BELGIUM & HOLLAND Featuring Floriade
Amsterdam’s historic canals showcase a parade of quintessentially charming Dutch sights
1. ARRIVE BRUSSELS Tour begins: 7:00 PM, Conrad Brussels. A transfer is included from Brussels Airport to the Conrad Brussels. Your grand hotel is ideally located on fashionable Avenue Louise. We invite you to join us this evening for a welcome cocktail reception followed by dinner. Meals D
2. BRUGES OR GHENT / M EMBARK SHIP You have a choice of guided sightseeing excursions today. Travel with us to Bruges in the heart of Belgium’s Flanders region. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bruges is renowned for its extraordinary medieval Gothic architecture and its reputation as the birthplace of Flemish painting. Enjoy a tour before exploring its flower-rimmed canals, cobbled streets, half-timbered houses and ancient arched bridges on your own. Or visit the Flemish city of Ghent, where a visit to St. Baafskathedral reveals a maze of Gothic architectural details and one of Europe’s most remarkable paintings, the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, painted in 1432 by Jan van Eyck. Everyone meets in Antwerp this afternoon for embarkation on Tauck’s riverboat. A Belgian beer reception and Belgian-style dinner aboard the riverboat tonight introduce a buffet of regional delights. Meals BD
3. M ANTWERP / ALBERT CANAL A half-day sightseeing tour of the port city of Antwerp includes the 1905 Centraal Station, the opera house and Grote Markt. Visit Antwerp’s historic Jewish quarter – one of Europe’s largest Jewish communities. Return to the ship and set off on a cruise through the Albert Canal to Maastricht in the Netherlands. Join your fellow
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shipmates at the Captain’s welcome reception, followed by a discovery briefing and a shipboard welcome dinner. Meals BLD
4. M MAASTRICHT / CHÂTEAU NEERCANNE Maastricht is said to contain more than 1,400 historic buildings and monuments. An Old Town walking tour includes the remains of the city’s medieval fortifications and Helpoort, a steep-roofed gateway built in 1229. On lively Vrijthof Square, visit the 16th-century Spanish Government House and the 1,000-year-old, Gothic-style Basilica of Saint Servatius. Your sightseeing continues with a poignant visit to Margraten’s Netherlands American Cemetery, the only World War II cemetery
See wheels of gouda ready for sale at the Cheese Weighing Market in Gouda
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