EUROPEAN SAMPLER - 2010

10 days incl. travel, or 9 days from London to Paris (HD)

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Vacation Overview

This is an exciting sampler of some of Europe’s main highlights. Start with two nights in London, where guided sightseeing includes a visit to St. Paul’s Cathedral and the Changing of the Guard (if held). Board the Eurostar train to Brussels, followed by a comfortable drive to Amsterdam. Here, a leisurely canal cruise shows you the sights. In Germany, visit Cologne’s impressive twin-spired gothic cathedral, take a cruise down the romantic Rhine River, spend the night in beautiful Heidelberg, and travel through the Black Forest, home of the world’s most famous cuckoo clocks. Cross the border into Switzerland and visit the thundering Rhine Falls before spending two nights in lakeside Lucerne. On through breathtaking alpine scenery and the Burgundy wine area to Paris, where guided sightseeing includes all the highlights as well as a ride up to the second floor of the Eiffel Tower.

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A Vacation Story Mark Twain's Heidelberg

"“One thinks Heidelberg by day – with its surroundings – is the last possibility of the beautiful; but when he sees Heidelberg by night, a fallen Milky Way, with that glittering railway constellation pinned to the border, he requires time to consider upon the verdict.” Mark Twain wrote this ode to Heidelberg in his humorous travel book, “A Tramp Abroad” (1880). During the three months that Twain spent in the city in 1878, many of his recorded experiences aren’t entirely dissimilar from activities that travelers and residents still enjoy today. He gazed out over the Nektar River; strolled across the Old Bridge; and watched university students dueling in a tavern."