Final-year school trip to Heidelberg and Frankfurt: the castle, the old town, the Römer and the skyline (4 days)

Day 1: Departure from your school and arrival in Heidelberg

• Departure from your school early in the morning, at the agreed time, and daytime drive to Baden-Württemberg (about 5 hours 30 to 6 hours 30 depending on your school, including stops).
• Our drivers drive for a maximum of 3 hours, then take a 30-minute break, day and night.
• Arrival in the afternoon and first walk on the Old Bridge (Alte Brücke), with a view of the castle and the old town on the Neckar.
• Check-in at the accommodation for three nights, dinner and supervised evening.

Day 2: Heidelberg Castle and old town

• Funicular ride (Bergbahn) up to Heidelberg Castle, the famous red sandstone ruin overlooking the Neckar: the courtyard, the panoramic terrace and the Great Vat (admission included).
• Lunch at your own expense, then walk along the Hauptstraße, one of the longest pedestrian streets in Germany, to the Market Square and the Church of the Holy Spirit.
• Visit to the Student Prison (Studentenkarzer) of Germany’s oldest university (on request).
• Late afternoon on the Philosophers’ Walk (Philosophenweg), on the other bank, for the best view of the city.
• Dinner and supervised evening.

Day 3: A day in Frankfurt

• Drive to Frankfurt (about 1 hour 15): the Römerberg, the Römer town hall and the Paulskirche, where the first elected German parliament sat in 1848.
• Walk through the rebuilt New Old Town to St Bartholomew’s Cathedral, then past the European Central Bank.
• Lunch at your own expense, then view of the skyline from the Main Tower platform (on request).
• Visit to the Senckenberg Natural History Museum and its dinosaur skeletons (on request), or a walk across the Eiserner Steg footbridge and along the Main.
• Return to Heidelberg, dinner and supervised evening.

Day 4: Return to your school

• Rooms vacated after breakfast, luggage loaded onto the coach.
• Last supervised free morning in Heidelberg’s old town.
• Departure in the late morning, daytime drive back to Belgium with regular stops.
• Arrival at your school in the evening.