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Walking the Rhine Valley - Concerts and hikes through woods, fields and vineyards

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Tour highlights

Five private concerts in beautiful and appropriate historic buildings (part of our Music Along the Rhine festival), interspersed with five charming country walks.
Musicians of the highest calibre: a constellation of soloists such as Isabelle Faust, Kristian Bezuidenhout and Sophie Bevan are joined by the dynamic Consone Quartet, plus renowned ensembles Barocksolisten München and the Basel Chamber Orchestra.

This tour continues the highly popular format developed several years ago for The Danube Music Festival and inaugurated in 2014 for The Rhine Valley Music Festival. While most of the participants on these festivals eat and sleep on board a river cruiser, a small group stays in hotels and undertakes walks on most days through some of the most attractive stretches of the countryside in the vicinity of the river and the concert venues.

Further details of the concerts can be found here.

Itinerary

Practicalities

Two sharing: £3,740 or £3,590 without flights. Single occupancy: £4,280 or £4,130 without flights.

Hotel accommodation as described below; travel by private coach; breakfasts, 3 picnic lunches and 4 dinners with wine; tips for waiters, drivers and local guides; the services of the lecturer and tour manager.

Königshof, Bonn: 4-star with modern rooms and a restaurant with views of the Rhine. Radisson Blu, Mannheim: a smart 4-star hotel, located within walking distance of the concert venue. Maison des Têtes, Colmar: a charming, independent 5-star hotel located in the historic centre of Colmar with an exceptional restaurant. All single rooms are doubles for single occupancy.

This is a walking tour, graded ‘moderate’. It is essential for participants to have appropriate walking footwear, be in good physical condition and to be used to country walking with uphill and downhill content. There are a few moderately steep climbs, but no walk is more than 6 miles or 3 hours. There is not always the opportunity to return to the hotel to freshen up before every concert or dinner. We have tried to limit driving time, but by necessity there are a few long drives. Average distance by coach per day: 67 miles.

Are you fit enough to join the tour?

Between 12 and 22 participants.

Before booking, please refer to Travel.State.Gov to ensure you are happy with the travel advice for the destination(s) you are visiting. As a British company we follow the advice of the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office.

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