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11 or 14 days HISTORY: WWII & THE WESTERN FRONT FACULTY-LED INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS AB O Gain insight into the effects of World War II as you visitthe Cabinet War Rooms in London U T and stand where the Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy. Witness the outcome of German occupation in Rouen and Paris, and THIS see how conflict shaped the landscape of Bastogne and Cologne. Your final stop in Berlin sheds light on the aftermath of Word War II. TO Today, advancements in every sector take place on a global scale. Students who understand and contribute to the international U R dialogue broaden their minds and gain a competitive edge in their fields. Traveling on an EF College Study Tour—an alternative to typical semester abroad programs—helps you truly make the most of your college education in just one to four weeks. Lectures and visits provide crucial historical and cultural insight, rounding out academics with a fuller context and creating incredible memories along the way. DAY 2: Parliament DAY 2: St. Paul’s DAY 5: American Cemetery DAY 6: Rouen Cathedral DAY 10: Checkpoint Charlie HISTORY: WWII & THE WESTERN FRONT 11 or 14 days INCLUDED ON TOUR: OPTIONAL EXCURSIONS: Round-trip airfare London Eye and Thames River cruise (seasonal) London (2) Local transportation • Versailles Train Berlin (2) Hotel accommodations Optional excursions let you incorporate additional Portsmouth Breakfast daily and select meals sites and attractions into your itinerary and make the Ship (1) Cologne Full-time CST Tour Director most of your time abroad. Caen Sightseeing tours and visits to special attractions Normandy (1) Bastogne (1) Nuremberg Free time to study and explore Versailles Paris (2) EXTENSION: Munich (3 days) Dachau Munich (3) FOR MORE INFORMATION: Extend your tour and enjoy extra time exploring your efcollegestudytours.com/HWWA destination or seeing a new place at a great value. Salzburg DAY 7: Arc de Triomphe DAY 8: Bastogne DAY 10: Berlin Wall DAY 11: Munich Day 1: FLY TO ENGLAND Portsmouth before boarding the night ferry. parades down the elegant Champs-Élysées between East and West Germany, you’ll visit a Meet your group and travel on an overnight English Channel crossing • The overnight before a stop at the inimitable Eiffel Tower. museum devoted to the era of the Berlin Wall. flight to London. Portsmouth-Caen ferry crossing brings you Optional: Versailles • Opt to visit Versailles, Free time • On a free afternoon, you may across the English Channel to Caen, France. the palace where Louis XIV held court in the choose to visit the Soviet War Memorial at DayS 2-3: LONDON most lavish style imaginable. Treptower Park. Arrive in London • Welcome to London! Day 5: NORMANDY Depending on your arrival time, you may have Beaches of Normandy • From Caen, Day 8: BASTOGNE Day 11: DEPArt FOR HOME free time to settle in and explore the city on visit the backdrop for the largest seaborne Travel to Bastogne • This morning, set your own. Your professor may also use this invasion in history. See Omaha Beach, where course for Bastogne, Allied stronghold during 3-DAY TOUR EXTENSION time to focus on coursework. the worst fighting took place, and continue to the Battle of the Bulge. DayS 11-13: MUNICH Explore London • Take in a bit of Europe’s Pointe du Hoc, the 320-foot cliff scaled by Visit the Ardennes American Cemetery Travel to Munich • En route to Munich, stop largest capital by foot, starting at Trafalgar Allied troops to suppress the German attack. and Memorial • This 90-acre cemetery in Nuremberg for some sightseeing. Square. You’ll pass Leicester Square, Visit Caen Memorial • Pay tribute to remembers those who died during one of Sightseeing tour of Nuremberg • Visit the the center of West End entertainment, and WWII troops who fought at these fateful WWII’s bloodiest battles. second-largest city in Bayern and the site of Covent Garden, famous for its markets. beaches as you visit the Caen Memorial. Sightseeing tour of Bastogne • Explore the Nazi war-crime tribunals. See architecture Fish and chips dinner • Finish the day with Visit the American Cemetery • Nearly the town that turned the war. You’ll see the built up from the stone foundations bombed London’s most famous dish—fish and chips. 10,000 American soldiers are buried in this Mardasson Monument, which remembers the by the Allies during WWII before continuing on Sightseeing tour of London • With your hauntingly serene cemetery, their graves American soldiers who perished there, and to Munich, the Bavarian capital. guide, begin in Grosvenor Square, home to marked with endless rows of white crosses. the Patton Monument, erected in honor of the Sightseeing tour of Munich • Your guided Eisenhower’s military headquarters during general who liberated Bastogne. tour takes you past the Olympic Stadium and the war. Continue on through the bright Day 6: roueN • Paris the fashionable Schwabing district before lights of Piccadilly Circus to snap photos Travel via Rouen to Paris • En route to DAY 9: CologNe • BerliN concluding at Marienplatz, home of the city’s of Parliament and London Bridge. Then, Paris, behold the wonder of the architecturally Travel to Cologne • Leave France for famed Glockenspiel. pay a visit to St. Paul’s Cathedral before breathtaking city of Rouen. You’ll step inside Germany as you head for Cologne. Dachau • Visit Dachau, onetime Nazi witnessing a London tradition—the Changing the stunning Rouen Cathedral, which was Sightseeing tour of Cologne • On your concentration camp and now a memorial of the Guard (subject to scheduling). severely damaged by Allied bombs in 1944. tour, make a stop at one of Germany’s most museum. Visit the Imperial War Museum, the Explore Paris • Once you’ve arrived in moving symbols: Cologne’s sublime, war- Salzburg • Your local guide introduces you Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms Paris, you’ll explore the city’s Latin Quarter, scarred Gothic Cathedral (the Kölner Dom). to Salzburg, a city that saw nearly half of its • This museum trifecta offers insight into the famously home to the Sorbonne. After Day train to Berlin • Relax aboard your train buildings destroyed during WWII. everyday challenges of modern warfare, the sightseeing, enjoy an included dinner. to the capital of Germany. Sightseeing tour at Eagle’s Nest life of Winston Churchill and the workings of Visit Notre Dame Cathedral • Admire the (seasonal) • Originally built as a teahouse Churchill and his cabinet during World War II. stained-glass rose windows and seemingly DAY 10: BERLIN for Hitler’s 50th birthday, the Eagle’s Nest Optional: London Eye and Thames River weightless vaulted ceilings of one of the Sightseeing tour of Berlin • With your tour became an important Nazi meeting house. cruise (seasonal) • See London’s sights world’s most beautiful churches. guide, explore the city whose post-WWII fate Sightseeing tour at the Documentation from above with a ride on the London Eye, defined an era. Ride past the Kaiser Wilhelm Center and Bunker tour (seasonal) • Visit which offers spectacular 360-degree views of Day 7: PARIS Gedächtniskirche and down the glittery Obersalzberg, once a popular vacation spot the city. Later, enjoy a cruise on the Thames. Sightseeing tour of Paris • Today, your tour Kurfürstendamm, Berlin’s liveliest street. that became the Third Reich’s headquarters. guide introduces you to the treasures of Paris. On your way to the Eastern sector, pass the Bavarian dinner • Enjoy a traditional meal in Day 4: Portsmouth • Night ferry Begin with the Arc de Triomphe, which in Reichstag on your way to the Brandenburg a region famous for its food and drink. Travel to Portsmouth • Journey to grand fashion pays tribute at once to France’s Gate, now a symbol of a newly united Berlin. Portsmouth, headquarters of the British Navy military conquests and its fallen soldiers. Visit the Checkpoint Charlie Museum • Day 14: DEPArt FOR HOME for 500 years. 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