that two villages only three miles apart and led by a specialist guide, the day will often spark much conversation and exchange of ideas and opinions on these great literary works. Select Travel Service designs a wide variety of English literary tours including Charles Dickens, William Wordsworth, Geoffrey Chaucer, the Bronte Sisters and of course William Shakespeare.

Calling all art museum travel planners! The new Museum of Impressionism in Giverny, France, is must see.

To celebrate the opening of this wonderful new collection, a very special inaugural exhibition on display from 1 May until 15 August, 2009 brings together some 20 paintings created by Monet himself, all of them featuring his gardens at Giverny. For the first time visitors can admire the Nympheas masterpieces in the very village where they were created and go from the reality of the motif to its pictorial portrayal by the master of Giverny on the same day. The exhibition focuses on Monet’s double creation work. A keen gardener, Monet skillfully landscaped his garden which then became a motif for his paintings. He “invented” the landscape he was going to paint. Specialist European group tour operator Select Travel features a day at this very special museum as an integral part of our custom art tours of France.