14 days/12 nights, June 21-July 4, 2010. Highlights: Berlin’s Pergamon Museum and Charlottenberg Castle plus Spree River day cruise/Prague/medieval Telc˘/Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna Woods/Baroque Salzburg/Melk Abbey/Oberammergau Passion Play/Neuschwanstein Castle/Zürich. Land, $9,495. Single supp., $1,200.
Horizon & Co. (Toronto, Ont., Canada; 800/387-2977).
9-day/8-night textile and folk art tour in Oaxaca, MEXICO, Oct. 15-23, 2010. Highlights: hands-on workshop in all phases of creating and using dyes and preparing wool; take home all “recipes”/Zapotec ruins in Mitla/market day in Zaachila/craft villages. Land only, $1,895.
Tia Stephanie Tours (Ann Arbor, MI; 734/769-7839).
14-day/13-night tour of WALES, April 24-May 7, 2012. Highlights: Medieval banquet in Cardiff Castle/Caerphilly Castle/Dylan Thomas’ home/St. David’s Cathedral/Snowdonia/White Lion Inn, a pub since AD 722/ride Llangollen Steam Railway/tea at Powis Castle/Tintern Abbey. Land, $4,695. Single supp., $795.
Scottish Dream Tours (Cle Elum, WA; 800/511-7803).
Eight-day/seven-night river cruise aboard new S.S. Antoinette; departs March-Dec., 2012. Highlights: Basel, SWITZERLAND/Strasbourg, FRANCE/Speyer, GERMANY/Rüdesheim/Boppard/Cologne/Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS. Cruise from $2,199-$5,424. Single supp. from $1,599. No single supp. 3/25, 4/8, 6/3, 7/29, 9/9.
Uniworld (Los Angeles, CA; 800/733-7820).
14 days/13 nights. Highlights: Massage on arrival in Madrid/Roman aqueduct, medieval castle in Segovia/walled city of Avila/Salamanca/drive the Silver Route/Moorish architecture in Seville/Pueblos Blancos (Route of the White Villages) of Andalusia/Red Castle, Alhambra in Granada. Land, from $10,555. Single supp., from $3,694.
My Exclusive Journeys (Miami, FL; 888/334-6905).
11 days/10 nights, Oct. 7-17, 2011. Highlights: Guided by retired professor of Japanese History Tom Swift, and based in Kyoto, visit Nara, Hiroshima, Miyajima, Osaka and Mt. Koya. Focus on contemporary life, historic palaces, castles, temples and gardens. Land, $2,499. Single supp., $320.
Japan Adventure Tours (Sacramento, CA; 916/453-8707, e-mail tswift@saclink.csus.edu).
Ten-day, nine-night tour of WWI and WWII sites, June 8-17, 2011. Highlights: Reims, FRANCE, site of Eisenhower’s SHAEF HQ/Maginot Line/Bastogne battle site, BELGIUM/American Cemetery in LUXEMBOURG/Dachau concentration camp, GERMANY/Munich/Berchtesgaden/Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest, AUSTRIA. Land, $2,995. Single supp., $400. Valor Tours, Ltd. (Sausalito, CA; 415/332-7850, www.valortours.com).
Nine days/seven nights. Highlights: Medieval-style dinner at Bunratty Castle/Cliffs of Moher/Ring of Kerry/Cobh Heritage Centre/Waterford/Kilkenny Castle Rose Garden/Irish National Stud and Japanese Gardens in Kildare/Dublin. From New York, from $1,700. Single supp., $647. CIE Tours (Morristown, NJ; 800/243-8687, www.cietours.com).
This statue of Gregory of Nin (Grgur Ninski in Croatian), a medieval bishop from Croatia who strongly opposed the Pope, stands just outside the Golden Gate of Diocletian’s Palace in Split, Croatia. (The palace was built by a Roman emperor in the fourth century.)
8-day, 7-night tour from Munich, GERMANY, to Vienna, AUSTRIA, Dec. 21-28, 2014. Highlights: In Munich, Holocaust Memorial, Marienplatz/King Ludwig’s Neuschwanstein Castle/in Innsbruck, Emperor Maximilian’s Golden Roof/in Salzburg, Mirabell Gardens, Mozart’s birthplace/in Vienna, Schönbrunn and Hofburg palaces. Land, $2,049. Single supp., $463.
Globus Journeys (Littleton, CO; 866/755-8581).