Our G&T Foray to the Cotswolds brings you the usual G&T combination of great food, top accommodation, magnificent private gardens, great estates and, of course, congenial company.

This is widely acclaimed as the most beautiful countryside in Britain, its gentle rolling hills dotted with picturesque villages and handsome towns built in gorgeous honey-coloured limestone. It's a region that grew rich on the wool trade at a great time for English architecture, and which has always attracted the rich and powerful, from the Duke of Marlborough in the 18th century to rock squires and politicians in the 21st. Some of them have inspired great gardens to embellish their grand retreats.

Over the week we will be visiting some of the finest gardens in England, including Hidcote, Kiftsgate, Sudeley Castle and the incomparable Rousham.

In true G&T style there will also be exclusive events and visits to secluded gardens, including a visit to the magnificent private garden at Dean Manor and a day with the celebrated gardener, designer and watercolourist, Matthew Rice, at his castle, Ham Court.

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The price of the tour includes six nights at the award-winning and deeply luxurious Bruern Cottages in the heart of the Cotswolds, close to Burford and the enigmatic Rollright Stones.

As well as being extremely comfortable and fully ensuite in most rooms, Bruern comes with an indoor swimming pool, gym and its own lovely gardens.

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Simon and Jason take food seriously, and this bucolic region of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire is a food heaven, with a vibrant restaurant scene sustained by great local produce and a discerning clientele.

G&T guests enjoy delicious lunches, sophisticated dinners and scrumptious teas, every day. Scroll down for more details.

5 North St is a tiny, family run restaurant in lovely Winchcombe, and we are thrilled that it is opening exclusively for G&T. The seasonal menu features locally sourced ingredients, used in flavoursome dishes that are cooked with flair and creativity. Classical French ideas inform their modern masterpieces.

The Hare is a classic country pub, with ideas above its station when it comes to pub grub. A changing menu features locally sourced ingredients, served in a warm and cheerful atmosphere.

On our return home from the gardens, there’s always a fresh cake for tea… every day is a revelation!

And then, after tea, after evening drinks, it’s time for dinner.

Need we say more?

Dave Cross is a private chef with a host of celebrity clients - and an annual gig cooking for the circus, Fool's Delight.

As ever we will be serving everyone's favourite tipples and a selection of wines chosen for us by our bon-vivant sommelier, the well-known clothier Johnnie Boden.

You are collected at Kingham station, to arrive at Bruern Abbey Cottages for tea. We have time to unwind and enjoy the garden over drinks, before dinner is served.

Simon Tiffin and Jason Goodwin will set the scene with an introductory talk on the history and gardens of the Cotswolds.

This morning we will visit the (ten!) gardens at Sudely Castle. First laid out in the 15th century, Sudeley was largely abandoned and reclaimed by nature until Emma Dent launched a major 19th century restoration. More recently, a number of distinguished gardeners have worked with Elizabeth, Lady Ashcombe, to re-imagine and maintain the gardens in keeping with the historic and magnificent backdrop of Sudeley Castle.

After lunch at the classic, tiny 5 North Street, in Winchcombe, we have an invitation to Sezincote, the astonishing Moghul palace created by Colonel John Cockerell, who made a fortune in the East India Company.

A morning visit to the gardens at Asthall Manor, designed by our Somerset friends Isabel and Julian Bannerman to flow seamlessly into the Windrush Valley landscape. The gardens blend open views with secret spaces, with tranquil walks bordered by sharp wedges of yew, vast beeches enclosing a hidden lake, orchards sloping down to the mill stream, stone tubs overgrown with roses and a formal box-bordered parterre.

Lunch will be at Bruern Abbey Cottages.

In the afternoon we will visit the exquisite garden at Dean Manor, a quintessential English garden of six acres, comprising complex yew hedging and herbaceous borders, a kitchen and cutting garden, areas of wildflower meadow, an orchard and water gardens, surrounded by stone walls supporting roses, clematis and hydrangeas.

The incomparable Rousham is perhaps England’s loveliest and most romantic garden, set against the backdrop of the Carolingian house.

We will have a splendid picnic lunch in the Rousham grounds, and go on to absorb the ancient atmosphere of the enigmatic Rollright Stones, perhaps the key to the Cotswolds’ exquisite man-made landscape, before returning to the cottages for tea and dinner.

Over the last 30 years Emma Keswick has created - from scratch - one of the finest gardens in the Cotswolds, a testament to plantsmanship and sculptural form. In the morning we are invited to explore this extraordinary 8-acre jewel which, in the words of the great photographer Clive Nichols, 'oozes English country garden chic at every turn'..

After lunch at The Hare in nearby Milton-under-Wychwood, we move on to two of the Cotswold’s must-see gardens, Kiftsgate and Hidcote, finishing the visit with a champagne tea in the Hidcote belvedere.

This Arts and Crafts-inspired garden was created in friendly rivalry with neighbouring Kiftsgate by the passionate plantsman and designer, Major Lawrence Johnston. Over ten acres of gardens, with the smaller, more formal garden ‘rooms’ near the house giving way to more natural areas that blend in with the surrounding countryside.

Famed for its roses – and in particular the eponymous scented climbing rose which is shade-tolerant and vigorous – and for its intimate and ever-evolving views, the hillside garden at Kiftsgate was shaped by three generations of women gardeners.

We stay close to Bruern Cottages’ gardens, gym and swimming pool this morning, with an invitation to visit the gardens laid out at Bruern Abbey by Angel Collins.

Angel was commissioned to restore the badly neglected gardens at Bruern by the new owners, Lord Glendonbrook and Martin Ritchie, in 2012. The eye-catcher is the long canal, framed by beehive hornbeams, but the Moorish-inspired courtyard garden is an intimate jewel, its narrow rills set off by agapanthus Navy Blue.

We proceed to Bampton, to enjoy the energy and wit of the celebrated gardener, designer and watercolourist Matthew Rice at his beautiful home, Ham Court, in Bampton.

Matthew designed our lovely G&T logo, and will be showing us around the moats, woodland, lawns, gravel planting and vegetable kingdom at Ham Court.

After a fabulous al fresco lunch, he’ll be delving into the techniques of botanical drawing. Among Matthew’s many ferocious displays of talent (he plays the piano, too) he is much sought-after as a teacher.

For a rousing finale we return for a valedictory dinner at Bruern cottages.

Depart Bruern, for Kingham station.