March on Rome

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- 4 nights hostel accommodation  & 4 nights bugalow accommodation
- Breakfast daily & 3 dinners
- Assistance of a Trip leader
- Touring by air-conditioned coach
- Touring & sightseeing of all sites as per itinerary

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London, England to Paris, France

Leave London for dust as we jump over the English Channel to France for a beauty smackdown. Brush up on your bonjours when you meet the rest of the group and wrap your lips around your first real French meal at our included dinner. Afterwards, see the City of Light at its best on a driving tour and play landmark bingo with the Eiffel Tower, Champs Élysées and Arc de Triomphe.

Meals:
-Dinner

Included today:
-English Channel crossing
-Driving tour of Paris

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Paris

A free day in Paris to soak up all the pastries, paintings and prettiness you can handle. Bike along the Seine on an optional tour or just flâner (stroll) around and drink it in. Check out L'eclair de Genie in Le Marais, get your obligatory Eiffel Tower #selfie then explore the world's largest grave at the Catacombs. Tonight, experience the razzle dazzle of a cabaret show or hop on a boat down the river to crank the romance dial to 11.

Meals:
-Breakfast

Optional activities:
-Bike tour of Paris
-Traditional cabaret show in Paris
-Scenic river cruise on the Seine

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Paris to Swiss Alps, Switzerland

Tear yourself away from that baguette – fondue awaits! Driving through the Swiss countryside is like watching Monet paint a masterpiece, each mountain on the way to Lauterbrunnen another masterful brushstroke. Thanks, nature. Get your comfort eating pants on for an included dinner. Hint: There will be cheese.

Meals:
-Breakfast
-Dinner

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Swiss Alps

Hop on board the optional excursion to Jungfrau ('The Top of Europe'), which takes you to the highest train station in Europe. Hint: the view is ridic. Want more adventure? Up the adrenaline by skydiving out of a helicopter, then head back down for some snow angels and hot chocolate.

Meals:
-Breakfast

Optional activities:
-Scenic excursion to Jungfrau ('The Top of Europe')
-Scenic helicopter ride
-Skydiving

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Swiss Alps to Florence, Italy

If you're going to make something wrong it better be good looking. Failures don't come anymore beautiful than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Snap a pic (you know the one) then make your food baby sing as we roll into the land of hearty Tuscan cuisine and birthplace of gelato: Florence. Whip around Santa Maria del Fiore before tucking into amore on a plate.

Included today:
-Visit Pisa & the famous Leaning Tower

Meals:
-Breakfast
-Dinner

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Florence

Florence has more stories than Bilbo Baggins, more culture than a Shoreditch hipster and over 1,800 restaurants. Get schooled on the Medici family, stroll the Ponte Vecchio and check out some leather (new handbag, anyone?) on a morning walking tour. Use the afternoon to meet a guy named David doing his best Blue Steel in the Accademia Gallery, shop the markets and hunt down the best aperitivo spreads.

Meals:
-Breakfast

Included today:
-Walking tour of Florence with local guide

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Florence to Rome

Romeward bound, we make a stop in Orvieto for the chance to grab a wild boar sandwich so tender it will melt in your mouth. Then we hightail it to the Eternal City for a rendezvous with ancient architecture's biggest players. Make like Caesar (the emperor, not the salad) and work up a colossus hunger as you pass by the Pantheon, throw your two cents in the Trevi Fountain and sit on the Spanish Steps.

Included today:
-Visit the town of Orvieto
-Walking tour of Rome

Meals:
-Breakfast

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Rome including Vatican City visit

Create the ultimate Roman Holiday in one day with a whirlwind of Vespas, espresso, two-cheek kisses and pizza the way it's supposed to taste. Pop in on the Pope on an optional tour of the Vatican City to see how Michelangelo messed around and created the High Renaissance, then play eye spy with two and a half millennia worth of history. Shop ‘til you drop on Via Condotti, head to Capitoline Hill for awesome views of the Roman Forum and Colosseum or just kick back in Piazza Navona for some dolce far niente (delicious idleness).

Meals:
-Breakfast

Optional activities:
-Guided tour of Vatican City

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Rome

Make it an espresso doppio this morning - you're on your own from here. Rome wasn't built in a day so why not spend a few more and get to know this ancient powerhouse a little better?

Meals:
-Breakfast

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