TOU ANY RS M NOW WITH NO SOLO TRAVELLER SUPPLEMENT FOR EARLYBIRDS 2 PRE-CHRISTMAS MAGIC WINTER WONDERLAND MOROCCO & SOUTH SPAIN BLOSSOMS AND BULBS SCANDINAVIA BY RAIL LEGENDARY SILK ROAD • • • • • • • • PRE-CHRISTMAS MAGIC WINTER WONDERLAND MOROCCO & SOUTH SPAIN BLOSSOMS AND BULBS SCANDINAVIA BY RAIL LEGENDARY SILK ROAD 3 ...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.