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Cologne is one of Germany’s most iconic cities and it is split down the middle by the Rhine river. Cologne is best known for its 150 year old, awe-inspiring, 160 metres high, gothic cathedral and it’s charming old town which it is brimming with cobbled streets and museums.An important town during the Holy Roman Empire, Koblenz is delightfully situated right along the Moselle estuary. Then across the border in France, Strasbourg was fought over by two German families in the Middle Ages, but today is a centre for Europe and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Holland’s waterways and Belgium

The royal palace, the Rembrandthuis and the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam are just some of the places you may like to visit in this “Venice of the North”, as it is popularly known. In Rotterdam, see the largest seaport in Europe, home to numerous container terminals, cranes, warehouses and much more. The Keukenhof is the largest sculpture park in Holland, but is, of course, even more famous as the largest flower garden in the world. It was here that the former Countess, Jacoba of Bavaria, grew her kitchen herbs (kitchen garden = Keukenhof) and where today daffodils, hyacinths, crown imperials and tulips display a frenzy of colours and scents. Antwerp is the most important harbour city in Belgium and the second largest port in Europe after Rotterdam. Once a rich Hanseatic trading city, Bruges has become a magnet for visitors, as has Brussels, where a stroll through the old town takes you to one of the most famous and beautiful squares in the world – the “Grand Place”.

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