BELGIUM & NETHERLANDS

Charming canals and medieval buildings, waffles and chocolate shops, street artists, bicycles, revelers partying on the water, windmills, Beemster cheese. Did I say bicycles?  Bruges, Amsterdam, Zaanse Schans.

GERMANY

Along the Rhine there are high perched castles, timbered buildings, billowy clouds, cuckoo clocks, biergartens and vineyards.