June 26 - July 8, 2008 (13 days) From approx. $3,082 pp/do, plus airfare and taxes

Experience the wealth of knowledge that Thomas Price will share on this 13-day adventure from Paris to Prague. Spend two nights in the French capital of Paris, and enjoy some of the city’s most prominent wonders — Notre Dame de Paris, Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, and so much more. After a drive to the city of Trier — Germany’s oldest city — you’ll embark on the Avalon Tranquility for a seven-night cruise on the Moselle River. In the middle of the Moselle region, you’ll discover Bernkastel-Kues, famous for its well-preserved, half-timbered houses that surround the medieval market square. Visit Reichsburg Castle, towering high above the river at Cochem, and Siegfried’s Mechanical Musical Instrument Museum in Rüdesheim. Then, you’ll marvel at the picturesque Bavarian village of Miltenberg and the Würzburg residential palace. After a guided sightseeing tour in Bamberg, you’ll disembark in Nuremberg, and transfer by motorcoach to 1000-year-old Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. Known as the city of a hundred spires, you’ll visit some of Prague’s best-known treasures. In Old Town Square, see the famous medieval astronomical clock and the gothic Týn Cathedral. Cross the historic Charles Bridge, and take a tour of the Prague Castle, one of the largest castles in the world. It’s history stretches back to the ninth century; Czech kings, Roman emperors, and presidents of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic have had offices in the palace.

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