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Article: Majestic views from voyage to tippermost top of Europe; TheGreat Escape.(Features)
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- Birmingham Mail (England)
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- November 4, 2009
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Byline: Barry Phillips
WHILE others soaked up the sun in Torquay or Tenerife, here was a chance to sail away, take a swim in the Arctic and celebrate a Warwickshire coach firm's centenary year.
Johnsons, of Henley in Arden began as horse-drawn carriers and now run the Birmingham-Stratford X20 and other bus services alongside a 42-strong fleet of holiday coaches, and this year added Fred Olsen Cruises to their awardwinning tours by road and air.
Here was my passport to sail some of the 12,000-mile rugged coast and 7,000 islands of Norway for the first time and venture to mainland Europe's most northerly point at the stark 1,000ft high cliffs of ...