Opulent Journeys

24/07/2026

🇮🇹 Join Melbourne-based Sardinian landscape architect, Carlo Gabrielle, who’s so excited to be sharing hidden gardens, Mediterranean landscapes and the fabulously rich cultural heritage of his beloved Sardinia and Sicily over twelve days next May. Send a DM with your contact details and we’ll forward the itinerary. 🇮🇹

10/09/2024

Our 2025 tour, Mid-Atlantic USA: The Art of Gardens, is an extraordinary opportunity to visit some of America's most exceptional private and public gardens. Thoughtfully designed, and led by Karl Gercens and me, this bespoke tour is like no other. You'll have the privilege to meet owners and gardeners, visit stunning galleries and sculpture gardens, travel in comfort and be accommodated in excellent hotels. American gardeners have applied universal design principles as well as inspiring with their own designs, often now focusing on sustainability. Using exotic and native plants to perfection, what all have in common is horticultural artistry.
Visits to stunning galleries and museums will help us appreciate metaphorical and tangible landscapes of America and elsewhere. We'd love you to join us for this very enjoyable journey. For details: www.opulentjourneys.com.au

03/11/2021

23/10/2021

Join Kim Rabbidge from who’ll be leading this fabulous tour next April. You’ll meet the owners in many of New Zealand’s best private gardens; we’ll enjoy heritage and avant-garde architecture, art, and the work of local artisans; dine in award-winning restaurants and relax over meals in gardens; stay in 4-5 star accommodation where available; travel in comfort by coach with a knowledgeable local driver. Oh, and of course you’ll be immersed in spectacular autumnal landscapes! For the booking form and itinerary: www.opulentjourneys.com.au 💚💛🧡🤎❤️💚

25/09/2021

With overseas travel expected to be possible from mid December we are excited to announce specialised quilt tours in 2022 and 2023 led by Chris Lean and Jann Baker.
Our customised tours include places of interest for quilters and, as many quilters are avid gardeners, we will also visit a selection of wonderful gardens.
The US Tour in June/July 2022 incorporates the Vermont Quilt Festival and Shelburne Museum, a dinner at a private home in Vermont and a 1 day workshop with kit included, as well as time to explore Boston and Lancaster PA and enjoy 4th July celebrations in New York.
The UK Tour in August 2022 will coincide with the Festival of Quilts, Birmingham and the French Tour in April 2023 will visit Pour l’Amour du Fil in Nantes.
These tours will be for a maximum of 15 participants and will be fully guided.
If you would like information on any of these please contact Opulent Journeys (link in bio) or message Jann on 0411 403 254

28/05/2021

Join us on a tour to New Zealand’s beautiful South Island in April 2022 when we’ll visit the fabulous Trotts Community Garden, Ashburton. We’ve a whole range of mostly private special gardens for you to visit, plus wineries and galleries - as well as plenty of opportunity to relax. 💚✈️🍁🍷💐🌳

28/05/2021

A stunning hoarfrost in the Otago region, New Zealand. Join us next April on a fabulous Gardens, Galleries and Vineyards tour.

24/05/2021

It won’t be just beautiful gardens when we visit New Zealand’s South Island next April. We’ll be visiting vineyards and galleries, and an aviation museum too. A big treat will be taking a dip in steamy thermal pools in the most delightful hillside village, Hanmer Springs. More details to follow.

22/05/2021

Winterhome Garden will be one of the beautiful places you’ll visit in New Zealand’s South Island on a tour next Autumn 2022. We’ll have the itinerary available shortly. So wonderful having a travel bubble with our NZ cousins across the ocean! 🍁🍂

22/05/2021

There’s an over abundance of beauty in New Zealand gardens and we’d like to share some of it with you. Next April 2022 join Kim Woods Rabbidge on a tour of gardens, galleries and wineries of the South Island in autumn! Well let you know soon when our itinerary’s confirmed. 🍁