Arrive in Londan, your private transfer meets you at Heathrow International Airport, and escorts you to your luxurious hotel. London is a fast-paced city encircling the banks of the River Thames. An air of aristocracy continues do drift across the nearly mythological manicured walkways of Hyde Park.
Your guide leads you into the city for an informative tour of the stunning architecture of the city and takes you into the Imperial War Museum. You walk through a recreated trench with a Sopwith Camel plane posturing overhead, its propellers close enough to roar in your ears.
You arrive at the D-Day and Overlord Embroidery Museum located on the city's shore. The museum highlights the city's important role in the famous World War II invasion. An anti aircraft gun aims into the sky, marking the entrance of the museum.
Today your guide leads you over the French countryside to the D-Day beaches near Bayeux, in the region of Normand. At dawn on June 6, 1944, the Allied troops landed on a 54-mile stretch of the Atlantic coast, from Utah Beach to Sword Beach. You come to the bluff sanding nearly 100 feet tall, overlooking the water.
The Norman countryside is filled with rugged cliffs, crashing waves, windswept hills, and verdant grasslands brushing sundrenched beaches. Your guide escorts you through the Memorial de Caen and on to the medieval city of Amiens. Visit the Gothic cathedral & the Somme River.
You begin your day early, when the morning mist layers the countryside and the sun barely rises over the rooftop of the Amiens Cathedral. You reach the Somme Battlefields Remembrance Trail at Villers-Bretonneux, coursing along the banks of the Somme River.
Paris is a city with few rivals, brimming with articulate passion for life set along the winding banks of the Seine River. Notre Dame Cathedral decorates the skyline, and Sacre Coeur stands atop the Montmartre hillside like a pearled crown.
You leave Paris behind, making your way to the northern city of Lille on the Belgian border. n the rugged and foliaged hillsides you find La Coupole, or 'The Dome.' The bunker was erected during World War II by Nazi German forces between 1943 and 1944.
Outside of Lille, you step deeper into history, before the era of World War II and continuing to visit the memorials and landmarks of World War I. Essex Farm Cemetery has a large, white cross at the entrance embellished with a sword.
Today you pass through the varied terrain of Belgium, ranging from the rolling hillsides of the south to the smooth plains of the north, before arriving in the Dutch town of Groesbeek. The National Liberation Museum was constructed over one of the landing sites of the operation.
The capital of the Netherlands has a pastel charm draped over the historic buildings. You will be taken to the quiet grandeur of the city, from Mint Tower to Museum Square. The Anne Frank House sits calmly beside the canal with a humble statue of Anne Frank.
After breakfast, your private transfer meets you at the hotel ready to escort you to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol for your flight home.