Your Adventure

1 Overnight Flight to England (London)

2 London

• Meet your tour director and check into hotel
• London city walk Trafalgar Square, National Gallery visit, Piccadilly Circus, Covent Garden, Leicester Square
  Step outside your hotel for a stroll through the heart of the English-speaking world. In this city of nearly seven million, you'll see everything from 12th-century fortifications to modern skyscrapers, royal parks to street art. Your Tour Director will lead you to some of the most famous sites. Walk along the Thames River. Cross Trafalgar Square. See bustling Piccadilly Circus. Pass trendy shops and cafés in Bohemian Soho on your way to Covent Garden, a 13th-century fruit and vegetable garden transformed into a maze of narrow streets and pedestrian walkways burgeoning with street performers, open-air markets and boutiques.
• Classic fish and chips dinner Nothing's more British than fish and chips-there are eight fish and chips shops ("chippies") for every McDonald's in the county. Head to an authentic pub with your Tour Director for a taste of this national food, generally served with malt vinegar.

3 London

• London guided sightseeing tour Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Tower Bridge, Hyde Park, St. Paul's Cathedral
  Join a licensed local guide for an in-depth look at London, from the royal haunt of Buckingham Palace (the official London residence of King Charles III) to the slightly more democratic Speakers’ Corner of Hyde Park, where anyone can pull up a soapbox and orate to his heart’s content. You’ll see the changing of the guard (season permitting), the clock tower of Big Ben with its 14-ton bell, and Westminster Abbey, where almost every English king and queen since William the Conqueror has been crowned. After a stop at the Houses of Parliament, continue on to the magnificent St. Paul’s Cathedral, the masterpiece of London architect Christopher Wren.
• Royal Opera House guided tour
• West End theater performance Enjoy a show in the West End, the British version of Broadway, with London's 40-or-so professional theaters, as well as restaurants, shops and cafés. Please ask your Program Consultant for a list of shows to submit a request.

4 London

• West End at Work Workshop What to do in a city with a reputation for theatre? Watch everything you can in the West End, but why not also see the world from your own stage. Play a dramatic part or put on a musical production. Learn about lighting, make up and all of the hard work that’s acted out before the curtain goes up.
• Royal Albert Hall guided visit Visit the Royal Albert Hall, one of London’s most celebrated music venues, where legendary performers from The Beatles and Adele to Beyoncé and Ed Sheeran have taken the stage. Your guided tour will reveal the fascinating history of the Hall, including how it was funded and the dramatic story that almost prevented its construction. Along the way, your guide will share surprising details and insider stories that bring the Hall’s remarkable past to life.
• Camden Market visit The old favourite, Camden Market, is back in fashion: grunge alongside modern, amusing trends in design: clothing, jewellery and Doc Martens. Enjoy mixing with London's punks and Goths - you can relax over a coffee or smoothie with a view of the canal. Camden lock was a busy place for the shipping business till it died out. This meant there were lots of big storage warehouses that were left empty when the boats left. It was into this space that in the 1970s the original Camden Market was born, as an arts and craft market. Since then it has blossomed and grown and now attracts crowds from all over the world and so has become a tourist attraction as well as a market.
• Curry dinner The history of Indian food in Britain is now almost four hundred years old and today the country is home to some of the best Indian food in the world. Today, traditional meals like Fish & Chips are matched in popularity by curry dishes. Sit down to a delicious authentic Indian meal for dinner tonight. Taste different dishes with fragrant spices to understand why Indian food is one of the nation's favorites.

5 London - Berlin

• Fly to Berlin
• Travel to Leipzig via Halle
• Halle city walk Enjoy a visit to Halle, a beautiful city in Saxony and home to one of the oldest universities in Germany. It also boasts Germany's oldest chocolate factory and numerous other sights.
• Leipzig city walk Leipzig is a city that flourished from the 16th century onwards thanks to the wealth it created from the rich nearby silver mines. Leipzig enjoys a reputation for outstanding excellence in music, with the likes of Bach, Wagner, Mendelssohn, and Schumann all having lived here, and literary work with Germany’s greatest poet, Goethe, setting a fundamental scene of Faust in the Auerbachs Keller.

6 Leipzig

• St. Thomas Church visit It was built in 1212 and originally established as a place of worship for Augustinian Canons. Highlights of the church are the Baroque-style turret and the magnificent main entrance. It is also the final resting place of Johann Sebastian Bach, who was organist and cantor here for 27 years.
• Bach Museum visit Take a look to the largest collection of Bach archives in Germany
• Leipzig Opera House tour

7 Leipzig - Nuremberg

• Travel to Nuremberg via Bayreuth
• Bayreuth city walk Enjoy a visit to Bayreuth to explore the various sights and sounds of the city. It is most famous for its connection to composer Richard Wagner. Each year, the city hosts the Bayreuth Festival, a world-famous music festival.
• Nuremberg city walk Nuremberg (Nürnberg) is a vibrant Bavarian city with a visible history of almost 1,000 years. In the Middle Ages it was the preferred residence of German emperors. It later became burdened with the legacy of the Nazis, but although it was bombed to rubble during World War II, the medieval city center has undergone significant reconstruction, using the original stone.

8 Nuremberg - Salzburg

• Travel to Salzburg With its elegant squares and quaint streets, Salzburg is a delightful introduction to the sophisticated world of the classical genius, Mozart.
• Salzburg city walk Residenz Square, Salzburg Cathedral, Mozart Square.
  Explore Salzburg’s Old Town, a maze of meandering lanes, curious steeples, cobbled streets, and spacious squares. Take in the grandeur of Residenz Square and admire the striking façade of Salzburg Cathedral. Pause at Mozart Square, where the composer’s statue honors Salzburg’s most famous son, and listen for the Glockenspiel, an early 18th-century carillon with 35 bells that can be heard from the cafés lining the square.
• Free time on Getreidegaße Spend free time on Salzburg's most famous street, the Getreidegaße, which is lined with small shops, interesting houses and wrought-iron signs.
• Mozart’s birthplace visit Feel the rhythm of Salzburg’s Old Town Square as you enter the unassuming yellow domicile at Getreidegasse 9. This is the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. View an impressive collection of the young composer’s first instruments and immerse yourself in the captivating saga of this prodigy’s early life.

9 Salzburg

• Salzburg Residenz guided visit Visit the Residenz, Salzburg’s opulent palace, which was the seat of the Salzburg princearchbishops. The child prodigy Mozart often played in the Conference Room for guests, and in 1867, Emperor Franz Joseph received Napoléon III in the palace. Enjoy a tour of the richly decorated State Rooms, and the Residenzgalerie Salzburg, an art gallery that contains European paintings from the 16th to the 19th century, displayed in 15 historic rooms.
• Sound of Music guided sightseeing tour Salzburg has never been the same since the 1964 film with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is based on the true story of the von Trapp family. On your guided sightseeing tour you'll see some of the sites shown in the film - although the producers of the film took much artistic license.
• Salzburg Marionette theatre show

10 Salzburg - Vienna

• Travel to Vienna For 600 years, Vienna was the glittering capital of the Habsburg Empire. Today, it is the capital of Austria. Vienna has an incomparable musical heritage, having at one point or another been the home of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Haydn, Brahms, and Johann Strauss.
• Beethoven Pasqualati House visit Beethoven lived here during the majority of his heroic period, between 1804 and 1815. He composed many of his greatest works here, including Symphonies 4, 5, 7 and 8; the opera Fidelio, the 4th Piano Concerto and several string quartets.

11 Vienna

• Vienna guided sightseeing tour Belvedere Palace, Hofburg Imperial Palace, Opera House, St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Schönbrunn Palace visit.
  Follow in the footsteps of the imperial Habsburgs as a local guide brings you to the Hofburg, the family's 2,600-room palace that is now home to the Vienna Boys Choir. View the Belvedere Museum and Palace, St. Stephen's Cathedral, and Stephansdom. End the adventure with a visit to Schönbrunn Palace, where the Habsburg’s ruled until 1918 and six-year-old Mozart serenaded Marie Antoinette.
• Mozart's House
• Chocolate making class
• Wiener Schnitzel dinner

12 Vienna

• House of Music visit Visit the Haus der Musik (House of Music), an interactive discovery museum where visitors can conduct the Vienna Philharmonic from a virtual conductor's podium. The musicians will even rate you! Journey back in time to see the great classical composers. Compose a waltz and have it played. a total of 5,000 square meters have been set aside exclusively for areas dedicated to a wide array of approaches to music.
• The Haydn House visit Visit Haydn’s House and museum with the Brahms room, which contains many memorabilia and artifacts owned by the composer.
• Vienna Central Cemetery visit Spend some meditative time at the Central Cemetery where we will find the tombs of Beethoven, Brahms, Schoenberg, and Schubert, as well as Mozart's Monument. Other notable musicians buried here are Antonio Salieri, Hugo Wolf, Karl Goldmark, and the singer Lotte Lehmann.
• Mozart and Strauss concert Experience the best of classical music composed by Salzburg’s child prodigy, the great Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Get lost in the uplifting, complex melodies as you imagine the musical master crafting ingenious violin and piano concertos at the unripe age of 17. With spiritual undertones to the youthful carefree finales, this live concert is a cultural treat for your ears and spirit.

13 Depart Vienna