• 3 Dinner (D)
• 7 Breakfast (B)

• London: You’ll need Essential Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA)From?January 8, 2025, UK law means that if you’re entering/transiting through border control in the United Kingdom (UK) and Northern Ireland you’ll need an?Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA)?before you travel. Confused? Don’t be – just read on here.
• London: A modular trip means fellow travellers will join and leave at various locations. There’ll be some goodbyes, sure, but there’ll also be plenty of hellos with new like-minded travellers.
• London: You’ll stay in a Twin share room (meaning you’ll be paired with a fellow traveller of the same gender, and will have two separate beds). If you’re booking your trip with a friend/travel companion – just let us know, so we can join your bookings and ensure you share a room. Need a lil’ more privacy? You’re welcome to opt for a single supplement if you like.
• London: Your Trip Manager will advise you on who you’ll share your room with. On this trip, you’ll stay in a multi-share room with other travellers of the same sex.

• Berlin: Heads up culture vultures. Here’s your chance to check out the longest open-air gallery in the world.
• Berlin: Get your culture on. It’s time to see Tiergarten, Alexanderplatz, the Russian War Memorial, Brandenburg Gate and the historic Reichstag building. 
• Dresden: See the Baroque architecture that was rebuilt after the WWII bombings. Royal Residence, Zwinger Palace, Opera House and Frauenkirche.
• Prague: Walk through the winding cobbled streets and head up into the fairytale-like Castle District for panoramic city views.
• Prague: Charles Bridge. Wenceslas Square. Old Town Square. The Astronomical Clock. See them all IRL in this whimsical city. 
• Kutna Hora: We’ll have some free time to explore the quaint town of Kutná Hora. Looking for an experience you’ll feel in your bones? Don’t miss your chance to check out the local Sedlec Ossuary Chapel – decorated on the inside with 40,000 human skeletons (additional cost applies).
• Vienna: Buckle up for a scenic drive along the historic Ring Road of Vienna. See St Stephen’s Cathedral and the State Opera House as you go. 

Explore Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain on a creative ramble through street art lanes, riverside hangouts and repurposed factories. See murals, paste-ups and tags that speak to migration, music and DIY spaces shaping Berlin’s urban identity.

Hear how collectives and clubs turned post-industrial voids into counterculture spaces, and how today’s scene balances preservation with change. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour, perfect for design lovers and night owls alike.

Settle into a rustic hall for traditional Czech cuisine served to the rhythms of fiddles and cimbalom. As folklore dancers twirl in embroidered costume, you’ll raise a glass and taste the generous spirit of Bohemia.

Expect hearty favourites like roast meats, dumplings and rich sauces, with local beer or Moravian wine to match. This cultural evening is at additional cost and bookable on tour, a lively way to toast Prague’s songs and stories.

Step inside the Sedlec Ossuary, a small chapel adorned with skull garlands and a chandelier crafted from bones. It’s a contemplative, otherworldly space that transforms mortality into art with the remains of roughly 40,000 human skeletons.

Learn how medieval burials and later Baroque-era arrangements by woodcarver František Rint shaped this singular memorial. This visit is at additional cost and bookable on tour during your time in Kutná Hora.

Take your seat for a classical concert in Vienna, where elegant halls and crystal acoustics set the stage for Mozart arias and Strauss waltzes. Musicians in period style evoke courtly evenings and salon brilliance.

From lively overtures to the lilting strains of the Blue Danube waltz, the performance celebrates the city that nurtured so many masters. This refined night out is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Walk the cobbles of Old Town to Charles Bridge, then thread between pastel facades to Old Town Square and its ticking Astronomical Clock. Continue to Wenceslas Square, where café chatter and tram bells frame the city’s everyday rhythm.

Ascend to the Castle District for courtyards, cathedral buttresses and sweeping panoramic city views across terracotta roofs. Stories of Bohemian kings, Defenestrations and Velvet Revolution moments bring layers of Prague’s Gothic and Baroque tapestry into focus.

Settle in for a scenic drive along the Ringstrasse, Vienna’s 19th-century boulevard circling the old imperial core. Gaze at the Vienna State Opera, Hofburg Palace wings, Parliament’s neo-classical colonnades and City Hall’s neo-Gothic spires, all staged like an open-air museum.

Glide toward the medieval lanes around St Stephen’s Cathedral, where café aromas drift through narrow passages. The route reveals how Habsburg ambition reshaped the city into a showcase of historicist architecture and cultured ease.

Cruise the famous canals as bridges light up and reflections ripple along gabled townhouses. Glide past warehouse facades and merchant mansions of the UNESCO-listed Canal Ring, with commentary bringing Golden Age trade and everyday canal life to the surface.

See waterside views of landmarks like the Skinny Bridge and discover how this engineered city thrives below sea level. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour, perfect for catching the glow of sunset over the water.

Travel into the Waterland-style polders for a warm dinner at a local Dutch farm. Share a farmhouse table laden with seasonal dishes and sample regional cheeses, as your hosts explain life lived with dikes, dairy herds and big skies.

Hear how centuries of land reclamation created fertile meadows just north of Amsterdam and shaped Dutch foodways. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour, a cosy countryside contrast to the capital’s canals.

Trace seismic events with a local historian: the sombre Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the unmarked site of Hitler’s bunker, and the chilling exhibits at the Topography of Terror. Learn how ideology reshaped streets, borders and lives.

Context unfolds from Weimar fragility to Nazi rule, wartime devastation and the Cold War’s concrete barriers. This in-depth walk is at additional cost and bookable on tour, ideal for those who want to learn about a city divided and remade.

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Pause to admire the towering White Cliffs of Dover, their bright chalk faces rising above the Channel. Take a moment to pause for photos and reflection as sea breezes and gull calls set the scene, with ferry traffic tracing routes between Britain and France.

Learn how these striking chalk sea walls formed over millions of years from microscopic shells, and how the cliffs became a wartime symbol of home and hope. The vantage captures the sweep of the English coastline before continental Europe comes into view.

Join a guided panoramic tour across reunited Berlin to see icons of power and protest. Roll past the Brandenburg Gate and the glass-domed Reichstag, cross Tiergarten, and take in Alexanderplatz’s modernist sweep and the grand avenues shaped by turbulent 20th-century history.

Walk a section of the East Side Gallery, where 1.3 km of former Wall is now a vivid open-air mural corridor. The artworks, many painted in 1990, channel the city’s euphoria and caution as Berlin stepped into a new era.

Explore the riverside ensemble of rebuilt Baroque Dresden, from the domed Frauenkirche and elegant Zwinger Palace courtyards to the opera-house grandeur of the Semperoper. Stroll the terraces above the Elbe where spires and copper roofs recreate an 18th-century skyline.

Hear the story of destruction in 1945 and the painstaking, decades-long restoration that reassembled original stones and revived royal Saxon splendor. The stop captures a city that turned loss into cultural renaissance, with museum facades and palaces gleaming once more.