Hopkins Journeys - Celtic Lands

May 12 - 21, 2025

From $8,495

Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Office of Alumni Relations, Lifelong Learning

Celebrate Celtic culture during a nine-night cruise to France, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Aboard Exploris One, your exclusively chartered, deluxe small ship, sail from Honfleur, France, to Fairlie, Scotland. Along the way, visit cultural landmarks and delve into the history of this storied region. Visit Normandy’s D-Day battlefields and discuss one of the 20th-century’s most consequential military campaigns with guest speaker Dwight David Eisenhower II, historian and grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Explore Caernarfon Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in Wales, and Scotland’s Eilean Donan Castle. Delight in the contrast of landscapes: the rugged, windswept islands of Iona and Skye and the botanical panoramas of Victorian-era Bodnant Garden in Wales and Tresco Abbey Gardens in the Isles of Scilly. See the legendary Book of Kells at Trinity College during a city tour of Dublin. In Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, get to know the colorful island towns of Tobermory and Portree. Soul-stirring performances of Welsh airs and traditional Irish music and dancing complete your experience.

For additional trip details and to make a reservation through Gohagan & Company, call 800-922-3088 or click here. 

Hopkins Journeys are open to alumni, friends, parents, faculty and staff offering exceptional destinations, enlightened faculty experts and local guides, and like-minded traveling companions in an array of tours from deluxe and traditional to the exotic and adventurous. For Hopkins-related questions, please contact Marguerite Jones, Program Manager, A&S '74, Bus '88.