Final-year school trip to the Netherlands: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Delft and the Kinderdijk windmills (5 days)

Day 1: Departure from your school, Kinderdijk and Rotterdam

• Departure from your school early in the morning, at the agreed time, and daytime drive to Kinderdijk (about 2 to 3 hours depending on the departure point, excluding breaks).
• Our drivers drive for a maximum of 3 hours, then take a 30-minute break, day and night.
• Walk along the dykes of Kinderdijk and its 19 18th-century windmills, a UNESCO World Heritage Site; visit to the museum mills and boat trip (on request).
• Drive to Rotterdam (about 30 min): the Markthal, Piet Blom's Cube Houses, the Old Harbour and the Erasmus Bridge.
• Check-in at the accommodation in Rotterdam for two nights, dinner and a quiet evening.

Day 2: Delft, The Hague and Scheveningen

• Delft, Vermeer's city: the market square between the town hall and the New Church, where the princes of Orange are buried, and canals lined with old houses.
• Visit to Royal Delft, the last Delftware factory still operating since the 17th century (on request).
• The Hague, seat of the government and of the International Court of Justice: the Binnenhof (from outside, under renovation) and the Hofvijver.
• Visit to the Mauritshuis and Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (on request), then supervised free time on the beach and pier at Scheveningen.
• Return to Rotterdam, dinner and supervised evening.

Day 3: Rotterdam harbour and Amsterdam

• Rooms vacated and a Spido cruise around the port of Rotterdam, among docks, cranes and ships (on request).
• Drive to Amsterdam (about 1 hour 15 min) and free lunch.
• Canal cruise: the Herengracht, the Keizersgracht and the Prinsengracht, lined with Golden Age merchants' houses.
• Walk from Dam Square to the Begijnhof and the floating flower market (Bloemenmarkt).
• Check-in at the accommodation in Amsterdam for two nights, dinner and supervised evening.

Day 4: Amsterdam, from Anne Frank to the Rijksmuseum

• Visit to the Anne Frank House, where she wrote her diary in the Secret Annex during the occupation (on request).
• Walk through the Jordaan, a former working-class district of canals, hidden courtyards and small markets.
• Visit to the Rijksmuseum and Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" (on request).
• Walk in the Vondelpark and supervised free time at the Albert Cuyp Market.
• Dinner and last supervised evening.

Day 5: Zaanse Schans and return to Belgium

• Rooms vacated after breakfast and drive to Zaanse Schans (about 30 min).
• Walk among the working windmills, green wooden houses and clog and cheese workshops (free access to the site).
• Departure in the early afternoon, daytime drive back to Belgium (about 3 hours, excluding breaks) with regular breaks.
• Arrival at your school in the evening.