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One performance - orchestral, opera or ballet - is included at each stop. for our tour members. Europe’s pre-Christmas buzz. DEPARTURES: November 30th: MUNICH The tour commences December 7th: VIENNA Today we join Austrian December 14th: LEIPZIG Our luggage is taken Every morning there is a buffet breakfast, and every today in our 4 star boutique hotel in the heart Rail’s Railjet to Vienna, the Imperial Capital of the on ahead as we join Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) Included Classical music NOVEMBER 30th 2022 evening a four course dinner is provided for our tour of Munich. Get to know your fellow travellers at Hapsburgs and still – after more than two centuries for a panoramic rail journey down the gorges performances - ideally one in NOVEMBER 30th 2023 per person twin $11,950 members. This includes the festivities of a special Welcome Drinks and Dinner. [D] – still the world capital of Classical music. It was of the Vlatava River and on to the city of Bach, each city, but this will depend on Christmas Dinner, as Swiss tradition dictates on the night COST: Land Content Only, commencing home to Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Brahms, Mendelsohn and the Schumanns – Leipzig. Enjoy offerings once programmes are of Christmas Eve. There is a beautiful church 50 metres December 1st: MUNICH A sightseeing tour this published. or single. Schubert, Bruckner, Korngold, Gluck and Strauss. the markets before our included dinner. [B,D] away with a midnight service on Christmas Eve should morning of this thousand year old city. Munich is in Munich and ending in Berlin. Not a bad roll call! We settle into our city-centre Plenty of free time for shopping you wish to attend. the capital of Bavaria with strong Wagner, Carl Orff December 15th: LEIPZIG This morning’s city Solo travellers are guaranteed their own hotel, where our luggage awaits. Vienna’s fine in Europe’s legendary Christmas Grindelwald is a snow sports fan’s heaven. But if you and Richard Strauss associations. Munich is home sightseeing includes the Thomas Church where single room without paying a single room buildings look magnificent by night, as do her markets, department stores and are not a snow bunny, there are a million other things to the Bavarian State Opera, the Bavarian State we pay homage at Bach’s grave, the University of supplement.. Christmas markets. [B,D] boutiques. to do. Grindelwald is a hub for the Swiss mountain train Ballet, and the Bavarian State Radio Orchestra. Leipzig which counts both Bach and Goethe among NO SINGLE ROOM SUPPLEMENT networks and there are many gondolas and cable cars Details of our Classical Music performance will be December 8th: VIENNA Our morning city its alumni, and the Nicholas Church – famous for its TRAVEL to the Alpine peaks all around. It is an easy train ride to provided closer to departure. The afternoon is free sightseeing programme introduces us to this role in the end of Communism. The afternoon is free • All stops 3 or 4 nights the cities of Berne, Basel and Zurich with their Christmas for the Christmas markets. [B] stately city - the Ring, the Hofburg and St Stephen’s for the Christmas markets.. [B] • First Class rail travel in reserved seats markets. (setting of Mozart’s wedding and his funeral). Watch • 4 Star Hotels with buffet breakfasts The village itself offers excellent shopping and a wide December 2nd: MUNICH - Visit Nuremberg December 16th: LEIPZIG - Visit to Dresden While the fountains and listen to the music. [B] • 6 dinners, sightseeing and entrances as indicated variety of restaurants and coffee shops for lingering lazy markets Ask any German which city has the very Leipzig was the cultural capital of the Kingdom • Tips for local guides DEPOSIT lunches, before returning to the hotel to read or snooze best Christmas markets and the unequivocal answer December 9th: VIENNA A free day in Vienna. Her of Saxony, its princes ruled from the palace in • Full luggage handling between cities in front of the log fire. On December 28th (is it all over $2,500 with booking, final payment 3 will be “Nuremberg”. Following a morning in the Christkindlmarkt (Christmas markets) are world their capital Dresden. Today we visit this stately • 1 Classical Music / Opera / Ballet performance in so soon?) you are escorted on the rail journey to Paris to months before travel. shops or museums of Munich we have an early famous, as are her opera companies and orchestras. city which is still being rebuilt from its near-total each of the cities where we stay. Details will be commence the Winter Wonderland Tour. afternoon departure for the one hour train journey Will this be the night for our classical music destruction one night in February 1945. Sensational advised when programmes are finalised.  7 nights accommodation in a superior standard room to Nuremberg, Bavaria’s second city. The markets performance? We will be advised as programmes are museums, the Semper Opera House and plenty of with private facilities in a 3 star hotel in the Swiss come alive as the lights come on. Back to our released. [B] Christmas markets. Back to Leipzig tonight. [B] village of Grindelwald. Munich hotel this evening. [B] December 10th: VIENNA After a short rail journey December 17th: BERLIN Our short rail journey  7 buffet breakfasts, 7 four course dinners December 3rd: MUNICH - King Ludwig’s Castle we arrive in the Hapsburg’s second capital – and today has us in Berlin before lunch time. Our (inc. Special Christmas Dinner on Christmas Eve). Visit An excursion by local rail today into the home to Franz Liszt, Dohnányi, Kodály and Béla afternoon’s sightseeing introduces us to the  Escorted First Class Rail transfer from Berlin to BERLIN 4 foothills of the Bavarian Alps to visit the fairy tale Bartók - Budapest. Our city sightseeing includes the city which divided Europe for 45 years - the Grindelwald at the end of the Pre-Christmas Tour. Neuschwannstein Castle, built by “mad” King Chain Bridge, Buda Castle, the Gothic St Matthew’s Brandenberg Gate, the Reichstag, Unter den Linden. Ludwig. Back to our Munich hotel. Will this be the Church, and the Fisherman’s Bastion. Visit one Tonight’s classical music performance, if available, NETHERLANDS NOTE: Your hosts are on hand to provide sightseeing of the famous historic coffee houses and the will be chosen from some of the world’s finest suggestions and assistance, but there are no escorted night for a classical concert or an opera? [B] 3 LEIPZIG POLAND Christmas markets before re-joining our train to our orchestras and opera companies. [B] activities during this relaxing week. December 4th: SALZBURG Our luggage is taken on hotel in Vienna. [B] BELGIUM ahead as we join Austria’s flagship train, the Railjet, December 18th: BERLIN More sightseeing today 3 PRAGUE to Salzburg the city of Mozart and Maria von Trapp. December 11th: PRAGUE Today’s rail journey in the city with a greater concentration of museums GERMANY On arrival we enjoy a walking tour through the brings us in the early afternoon to magical Prague. than London, and one of the world’s great zoos. Will CZECH REPUBLIC FRANCE Old City, and a funicular ride to the Hohensalzburg Our afternoon stroll includes the nearby Old Town the Berlin Philharmonic be in town? [B] 4 VIENNA Fortress for a panoramic view across the city. Then Square which has buildings from the fourteenth to 4 FACT BOX:8 DAYS December 19th: BERLIN A final day for that last MUNICH DURATION: some of the major Mozart sights and Christmas the twentieth century. Enjoy the view over coffee in 3 minute Christmas shopping. Couldn’t find it in the SALZBURG DEPARTURES: markets before our included dinner. [B,D] an outdoor café. [B,D] markets? Visit the greatest department store in the AUSTRIA DECEMBER 21st 2022 SWITZERLAND December 5th: SALZBURG A day for Sound of December 12th: PRAGUE This morning we begin world [in your Tour Director’s humble opinion] – DECEMBER 21st 2023 Music fans, as we join a tour of the main locations to discover this magnificent city. Prague was never KaDeWe, a short walk from our hotel. Our farewell COST: per person twin share $AU 3000 used in the film. Another bash at the Christmas bombed, and much of the Old City is untouched dinner tonight. [B,D] Single supplement $750 markets. [B] from the fourteenth century. The Castle, the December 20th: AUF WIEDERSEHEN Our tour ITALY Children under 12 sharing adults’ Charles Bridge, Wenceslas Square, and the Jewish room travel free. Children aged 12 to December 6th: SALZBURG How about a day in ends after breakfast. If you are joining the White Quarter feature in our sightseeing. Classical music 17 sharing adults’ room travel at 50%. the Austrian Alps? We take the Railjet again to the Christmas Week in the Swiss Alpine village of opportunities abound. Mozart loved Prague, and his Hapsburgs Winter Capital, Innsbruck where after a Grindelwald, you are escorted there on the German love was reciprocated. [B] short walking tour, we take a cable car up the Alps ICE train. for lunch with a view across the city from 7,000 December 13th: PRAGUE Enjoy your free day in TOUR DIRECTOR: Your Tour Director, Mr Stan Klan of feet. Back to Salzburg, her markets, and our hotel. this beautiful city, shopping or enjoying the music Toowoomba, Qld, is a published Australian historian and [B] and the markets. Prague is the centre for world the Principal of Great Trains of Europe Tours. Stan has famous Bohemian crystal. [B] more than 30 years’ experience in history teaching and tour guiding.

CHRISTMAS4 PRE-CHRISTMAS MARKETS & MAGICCLASSICAL MUSIC WINTER WONDERLAND CHRISTMAS MARKETS & CLASSICALMOROCCO & MUSIC SOUTH SPAIN BLOSSOMSCHRISTMAS AND MARKETS BULBS & CLASSICAL MUSIC SCANDINAVIA BY RAIL CHRISTMASLEGENDARY MARKETS & SILK CLASSICAL ROAD MUSIC ...on the right track in Europe since 1977 SOLO TRAVELLERS PAY NO WHITE SINGLE SUPPLEMENT CHRISTMAS POST-TOUR ADD-ON TO THE PRE-CHRISTMAS MAGIC TOUR: Why not enjoy a White Christmas in a beautiful Swiss EUROPE’S Alpine village (with opportunities to visit Christmas markets) after the Pre-Christmas Magic Tour? On arrival on December 21st there is an airport transfer to the picturesque Swiss Alpine village of Grindelwald, nestled under the North Face of the Eiger. Our hotel is PRE-CHRISTMAS MAGIC rated 3+ stars and oozes Swiss charm. There are Enjoy the world-famous Christmas Markets and Classical Music tradition of Germany, Austria and the FACT BOX:21 DAYS breathtaking Alpine views and a roaring log fire. We have ENJOY DURATION: reserved superior standard rooms with private facilities Czech Republic. One performance - orchestral, opera or ballet - is included at each stop. for our tour members. Europe’s pre-Christmas buzz. DEPARTURES: November 30th: MUNICH The tour commences December 7th: VIENNA Today we join Austrian December 14th: LEIPZIG Our luggage is taken Every morning there is a buffet breakfast, and every today in our 4 star boutique hotel in the heart Rail’s Railjet to Vienna, the Imperial Capital of the on ahead as we join Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) Included Classical music NOVEMBER 30th 2022 evening a four course dinner is provided for our tour of Munich. Get to know your fellow travellers at Hapsburgs and still – after more than two centuries for a panoramic rail journey down the gorges performances - ideally one in NOVEMBER 30th 2023 per person twin $11,950 members. This includes the festivities of a special Welcome Drinks and Dinner. [D] – still the world capital of Classical music. It was of the Vlatava River and on to the city of Bach, each city, but this will depend on Christmas Dinner, as Swiss tradition dictates on the night COST: Land Content Only, commencing home to Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Brahms, Mendelsohn and the Schumanns – Leipzig. Enjoy offerings once programmes are of Christmas Eve. There is a beautiful church 50 metres December 1st: MUNICH A sightseeing tour this published. or single. Schubert, Bruckner, Korngold, Gluck and Strauss. the markets before our included dinner. [B,D] away with a midnight service on Christmas Eve should morning of this thousand year old city. Munich is in Munich and ending in Berlin. Not a bad roll call! We settle into our city-centre Plenty of free time for shopping you wish to attend. the capital of Bavaria with strong Wagner, Carl Orff December 15th: LEIPZIG This morning’s city Solo travellers are guaranteed their own hotel, where our luggage awaits. Vienna’s fine in Europe’s legendary Christmas Grindelwald is a snow sports fan’s heaven. But if you and Richard Strauss associations. Munich is home sightseeing includes the Thomas Church where single room without paying a single room buildings look magnificent by night, as do her markets, department stores and are not a snow bunny, there are a million other things to the Bavarian State Opera, the Bavarian State we pay homage at Bach’s grave, the University of supplement.. Christmas markets. [B,D] boutiques. to do. Grindelwald is a hub for the Swiss mountain train Ballet, and the Bavarian State Radio Orchestra. Leipzig which counts both Bach and Goethe among NO SINGLE ROOM SUPPLEMENT networks and there are many gondolas and cable cars Details of our Classical Music performance will be December 8th: VIENNA Our morning city its alumni, and the Nicholas Church – famous for its TRAVEL to the Alpine peaks all around. It is an easy train ride to provided closer to departure. The afternoon is free sightseeing programme introduces us to this role in the end of Communism. The afternoon is free • All stops 3 or 4 nights the cities of Berne, Basel and Zurich with their Christmas for the Christmas markets. [B] stately city - the Ring, the Hofburg and St Stephen’s for the Christmas markets.. [B] • First Class rail travel in reserved seats markets. (setting of Mozart’s wedding and his funeral). Watch • 4 Star Hotels with buffet breakfasts The village itself offers excellent shopping and a wide December 2nd: MUNICH - Visit Nuremberg December 16th: LEIPZIG - Visit to Dresden While the fountains and listen to the music. [B] • 6 dinners, sightseeing and entrances as indicated variety of restaurants and coffee shops for lingering lazy markets Ask any German which city has the very Leipzig was the cultural capital of the Kingdom • Tips for local guides DEPOSIT lunches, before returning to the hotel to read or snooze best Christmas markets and the unequivocal answer December 9th: VIENNA A free day in Vienna. Her of Saxony, its princes ruled from the palace in • Full luggage handling between cities in front of the log fire. On December 28th (is it all over $2,500 with booking, final payment 3 will be “Nuremberg”. Following a morning in the Christkindlmarkt (Christmas markets) are world their capital Dresden. Today we visit this stately • 1 Classical Music / Opera / Ballet performance in so soon?) you are escorted on the rail journey to Paris to months before travel. shops or museums of Munich we have an early famous, as are her opera companies and orchestras. city which is still being rebuilt from its near-total each of the cities where we stay. Details will be commence the Winter Wonderland Tour. afternoon departure for the one hour train journey Will this be the night for our classical music destruction one night in February 1945. Sensational advised when programmes are finalised.  7 nights accommodation in a superior standard room to Nuremberg, Bavaria’s second city. The markets performance? We will be advised as programmes are museums, the Semper Opera House and plenty of with private facilities in a 3 star hotel in the Swiss come alive as the lights come on. Back to our released. [B] Christmas markets. Back to Leipzig tonight. [B] village of Grindelwald. Munich hotel this evening. [B] December 10th: VIENNA After a short rail journey December 17th: BERLIN Our short rail journey  7 buffet breakfasts, 7 four course dinners December 3rd: MUNICH - King Ludwig’s Castle we arrive in the Hapsburg’s second capital – and today has us in Berlin before lunch time. Our (inc. Special Christmas Dinner on Christmas Eve). Visit An excursion by local rail today into the home to Franz Liszt, Dohnányi, Kodály and Béla afternoon’s sightseeing introduces us to the  Escorted First Class Rail transfer from Berlin to BERLIN 4 foothills of the Bavarian Alps to visit the fairy tale Bartók - Budapest. Our city sightseeing includes the city which divided Europe for 45 years - the Grindelwald at the end of the Pre-Christmas Tour. Neuschwannstein Castle, built by “mad” King Chain Bridge, Buda Castle, the Gothic St Matthew’s Brandenberg Gate, the Reichstag, Unter den Linden. Ludwig. Back to our Munich hotel. Will this be the Church, and the Fisherman’s Bastion. Visit one Tonight’s classical music performance, if available, NETHERLANDS NOTE: Your hosts are on hand to provide sightseeing of the famous historic coffee houses and the will be chosen from some of the world’s finest suggestions and assistance, but there are no escorted night for a classical concert or an opera? [B] 3 LEIPZIG POLAND Christmas markets before re-joining our train to our orchestras and opera companies. [B] activities during this relaxing week. December 4th: SALZBURG Our luggage is taken on hotel in Vienna. [B] BELGIUM ahead as we join Austria’s flagship train, the Railjet, December 18th: BERLIN More sightseeing today 3 PRAGUE to Salzburg the city of Mozart and Maria von Trapp. December 11th: PRAGUE Today’s rail journey in the city with a greater concentration of museums GERMANY On arrival we enjoy a walking tour through the brings us in the early afternoon to magical Prague. than London, and one of the world’s great zoos. Will CZECH REPUBLIC FRANCE Old City, and a funicular ride to the Hohensalzburg Our afternoon stroll includes the nearby Old Town the Berlin Philharmonic be in town? [B] 4 VIENNA Fortress for a panoramic view across the city. Then Square which has buildings from the fourteenth to 4 FACT BOX:8 DAYS December 19th: BERLIN A final day for that last MUNICH DURATION: some of the major Mozart sights and Christmas the twentieth century. Enjoy the view over coffee in 3 minute Christmas shopping. Couldn’t find it in the SALZBURG DEPARTURES: markets before our included dinner. [B,D] an outdoor café. [B,D] markets? Visit the greatest department store in the AUSTRIA DECEMBER 21st 2022 SWITZERLAND December 5th: SALZBURG A day for Sound of December 12th: PRAGUE This morning we begin world [in your Tour Director’s humble opinion] – DECEMBER 21st 2023 Music fans, as we join a tour of the main locations to discover this magnificent city. Prague was never KaDeWe, a short walk from our hotel. Our farewell COST: per person twin share $AU 3000 used in the film. Another bash at the Christmas bombed, and much of the Old City is untouched dinner tonight. [B,D] Single supplement $750 markets. [B] from the fourteenth century. The Castle, the December 20th: AUF WIEDERSEHEN Our tour ITALY Children under 12 sharing adults’ Charles Bridge, Wenceslas Square, and the Jewish room travel free. Children aged 12 to December 6th: SALZBURG How about a day in ends after breakfast. If you are joining the White Quarter feature in our sightseeing. Classical music 17 sharing adults’ room travel at 50%. the Austrian Alps? We take the Railjet again to the Christmas Week in the Swiss Alpine village of opportunities abound. Mozart loved Prague, and his Hapsburgs Winter Capital, Innsbruck where after a Grindelwald, you are escorted there on the German love was reciprocated. [B] short walking tour, we take a cable car up the Alps ICE train. for lunch with a view across the city from 7,000 December 13th: PRAGUE Enjoy your free day in TOUR DIRECTOR: Your Tour Director, Mr Stan Klan of feet. Back to Salzburg, her markets, and our hotel. this beautiful city, shopping or enjoying the music Toowoomba, Qld, is a published Australian historian and [B] and the markets. Prague is the centre for world the Principal of Great Trains of Europe Tours. Stan has famous Bohemian crystal. [B] more than 30 years’ experience in history teaching and tour guiding.

CHRISTMASPRE-CHRISTMAS MARKETS & MAGICCLASSICAL MUSIC WINTER WONDERLAND CHRISTMAS MARKETS & CLASSICALMOROCCO & MUSIC SOUTH SPAIN BLOSSOMSCHRISTMAS AND MARKETS BULBS & CLASSICAL MUSIC SCANDINAVIA BY RAIL CHRISTMASLEGENDARY MARKETS & SILK CLASSICAL ROAD MUSIC5 ...on the right track in Europe since 1977 WHITE CHRISTMAS PRE-TOUR ADD-ON TO THE WINTER WONDERLAND TOUR: Why not enjoy a White Christmas in a beautiful Swiss Alpine village (with opportunities to visit Christmas markets) before embarking on the Winter Wonderland Tour? On arrival on December 21st there is an airport transfer to the picturesque Swiss Alpine village of Grindelwald, WINTERSwiss and Austrian Alps and the Romantic WONDERLAND Cities of Venice, Prague and Paris KIDS STAY FREE – White Christmas & Winter Wonderland nestled under the North Face of the Eiger. Our hotel is rated 3+ stars and oozes Swiss charm. There are December 28th: PARIS Settle into our 4 star Left Bank Hotel. Meet your January 7th: VENICE or Day Trip to Florence Either another quiet day today Children under 12 sharing adults’ room travel free. breathtaking Alpine views and a roaring log fire. We have fellow tour members for Drinks and Dinner. [D] exploring the bridges and canals of Venice or join an optional excursion on Children aged 12 to 17 sharing adults’ room travel at 50%. reserved superior standard rooms with private facilities for Italy’s flagship train the Eurostar Italia for a visit to Florence, the cradle of our tour members. HIGHLIGHTS December 29th: PARIS Every day on a Great Trains of Europe tour begins Western civilisation and birthplace of the Renaissance. Every morning there is a buffet breakfast, and every evening with a full buffet breakfast. Our morning sightseeing includes the Arc de a four course dinner is provided for our tour members. • 4 nights in each of Europe’s FACT BOX: Triomphe, Champs Elysees and Notre Dame ending up at the Louvre to January 8th: To INNSBRUCK Farewell Italy, as we head back towards the 20 DAYS This includes the festivities of a special Christmas Dinner, say hello to Mona Lisa. An afternoon optional excursion is available to the Alps. After lunch we join our Eurocity train for Innsbruck as our luggage Most Romantic Cities: DURATION: as Swiss tradition dictates on the night of Christmas Eve. Verasailles Palace of Louis XIV. [B] is taken on ahead. We are not staying in downtown Innsbruck but in the Paris, Venice & Praque DEPARTURES: There is a beautiful church 50 metres away with a midnight beautiful Alpine Village of Igls perched 15 minutes above. Thaw out with • New Year’s Eve in Paris DECEMBER 28th 2022 service on Christmas Eve should you wish to attend. Department stores, fashion boutiques, a long lunch? a glass of gluhwein in front of the roaring log fire. This is our home for 4 • 3 nights in the Swiss Alps DECEMBER 28th 2023 Grindelwald is a snow sports fan’s heaven. But if you are December 30th: PARIS Land Only Content There is an optional excursion offered today to the Somme Battlefields of nights. [B,D] • 4 nights in the Austrian Alps not a snow bunny, there are a million other things to do. COST: Grindelwald is a hub for the Swiss mountain train networks • Ride the Glacier Express (Join in Paris, leave in Prague). WWI. Here we visit sites sacred in Australia & NZ’s national history. [B] and there are many gondolas and cable cars to the Alpine January 9th: INNSBRUCK Choices today: skiing or join your Tour Leader in Ask about KIDS STAY FREE peaks all around. It is an easy train ride to the cities of INCLUDED FEATURES: per person twin share December 31st: PARIS A final free day in every true romantic’s favourite an exploration of Innsbruck, the Imperial city of Hapsburgs. We commence $AU 10,950 Berne, Basel and Zurich with their Christmas markets. • First Class rail travel in reserved seats city. Join the crowds tonight on the Champs Elysees to celebrate the by riding a tramcar through snow-decked forests, to Innsbruck below. Single Room Supplement $1,500 The village itself offers excellent shopping and a wide dawning of the New Year. [B] Explore the mediaeval quarter and take a ride up the Hungerberg railway for • 4 star city centre hotels variety of restaurants and coffee shops for lingering lazy Enquire about competitive airfares a panorama of the Alps. 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WINTER WONDERLAND TOUR WHITE CHRISTMAS WINTER WONDERLAND TOUR WHITE CHRISTMAS WINTER WONDERLAND TOUR WHITE CHRISTMAS WINTER WONDERLAND TOUR 6 PRE-CHRISTMAS MAGIC WINTER WONDERLAND MOROCCO & SOUTH SPAIN BLOSSOMS AND BULBS SCANDINAVIA BY RAIL LEGENDARY SILK ROAD ...on the right track in Europe since 1977 WHITE CHRISTMAS PRE-TOUR ADD-ON TO THE WINTER WONDERLAND TOUR: Why not enjoy a White Christmas in a beautiful Swiss Alpine village (with opportunities to visit Christmas markets) before embarking on the Winter Wonderland Tour? On arrival on December 21st there is an airport transfer to the picturesque Swiss Alpine village of Grindelwald, WINTERSwiss and Austrian Alps and the Romantic WONDERLAND Cities of Venice, Prague and Paris KIDS STAY FREE – White Christmas & Winter Wonderland nestled under the North Face of the Eiger. Our hotel is rated 3+ stars and oozes Swiss charm. There are December 28th: PARIS Settle into our 4 star Left Bank Hotel. Meet your January 7th: VENICE or Day Trip to Florence Either another quiet day today Children under 12 sharing adults’ room travel free. breathtaking Alpine views and a roaring log fire. We have fellow tour members for Drinks and Dinner. [D] exploring the bridges and canals of Venice or join an optional excursion on Children aged 12 to 17 sharing adults’ room travel at 50%. reserved superior standard rooms with private facilities for Italy’s flagship train the Eurostar Italia for a visit to Florence, the cradle of our tour members. HIGHLIGHTS December 29th: PARIS Every day on a Great Trains of Europe tour begins Western civilisation and birthplace of the Renaissance. Every morning there is a buffet breakfast, and every evening with a full buffet breakfast. Our morning sightseeing includes the Arc de a four course dinner is provided for our tour members. • 4 nights in each of Europe’s FACT BOX: Triomphe, Champs Elysees and Notre Dame ending up at the Louvre to January 8th: To INNSBRUCK Farewell Italy, as we head back towards the 20 DAYS This includes the festivities of a special Christmas Dinner, say hello to Mona Lisa. An afternoon optional excursion is available to the Alps. After lunch we join our Eurocity train for Innsbruck as our luggage Most Romantic Cities: DURATION: as Swiss tradition dictates on the night of Christmas Eve. Verasailles Palace of Louis XIV. [B] is taken on ahead. We are not staying in downtown Innsbruck but in the Paris, Venice & Praque DEPARTURES: There is a beautiful church 50 metres away with a midnight beautiful Alpine Village of Igls perched 15 minutes above. Thaw out with • New Year’s Eve in Paris DECEMBER 28th 2022 service on Christmas Eve should you wish to attend. Department stores, fashion boutiques, a long lunch? a glass of gluhwein in front of the roaring log fire. This is our home for 4 • 3 nights in the Swiss Alps DECEMBER 28th 2023 Grindelwald is a snow sports fan’s heaven. But if you are December 30th: PARIS Land Only Content There is an optional excursion offered today to the Somme Battlefields of nights. [B,D] • 4 nights in the Austrian Alps not a snow bunny, there are a million other things to do. COST: Grindelwald is a hub for the Swiss mountain train networks • Ride the Glacier Express (Join in Paris, leave in Prague). WWI. Here we visit sites sacred in Australia & NZ’s national history. [B] and there are many gondolas and cable cars to the Alpine January 9th: INNSBRUCK Choices today: skiing or join your Tour Leader in Ask about KIDS STAY FREE peaks all around. It is an easy train ride to the cities of INCLUDED FEATURES: per person twin share December 31st: PARIS A final free day in every true romantic’s favourite an exploration of Innsbruck, the Imperial city of Hapsburgs. We commence $AU 10,950 Berne, Basel and Zurich with their Christmas markets. • First Class rail travel in reserved seats city. Join the crowds tonight on the Champs Elysees to celebrate the by riding a tramcar through snow-decked forests, to Innsbruck below. Single Room Supplement $1,500 The village itself offers excellent shopping and a wide dawning of the New Year. [B] Explore the mediaeval quarter and take a ride up the Hungerberg railway for • 4 star city centre hotels variety of restaurants and coffee shops for lingering lazy Enquire about competitive airfares a panorama of the Alps. 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Marrakech local guides. JORDAN SHANGHAI DELHI DEPOSIT: $2,500 with booking, final NEPAL ALGERIA KATHMANDU payment 3 months before travel. PAKISTAN SOUTH OF SPAIN LIBYA EGYPT SAUDI ARABIA QATAR WESTERN BANGLADESH SAHARA UNITED ARAB AR-RIYAD EMIRATES HONG KONG MASQAT BURMA OMAN INDIA VIETNAM MAURITANIA LAOS NOUAKCHOTT NIGER RED PHILIPPINE MALI SEA SEA ERITREA YEMEN THAILAND SENEGAL NIAMEY CHAD SAN’A ARABIAN BAMAKO SUDAN CAMBODIA The lands on either side of the Straits coastal farmland, the vineyards and orchards Rick and Ilsa and Sam in “Casablanca”. city sightseeing tour of Cordoba includesBURKINA FASO the glass skyscrapers, Real Madrid’s soccer SEA of Gibraltar have blossomed and been of Meknes to another of Morocco’s former The Hollywood moguls felt that the word UNESCO listedGIUNEA historic centre of Cordoba, stadium and an active bullfighting ring. It is a HIGHLIGHTS BENIN NIGERIA EXPLORE THE CULTURAL CAPITALS OF SOUTH scarred by centuries of conflict between imperial capitals, Fes. [B,D] Casablanca was more mellifluous (Would shaped successively by the Romans, Arabs, sprawling city of almost 7 million, a modern SOMALIA TOGO CHINA Berber, Moorish, Jewish and Christian you go to a movie called “Tangier?”). Our Jews and Christians. The Moorish Catholic EuropeanABUJA capital. MOROCCO AND THE SOUTH OF SPAIN GHANA [B] SEA COTE D’LVOIRE SRI PHILIPPINES civilisations. Today they are an example April 14th: FES Fes was founded around city sightseeing takes in the medina and the cathedral was formerly, and obviously, a WITH 3 NIGHTS EACH IN: ETHIOPIA LANKA LIBERIA CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC of tolerance and peace. 900AD and its medina – old city – is UNESCO harbour. [B] mosque until the expulsion of the Moors in April 27th: MADRID One of the world’s great • Marrakech, Fes, Tangier, Granada, JAUNDE heritage listed. Our sightseeing begins at the 1492. Later, our ATR delivers us to Granada art galleries is the Prado in Madrid. Spain KUALA Seville, Madrid & Barcelona LUMPUR April 10th: MARRAKECH Our tour historic and beautiful Blue Gate this morning. April 18th: TANGIER A visit today to one where our luggage awaits our arrival. controlled Italy andCAMEROON the Netherlands long [B,D] INCLUDED DAY VISIT TO: commences today on arrival at Marrakech Fes is considered the spiritual capital of of Morocco’s true gems: the blue city of enough to gather a magnificent collection of UGANDA MALAYSYA • Cordoba International Airport. Transfer to our hotel Morocco: it has madressas - universities Chefchaoeun, a Berber stronghold high in the Andalusia was Flemish and ItalianLIBREVILLE Renaissance art. KENYA April 23rd: GRANADA CONGO [B] inside the Casbah. Welcome drinks and – that are a thousand years old, and a Rif Mountains, founded by Moorish exiles under Moorish (Muslim) control from the GABON INCLUDED FEATURES: INDONESIA dinner in the hotel. [D]. synagogue dating from the 17th century. [B] from Spain in the 1490’s. Enjoy lunch or 8th century until the expulsion of both April 28th: BARCELONA Our high speedREPUBLIC OF THE CONGO• First class rail travel in reserved seats coffee in the tranquil main square. Back to Moors and Jews by the Catholic monarchs, AVE train delivers us quickly to Spain’s • Quality 4 star city centre hotels with April 11th: MARRAKECH This morning we April 15th: FES A day to visit the souks and Tangier this evening. Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492. Perhaps the second largest city Barcelona, the capital of buffet breakfasts [B] DODOMA commence our exploration of this fascinating bargain for local leather goods and jewellery. greatest gift to the world from this period Catalonia, where our luggage awaits. It was • 7 dinners SOLOMON PAPUA NEW GUINEA city, one of the four former Imperial capitals The Medina al Bali, with many kilometres April 19th: SEVILLE Our intercontinental is the UNESCO listed Alhambra, with its founded by the Romans, and has a proud • Full luggage handling ISLANDS LUANDA TANZANIA of Morocco. Outside the red or ochre walls of winding pathways and thousands of journey takes 35 minutes today on our ferry inspiring Moorish architecture and beautiful spirit of independence from the rest of Spain. • Local expert guides which give the city its nickname ‘the ochre shops, is one of the largest pedestrian-only across the Straits of Gibraltar to Spain. We squares, gardens and fountains. It is the Catalan is the first language; Spanish the • Full time Tour Leader who is the Tour EAST TIMOR city’, there is a modern Western city with urban areas on Earth. Be sure you have the arrive in the historic city of Seville (probably focus of our city sightseeing today. [B] second. [B] Company Principal boulevards echoing the period of French hotel name written in Arabic to show to any the setting for more operas than any other ANGOLA control of Morocco. Then we explore the teenager when (not if) you get lost. For a 20 city). [B,D] April 24th: GRANADA Today, we enjoy the April 29th: BARCELONA This morning’s ZAMBIA old city where the 12th century Koutoubia dirham coin ($2) he will escort you home to magnificent Generalife Gardens. Then in the sightseeing begins with visits to the Mirador MOZAMBIQUE mosque’s 77 metre minaret dominates the the hotel. April 20th: SEVILLE A Moorish city, afternoon, wander the timeless streets to de Colon and the Placa Reial and winds up CORAL [B] FIJI city skyline. We end at the Djemaa El Fna – Seville was conquered by the Catholic absorb the unique history of Granada. The at Antoni Gaudí’s unfinished masterpiece, La SEA the vast square in the heart of the old city. April 16th: TANGIER On Moroccan Rail King Ferdinand III in 1248. The Moorish Gothic Catholic cathedral containing the Sagrada Família cathedral. [B] Hawkers, snake charmers, buskers…… again today, back through the vineyards architecture still dominates the city. The two tombs of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Grand NAMIBIA ZIMBABWE INDIAN enjoy. of Meknes to the most northerly point centuries following Columbus’ voyages were Via and the Hospital Real should be included April 30th: BARCELONA Barcelona lends [B] BOTSWANA of Morocco – Tangier, on the Straits of the Golden Age of Seville as all trade from the in your strolling. [B] itself to aimless wandering and people OCEAN April 12th: MARRAKECH A day trip through Gibraltar. Its location at the mouth of the Americas passed through the city. Buildings watching, and La Rambla ranks with Paris’ MAPUTO PRETORIA olive and Argan groves today to the Atlantic Mediterranean and its colourful history since from this era – the cathedral and the Plaza de April 25th: MADRID As our luggage is taken Champs Elysees as the best place in Europe SWAZLIAND AUSTRALIA coast and the harbour town of Essaouira, its foundation by Carthage in the 5th century Espana – feature in today’s city sightseeing. on ahead, the high speed AVE train takes us to do it. Later, take the funicular to the top of with its 17th century Portuguese fort. The BC, make Tangier a truly cosmopolitan port [B] to Spain’sSOUTH new (since 1561) capital, Madrid. Montjuïc for a fine view of Barcelona and its Stan Klan old medina is a UNESCO listed world heritage city. [B,D] Located in the borderlands between the harbor. Farewell Dinner tonight. [B,D] YourLESOTHO Tour Director is Mr Stan Klan ATLANTIC SOUTH AFRICA site. [B] April 21st: SEVILLE We visit the Islamic historic enemies Aragon and Castille - joined of Toowoomba, Qld, a published April 17th: TANGIER For the first half of the Alcazar Palace this morning and the with theOCEAN marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella - May 1st: FAREWELL Our tour ends after Australian historian and the Principal April 13th: FES Moroccan Rail is certainly 20th century Tangier was an international remainder of the day is free for shopping. Madrid was favoured by Philip II who moved breakfast this morning. of Great Trains of Europe Tours. Stan SYDNEY [B] [B] CAPE TOWN the best in North Africa, and today we take zone partitioned between France, Spain and his court there. [B,D] has more than 30 years’ experience in

our First class seats in an air-conditioned Britain. It is said to have been a hangout April 22nd: GRANADA We take the high history teaching and tour guiding. CANBERRA carriage for a journey from the desert for spies, drug runners and international speed ATR train today, and stop over for a April 26th: MADRID Our city sightseeing

landscape of Marrakech through the fertile intrigue, and also the original setting for visit to Cordoba on the way to Granada. Our tour introduces us to historic palaces and MELBOURNE NEW MOROCCO & THE SOUTH OF SPAIN MOROCCO & THE SOUTH OF SPAIN MOROCCO & THE SOUTH OF SPAIN MOROCCO & THE SOUTH OF SPAIN MOROCCO & THE SOUTH OF SPAIN MOROCCO & THE SOUTH OF SPAIN MOROCCO & THE SOUTH OF SPAIN ZEALAND 8 PRE-CHRISTMAS MAGIC WINTER WONDERLAND MOROCCO & SOUTH SPAIN BLOSSOMS AND BULBS SCANDINAVIA BY RAIL LEGENDARY SILK ROAD TASMAN SEA

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LONDON GERMANY WARSZAWA BELGIUM PRAGUE CZECH SLOVAKIA BRATISLAVA VIENNA UKRAINE KAZAKHASTAN BUDAPEST MOLDOVA AUSTRIA ROSTOV ULAANBAATAR SWITZERLAND HUNGARY FRANCE ROMANIA MONGOLIA CROATIA BUCUREST ITALY BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA VLADIVOSTOK SERBIA ...on the right track in Europe since 1977 BULGARIA BLACK SEA SOFIA GEORGIA SPAIN Barcelona MACEDONIA TBILISI CASPIAN UZBEKISTAN KYRGYSTAN 3 THESSALONIKI 22 DAYS SEA ALBANY FACT BOX: 3 Madrid DURATION: AZERBAIJAN TURKMENISTAN BEIJING PYONGYANG GREECE SEA OF JAPAN NORTH ANCARA DEPARTURES: TURKEY NORTH IZMIR KOREA Seville Granada ATHENS TAJIKISTAN 3 3 April 10th, 2023 SEOUL ANTALYAper person twin4 star share, $15,950 PACIFIC SOUTH COST: KOREA JAPAN TEHRAN TOKYO 3 CYPRUS SYRIA OCEAN single supplement $2,500. KABUL Tangier MEDITERRANEAN SEA CHINA hotels with buffet breakfasts, other IRAQ 3 Fes meals as indicated, airport transfers, AFGHANISTAN BAGHDAD IRAN ISLAMABAD MOROCCO & THE MOROCCO TRIPOLI all entrances and sightseeing, tips for 3

Marrakech local guides. JORDAN SHANGHAI DELHI DEPOSIT: $2,500 with booking, final NEPAL ALGERIA KATHMANDU payment 3 months before travel. PAKISTAN SOUTH OF SPAIN LIBYA EGYPT SAUDI ARABIA QATAR WESTERN BANGLADESH SAHARA UNITED ARAB AR-RIYAD EMIRATES HONG KONG MASQAT BURMA OMAN INDIA VIETNAM MAURITANIA LAOS NOUAKCHOTT NIGER RED PHILIPPINE MALI SEA SEA ERITREA YEMEN THAILAND SENEGAL NIAMEY CHAD SAN’A ARABIAN BAMAKO SUDAN CAMBODIA The lands on either side of the Straits coastal farmland, the vineyards and orchards Rick and Ilsa and Sam in “Casablanca”. city sightseeing tour of Cordoba includesBURKINA FASO the glass skyscrapers, Real Madrid’s soccer SEA of Gibraltar have blossomed and been of Meknes to another of Morocco’s former The Hollywood moguls felt that the word UNESCO listedGIUNEA historic centre of Cordoba, stadium and an active bullfighting ring. It is a HIGHLIGHTS BENIN NIGERIA EXPLORE THE CULTURAL CAPITALS OF SOUTH scarred by centuries of conflict between imperial capitals, Fes. [B,D] Casablanca was more mellifluous (Would shaped successively by the Romans, Arabs, sprawling city of almost 7 million, a modern SOMALIA TOGO CHINA Berber, Moorish, Jewish and Christian you go to a movie called “Tangier?”). Our Jews and Christians. The Moorish Catholic EuropeanABUJA capital. MOROCCO AND THE SOUTH OF SPAIN GHANA [B] SEA COTE D’LVOIRE SRI PHILIPPINES civilisations. Today they are an example April 14th: FES Fes was founded around city sightseeing takes in the medina and the cathedral was formerly, and obviously, a WITH 3 NIGHTS EACH IN: ETHIOPIA LANKA LIBERIA CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC of tolerance and peace. 900AD and its medina – old city – is UNESCO harbour. [B] mosque until the expulsion of the Moors in April 27th: MADRID One of the world’s great • Marrakech, Fes, Tangier, Granada, JAUNDE heritage listed. Our sightseeing begins at the 1492. Later, our ATR delivers us to Granada art galleries is the Prado in Madrid. Spain KUALA Seville, Madrid & Barcelona LUMPUR April 10th: MARRAKECH Our tour historic and beautiful Blue Gate this morning. April 18th: TANGIER A visit today to one where our luggage awaits our arrival. controlled Italy andCAMEROON the Netherlands long [B,D] INCLUDED DAY VISIT TO: commences today on arrival at Marrakech Fes is considered the spiritual capital of of Morocco’s true gems: the blue city of enough to gather a magnificent collection of UGANDA MALAYSYA • Cordoba International Airport. Transfer to our hotel Morocco: it has madressas - universities Chefchaoeun, a Berber stronghold high in the Andalusia was Flemish and ItalianLIBREVILLE Renaissance art. KENYA April 23rd: GRANADA CONGO [B] inside the Casbah. Welcome drinks and – that are a thousand years old, and a Rif Mountains, founded by Moorish exiles under Moorish (Muslim) control from the GABON INCLUDED FEATURES: INDONESIA dinner in the hotel. [D]. synagogue dating from the 17th century. [B] from Spain in the 1490’s. Enjoy lunch or 8th century until the expulsion of both April 28th: BARCELONA Our high speedREPUBLIC OF THE CONGO• First class rail travel in reserved seats coffee in the tranquil main square. Back to Moors and Jews by the Catholic monarchs, AVE train delivers us quickly to Spain’s • Quality 4 star city centre hotels with April 11th: MARRAKECH This morning we April 15th: FES A day to visit the souks and Tangier this evening. Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492. Perhaps the second largest city Barcelona, the capital of buffet breakfasts [B] DODOMA commence our exploration of this fascinating bargain for local leather goods and jewellery. greatest gift to the world from this period Catalonia, where our luggage awaits. It was • 7 dinners SOLOMON PAPUA NEW GUINEA city, one of the four former Imperial capitals The Medina al Bali, with many kilometres April 19th: SEVILLE Our intercontinental is the UNESCO listed Alhambra, with its founded by the Romans, and has a proud • Full luggage handling ISLANDS LUANDA TANZANIA of Morocco. Outside the red or ochre walls of winding pathways and thousands of journey takes 35 minutes today on our ferry inspiring Moorish architecture and beautiful spirit of independence from the rest of Spain. • Local expert guides which give the city its nickname ‘the ochre shops, is one of the largest pedestrian-only across the Straits of Gibraltar to Spain. We squares, gardens and fountains. It is the Catalan is the first language; Spanish the • Full time Tour Leader who is the Tour EAST TIMOR city’, there is a modern Western city with urban areas on Earth. Be sure you have the arrive in the historic city of Seville (probably focus of our city sightseeing today. [B] second. [B] Company Principal boulevards echoing the period of French hotel name written in Arabic to show to any the setting for more operas than any other ANGOLA control of Morocco. Then we explore the teenager when (not if) you get lost. For a 20 city). [B,D] April 24th: GRANADA Today, we enjoy the April 29th: BARCELONA This morning’s ZAMBIA old city where the 12th century Koutoubia dirham coin ($2) he will escort you home to magnificent Generalife Gardens. Then in the sightseeing begins with visits to the Mirador MOZAMBIQUE mosque’s 77 metre minaret dominates the the hotel. April 20th: SEVILLE A Moorish city, afternoon, wander the timeless streets to de Colon and the Placa Reial and winds up CORAL [B] FIJI city skyline. We end at the Djemaa El Fna – Seville was conquered by the Catholic absorb the unique history of Granada. The at Antoni Gaudí’s unfinished masterpiece, La SEA the vast square in the heart of the old city. April 16th: TANGIER On Moroccan Rail King Ferdinand III in 1248. The Moorish Gothic Catholic cathedral containing the Sagrada Família cathedral. [B] Hawkers, snake charmers, buskers…… again today, back through the vineyards architecture still dominates the city. The two tombs of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Grand NAMIBIA ZIMBABWE INDIAN enjoy. of Meknes to the most northerly point centuries following Columbus’ voyages were Via and the Hospital Real should be included April 30th: BARCELONA Barcelona lends [B] BOTSWANA of Morocco – Tangier, on the Straits of the Golden Age of Seville as all trade from the in your strolling. [B] itself to aimless wandering and people OCEAN April 12th: MARRAKECH A day trip through Gibraltar. Its location at the mouth of the Americas passed through the city. Buildings watching, and La Rambla ranks with Paris’ MAPUTO PRETORIA olive and Argan groves today to the Atlantic Mediterranean and its colourful history since from this era – the cathedral and the Plaza de April 25th: MADRID As our luggage is taken Champs Elysees as the best place in Europe SWAZLIAND AUSTRALIA coast and the harbour town of Essaouira, its foundation by Carthage in the 5th century Espana – feature in today’s city sightseeing. on ahead, the high speed AVE train takes us to do it. Later, take the funicular to the top of with its 17th century Portuguese fort. The BC, make Tangier a truly cosmopolitan port [B] to Spain’sSOUTH new (since 1561) capital, Madrid. Montjuïc for a fine view of Barcelona and its Stan Klan old medina is a UNESCO listed world heritage city. [B,D] Located in the borderlands between the harbor. Farewell Dinner tonight. [B,D] YourLESOTHO Tour Director is Mr Stan Klan ATLANTIC SOUTH AFRICA site. [B] April 21st: SEVILLE We visit the Islamic historic enemies Aragon and Castille - joined of Toowoomba, Qld, a published April 17th: TANGIER For the first half of the Alcazar Palace this morning and the with theOCEAN marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella - May 1st: FAREWELL Our tour ends after Australian historian and the Principal April 13th: FES Moroccan Rail is certainly 20th century Tangier was an international remainder of the day is free for shopping. Madrid was favoured by Philip II who moved breakfast this morning. of Great Trains of Europe Tours. Stan SYDNEY [B] [B] CAPE TOWN the best in North Africa, and today we take zone partitioned between France, Spain and his court there. [B,D] has more than 30 years’ experience in our First class seats in an air-conditioned Britain. It is said to have been a hangout April 22nd: GRANADA We take the high history teaching and tour guiding. CANBERRA carriage for a journey from the desert for spies, drug runners and international speed ATR train today, and stop over for a April 26th: MADRID Our city sightseeing landscape of Marrakech through the fertile intrigue, and also the original setting for visit to Cordoba on the way to Granada. Our tour introduces us to historic palaces and MELBOURNE NEW MOROCCO & THE SOUTH OF SPAIN MOROCCO & THE SOUTH OF SPAIN MOROCCO & THE SOUTH OF SPAIN MOROCCO & THE SOUTH OF SPAIN MOROCCO & THE SOUTH OF SPAIN MOROCCO & THE SOUTH OF SPAIN MOROCCO & THE SOUTH OF SPAIN ZEALAND PRE-CHRISTMAS MAGIC WINTER WONDERLAND MOROCCO & SOUTH SPAIN BLOSSOMS AND BULBS SCANDINAVIA BY RAIL LEGENDARY SILK ROAD 9 TASMAN SEA

TASMANIA ...on the right track in Europe since 1977 SOLO TRAVELLERS PAY NO ...with SINGLE The Chelsea SUPPLEMENT Flower Show BLOSSOMS & BULBS Dutch Bulbfields, Chateaux Gardens of France, English Villages & Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. May 22nd: COTSWOLDS Today we visit Stowe Landscape Gardens, covering 750 acres and including 40 listed historic monuments and temples. It is considered FACT BOX:20 DAYS May 7th: AMSTERDAM The tour commences at check-in parterre, conceived as a Garden of Music. On the other side of the canal is a one of England’s most important landscape gardens and the greatest names in DURATION: to our city centre hotel, our home for four nights. We rest Garden of Love. [B] English garden design were involved in its creation from Bridgeman in the 1710s to from the flight, or take an afternoon canal cruise to get Vanbrugh, Kent, Gibbs and “Capability ” Brown. Afternoon tea in the Cotswold village DEPARTURE: our bearings, before meeting our fellow travellers for a May 14th: NORTH YORK MOORS Another of the great rail journeys of the of Burford, serious about antiques. [B] world as we farewell Paris and join the 300 kph Eurostar through the Chunnel. MAY 7th 2023 Welcome Drink and Dinner. [D] per person twin share Customs requires that we travel with our luggage today. In London we join May 23rd: LONDON Back on British Rail today we journey through more of the $AU 12,950 May 8th: AMSTERDAM Every day on the Great Trains of British Rail in the tracks of the Flying Scotsman to the mediaeval city of York. Cotswolds’ rolling hills, as our luggage is taken on ahead to await our arrival in our Children under 12 sharing adults Europe Tour begins with a full buffet breakfast. [B] We see the Minster and the Shambles, then transfer to our inn in the North London hotel. We enjoy London’s sights from a double-decker bus. The Oxford room stay free. We spend a full day in one of the world’s finest bulbfields, York Moors village of Pickering. A pub dinner tonight. [B,D] Street shops are only a bus ride away from the hotel. A West End Show tonight? [B] the Keukenhof Garden, with 80 acres of tulips, daffodils, Single room at no supplement hyacinths and other flowering bulbs, shrubs, ancient May 15th: NORTH YORK MOORS This morning we visit the gardens of May 24th: LONDON The Oxford Street shops or Harrods this morning before an Enquire about competitive airfares trees, exhibitions, gurgling streams, flower parades, and Castle Howard, laid out by Sir John Vanburgh in the early 18th century. Castle afternoon excursion to the Royal Horticultural Society’s Wisley Garden, where keen seven themed gardens. Little wonder we need all day to Howard is the palace of the Flyte family in “Brideshead Revisited”. We lunch English gardeners have gone to be inspired for over 100 years. Spread out over 240 (with Claude Jeremiah Greengrass?) in the village of Goathland, “Aidens visit the Keukenhof! There are restaurants and tea shops. acres, Wisley is a lovely, peaceful place for a stroll as well as a demonstration garden 3 St Petersburg [B] field” in the TV series ‘Heartbeat’. Here we join the historic North York Steam full of practical garden design ideas and cultivation techniques. [B] Railway home to Pickering. [B] A full day at May 9th: AMSTERDAM We head into the countryside A full day today at the renown Chelsea Flower Show, arguably May 25th: LONDON HIGHLIGHTS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW today (who will be first to see a windmill?) to the Gardens May 16th: NORTH YORK MOORS This morning we visit historic Harewood the world’s greatest and best known. Our Farewell Dinner tonight. [B,D] ESTONIA House. Its garden is classic Capability Brown - forming an idyllic rural setting. of the Dutch Baroque Palace Het Loo, the Royal Palace RAIL JOURNEYS 3 from the 1680s until 1982. Established by LeNôtre, the We move on to the spa and garden town of Harrogate for a cream tea or May 26th: HOMEWARD BOUND Our tour ends this morning after breakfast. Thank MOSCOW gardens feature perfect symmetry, axial layout with a stroll around Harrogate’s famous public gardens. Can you spot Agatha you for your company on the Great Trains of Europe Tours. [B] • High Speed Thalys radiating gravel walks, parterres, fountains, basins and Christie? She ‘disappeared’ here in 1926. [B] • English Channel Eurostar statues. [B] • Tracks of the Flying Scotsman LATVIA May 17th: LAKE DISTRICT We journey this morning through the Yorkshire • North York Moors Steam Railway RUSSIA May 10th: AMSTERDAM Today we visit the historic Dales, immortalized in James Herriot’s “All Creatures Great and Small” novels • Settle to Carlisle Historic Railway and beautiful Dutch city of Delft, home of Vermeer, and and television series. A village pub lunch stop, then on to the Lake District imagine what Amsterdam might have looked like centuries where we settle into our Lakeside hotel. [B,D] GARDENS ago. [B] SCOTLAND LITHUANIA May 18th: LAKE DISTRICT A visit this morning to a very special Lakeland • Keukenhof Gardens • Hidcote • Het Loo • Wisley May 11th: PARIS A great rail journey today. Our luggage garden, Holehird, which specialises in Lakeland flora and offers sweeping 3 Lake District is taken on ahead as we take our reserved First Class views of Lake Windermere. A bit of whimsy on the way home: we drop in on • Monet’s Garden • Villandry seats in the sleek Thalys train, for Paris at 300kph. On Beatrix Potter’s garden, Hill Top - watch out for the fierce bad rabbit.[B] • Castle Howard SIGHTS arrival we settle in to our 4 star hotel on the Left Bank. On 3 North York Moors We take a magical rail journey today through • Harewood • “Heartbeat Country” our city sightseeing tour we begin our acquaintance with May 19th: LAKE DISTRICT some of the Dales’ and England’s finest scenery on the historic Settle to • Holehird • Heriot’s YorkshireBELARUS Dales the City of Lights. [B,D] IRELAND AMSTERDAM 4 • Chatsworth • Lake District Carlisle Railway. A pub lunch, an afternoon cream tea and visits to some ENGLAND more of the Yorkshire Dales’ picturesque villages. [B] NETHERLANDS • Stowe • Cotswold Villages May 12th: PARIS A quiet morning to stroll in the nearby WALES 3 Luxembourg Gardens or to visit a museum. Monet’s May 20th: COTSWOLDS Our British Rail journey south today brings us to Cotswolds 4 LONDON waterlilies are finally on view in their original context at Chelsea INCLUDEDPOLAND FEATURES: the Peak District of Derbyshire, to visit the gardens of historic Chatsworth Flower Show l’Orangerie. See them in real life this afternoon on our • First Class rail travel in reserved seats House, dating from 1687. Another Capability Brown garden, Chatsworth BELGIUM visit to Giverney and Monet’s Garden. We enjoy the flower GERMANY • 4 star city centre hotels has been famous for its beauty since Jane Austen’s Day. We move on in the garden called Clos Normand and the water garden with • 3 or 4 star historic village inns late afternoon to the Cotswolds where we stay in a village inn in the pretty its famous Japanese Bridge covered with wisteria, which CZECH REPUBLIC• 6 dinners UKRAINE riverside village of Bourton-on-the-Water. [B,D] blossoms & bulbs should be at its best this week. Then the weeping willows, • Full luggage handling [not on Eurostar] 3 PARIS SLOVAKIA and the famous nympheas (water lilies). [B] May 21st: COTSWOLDS This morning’s sightseeing takes us to picturesque • Local expert garden guides [where permitted] Cotswold villages of honey-golden stone: Lower Slaughter, Stow-on-the- FRANCE • Full time Australian Historian Tour Director May 13th: PARIS A high speed French TGV train today Wold, Chipping Campden. After a village pub lunch we visit one of England’s who is the Company Principal into the Loire Valley and the Garden of Villandry, created AUSTRIA favourite gardens - Hidcote Manor, designed and developed by Maj. Lawrence by Dr Joachim Carvallo, from 1906, in complete harmony Johnston, who scoured the world to secure rare and exotic species for this SWITZERLAND HUNGRY with the Renaissance architecture of the chateau. Great extremely pretty garden, a series of “outdoor rooms”. [B] horticultural skill was deployed, especially in the use of ITALY SLOVENIA ROMANIA vegetables. An arbour of grape vines leads to a great CROATIA

BOSNIA BLOSSOMS & BULBS BLOSSOMS & BULBS BLOSSOMS & BULBS BLOSSOMS & BULBS BLOSSOMS & BULBS BLOSSOMS & BULBS BLOSSOMS & BULBS 10 PRE-CHRISTMAS MAGIC WINTER WONDERLAND MOROCCO & SOUTH SPAIN BLOSSOMS AND BULBS SCANDINAVIA BY RAIL YUGOSLAVIALEGENDARY SILK ROAD ...on the right track in Europe since 1977 SOLO TRAVELLERS PAY NO ...with SINGLE The Chelsea SUPPLEMENT Flower Show BLOSSOMS & BULBS Dutch Bulbfields, Chateaux Gardens of France, English Villages & Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. May 22nd: COTSWOLDS Today we visit Stowe Landscape Gardens, covering 750 acres and including 40 listed historic monuments and temples. It is considered FACT BOX:20 DAYS May 7th: AMSTERDAM The tour commences at check-in parterre, conceived as a Garden of Music. On the other side of the canal is a one of England’s most important landscape gardens and the greatest names in DURATION: to our city centre hotel, our home for four nights. We rest Garden of Love. [B] English garden design were involved in its creation from Bridgeman in the 1710s to from the flight, or take an afternoon canal cruise to get Vanbrugh, Kent, Gibbs and “Capability ” Brown. Afternoon tea in the Cotswold village DEPARTURE: our bearings, before meeting our fellow travellers for a May 14th: NORTH YORK MOORS Another of the great rail journeys of the of Burford, serious about antiques. [B] world as we farewell Paris and join the 300 kph Eurostar through the Chunnel. MAY 7th 2023 Welcome Drink and Dinner. [D] per person twin share Customs requires that we travel with our luggage today. In London we join May 23rd: LONDON Back on British Rail today we journey through more of the $AU 12,950 May 8th: AMSTERDAM Every day on the Great Trains of British Rail in the tracks of the Flying Scotsman to the mediaeval city of York. Cotswolds’ rolling hills, as our luggage is taken on ahead to await our arrival in our Children under 12 sharing adults Europe Tour begins with a full buffet breakfast. [B] We see the Minster and the Shambles, then transfer to our inn in the North London hotel. We enjoy London’s sights from a double-decker bus. The Oxford room stay free. We spend a full day in one of the world’s finest bulbfields, York Moors village of Pickering. A pub dinner tonight. [B,D] Street shops are only a bus ride away from the hotel. A West End Show tonight? [B] the Keukenhof Garden, with 80 acres of tulips, daffodils, Single room at no supplement hyacinths and other flowering bulbs, shrubs, ancient May 15th: NORTH YORK MOORS This morning we visit the gardens of May 24th: LONDON The Oxford Street shops or Harrods this morning before an Enquire about competitive airfares trees, exhibitions, gurgling streams, flower parades, and Castle Howard, laid out by Sir John Vanburgh in the early 18th century. Castle afternoon excursion to the Royal Horticultural Society’s Wisley Garden, where keen seven themed gardens. Little wonder we need all day to Howard is the palace of the Flyte family in “Brideshead Revisited”. We lunch English gardeners have gone to be inspired for over 100 years. Spread out over 240 (with Claude Jeremiah Greengrass?) in the village of Goathland, “Aidens visit the Keukenhof! There are restaurants and tea shops. acres, Wisley is a lovely, peaceful place for a stroll as well as a demonstration garden 3 St Petersburg [B] field” in the TV series ‘Heartbeat’. Here we join the historic North York Steam full of practical garden design ideas and cultivation techniques. [B] Railway home to Pickering. [B] A full day at May 9th: AMSTERDAM We head into the countryside A full day today at the renown Chelsea Flower Show, arguably May 25th: LONDON HIGHLIGHTS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW today (who will be first to see a windmill?) to the Gardens May 16th: NORTH YORK MOORS This morning we visit historic Harewood the world’s greatest and best known. Our Farewell Dinner tonight. [B,D] ESTONIA House. Its garden is classic Capability Brown - forming an idyllic rural setting. of the Dutch Baroque Palace Het Loo, the Royal Palace RAIL JOURNEYS 3 from the 1680s until 1982. Established by LeNôtre, the We move on to the spa and garden town of Harrogate for a cream tea or May 26th: HOMEWARD BOUND Our tour ends this morning after breakfast. Thank MOSCOW gardens feature perfect symmetry, axial layout with a stroll around Harrogate’s famous public gardens. Can you spot Agatha you for your company on the Great Trains of Europe Tours. [B] • High Speed Thalys radiating gravel walks, parterres, fountains, basins and Christie? She ‘disappeared’ here in 1926. [B] • English Channel Eurostar statues. [B] • Tracks of the Flying Scotsman LATVIA May 17th: LAKE DISTRICT We journey this morning through the Yorkshire • North York Moors Steam Railway RUSSIA May 10th: AMSTERDAM Today we visit the historic Dales, immortalized in James Herriot’s “All Creatures Great and Small” novels • Settle to Carlisle Historic Railway and beautiful Dutch city of Delft, home of Vermeer, and and television series. A village pub lunch stop, then on to the Lake District imagine what Amsterdam might have looked like centuries where we settle into our Lakeside hotel. [B,D] GARDENS ago. [B] SCOTLAND LITHUANIA May 18th: LAKE DISTRICT A visit this morning to a very special Lakeland • Keukenhof Gardens • Hidcote • Het Loo • Wisley May 11th: PARIS A great rail journey today. Our luggage garden, Holehird, which specialises in Lakeland flora and offers sweeping 3 Lake District is taken on ahead as we take our reserved First Class views of Lake Windermere. A bit of whimsy on the way home: we drop in on • Monet’s Garden • Villandry seats in the sleek Thalys train, for Paris at 300kph. On Beatrix Potter’s garden, Hill Top - watch out for the fierce bad rabbit.[B] • Castle Howard SIGHTS arrival we settle in to our 4 star hotel on the Left Bank. On 3 North York Moors We take a magical rail journey today through • Harewood • “Heartbeat Country” our city sightseeing tour we begin our acquaintance with May 19th: LAKE DISTRICT some of the Dales’ and England’s finest scenery on the historic Settle to • Holehird • Heriot’s YorkshireBELARUS Dales the City of Lights. [B,D] IRELAND AMSTERDAM 4 • Chatsworth • Lake District Carlisle Railway. A pub lunch, an afternoon cream tea and visits to some ENGLAND more of the Yorkshire Dales’ picturesque villages. [B] NETHERLANDS • Stowe • Cotswold Villages May 12th: PARIS A quiet morning to stroll in the nearby WALES 3 Luxembourg Gardens or to visit a museum. Monet’s May 20th: COTSWOLDS Our British Rail journey south today brings us to Cotswolds 4 LONDON waterlilies are finally on view in their original context at Chelsea INCLUDEDPOLAND FEATURES: the Peak District of Derbyshire, to visit the gardens of historic Chatsworth Flower Show l’Orangerie. See them in real life this afternoon on our • First Class rail travel in reserved seats House, dating from 1687. Another Capability Brown garden, Chatsworth BELGIUM visit to Giverney and Monet’s Garden. We enjoy the flower GERMANY • 4 star city centre hotels has been famous for its beauty since Jane Austen’s Day. We move on in the garden called Clos Normand and the water garden with • 3 or 4 star historic village inns late afternoon to the Cotswolds where we stay in a village inn in the pretty its famous Japanese Bridge covered with wisteria, which CZECH REPUBLIC• 6 dinners UKRAINE riverside village of Bourton-on-the-Water. [B,D] blossoms & bulbs should be at its best this week. Then the weeping willows, • Full luggage handling [not on Eurostar] 3 PARIS SLOVAKIA and the famous nympheas (water lilies). [B] May 21st: COTSWOLDS This morning’s sightseeing takes us to picturesque • Local expert garden guides [where permitted] Cotswold villages of honey-golden stone: Lower Slaughter, Stow-on-the- FRANCE • Full time Australian Historian Tour Director May 13th: PARIS A high speed French TGV train today Wold, Chipping Campden. After a village pub lunch we visit one of England’s who is the Company Principal into the Loire Valley and the Garden of Villandry, created AUSTRIA favourite gardens - Hidcote Manor, designed and developed by Maj. Lawrence by Dr Joachim Carvallo, from 1906, in complete harmony Johnston, who scoured the world to secure rare and exotic species for this SWITZERLAND HUNGRY with the Renaissance architecture of the chateau. Great extremely pretty garden, a series of “outdoor rooms”. [B] horticultural skill was deployed, especially in the use of ITALY SLOVENIA ROMANIA vegetables. An arbour of grape vines leads to a great CROATIA

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ADD-ONPOST-TOUR ADD-ON TOUR TO THE SCANDINAVIA BY RAIL TOUR: Enjoy Iceland’s magical scenery – waterfalls, lagoons, geysers, volcanoes, glaciers – on this SCANDINAVIA BY RAIL early autumn visit, with a slight likelihood of a Northern Lights viewing. Flights from Norway at the end of the Scandinavia by Rail Tour, and on to London at the end of the Iceland Add-On are CHASING THE NORTHERN LIGHTSHIGHLIGHTS INCLUDED FEATURES: By popular demand we repeat this tour for a fourth year... included. March 1st: COPENHAGEN Arrive today in Copenhagen and rest from your March 12th: BERGEN Our luggage is taken on ahead as we cruise down DISCOVER SCANDINAVIA’S • First Class rail travel in reserved seats flight. Meet your fellow travellers tonight at the Welcome Dinner.[D] the fjord today, enjoying more spectacular scenery to join the Bergen • 4 star city centre boutique hotels Day 1: Arrival in Reykjavik 3 MODERN CAPITALS: • 9 dinners railway into Norway's second city. There will be time this afternoon to Day tour to Golden Circle • Copenhagen • Full luggage handling Day 2: March 2nd: COPENHAGEN Discover “beautiful, beautiful” Copenhagen on get to to know this city, before dinner in Bergen's oldest restaurant in the • Stockholm • Full time Historian / Tour Leader who is the Day 3: Day tour to South Coast this morning's city sightseeing tour. This afternoon why not take a canal historic waterfront area. [B,D] • Oslo Tour Company Principal Day 4: Day tour to Reykjanes and Blue Lagoon cruise and discover Copenhagen from this unique perspective, and visit Day 5: Day tour to Snæfellsnes the Little Mermaid. [B] March 13th: BERGEN We commence our sightseeing tour of Bergen ENJOY SCANDINAVIA’S Day 6: Free Day in Reykjavik with a funicular ride to the top of Floyen, one of the seven mountains GREAT RAIL JOURNEYS Day 7: Departure from Reykjavik March 3rd: COPENHAGEN A free day to visit more of Copenhagen's surrounding Bergen. The views across the city and harbour are stunning. • High Speed Swedish X2 museums and palaces. [B] Back at the bottom we walk among the old wooden houses along • Flam Railway FACT BOX: COST: $5,500 pp twin share. 20 DAYS Bryggen – the historic wharf area now included on UNESCO's world • Bergen Railway $1000 single supplement. March 4th: STOCKHOLM Our luggage is taken on ahead as we join our heritage list. [B] • Norland Railway crossing the DURATION: Swedish high speed X2 tilt train, commencing our love affair with the Arctic Circle DEPARTURES: great trains of Europe, departing Denmark across “The Bridge” – made March 14th: BERGEN Bergen was the home of Norway's greatest MARCH 1st, 2023 EXPLORE SCANDINAVIA’S Land Only Content famous in the eponymous Nordic noir thriller TV series. We break the composer Edward Grieg, and this morning's sightseeing focuses on his COST: journey for a visit to the historic University and cathedral town of Lund, life and work. A free afternoon. [B] SENSATIONAL SCENERY (Starts in Copenhagen, ends in Oslo or then continue to Stockholm. [B,D] • Inland fjord cruise Copenhagen) • 2 night coastal fjord cruise per person twin share March 15th: BERGEN – COASTAL FERRY A free morning to enjoy the $AU 14,950 March 5th: STOCKHOLM On this morning's sightseeing tour we discover waterfront or climb some more of Bergen's 7 mountains, before our For detailed Booking Conditions please visit Enquire about competitive airfares Sweden's capital where “modernity meets tranquillity”, the home of IKEA, afternoon transfer to board our coastal ferry for the 2 day journey along www.greattrainsofeurope.com.au Single room supplement $3,500 Volvo and ABBA. Founded in the Stone Age, Stockholm is spread across the coast and through the fjords of Norway's West Coast. [B,D] 14 islands. A highlight will be the City Hall, where the Nobel Prize banquet ceremonies take place, and the Vasa Ship Museum. [B] March 16th: COASTAL FERRY Enjoy the views of the fjords from your

cabin or from the deck of our ferry. This is not just a tourist ferry, but 2 BODO March 6th: STOCKHOLM A free day to enjoy some of Stockholm’s many the regular supply ship serving the coastal communities all the way up fine museums. Your Tour Director will accompany those interested to the Norway’s West Coast. [B,L,D] Akureyri highly acclaimed Skansen open air folk museum. [B] 1 Myvatn Egilsstaoir 1 March 17th: TRONDHEIM Arrive today in TrondheimICELAND and settle into our

March 7th: OSLO On an Intercity train today, we cross the border to overnight hotel. Our sightseeing ofReykjavik this historic city – a former capital of 2 Norway and her capital Oslo, where our luggage awaits our arrival. Norway – includes the cathedral, the waterfront, and1 Hofn the Old Town. [B,D] Vik 1 [B,D] 1 TRONDHEIM March 18th: BODO Our final and most Northerly train journey today – the 2 March 8th: OSLO Our morning city sightseeing includes the Akershus Nordland, beyond the Arctic Circle – with sweeping coastal views to Bodo. SWEDEN Fortress, and the Opera House. In the afternoon why not visit the National In the Tour Director's humble opinion, this is one of the great rail journeys NORWAY FLAM FINLAND Gallery and see Edward Munch's famous painting “The Scream”. [B] of the world. Given the local terrain, we travel today with our luggage. [B] 2 BERGEN 3 OSLO 3 March 9th: OSLO A free day for sightseeing – Vigelandspaken Sculpture March 19th: BODO Our final day in Norway: explore this coastal town with 3 STOCKHOLM Park, the Viking Museum, the Kon Tiki Museum and the Holmenkollen a tragic World War ll history, do your last minute souvenir hunting and NOTE: Given the special Ski Jump (for magnificent views of the city).[B] take one last sundowner on the waterfront before our Farewell Dinner. nature of the Scandinavian [B] [D] ICELAND landscape and transport ADD-ON TOUR timetables, on this tour we March 10th: FLAM Today's train journey across Europe's highest are forced to break with mountain plateau, and down the steep descent into the village of Flam is Fly today to Oslo or Copenhagen, where our our standard practice of March 20th: FAREWELL 3 COPENHAGEN repeatedly voted “the world's best train ride”. Tiny Flam, nestled on the tour ends on arrival. Or you may choose to join us for a fascinating 7 day having 3 nights minimum at every stop. water's edge is our home for 2 nights. Our luggage awaits. [B,D] Add–on tour of Iceland.

March 11th: FLAM This morning’s exploration around Flam includes TOUR DIRECTOR: Your Tour Director is Mr Stan Klan of Toowoomba, an ascent to the Stegastein Lookout for breathtaking views down to the QLD, a published Australian historian and the Principal of Great Trains NETHERLANDS water 2,000 feet below. After lunch take one of the many local walking of Europe Tours. Stan has more than 30 years’ experience in history POLAND trails for sweeping fjord views. [B] teaching and tour guiding. BELGIUM GERMANY CZECH REPUBLIC

12SCANDINAVIAPRE-CHRISTMAS BY RAIL MAGIC SCANDINAVIAWINTER BY WONDERLAND RAIL SCANDINAVIA MOROCCOBY RAIL & SOUTH SPAIN SCANDINAVIA BY RAIL BLOSSOMS AND BULBSSCANDINAVIA BY RAIL SCANDINAVIASCANDINAVIA BY RAIL BY RAIL LEGENDARYSCANDINAVIA SILK ROAD BY RAIL FRANCE AUSTRIA SWITZERLAND o the beaten path ITALY

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ADD-ONPOST-TOUR ADD-ON TOUR TO THE SCANDINAVIA BY RAIL TOUR: Enjoy Iceland’s magical scenery – waterfalls, lagoons, geysers, volcanoes, glaciers – on this SCANDINAVIA BY RAIL early autumn visit, with a slight likelihood of a Northern Lights viewing. Flights from Norway at the end of the Scandinavia by Rail Tour, and on to London at the end of the Iceland Add-On are CHASING THE NORTHERN LIGHTSHIGHLIGHTS INCLUDED FEATURES: By popular demand we repeat this tour for a fourth year... included. March 1st: COPENHAGEN Arrive today in Copenhagen and rest from your March 12th: BERGEN Our luggage is taken on ahead as we cruise down DISCOVER SCANDINAVIA’S • First Class rail travel in reserved seats flight. Meet your fellow travellers tonight at the Welcome Dinner.[D] the fjord today, enjoying more spectacular scenery to join the Bergen • 4 star city centre boutique hotels Day 1: Arrival in Reykjavik 3 MODERN CAPITALS: • 9 dinners railway into Norway's second city. There will be time this afternoon to Day tour to Golden Circle • Copenhagen • Full luggage handling Day 2: March 2nd: COPENHAGEN Discover “beautiful, beautiful” Copenhagen on get to to know this city, before dinner in Bergen's oldest restaurant in the • Stockholm • Full time Historian / Tour Leader who is the Day 3: Day tour to South Coast this morning's city sightseeing tour. This afternoon why not take a canal historic waterfront area. [B,D] • Oslo Tour Company Principal Day 4: Day tour to Reykjanes and Blue Lagoon cruise and discover Copenhagen from this unique perspective, and visit Day 5: Day tour to Snæfellsnes the Little Mermaid. [B] March 13th: BERGEN We commence our sightseeing tour of Bergen ENJOY SCANDINAVIA’S Day 6: Free Day in Reykjavik with a funicular ride to the top of Floyen, one of the seven mountains GREAT RAIL JOURNEYS Day 7: Departure from Reykjavik March 3rd: COPENHAGEN A free day to visit more of Copenhagen's surrounding Bergen. The views across the city and harbour are stunning. • High Speed Swedish X2 museums and palaces. [B] Back at the bottom we walk among the old wooden houses along • Flam Railway FACT BOX: COST: $5,500 pp twin share. 20 DAYS Bryggen – the historic wharf area now included on UNESCO's world • Bergen Railway $1000 single supplement. March 4th: STOCKHOLM Our luggage is taken on ahead as we join our heritage list. [B] • Norland Railway crossing the DURATION: Swedish high speed X2 tilt train, commencing our love affair with the Arctic Circle DEPARTURES: great trains of Europe, departing Denmark across “The Bridge” – made March 14th: BERGEN Bergen was the home of Norway's greatest MARCH 1st, 2023 EXPLORE SCANDINAVIA’S Land Only Content famous in the eponymous Nordic noir thriller TV series. We break the composer Edward Grieg, and this morning's sightseeing focuses on his COST: journey for a visit to the historic University and cathedral town of Lund, life and work. A free afternoon. [B] SENSATIONAL SCENERY (Starts in Copenhagen, ends in Oslo or then continue to Stockholm. [B,D] • Inland fjord cruise Copenhagen) • 2 night coastal fjord cruise per person twin share March 15th: BERGEN – COASTAL FERRY A free morning to enjoy the $AU 14,950 March 5th: STOCKHOLM On this morning's sightseeing tour we discover waterfront or climb some more of Bergen's 7 mountains, before our For detailed Booking Conditions please visit Enquire about competitive airfares Sweden's capital where “modernity meets tranquillity”, the home of IKEA, afternoon transfer to board our coastal ferry for the 2 day journey along www.greattrainsofeurope.com.au Single room supplement $3,500 Volvo and ABBA. Founded in the Stone Age, Stockholm is spread across the coast and through the fjords of Norway's West Coast. [B,D] 14 islands. A highlight will be the City Hall, where the Nobel Prize banquet ceremonies take place, and the Vasa Ship Museum. [B] March 16th: COASTAL FERRY Enjoy the views of the fjords from your cabin or from the deck of our ferry. This is not just a tourist ferry, but 2 BODO March 6th: STOCKHOLM A free day to enjoy some of Stockholm’s many the regular supply ship serving the coastal communities all the way up fine museums. Your Tour Director will accompany those interested to the Norway’s West Coast. [B,L,D] Akureyri highly acclaimed Skansen open air folk museum. [B] 1 Myvatn Egilsstaoir 1 March 17th: TRONDHEIM Arrive today in TrondheimICELAND and settle into our

March 7th: OSLO On an Intercity train today, we cross the border to overnight hotel. Our sightseeing ofReykjavik this historic city – a former capital of 2 Norway and her capital Oslo, where our luggage awaits our arrival. Norway – includes the cathedral, the waterfront, and1 Hofn the Old Town. [B,D] Vik 1 [B,D] 1 TRONDHEIM March 18th: BODO Our final and most Northerly train journey today – the 2 March 8th: OSLO Our morning city sightseeing includes the Akershus Nordland, beyond the Arctic Circle – with sweeping coastal views to Bodo. SWEDEN Fortress, and the Opera House. In the afternoon why not visit the National In the Tour Director's humble opinion, this is one of the great rail journeys NORWAY FLAM FINLAND Gallery and see Edward Munch's famous painting “The Scream”. [B] of the world. Given the local terrain, we travel today with our luggage. [B] 2 BERGEN 3 OSLO 3 March 9th: OSLO A free day for sightseeing – Vigelandspaken Sculpture March 19th: BODO Our final day in Norway: explore this coastal town with 3 STOCKHOLM Park, the Viking Museum, the Kon Tiki Museum and the Holmenkollen a tragic World War ll history, do your last minute souvenir hunting and NOTE: Given the special Ski Jump (for magnificent views of the city).[B] take one last sundowner on the waterfront before our Farewell Dinner. nature of the Scandinavian [B] [D] ICELAND landscape and transport ADD-ON TOUR timetables, on this tour we March 10th: FLAM Today's train journey across Europe's highest are forced to break with mountain plateau, and down the steep descent into the village of Flam is Fly today to Oslo or Copenhagen, where our our standard practice of March 20th: FAREWELL 3 COPENHAGEN repeatedly voted “the world's best train ride”. Tiny Flam, nestled on the tour ends on arrival. Or you may choose to join us for a fascinating 7 day having 3 nights minimum at every stop. water's edge is our home for 2 nights. Our luggage awaits. [B,D] Add–on tour of Iceland.

March 11th: FLAM This morning’s exploration around Flam includes TOUR DIRECTOR: Your Tour Director is Mr Stan Klan of Toowoomba, an ascent to the Stegastein Lookout for breathtaking views down to the QLD, a published Australian historian and the Principal of Great Trains NETHERLANDS water 2,000 feet below. After lunch take one of the many local walking of Europe Tours. Stan has more than 30 years’ experience in history POLAND trails for sweeping fjord views. [B] teaching and tour guiding. BELGIUM GERMANY CZECH REPUBLIC

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