Cruised overnight and arrived in Cologne at 10.00am docking next to the blue Musical Dome and the Cologne Gothic Cathedral. We left the boat and had a guided walking tour around Cologne City. Cologne is Germany's fourth largest city and has more than ten million inhabitants. It is the oldest city in Germany being founded by the Romans in the year 38BC. Cologne lies on the River Rhine and the city's famous Cathedral (KolnerDom) is the seat of the Roman Catholic...

Up at 7am and left for a guided city tour at 8am. We drove around Amsterdam in a coach, walked around for about an hour and then had a canal boat ride exploring the maze of canals. The 165 canals were created over the centuries to stimulate trade and transport and reclaim land to expand the city. We passed by Anne Franks House and saw her monument. There were many house boats moored along the canals that were used as housing and we cruised past 16th Century M...

Euro Disney is located 32kms out of Paris so we were up early and headed to the Metro, we had to change platforms at Nation Metro and take the RER A route to Marne La Vallee. We had pre booked entrance tickets and were at the gates when they opened at 10 am. We walked through the main street and our first impression was WOW. Straight ahead was the Fantasyland Castle and branching off in different directions was Frontierland, Fantasyland, Adventureland and Di...

Its Anzac Day back in Australia so we had a minutes silence before we started our tour. Carine was our guide today and it was a really informative bus tour. We drove around the streets and Carine pointed out famous landmarks. We stopped for some photo shots where we could, the Eiffel Tower, Napoleons Tomb which is located in the central crypt of the Eglise du Dome Church at the Hotel des Invalides, drove around the Arc de Triomphe and down the Champs de Elyse...

Up at 6.30am hopped on the Metro for Tulleries station to meet up with our walking tour by Cityrama. We were early so we walked around the Tulleries gardens and the Louvre. The gardens were lovely from the Louvre looking down to the Champs Elysees we could see the Luxor Obelisk down the Champs Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe. The Obelisk is a 23 metre high Egyptian obelisk standing at the center of the Place de la Concorde. It was originally located at the en...