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Trips worth taking
A vineyard road in October. A surf coast in June. A river valley with a castle on every bend. Every trip here starts with a reason to go — and comes with the road driven, the stops chosen and the cost worked out: fuel, tolls, beds and food, from the town it was measured from.
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The stories
Written by us, planned by the same planner as every other trip: a reason to go, the places it exists for, and one worked example of what it costs from one real town.
history
Castles above the Rhine
Ruined keeps on the vine terraces, a castle on every bend, and the river doing the navigating.
A history trip through Germany and the Netherlands — 6 days and about 536 km. It is built around 4 places the trip exists to include, all in Germany: Marksburg, Burg Eltz (a castle), Loreley and Heidelberg Castle (a castle).
From Amsterdam · 6 days · about €748
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wine
The Alsace wine road
Seventy villages, one road through the vines, and a cellar door open in every one of them.
A wine trip through Germany, France and the Netherlands — 5 days and about 675 km. It is built around 4 places the trip exists to include, all in France: Riquewihr, Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg (a castle), Eguisheim and Colmar.
From Amsterdam · 5 days · about €848
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surf
Surf the Basque coast
Beach breaks in the Landes, the point at Mundaka, and pintxos at the end of every day.
A surf & coast trip through Spain and France — 6 days and about 243 km. It is built around 4 places the trip exists to include: Hossegor (in France), Biarritz (in France), Zarautz (in Spain) and Mundaka (in Spain).
From Bordeaux · 6 days · about €396
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beer
Franconia, one brewery per village
More breweries than anywhere on earth, a smoked beer in a tavern from 1405, and the beer garden is a forest.
A craft beer trip through Germany and the Netherlands — 4 days and about 638 km. It is built around 4 places the trip exists to include, all in Germany: Bamberg, Aufseß, Forchheim and Bayreuth.
From Amsterdam · 4 days · about €509
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hiking
The Dolomites on foot
Pale towers of rock, meadows to the horizon, and a hut with a hot meal at the top of every walk.
A hiking trip through Italy, Austria and Germany — 6 days and about 280 km. It is built around 4 places the trip exists to include, all in Italy: Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Lago di Braies, Seceda and Seiser Alm.
From Munich · 6 days · about €357
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history
Bruges, and the fields behind it
A medieval city that survived, and the flat country twenty miles south where a generation didn't.
A history trip through Belgium and the Netherlands — 3 days and about 255 km. It is built around 4 places the trip exists to include, all in Belgium: Belfry of Bruges, Menin Gate, Tyne Cot Cemetery (a memorial) and In Flanders Fields Museum (a museum).
From Amsterdam · 3 days · about €365
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hiking
Denmark to the very top
Two seas meeting on a sandbar, a lighthouse walking into the sea, and the softest light in Europe.
A hiking trip through Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands — 6 days and about 1,049 km. It is built around 4 places the trip exists to include, all in Denmark: ARoS Aarhus Art Museum (a museum), Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse (a lighthouse), Råbjerg Mile and Grenen (a viewpoint).
From Amsterdam · 6 days · about €563
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wellness
Warm water in the Black Forest
Roman baths under a Belle Époque dome, a mountain lake with a spa on the shore, and the highest waterfall in Germany.
A spa & wellness trip through Germany and the Netherlands — 4 days and about 584 km. It is built around 4 places the trip exists to include, all in Germany: Friedrichsbad, Caracalla Therme, Mummelsee and Triberg Waterfalls.
From Amsterdam · 4 days · about €836
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familyfun
Three parks, one road south
Phantasialand, Europa-Park and Legoland on one road down the Rhine, with a river and a castle between them.
A family fun trip through Germany and the Netherlands — 6 days and about 727 km. It is built around 3 places the trip exists to include, all in Germany: Phantasialand, Europa-Park and Legoland Deutschland.
From Amsterdam · 6 days · about €772
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art
Art in the open, down the Rhine
Van Gogh in a forest, a museum you walk through a meadow to reach, and Renzo Piano's glass house full of Monet.
A art trip through Germany, France, the Netherlands and 1 more country — 5 days and about 739 km. It is built around 4 places the trip exists to include: Kröller-Müller Museum (a museum in the Netherlands), Museum Insel Hombroich (a museum in Germany), Vitra Design Museum (a museum in Germany) and Fondation Beyeler (in Germany).
From Amsterdam · 5 days · about €688
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Trips travellers have shared
Real plans, shared by the people who made them, with the home town taken out. Open one and make it yours.
A surf & coast trip to Biarritz
A history trip to Bruges
A hiking trip to Bolzano
A craft beer trip to Bamberg
A wine trip to Colmar
A craft beer trip to München, DE
A art trip to Αθήνα, GR
A craft beer trip to Beneden-Leeuwen, NL
A craft beer trip to Amsterdam, NL
A 1-day road trip to Kasteel de Haar
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