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- Day 1 Explore Amsterdam’s Canals and Gabled Streets You'll arrive in Amsterdam beneath a crooked procession of gables, their carved dates and painted flourishes high above narrow doors, each facade leaning as though the houses have spent centuries confiding in one another. Choose today’s Optional Experience and travel to a working windmill, where you step beneath age-darkened beams, hear the old timbers creak and follow the great wooden gears overhead. In the workshops, you stand beside local artisans as practised hands move over well-used tools, sharing the warmth and good company the Dutch call gezelligheid. Locations Visited: Amsterdam NL.
- Day 2 Cologne to Boppard: Castles Along the Rhine Across the German border, Cologne Cathedral rises above the square as you trace its dark stonework from ranks of carved figures to twin spires. In Boppard, you step aboard your Rhine cruise as the boat hums beneath you and the river slips past slate-roofed villages. Rows of vines climb the steep banks, while castle towers crown the bends once guarded by feuding lords. At your hotel, you join your travel companions for dinner before settling in for the evening. Locations Visited: Amsterdam NL, Cologne DE, Boppard DE, Reilingen DE.
- Day 3 Black Forest to Lucerne: Waterfalls and Mountains Through Germany’s Black Forest, you’ll follow winding roads beneath dense firs, passing steep-roofed farmhouses in deep green clearings. At Schaffhausen, you pause beside the Rhine Falls, where the river crashes over the rock, white water churning below and spray rising through the roar. Across the Swiss border, you continue towards Lake Lucerne, watching wooded slopes descend to a broad sweep of water with mountains lining the horizon. Locations Visited: Reilingen DE, Lucerne CH.
- Day 4 Lucerne’s Highlights: Old Town and Lakeside With your Travel Director, you’ll move through Lucerne’s Old Town, stopping beside the weathered timbers of Chapel Bridge before meeting the sorrowful gaze of the Lion Monument, carved into rock in memory of the Swiss Guards who died defending Louis XVI. The rest of the day is yours in a city once celebrated on Europe’s Grand Tour. Choose an Optional Experience to cross Lake Lucerne by boat, then climb by railway and cable car into the mountains, where the lake may gleam far below beneath the peaks. Later, you can join an Optional Experience at a Swiss folklore show, where yodelling and the long, resonant call of the alpine horn fill the room. Locations Visited: Lucerne CH.
- Day 5 Travel from Switzerland to the French Capital Leaving Lucerne, you’ll travel north beside the Rhine past Basel and into France, watching one final reach of the river from your window. Burgundy’s vineyards roll across the hills towards Paris, broken by pale villages and narrow lanes. The evening is yours in the capital, or you can join an Optional Experience combining a Seine cruise with a drive through the city, listening to water brush the hull as lamplight quivers beneath the bridges and glowing windows line your route through Paris. Locations Visited: Lucerne CH, Paris FR.
- Day 6 Discover Parisian Monuments and Artistic Quarters With your Travel Director, you’ll travel along the Champs-Élysées beneath rows of century-old chestnut trees, circle the Arc de Triomphe and look up through the Eiffel Tower’s intricate iron lattice. On your own, you can browse Parisian shopfronts or climb Montmartre to Place du Tertre, watching artists work in charcoal and oils in the hilltop quarter once frequented by Picasso and Dalí. For the evening’s Optional Experience, you take your seat at a Paris cabaret, where brass and percussion snap into the can-can as layered skirts flare across the stage. Locations Visited: Paris FR.
- Day 7 Bid Farewell to Paris and Europe After breakfast, you say goodbye to your fellow travelers as your European holiday comes to an end. Locations Visited: Paris FR.
Name: Glimpse of Europe
Brand: Trafalgar
Quality: Tourist Class
Tour Type: Escorted
Start City: Amsterdam
End City: Paris
Location Summary: Amsterdam, NL, Cologne, DE, Boppard, DE, Reilingen, DE, Lucerne, CH, Paris, FR
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Highlights
- Dining Summary - 6 Breakfast (B). 2 Dinner (D).
- Essentials - Orientation includes the historic city center. View the Gothic Cathedral. Cruise the romantic Rhine. See this picturesque region. View the mighty Rhine Falls. Orientation includes views of the Lion Monument and Chapel Bridge. View the Champs-Élysées, Arc de Triomphe and Eiffel Tower.
- How You'll Travel - Deluxe coach travel. Selected hotel dinners, with optional meals to purchase. 3-star stays.
- Iconic Experience - Amsterdam: Led by your Travel Director, wander the city to see the floating flower market, Dam Square and the Royal Palace.. 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.. Rhine Falls: See Europe’s largest waterfall as the Rhine River surges over the cliffs in a powerful natural display.. 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: With your Travel Director, you’ll wander through the heart of Paris along its grand boulevards, ornate balconies overhead as cream-stone buildings and tree-lined avenues stretch towards the Arc de Triomphe and Champs-Élysées..
