Day 1
Amsterdam
Seventeenth-century canal houses leaning over the water, the Rijksmuseum a short walk away, and more bicycles than residents.
Embark
Day 2
Dordrecht
The oldest city in Holland, at a meeting of rivers, with merchant houses and harbours lined by old warehouses.
Ashore
Day 3
Veere
A tiny Zeeland harbour town of merchant houses and a great Gothic church, once a busy trading port.
Ashore
Day 4
Antwerp
Belgium's great port city, home of Rubens and the diamond trade, with a fine cathedral and guild houses.
Ashore
Day 5
Nijmegen
One of the oldest cities in the Netherlands, on the Waal, founded by the Romans.
Ashore
Day 6
Dusseldorf
An elegant Rhine city of art and fashion, with an old town of breweries along the riverside promenade.
Ashore
Day 8
Cochem
A Moselle wine town below the turrets of the Reichsburg castle, with half-timbered houses along the river.
Ashore
Day 9
Bernkastel
A Moselle wine town of half-timbered houses around its market square, below the ruined Landshut castle.
Ashore
Day 10
Koblenz
Where the Moselle meets the Rhine at the Deutsches Eck, with the Ehrenbreitstein fortress on the far bank.
Ashore
Day 11
Rüdesheim
A wine town on the Rhine, its narrow Drosselgasse lined with taverns and the vineyards rising steeply behind.
Ashore
Day 12
Mannheim
A Rhine city laid out in a grid of numbered blocks around its baroque palace, and the usual gateway to Heidelberg.
Ashore
Day 13
Strasbourg
Half-timbered houses along the canals of Petite France and a soaring red sandstone cathedral at the heart of Alsace.
Ashore
Day 14
Breisach
A small town on the Rhine at the edge of the Black Forest, its cathedral on a rock above the river.
Ashore
Day 15
Zurich
Switzerland's largest city, on the lake and the Limmat, with an old town of guild houses and church spires.
Ashore
Day 16
Lyon
Where the Rhone meets the Saone, with a Renaissance old town below Fourviere hill and a long tradition at the table.
Ashore
Day 17
Châteauneuf-du-Pape
A Provencal wine village below the ruins of the papal summer castle, famous for its red wines.
Ashore
Day 18
Arles
Roman arena and theatre still standing in the old town, and the streets and light that Van Gogh painted.
Ashore
Day 19
Avignon
The city of the popes on the Rhone, its Palais des Papes and the broken Pont Saint-Benezet both close to the quay.
Ashore
Day 20
Viviers
A small medieval cathedral town on the Rhone, with quiet lanes of old stone houses climbing the hill.
Ashore
Day 21
Tournon
A town on the Rhone facing Tain-l'Hermitage across the river, among the vineyards of the northern Rhone.
Ashore
Day 22
Lyon
Where the Rhone meets the Saone, with a Renaissance old town below Fourviere hill and a long tradition at the table.
Ashore
Day 23–24
Mâcon
A Burgundy town on the Saone at the southern edge of the Maconnais wine country.
Ashore
Day 25
Lyon
Where the Rhone meets the Saone, with a Renaissance old town below Fourviere hill and a long tradition at the table.
Disembark
