Old World charm, magnificent architecture and ancient customs make this one of the most fascinating regions of the World.
A Busabout pass for the North Loop will take you to the most captivating cultural cities. Priceless artwork, incredible beer, beautiful castles and stunning scenery will dazzle throughout your travels. Start from any city on the loop and travel at your own pace - stay as long as you like at each stop .... then when you've finished exploring, jump on the next bus and move on to the next destination.
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What can be said about the sexy, sophisticated City of Lights that hasn’t been said before? Quite simply, this is one of the world’s great metropolises, a trend-setter, market-leader and cultural capital for over a thousand years and still going strong.
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Touristy, overcrowded and a tad fake: preface any other city and it would be left for dead. Not Bruges (Brugge). This medieval town is Belgium’s most popular destination and, despite the crowds, it’s not to be missed.
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Amsterdam’s always been a liberal place, ever since the Golden Age, when it led European art and trade. Centuries later, in the 1960s, it again led the pack – this time in the principles of tolerance, with broad-minded views on drugs and same-sex relationships taking centre stage.
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Apologies to Samuel Johnson, who first coined the compliment for London, but in the 21st century anyone who is tired of Berlin is tired of life. Even the buzzy English capital can’t currently compete with the rapid change in its reborn German counterpart.
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Germany’s eastern heartland is for many people (Germans included) the most historically German. Together with Brandenburg, East Berlin and Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, these states made up the GDR.
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It’s the perfect irony of Prague. You’re lured there by the past, but compelled to linger by the present and the future. Fill your days with an architectural heritage from Gothic and Renaissance to Art Nouveau and Cubist, but after dark move your focus to lively bars, cutting-edge galleries and pumping clubs.
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Crowned by an audacious castle and centred on an elegant old town square, Český Krumlov is a pocket-sized Prague. Renaissance and baroque buildings enclose the looping arc of the Vltava River, housing plenty of riverside cafés and bars.
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The Ottomans referred to Vienna (Wien) as the city of the ‘golden apple’, but this crossroads of Eastern and Western Europe is more akin to a big wedding cake: a vivacious, multilayered concoction, stuffed with galleries, museums, exhibitions and a sensation of resuscitated times past.
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The joke ‘if it’s baroque, don’t fix it’ would make a perfect maxim for Salzburg; the tranquil old town burrowed in below steep hills looks much the same as it did when Mozart lived here 250 years ago.
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Munich (München) is truly the capital of all things Bavarian. It’s a heady mix of world-class museums, historic sites, cosmopolitan shopping, exhausting nightlife, trendy restaurants, roaring beer halls, vast parks and, of course, Oktoberfest.
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Hemmed in by grape-covered hills, residents of prosperous Stuttgart enjoy a high quality of life. Just watch them zip about in their Mercedes. About 80% of the city centre was destroyed in the war, but there are a few historical buildings left and – no surprise – car museums.
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