Your holiday begins as you meet your Tour Manager and fellow travellers at London St Pancras for the Eurostar service to Paris. Changing trains in the French capital, you continue by rail to Stuttgart. Gliding through the vineyards of the Champagne region on you way to Germany, you arrive in lively Stuttgart in the early evening.
Famed as the birthplace of the automobile, Stuttgart is home to both Porsche and Mercedes-Benz and contains a 140-year-old rack railway that climbs 673 feet in 1.4 miles. In the centre, the sprawling Baroque New Palace, which once housed Württemberg's dukes and kings, neighbours the attractive Palace Garden. After checking in to your hotel, you can get to know your group better over dinner this evening.
Some departures dates will have a different itinerary on this day due to Italian engineering works - click here to see affected dates
- Dinner