A selection of tours and cruise-tours
7 days, 6 nights in ITALY, July 24-30, 2022. Group limit, 8. Highlights: Transfer from Rome to medieval Castelli, International Collection of Contemporary Ceramics/pottery classes at Fattoria d’Arte i Colli in Lentella/watercolor class on Trabocchi Coast/cooking class with guide’s family/olive, cheese and wine tasting. €1,795 (near $2,082) ppdo. Single supp., €150 ($174).
7 days, 6 nights in northeastern CANADA, July 4-10, 2022. Group limit, 24. Highlights: From Deer Park to Gros Morne Nat’l Park for Lobster Cove Head Lighthouse/Prime Berth Twillingate Fishery & Heritage Centre/in St. John’s, Quidi Vidi Village Plantation/Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, home to puffins, migrating humpback whales. From any US departure gateway, $3,490 ppdo; land only, $2,800. Single, with air, $4,150; land only, $3,450.
13 days, 12 nights. Departures Oct. 24, 2022, April 14, May 3, Aug. 18 & Sept. 14, 2023. Group limit, 4-7. Highlights: Overnight in Windhoek/in Namib Desert, Namib Tsaris Conservancy/Damaraland for Doro Nawas Conservancy, Save the Rhino Trust/game drives in Ongava Game Reserve, home to elephants, lions/Etosha Nat’l Park/AfriCat clinic in Okonjima Nature Reserve. From $11,725 ppdo. Single supp., from $1,150.
11-day, 10-night cultural tour. Group limit, 2-8. Highlights: In Sofia, Bulgaria, St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, 4th-century Church of St. George, Roman ruins of Serdica/frescoes at Rila Monastery/Tsarevets fortress in Veliko Tarnovo/Klianti House in Plovdiv’s Old Town/wine tasting in Demir Kapija, North Macedonia/Lake Ohrid/in Skopje, Memorial House of Mother Teresa, Mustafa Pasha Mosque, Kale Fortress. $3,340 ppdo. Single supp., $355.
12-day, 11-night river cruise plus Passion Play performance. Departures May-Sept. 2022. Highlights: In Budapest, HUNGARY, optional excursions, board ship/in Bratislava, SLOVAKIA, St. Martin’s Cathedral/in AUSTRIA, village of Hainburg an der Donau, Habsburg Imperial Palace complex in Vienna, city of Melk for Benedictine abbey/Neuschwanstein Castle, GERMANY/disembark in Innsbruck for Hofkirche, transfer to Oberammergau for Passion Play/Munich.
10-day, 9-night “easy-moderate”-level walking tour (3½-7 miles daily). Departures May-July, Sept.-Oct. 2022. Group limit, 18. Highlights: Hidcote garden in Chipping Campden/18th-century Broadway Tower/in Gloucestershire, Stanway House/Stow-on-the-Wold, Bourton-on-the-Water/in Bath, terraced 18th-century houses in Royal Crescent, Bath Abbey.
8-day, 7-night expedition aboard 33-passenger ship. Departures Jan.-Feb. & Nov.-Dec. 2022. Highlights: From Tromsø, sail along base of Lyngen Alps to 17th-century Hamnnes/Kvænangen Fjord/hiking on island of Spildra/village of Finnkroken for chance to see northern lights/free half-day in Tromsø. Based on cabin, $5,300-$7,350 (double), $4,505-$5,185 (single).
16-day, 15-night “full on” tour of five countries. Departures Nov. ’21-April & Nov.-Dec. ’22. Group limit, 12-18.
