Day 1–2
Budapest
Buda on its hill, Pest on the flat, and the Chain Bridge lit between them. The finest arrival on any European river.
Embark
Day 3–4
Vienna
The Ringstrasse, the Hofburg and the old coffee houses, all within an easy walk of one another. A city that rewards an unhurried afternoon.
Ashore
Day 5
Krems
The eastern gate of the Wachau, with cobbled lanes running up into apricot orchards and Gruner Veltliner vines.
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Day 6
Passau
Where the Inn and the Ilz meet the Danube, under an Italianate baroque cathedral and the largest church organ in Europe.
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Day 7
Regensburg
A medieval city that never lost its centre. The Stone Bridge is nine hundred years old and still the way you walk into town.
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Day 8
Nuremberg
A walled medieval city of half-timbered houses below its imperial castle, and home to one of Germany's best-known Christmas markets.
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Day 9
Bamberg
A UNESCO-listed old town built across seven hills, with its town hall standing in the middle of the river.
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Day 10
Würzburg
A baroque city on the Main, home to the Residenz palace and the Marienberg fortress above the vineyards.
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Day 11
Wertheim
A small town at the meeting of the Main and the Tauber, below the ruins of its red sandstone castle.
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Day 12
Rüdesheim
A wine town on the Rhine, its narrow Drosselgasse lined with taverns and the vineyards rising steeply behind.
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Day 13
Cologne
The twin spires of the cathedral stand over the Rhine, as they have since the Middle Ages, beside a lively old town.
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Day 14–15
Amsterdam
Seventeenth-century canal houses leaning over the water, the Rijksmuseum a short walk away, and more bicycles than residents.
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Day 16
Dordrecht
The oldest city in Holland, at a meeting of rivers, with merchant houses and harbours lined by old warehouses.
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Day 17
Veere
A tiny Zeeland harbour town of merchant houses and a great Gothic church, once a busy trading port.
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Day 18
Antwerp
Belgium's great port city, home of Rubens and the diamond trade, with a fine cathedral and guild houses.
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Day 19
Nijmegen
One of the oldest cities in the Netherlands, on the Waal, founded by the Romans.
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Day 20
Dusseldorf
An elegant Rhine city of art and fashion, with an old town of breweries along the riverside promenade.
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Day 22
Cochem
A Moselle wine town below the turrets of the Reichsburg castle, with half-timbered houses along the river.
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Day 23
Bernkastel
A Moselle wine town of half-timbered houses around its market square, below the ruined Landshut castle.
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Day 24
Koblenz
Where the Moselle meets the Rhine at the Deutsches Eck, with the Ehrenbreitstein fortress on the far bank.
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Day 25
Rüdesheim
A wine town on the Rhine, its narrow Drosselgasse lined with taverns and the vineyards rising steeply behind.
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Day 26
Mannheim
A Rhine city laid out in a grid of numbered blocks around its baroque palace, and the usual gateway to Heidelberg.
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Day 27
Strasbourg
Half-timbered houses along the canals of Petite France and a soaring red sandstone cathedral at the heart of Alsace.
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Day 28
Breisach
A small town on the Rhine at the edge of the Black Forest, its cathedral on a rock above the river.
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Day 29
Basel (Huningue)
Switzerland's gateway on the Rhine, where France and Germany meet at the edge of town and the red sandstone Munster overlooks the river.
Disembark
