Retirement gift for my girlfriend - ideas help!

[Retirementunderrated]

Hi y'all,
Name changed for this. My girlfriend (am also a woman) is retiring from headteachering & LA leadership this Xmas. Will be 60 next yr. We don't live together but been together five years. I am 45.
She likes -
outsiding
walking
gardening
American politics & history
high class hotels
travel
cities
history
Making things & people who make things (metalwork, jewellery, ceramics, building actual houses!)

Dislikes -
fashion, beauty & botoxy type things.

She is in process of buying a house with wild south facing garden near to me ( I may sell up & move in with her, pending) and loves the idea of a new VW California or similar. No pets / children.

I know lots of you have fab, unusual ideas. I think her colleagues are buying her an outdoor pizza oven & garden vouchers, but I wanted to get something more special.

So far, I'm in touch with a local jeweller she admires who does silversmith classes. Any more ideas?

Thank you!!

I didn't even know this was a thing. DH retired on Thursday. Should I have bought him a present?

Why not do an experience together rather than a gift?
A fancy weekend somewhere she loves in an expensive hotel?

The silversmith classes sound great! I think something she can do in the spare time she'll have would be good. If she likes outdoor things, maybe a twine craft workshop or something so have can make something for the garden? My parents went on a day course in the Lake District where they learned to make wicker deer! They've done another couple of similar things.

@TheLovelinessOfDemons

I didn't even know this was a thing. DH retired on Thursday. Should I have bought him a present?

People are allowed to be different and do different things. It would be dull if we all celebrated things in the same way. I am surprised you haven’t realised that before now tbh .

Yeah! Unfortunately I'm still working for the next thousand years but I'm hoping that in 2022 we can book a lovely city somewhere.
I have thought about a stonemasonry weekend (she'll have a lot of school career to beat out), has anyone done anything like that?

Ah it was willow crafting actually.

Maybe something here and you could make a weekend of it? www.rivercottage.net/courses

I get that TheLovelinessOfDemons
there's no party or even a colleagues meal out here. She's hoping to 'slip away' (I have said that's mostly reserved for death if you're lucky 🙄)

I would be annoyed as hell if my partner retired while I had to spend the next 20 years working! So I'd definitely get them something like an experience or a holiday that I could enjoy as well, as a kind of compensation.

I get that 18StarryStarrySocks but they've done their share - time to chill out!