• 4 Dinner (D)
• 12 Breakfast (B)
• 1 Lunch (L)

• Amsterdam: Cruise along the old waterways with your Travel Director and fellow travellers. Discover the architectural gems of the old city, including mansions dating from the Golden Age of the 17th Century.
• Rhineland: Cruise beneath semi-ruined castles and terraced vineyards. Sleepy villages slip by as you saunter upstream to the Lorelei Rock where the enchantress lured sailors to their doom.
• Heidelberg: Explore one of Germany’s most enchanting cities during an orientation with your Travel Director.
• Munich: During your orientation of Munich with your Travel Director, see the Munich Residenz, former home of the Bavarian royal family, the State Opera House, the ornate neo-Gothic Town Hall, the Hofbräuhaus, St Peter’s Church and the famous Marienplatz.
• Innsbruck: Nestled amidst majestic mountains, Innsbruck is a beautiful city offering a unique combination of nature, history, and culture. Stroll the streets of the picturesque Old Town and learn about its history with your Travel Director. 
• Venice: Discover the ancient skill of Venetian glassblowing and play a part in preserving this traditional craft.
• Tuscany: View the stunning landscape of Tuscany on your drive today. 
• Florence: Join a Local Specialist to view the multicoloured marble cathedral, bell tower and baptistery, adorned by Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise. Visit the political heart of the city, Signoria Square.
• Switzerland: Marvel at the Alpine landscape as you drive past breathtakingly beautiful mountains and valleys.
• Lucerne: During an orientation with your Travel Director, see the Lion Monument, Old Town Hall and Chapel Bridge, the oldest wooden covered bridge in Europe.
• Paris: Join a Local Specialist to discover the hidden squares and secret lanes of Paris.

• Deluxe coach travel
• Selected hotel dinners plus a locally hosted meal
• 4-star stays

Get acquainted with lakeside Lucerne on an orientation that includes the poignant Lion Monument and a stroll across the flower-lined Chapel Bridge over the Reuss River. Frescoed facades and mountain views frame the medieval streets.

The mortally wounded lion, designed by Thorvaldsen, honors Swiss Guards who fell in 1792. Nearby, the 14th-century bridge and its painted eaves recall guild life and city pride—an elegant tableau between lake and Alps.

Glide along Germany’s legendary Middle Rhine as you cruise the Rhine Gorge from Boppard to St. Goar. Vineyard-terraced slopes, half-timbered villages and medieval castles parade by as the river narrows and currents quicken beneath slate cliffs.

Hear the lore of the Lorelei Rock and spot the midstream toll castle that once controlled river trade. This storied corridor of the Rhine, flanked by terraced vineyards, distills centuries of commerce, myth and strategic might into a single, scenic passage.

Explore Germany’s oldest university town on a relaxed walk through the Altstadt, where you’ll walk the Altstadt past baroque facades, lively squares and the shop-lined Hauptstraße. Pause to admire views up to Heidelberg Castle and across the Neckar to the graceful Old Bridge.

Romantic poets, philosophers and students have long been drawn to this riverside city. Its red-sandstone ruins and church towers frame lanes that echo with café chatter and chamber music, revealing a place where scholarship met 18th- and 19th-century romantic ideals.

Discover Bavaria’s capital around Marienplatz, where the neo-Gothic Town Hall presides with its chiming Glockenspiel. Trace elegant boulevards to the State Opera and the former Wittelsbach Residenz, then pass the famed Hofbräuhaus, a byword for conviviality since the 16th century.

Munich blends princely grandeur with gemutlich charm. Onion-domed churches, Renaissance courtyards and beer-scented lanes reveal a city shaped by dynastic power, music and craftsmanship—its historic core primed for people-watching and picture-perfect snapshots.

Stroll beneath pastel facades and arcaded lanes in Innsbruck’s medieval core to admire the Golden Roof (Goldenes Dachl), a Late Gothic oriel glittering with copper shingles. The Old Town’s medieval arcades unfold under the backdrop of the Austrian Alps, with the River Inn just steps away.

Once the court of Emperor Maximilian I, the city showcases Imperial history of Maximilian I alongside Baroque churches and Tyrolean townhouses. Mountain air, church bells and painted frescoes create an alpine stage of culture and scenery.

Skim across the lagoon by private boat to St Mark’s Square, Venice’s ceremonial heart. Take in the lacy Gothic of the Doge’s Palace and the fabled Bridge of Sighs before stepping into a workshop to witness time-honored Venetian glassblowing.

Masters coax molten glass into graceful forms using techniques refined over centuries. The shimmer of canals, the echo of footsteps on stone and the glow of furnaces reveal a republic where maritime power and artisan skill shaped a singular cityscape.

Taste Tuscan hospitality at a convivial Be My Guest lunch hosted by the Landi family at their countryside home near Florence. Dine under oak shade amid Tuscan vineyards and olive groves, pairing rustic recipes with Chianti and family-pressed oil.

With stories spanning eight generations, you’ll meet the Landi family and hear how seasons, soil and tradition shape their table. Laughter, clinking glasses and farm-to-table flavors capture the warmth and rhythm of rural Tuscany.

Explore the world’s smallest state with a Local Specialist, pausing in St Peter’s Square beneath Bernini’s colonnades to contemplate the scale and symbolism of the papal heartland. View the grand facade and dome that crown St Peter’s Basilica.

Vatican City embodies a fusion of faith, power and artistic genius, its monuments shaped by masters like Michelangelo and Bernini. Sacred spaces, Swiss Guards and Latin inscriptions speak to centuries of devotion and diplomacy.

Trace imperial grandeur on a panoramic exploration of the Eternal City with exterior stops to view the Colosseum and the vast Circus Maximus. Sense the roar of crowds and the spectacle of power that once filled these arenas.

Gladiators, charioteers and senators stride back to life as you take in Roman Forum vistas and triumphal arches. Layers of antiquity—marble, brick and travertine—tell the story of an empire that set the template for Western urban life.

Join a guided walking tour through Florence’s Renaissance core to admire the Cathedral crowned by Brunelleschi’s dome and the Baptistery’s Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise. Continue to Piazza della Signoria, an open-air gallery of sculptures and palazzi.

Under Medici patronage, artists and architects reshaped Europe’s imagination here. Marble inlays, bell towers and guild emblems frame streets where Dante walked and goldsmiths still ply their craft along the Arno.

See the French capital’s icons with a Local Specialist: sweep down the Champs-Élysées to Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe, then wander the cobbled lanes of the scholarly Latin Quarter.

Admire Notre-Dame’s towers on the Île de la Cité and note the symmetry of Haussmann boulevards. Bookstalls along the Seine and café terraces capture the city’s flair for conversation, style and luminous evenings.

Ascend by cable car or cogwheel railway to a panoramic summit near Lucerne—often Pilatus, Stanserhorn or Titlis. Take in panoramic Alpine views of snow-capped peaks, knife-edged ridgelines and lakes shimmering below, with time for viewpoints and photos.

Weather permitting, this high-country outing reveals Switzerland’s dramatic vertical world of glaciers, pine forests and ringing cowbells. This is an Optional Experience at additional cost, bookable with your Travel Director on tour.

Experience the sparkle of a classic Parisian cabaret—feathered costumes, precision choreography, a live orchestra and the pop of celebratory champagne. Velvet curtains, footlights and mirrored halls set an unmistakably Belle Époque mood.

From high-kicking cancan to torch songs, the show channels Paris’s flair for spectacle and wit. This is an Optional Experience at additional cost, bookable with your Travel Director on tour.

Discover Rome’s enduring Jewish heritage on a guided walk through the Jewish Ghetto, tracing Via del Portico d’Ottavia, the graceful Turtle Fountain at Piazza Mattei and glimpses of Tiber Island, with evocative Roman Forum views nearby.

Stories of resilience, cuisine and community unfold amid kosher bakeries and ancient ruins, revealing a parallel chronicle to imperial Rome. This is an Optional Experience at additional cost, bookable with your Travel Director on tour.

Settle into a rustic hall for a lively Tyrolean folk show of yodeling and Schuhplattler dances, twirling dirndls and lederhosen, backed by an oompah band. Expect clapping rhythms, wooden benches and a convivial schnapps toast.

Humor, musicianship and mountain pride take center stage as local performers share Alpine traditions in song and step. This is an Optional Experience at additional cost, bookable with your Travel Director on tour.

Trafalgar

Cruise the city’s waterways on an evening voyage, dining as you cruise the canals beneath low-arched bridges and past Golden Age gabled houses and old merchants’ warehouses. Complement the experience with a chance to join a guided orientation that pinpoints Dam Square, the Royal Palace and the picturesque canal belt.

Absorb how Amsterdam’s 17th-century prosperity shaped its UNESCO-listed canal ring, a lattice of concentric waterways lined with narrow facades and ornate gables. Gentle reflections, bicycle bells and lantern-lit quays set an atmospheric frame for your first taste of Dutch life.