• 6 Dinner (D)
• 10 Breakfast (B)
• 1 Lunch (L)

• Business class coach with extended leg room
• Top-rated dining, from farm-to-table to local restaurants
• 4 & 5-star stays

• Brussels: Join a private chocolate truffle-making lesson and tasting with a master chocolatier to get up close and personal with the decadent flavors of Brussels. Then enhance your discovery exploring Brussels with your Local Specialist. Visit the cobbled square of the Grand-Place, home to the Town Hall and other buildings of political significance. This 12th century, Gothic architectural gem also hosts many concerts, fairs and folklore events and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998.
• Brussels: No visit to Belgium is complete without a trip to the site of the historic Battle of Waterloo. Your Travel Director reveals how the Battle of Waterloo was fought at this very spot between Napoleon’s French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blucher, ending a 23-year war and Napolean’s imperial power. Step inside the museum and the underground Visitor Center to enhance your discovery through a 3D film and monumental panoramic painting depicting the battle.

• Brussels: Discover the flavors of Belgian cuisine, from rich chocolates to savory moules-frites, in the capital’s historic heart.
• Ypres: Sample a cool Belgian beer, brewed with traditional methods that have defined the region’s taste for generations.
• Paris: Join your Travel Director and fellow guests at a local restaurant in the heart of the city for a delightful dinner served with wine.

See Paris with a Local Specialist, from the Eiffel Tower and Notre-Dame Cathedral to the fountains and obelisk of Place de la Concorde. Boulevards, bridges and river islands sketch a city shaped by kings, revolution and creativity.

Drive the Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe, exploring how triumphal axes, Haussmannian avenues and café culture interlace. Commentary brings neighborhoods to life, from grand squares to hidden courtyards.

Taste Normandy cuisine in a convivial local setting, pairing orchard-fresh cider with seafood, cream sauces and regional cheeses like Camembert. Seasonal menus highlight coastal terroir and farmhouse traditions.

Hosts share culinary stories that connect plate to place, from Calvados distilling to dairy pastures ringed by hedgerows. This optional dining experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Cruise the River Seine past illuminated quays, bridges and monuments as Paris glides by your window. A multi-course menu showcases French classics paired with regional wines.

Views of the Eiffel Tower, Île de la Cité and facades along the Louvre’s riverfront create a romantic tableau of Paris at night. This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

• London: Explore one of the world’s leading museums of conflict, focusing on the impact of modern warfare on individuals and societies. Through powerful exhibitions, learn about the World Wars and their lasting effects, featuring personal stories, military artifacts, and immersive experiences.
• Zonnebeke: Discover the tragic history of one of the bloodiest battles of World War I. The Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 offers a poignant journey through the events of the Battle of Passchendaele, with vivid displays of war relics, reconstructed trenches, and interactive exhibits to understand the devastation and courage of the soldiers.  
• Zonnebeke: Pay your respects at the largest Commonwealth military cemetery in the world, where over 11,900 soldiers of World War I are laid to rest. The Tyne Cot Cemetery is a solemn and moving tribute to the fallen, offering an opportunity for quiet reflection amidst the rows of white gravestones and the impressive memorial wall.  
• Ypres: As evening settles over Ypres, gather at the Menin Gate to hear the Last Post sounded in remembrance of those who lost their lives in the First World War. In this deeply moving setting, take a moment to reflect on the human stories behind the conflict and the enduring importance of remembrance.
• Fromelles: Discover the remarkable work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and its enduring commitment to remembrance. Learn how the organization commemorates 1.7 million casualties of the First and Second World Wars, gaining insight into the care, dedication and responsibility involved in preserving their memory for generations to come.
• Amiens: Venture through the battlefields of the Somme, as your local historian explains how brave soldiers fought tirelessly for five months.
• Thiepval: Trace the stories of those who fought on the Somme as you visit the Franco-British Memorial at Thiepval, Lochnagar Crater and the South African and New Zealand Memorials at Longueval. These poignant sites offer a powerful perspective on the international scale of the conflict and the many nations whose soldiers are remembered across this historic landscape
• Paris: At the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, discover the story of the Australian soldiers who helped save the town. Continue to the Sir John Monash Center, where your visit brings their experiences into sharper focus, revealing the courage, sacrifice and lasting connection between Villers-Bretonneux and Australia.
• Sainte-Opportune-du-Bosc, Eure, Normandie, France: Step into the opulence of the Château du Champ de Bataille, a magnificent 17th-century estate in Normandy. This grand chateau boasts stunning gardens designed by renowned landscape architect Jacques Garcia, who has also restored the lavish interiors, offering visitors a glimpse into aristocratic life and French history.  

Explore London’s signature sights with a Local Specialist, taking in the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, and the ceremonial heart of Buckingham Palace. This curated overview sets the stage for a deeper understanding of Britain’s wartime story and its capital’s enduring resilience.

Continue to the Imperial War Museum to encounter personal testimonies, First World War trench reconstructions and artifacts that trace conflict’s human impact. Exhibits spotlight the Blitz, codebreaking and the Holocaust Galleries, grounding major events in powerful individual stories.

Discover the scarred landscapes of the Ypres Salient at Hill 60 and Polygon Wood, where cratered ground and memorials reveal the ferocity of trench warfare. Your visit connects geography with strategy, placing names etched in history back into their physical setting.

At the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, reconstructed trenches, recovered relics and interactive galleries illuminate the battle’s muddy stalemate and staggering human cost. Context from local historians frames courage, loss and the tactics that defined the Western Front.

Visit Tyne Cot Cemetery, the world’s largest Commonwealth military cemetery, to contemplate the quiet symmetry of Portland stone headstones stretching across Flanders fields. The Cross of Sacrifice and Names Panels convey scale and intimacy in equal measure.

Walk the terraces to read regimental badges and brief epitaphs that restore identity to the fallen. The surrounding landscape, once fought over, underscores how remembrance and careful stewardship honor service a century on.

Gather beneath the arches of the Menin Gate to hear the nightly Last Post, a ritual sounded since 1928 in remembrance of those with no known grave. The bugle calls reverberate through the memorial’s vast lists of names.

In this moving civic rite, the town and its visitors pause for photos and reflection, linking past and present in a space dedicated to gratitude and quiet dignity.

Pay respects at the Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery, where recent DNA identifications have restored names to the fallen of one of Australia’s darkest days. The stillness of the site invites personal remembrance.

Learn how the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cares for 1.7 million commemorations worldwide—its horticulture, stonework and archival research preserving memory with precision and humility across continents and generations.

Stand before the Canadian National Vimy Memorial, its pale pylons rising above former front lines to honor service and sacrifice. Sweeping views of the Douai Plain set the scene for a pivotal 1917 victory.

At preserved trenches and the Visitor Centre, guides explain underground saps, artillery tactics and national legacy. Sculptural symbolism and inscriptions deepen appreciation for how this battle helped shape a nation’s identity.

Join your Local Specialist to trace the Somme offensive across key sites: the Franco-British Memorial at Thiepval, the vast Lochnagar Crater, and the South African and New Zealand Memorials at Longueval. Each stop layers strategy with lived experience.

Names, regiments and battlefield contours reveal how industrial warfare reshaped tactics and terrain. Interpretive panels and preserved features translate maps into places where decisions, courage and loss converged.

Explore the privately curated Ocean Villas Museum, where artifacts, letters and everyday objects humanize the front line. Step into original war trenches that thread through the garden, feeling the confined scale of a soldier’s world.

View what is known as the first private Remembrance Wall on the Western Front, created to honor both survivors and the fallen. Your visit supports community-led heritage preservation and thoughtful storytelling.

Visit the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, where rows of headstones and the central tower overlook fields once saved by Australian forces. The setting invites quiet gratitude and contemplation.

At the Sir John Monash Centre, multimedia galleries immerse you in first-hand accounts, maps and film. The experience traces strategy, sacrifice and enduring bonds between France and Australia forged in 1918.

Admire Amiens Cathedral, a masterpiece of High Gothic art whose soaring nave and intricate west front reveal medieval craftsmanship at monumental scale. The building’s harmony of light and stone rewards unhurried viewing.

Carved portals, saints and kings, and centuries-old stained glass capture spiritual and civic pride. War-time scars and careful restoration tell a parallel story of endurance and renewal in Picardy’s heart.

Wander Rouen’s timbered lanes to Rouen Cathedral, whose lacy facade inspired Monet’s serial paintings. Continue beneath the Gros-Horloge to cobbled squares anchored by guildhalls and gables.

At the Old Market Square, reflect at the modern church and memorial that mark where Joan of Arc was martyred in 1431. Layers of medieval commerce, faith and national memory meet in this compact historic core.

Step into the 17th-century grandeur of the Château du Champ de Bataille, where restored salons and galleries reveal aristocratic taste from Louis XIV’s era. Furnishings and tapestries evoke ceremony and spectacle.

Outside, formal French gardens unfold in terraces, pools and statuary envisioned by owner-designer Jacques Garcia. Vistas and parterres frame a lesson in classical symmetry, elegance and the art of cultivated landscape.

Walk the clifftop at Pointe du Hoc, where bomb craters, casemates and shattered concrete still mark D-Day’s fiercest ground. The Rangers Memorial honors the U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion’s audacious cliff assault.

Gazing down the chalk escarpment to the Channel links terrain to tactics: artillery neutralized, beachheads secured, momentum gained. Guides decode fortifications and timelines amid the preserved Atlantic Wall positions.

Explore the Utah Beach Landing Museum, tracing the D-Day landings from planning to breakout with archives, landing craft and period vehicles. Board a C-47 flight simulator to sense the paratroop experience over Normandy.

Nearby, the Dead Man’s Corner Museum examines the Airborne story around Saint-Côme-du-Mont, linking artifacts with the events portrayed in Band of Brothers. Exhibits anchor personal narratives within the wider Utah sector campaign.

Visit Omaha Beach to read the shoreline and bluffs that shaped one of D-Day’s hardest-fought landings. Sand, surf and remnant defenses convey the operation’s scale and stakes.

At the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, aligned white markers face the sea. Reflect at the chapel and Walls of the Missing, and pause for photos and reflection as the landscape honors sacrifice with quiet grace.

Explore Versailles beyond the palace, strolling grand avenues and squares radiating from the Place d’Armes. Baroque facades, market halls and elegant town planning reveal the daily life that supported courtly splendor.

Your Travel Director highlights churches, civic buildings and vistas that frame the royal city’s urban design. Stories of architects, artisans and courtiers place Versailles within France’s artistic and political imagination.

Sample regional beers in Ypres, where centuries of Flemish brewing meet contemporary craft. Notes of spice, fruit and malt unfold across styles from crisp blondes to rich dubbels.

Your Travel Director introduces traditions behind Trappist and abbey-inspired brews, glassware rituals and food pairings. The convivial setting offers a palate-led pause amid a day of remembrance and reflection.

Step inside St Paul’s Cathedral to admire Wren’s soaring dome and baroque detailing before crossing the Thames to the fortress-palace that guarded the realm. Stone, light and skyline views reveal layers of London’s story.

Enter the Tower of London to encounter Yeoman Warder tales and the Crown Jewels. This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Join a hands-on chocolate truffle-making lesson with a master chocolatier, learning tempering, fillings and finishing techniques that define Belgian excellence. Taste as you craft, comparing cacao origins and textures.

Continue to the Grand-Place, a UNESCO World Heritage Site framed by gilded guildhalls and the Town Hall’s lace-like spire. This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Travel to the field where the Battle of Waterloo reshaped Europe. Climb the Lion’s Mound for a general’s-eye view of ridgelines and cavalry avenues that decided Napoleon’s fate.

In the immersive Panorama and underground Visitor Centre, maps, artifacts and film unpack tactics and coalition command. This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Descend into the tunnels of Carrière Wellington, where the New Zealand Tunnelling Company carved a hidden city beneath Arras. Galleries, chambers and inscriptions reveal preparation for the 1917 offensive.

Guided interpretation links engineering ingenuity with the surprise assault that erupted from these chalk caverns. This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Enter Les Invalides, the golden-domed complex founded by Louis XIV, to view Napoleon’s Tomb beneath the Dôme des Invalides. Marble, light and symbolism underscore the scale of imperial memory.

In the Musée de l’Armée, galleries span medieval armor to modern campaigns, placing France’s military past in vivid context. This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Experience a classic Parisian cabaret where choreography, vocals and live music sparkle in a historic venue. Sequins and spotlight meet precise staging for a spirited night out.

Glasses clink as tableaux unfurl, celebrating the city’s theatrical heritage and nocturnal style. This evening entertainment is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

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