europe & britain 2012 unique, escorted tours with a more leisurely pace

Europe & Britain 2012 Unique, escorted tours with a more leisurely pace

We travel at a much more leisurely pace with

2, 3, 4 and even 5 night stays!

Freiburg, Germany

Enjoy more time for sightseeing and relaxing off the coach.

Café boulevard, Nice

Albatross Tours are genuinely inclusive – no hidden extras.

We even include your ‘end of tour’ tips to your Tour Manager and Driver!

Strasbourg Canal Cruise

Our smaller group sizes give you a more personal and

enjoyable travelling experience.

* We have a maximum 30 passengers on European Summer tours and up to 42 on ANZAC and Christmas tours.

Wine tasting in Italy

We often stay in smaller, more characterful hotels – places where larger groups simply

cannot stay.

Hotel Les Ursulines in Autun, Burgundy – once a 17th century convent!

The charming Hotel Oberland in the Swiss Alps

CastelBrando, Italy – our 13th century Castle Hotel

Chateau de Chissay in the Loire Valley, France

2012 European Summer

Tours

• Full day at the Dutch

Floriade

• Windmills of Zaanse Schans

• See a real Dutch Flower

Auction

• Splendid gardens of Paleis

Het Loo

• Monde Verde Gardens

The Dutch Floriade – 8 days

Tulip fields, The Netherlands

Paleis Het Loo, The Netherlands

Volendam fishing village, The Netherlands

• Specialist Battlefield Tour

Manager

• Retrace the steps of the

‘Diggers’

• Tour the Somme and

Flanders battlefields

• Be moved by the Last Post

at the Menin Gate

All Quiet on the Western Front – 8 days

Australian National War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux

Bruges, Belgium

Last Post at Menin Gate, Ypres

• King Arthur’s Glastonbury• Stourhead Gardens• Rob Roy & William

‘Braveheart’ Wallace tour• Ride on the heritage train

across the Yorkshire Moors• Medieval Warwick Castle• Enchanting Cotswolds• Stonehenge & Oxford• London Eye

Great British Heritage – 19 days

Warwick Castle

Cotswold Cottages

Big Ben, London

• Heidelberg Castle• Alsace Wine Route• Fairytale Neuschwanstein

Castle• Linderhof Palace• Tegelberg Cable Car

Black Forest, Bavaria & the Tyrol – 14 days

• Hitler’s Eagles Nest• Krimml Waterfall• Cruise Lake Konigsee• Ziller Valley steam train

Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria

Fussen, Germany

Salzburg, Austria

Rhineland, Alsace & the Swiss Alps – 16 days

• Cruise through the Rhine Gorge

• Grand Duchy of Luxembourg• Alsace Wine Route• Swiss Gruyère region• Chateau Chillon• Swiss Chocolate train• Cruise on Lake Thun• Gstaad and Grindelwald

Thun, Switzerland

Colmar, France

The Grund, Luxembourg

The Italian Grande – 18 days

• Bellagio on Lake Como• The mighty Matterhorn• Stay in a centuries old Castle• Romantic Venice• Florence & the Uffizi Gallery• Fairytale San Gimignano• The Cinque Terre• Picturesque Amalfi Coast• Ancient ruins of Pompeii

Florence, Italy

Lake Como, Italy

Vernazza, Cinque Terre

Provence & Tuscany to Umbria – 17 days

• Pont du Gard• Palais de Popes, Avignon• Historial Les Baux• Explore the Cote D’Azur• Florence & Pisa

• Scenic villages of the Cinque Terre

• Spoleto in the Umbria Hills• Colosseum & Forum in

Rome

Lavender fields near Gordes, Provence

Pont du Gard, Provence

Siena, Tuscany

La Francaise – 17 days

• Normandy landing beaches• Stunning Mont St Michel• Loire Valley Chateau• Blois, Amboise, Angers• Port of La Rochelle

• Cruise the River Dordogne• Explore Beaune & Dijon• Wine tasting in the Medoc,

Burgundy & Champagne

Chateau de Chambord, Loire Valley

Mont St Michel, France

Beynac on the River Dordogne

For more information call

1300 135 015 or +61 7 3221 5353

or visit www.albatrosstours.com.au