There's a seat for you in our specially reserved coaches on the 7.30 a.m. train from London Victoria to Dover or Folkestone, with Channel crossing to Ostend. With your luxury touring coach you're off through Brussels to Cologne where you'll stay at Hotel Rubens.

Day 1 Tour Notes: From Ostend the tour proceeds along the fast motorway across the plain of Flanders to Brussels, the capital of Belgium. The city is full of notable places but the best known is the Grand Place in olden days as now the market square of Brussels. We continue our journey and pass through Louvain and St Trond to cross the frontier into Germany and onto the autobahn through the Eifel region. We reach the River Rhine and come to the famous cathedral city of Cologne where we have our dinner and stay overnight.

First you follow the Rhine Valley south. At St Goar you board the steamer, to pass through the river's most legendary stretch - grand scenery for your picnic lunch aboard. After an unscheduled tour of the Asbach Uralt distillery in Rudesheim the afternoon's drive takes you to Ulm in Southern Germany where you'll stay at Hotel Lehrertal.
Day 2 Tour Notes: This morning we travel to the West German capital of Bonn and having joined the River Rhine we travel along its banks, passing Bad Godesberg, Remagen, Andernach and Koblenz soon to reach St Goar where we leave our coach temporarily and board a Rhine steamer for our journey to Assmannshausen. We rejoin our coach and travel past Wiesbaden to reach the cathedral town of Ulm where we have our dinner and stay overnight.

By lunchtime, you'll be high in the Tyrol, at Gasthof Vier Jahreszeiten in Maurach, where you'll stay for the week.
Have a drink here in the evening. Between the Gasthof and the new pool there's a handy little sunbathing lawn and alongside, the softly lit lower level Seestueberl with background music. Rooms are beautifully clean; a few with shower (supplement £2 per person).

Day 3 Tour Notes: This morning we travel southwards along the Iller Valley and come to the ancient town of Memmingen after which we reach Kempten, the capital of the German Allgau district. Still travelling southwards we reach the frontier and enter the Austrian Tyrol where our route takes us through the famous resorts of Reutte and Lermoos to Nassereith. From here we travel past Obsteig and come to Telfs  where we join the River Inn and follow its course to Zirl and Innsbruck. We continue our journey along the River Inn and pass through Solbad Hall and Schwaz and soon leave the Inn Valley road near Jenbach to travel uphill to the picturesque Lake Aachen and our resort of Maurach.

A pretty little village scattered along the flat, green valley floor, flanked by pine slopes with the peaks of the Karwendel across the blue lake. Maurach is 3,000 feet up, on the south shore of the Achensee - the largest et the Tyrol lakes: you can swim, row, sail or take marvellous walks in the mountains (funicular and chair-lifts to the Rolan peaks). There are excursions as well, to other parts of the Tyrol, and into Germany and Italy. The Maurach inns provide a simple form of
entertainment in the evenings. [Day 7 Saturday morning: Off-tour for overnight stay in Salzburg at Hotel Pitter. Day 8 Sunday afternoon: Rejoin tour in Maurach.]

Days 4 - 9 Tour Notes: We spend the next six days at Maurach which is the principal summer resort on the Achensee, and set amongst magnificent mountainous countryside. Maurach offers a great deal of interest to its visitors but many of our clients will no doubt welcome the opportunity of visiting other places of interest in the locality and your courier will be on hand throughout your stay to give you full details of optional excursions arranged.

One more morning to yourself: after lunch a marvellous afternoon's driving takes you up over the Arlberg Pass and into tiny Liechtenstein to stay at Hotel Vaduzerhof in Vaduz, overnight.

Day 10 Tour Notes: We leave Maurach and return through Zirl and Imst to reach Landeck before leaving the River Inn to enter St Anton. After St Anton we ascend further to reach the Arlberg Pass which forms the division between the Rivers Rhine and Danube and the frontiers between the Austrian provinces of Tyrol and Vorarlberg. We now descend gradually and pass through Langen, Dalaas, Bludenz and leaving Austria we will reach the town of Vaduz-Schaan for dinner and overnight stay.

A glimpse of the local Prince's Schloss Vaduz before you cross into Switzerland, arriving at Seewen for lunch. Spend the afternoon in Lucerne on its lovely lake. Dinner and overnight at Seewen's Hotel Mythenblick.

Day 11 Tour Notes: Soon after leaving Vaduz-Schaan we cross into Switzerland and by-passing the town of Sargans we come to Lake Walensee and from here we ascend the hillside above the Lake of Zurich and continue to Seewen for our overnight stay. Our courier will arrange a trip to Lucerne, the capital of the Canton.

Now you're travelling north through Switzerland to Zurich and the spectacular Rhine Falls. Later the rolling meadows and pines of the Black Forest, before reaching Kehl on the Rhine. Hotel Barbarossa.

Day 12 Tour Notes: Our morning journey takes us to Zurich, the largest city in Switzerland and its chief commercial centre. After leaving Zurich we travel to Schaffhausen where we will have an opportunity of a short visit to the glorious Rhine Falls. We soon leave Switzerland and having crossed into Germany begin a most attractive drive through the Black Forest region to reach our hotel in the Kehl area for dinner and overnight stay.

First the rich agricultural land of Alsace, then crossing North-East France to Luxembourg for lunch. Further through Belgium to Brussels, where there'll be a sightseeing trip around the city. You'll have dinner and stay overnight at Hotel A B C.

Day 13 Tour Notes: Soon after leaving our hotel this morning we cross the River Rhine and also the frontier into France and reach Strasbourg, Thionville and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg through the Ardennes forest to Bastogne, through the Forest of Soignes to Brussels for dinner and overnight stop. Either before or after dinner our courier will arrange a short sightseeing tour of this famous city.

An hour or so of the Belgian countryside before you board your cross-Channel steamer at Ostend for Dover. Your connecting train to London (Victoria) arrives there at 5 p.m

Day 14 Tour Notes: After breakfast we leave Brussels and drive along the motorway to Ostend to join the cross-channel steamer for our cruise back to England.