Final-year school trip to Luxembourg, the Moselle and the Romantic Rhine: Schengen, Trier, Cochem and the Lorelei (6 days)

Day 1: Departure from your school and arrival in Luxembourg

• Departure from your school in the morning, at the agreed time, and daytime drive to Luxembourg (about 2.5 hours from Brussels, excluding breaks).
• Our drivers drive for a maximum of 3 hours, then take a 30-minute break, day and night.
• Free lunch, then discovery of the old town: Place Guillaume II, the Grand Ducal Palace and the Chemin de la Corniche, with its view over the Grund district.
• Visit to the Bock Casemates, tunnels carved into the rock of the former fortress (on request).
• Check-in at the accommodation for two nights, dinner and a quiet evening.

Day 2: European Luxembourg and Schengen

• Free tram to the Kirchberg plateau: the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Philharmonie and the European institutions seen from outside.
• Free lunch, then drive to Schengen (about 35 min), the village on the Moselle where the free-movement agreements were signed in 1985.
• Visit to the European Museum Schengen and walk along the Moselle, where three countries meet.
• Return to Luxembourg, dinner and a supervised evening.

Day 3: Trier and the Moselle Valley

• Rooms vacated after breakfast and drive to Trier (about 50 min), Germany’s oldest city.
• Walk from the Porta Nigra, a Roman gate, to the market square, the cathedral, the Basilica of Constantine and the Imperial Baths.
• Free lunch, then drive along the Moselle to Bernkastel-Kues and its square of half-timbered houses.
• On to Koblenz (about 1.5 hours) and check-in at the accommodation for three nights, dinner and a supervised evening.

Day 4: Cochem and Koblenz

• Drive to Cochem (about 50 min) and visit to the Imperial Castle (Reichsburg) overlooking the Moselle (on request).
• Supervised free time and free lunch in Cochem’s old town.
• Return to Koblenz and walk to the Deutsches Eck, the “German Corner” where the Rhine and the Moselle meet.
• Cable car across the Rhine to Ehrenbreitstein Fortress (on request).
• Dinner and a supervised evening.

Day 5: Cruise on the Romantic Rhine

• Drive to Boppard (about 30 min).
• Rhine cruise from Boppard to Bacharach, past the hilltop castles of the UNESCO-listed Upper Middle Rhine Valley and the Lorelei rock.
• Free lunch and walk through Bacharach, its ramparts and half-timbered houses.
• Return to Koblenz by coach along the Rhine road, dinner and last supervised evening.

Day 6: Cologne and return to your school

• Rooms vacated after breakfast and drive to Cologne (about 1 hr 15 min).
• Visit to Cologne Cathedral, a UNESCO-listed Gothic masterpiece, and climb up its south tower (on request).
• Free lunch in the centre.
• Daytime drive back to Belgium (about 1.5 to 2.5 hours depending on your school) with regular breaks.
• Arrival at your school in the late afternoon or evening.