Western Front Anzac Tour

Itinerary 2018 Monday 12th April 2018 – Sunday May 7th 2018.

( all meals ,tours and transport are indicated for each day on the itinerary . Where you are required to

purchase a meal it is indicated. Breakfast is included on each day of the trip.)

Thursday. April 12th. • Depart Brisbane International Airport 2.30pm

• Singapore Airlines

• Arrive Singapore 8.45pm

• Private transfer to Marina Bay Hotel Singapore

Friday April 13th • Breakfast

• Free Day Singapore ( use of Hotel room until 9.00pm)

• Lunch and Dinner own choice.

• Checkout 9.00pm

• Travel to Singapore Airport for Paris Flight

• Singapore Airlines

• Depart approx. 12.05am (Saturday morning)

Saturday. April 14th • Arrive Paris 7.30am Paris

• Private Transport pickup

• Transfer to Giverny and overnight Hotel ( Village Hotel)

• Lunch own choice.

• Free time

• Welcome Dinner.

InterCultural Consulting Group “supporting intercultural opportunities”

Sunday April 15th

• Breakfast

• Visit to Monet’s Garden

• Depart for Bayeux

• Lunch own choice

• Visit Bayeux Tapestry

• Overnight Bayeux Hotel

• Dinner (local restaurant) Monday April 16th

• Breakfast

• Travel to Mont St Michel (World Heritage Site)

• Lunch own choice

• Return to Bayeux Hotel

• Dinner at local restaurant

• overnight

Tuesday April 17th

• Breakfast

• Travel to Normandy beaches

• Lunch own choice

• Tour of WW2 beaches

• Return to Bayeux

• Dinner at local restaurant

Wednesday April 18th

• Breakfast

• Travel to Rouen (Joan de Arc)

• Travel onto Amiens and Campanile Hotel

• Welcome Dinner Amiens.

Thursday. April 19th

• Breakfast

• Accomodation Campanile Hotel. ......Amiens.

• Lunch own choice

• Free time to explore Amiens Cathedral etc

• Welcome Dinner

Friday April 20th

(Anzac Week plans in Vignacourt are tentative until planning in early 2018) • Breakfast

• Somme Battlefield Tour.

• Villers Brettoneux/ Victoria School

• Lunch at Tommies Pozieres (included)

• Le Hamel, Pozieres, Mouqat Farm

• Evening event Vignacourt cemetery

• Dinner

Saturday. April 21st

• Breakfast

• Day event -Vignacourt Town BBQ and events.

• Visit to Lost Diggers story.

• Dinner own choice

Sunday. April 22nd.

• Breakfast

• Morning Anzac Run Vignacourt. ( we walk)

• Lunch at Naours caves

• Afternoon Visit to Naours Caves.

• Dinner

Monday. April 23rd

• Breakfast

• Visit to Villers Brettoneux Memorial

• Lunch at Corbie

• Free afternoon

• Dinner own choice

Tuesday April 24th

• Breakfast

• Free day

• Vignacourt evening

• Official Bargara video cross for Anzac Day .

• Return to Amiens

Wednesday April 25.

• Anzac Day attendance. Villers Brettoneux. 2.00am departure

• Bullecourt ceremony

• Lunch own choice

• travel to Ypres in Belgium

• Menin Gate ceremony

• Dinner included

• Albion Hotel Ypres

Thursday April 26.

• Breakfast.

• free day.

• Albion Hotel

• Lunch

• Dinner own choice.

Friday April 27.

• Breakfast

• Battlefield tour - the Salient ( Belgium)

• Passchendale visit

• Lunch at Hooges Crater ( included)

• Visit to PolyGon Wood,Fromelles, German Trenches, Tynecot Cemetery

• Albion Hotel

• Dinner Ypres

Saturday. April 28.

• Depart by bus for Reims (every Monarch of France was Crowned here)

• Pass through St Quentin battlefields

• Visit Reims Cathedral

• Lunch own choice

• Visit Tattanger champagne

• Arrive Chateau de Jaques Champagne region.

• Dinner included

Sunday. April. 29. • free day chateau/ visit to Chalon En Champagne.

• BBQ lunch and Dinner included

Monday. April. 30. • Visit Epernay

• Moet Champagne house

• Lunch at Mancy

• Mercier Champagne house

• return chateau

• Dinner

Tuesday. May 1st.

• Breakfast

• Visit to Medieval Troyes

• Explore city

• Return to Chateau

• Dinner

Wednesday. May 2nd.

• Breakfast

• Visit Messinges WW1 French trenches

• Visit Verdun

• Lunch (own choice)

• chateau

• Dinner (included)

Thursday. May 3rd.

• Breakfast

• Travel by Private transport to Paris.

• Hotel De La Paix x 4 nights (or similar)

• Afternoon Free

• Lunch and Dinner (own choice)

Friday. May. 4th

• Breakfast

• Paris Tour

• Lunch own choice

• Moulin Rouge show and Dinner

Saturday. May 5th • Breakfast

• Paris.

• Free Day (Versailles optional visit)

• Lunch own choice

• Eiffel Tower visit Dinner and Cruise. ( evening)

Sunday. May 6th

• Breakfast

• Coach transfer to CDG PAris

• depart Charles De Gaulle for Australia

• Depart 12.10pm

• Arrive Singapore 6.50am ( 7th May)

• Depart 9.40am

Monday May 7th

• Arrive Brisbane 7.30pm

Tour Inclusions Return Airfares to France with Singapore Airlines. Personally escorted by Michael and Donna Fiechtner. All Accommodation and meals as indicated. 24 nights accommodation including Breakfast each day.

• Marina Bay Singapore x 1.5

• Giverny Hotel x1.

• Bayeux Hotel x3

• Campanile Hotel Amiens.x 7

• Albion Hotel Ypres.x 3

• Champagne Region Private Chateau.Chateaux de Jaques x 5

• Hotel De La Paix Paris ( close to Eiffel Tower) x 3 Professional and personalised Battlefield Tours. Normandy/Somme/Salient Participation in Anzac Day Ceremony Villers Brettoneux/Bullecourt/Menin Gate Visits to Giverny, Bayeux, Mont St Michel, Rouen, Amiens, Pozieres, Villers Brettoneux, Vignacourt, Naours, Ypres, Epernay,Troyes, Verdun. Reims, Paris Vignacourt ( Lost Digger) events and Naours Caves. Moulin Rouge Dinner and Show. Eiffel Tower Dinner and Seine River Cruise,Paris Day tour Singapore Flyer Champagne flight. All transport by Private Transport as required.