La Mancha and Cuenca for senior groups: Don Quixote's windmills, Consuegra and Almagro (9 days)

Day 1: Journey to France

• Morning departure from the pick-up point of your choice.
• Regular breaks: our drivers drive for 3 hours at most, then take a 30-minute break.
• Coffee break on the way and free lunch at a service area or roadside restaurant.
• Arrival in the Poitiers area in the late afternoon and check-in at the hotel for a stopover night.
• Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Day 2: Drive to Burgos

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Drive into Spain via Bordeaux and the Basque Country.
• Regular breaks: our drivers drive for 3 hours at most, then take a 30-minute break.
• Arrival in Burgos in the late afternoon for a stopover night.
• Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Day 3: Cuenca

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Drive to Cuenca across Castile (about 4 hours).
• Regular breaks: our drivers drive for 3 hours at most, then take a 30-minute break.
• Arrival in Cuenca in mid-afternoon and check-in at the hotel for 2 nights.
• Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Day 4: Cuenca on foot

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• A day without the coach (driver's rest day).
• City bus up to the old town, which is perched and steep.
• Guided tour of the UNESCO-listed old town: hanging houses, cathedral and Plaza Mayor (on request).
• Visit to the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art, housed in the hanging houses (on request).
• Free time and view over the Huécar gorge from the San Pablo bridge.
• Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Day 5: The windmills of La Mancha

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Drive to Campo de Criptana (about 1 hour 30 minutes) and its windmills, so dear to Don Quixote.
• Lunch of La Mancha cuisine in a restaurant (on request).
• In the afternoon, Consuegra and its hill of white windmills crowned by a castle.
• Check-in at a hotel in the Ciudad Real area for 2 nights.
• Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Day 6: Almagro

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Drive to Almagro (about 30 minutes) and discovery of its Plaza Mayor with green galleries.
• Visit to the Corral de Comedias, a 17th-century theatre still in use (on request).
• Lunch in a restaurant (on request).
• Tasting of Manchego cheese and Valdepeñas wines (on request).
• Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Day 7: Drive to Castile

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Drive north, bypassing Madrid.
• Regular breaks: our drivers drive for 3 hours at most, then take a 30-minute break.
• Arrival in the Burgos area in the late afternoon for a stopover night.
• Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Day 8: Journey to France

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Drive to France and stopover night in the Poitiers area.
• Regular breaks: our drivers drive for 3 hours at most, then take a 30-minute break.
• Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Day 9: Return to Belgium

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Return journey to Belgium.
• Regular breaks: our drivers drive for 3 hours at most, then take a 30-minute break.
• Return to your region in the evening.