DVD Romantic Road/Rhine & Mosel Rivers/Prague & Budapest

Extras ... include unedited music from the series, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, helpful maps, Rudy's Smart Tips, promos and clips from our other destinations, and exclusive video previously seen only by viewers of PBS High Definition channel.

The superb visual quality of imagery originally captured in the HDCAM High-Definition format and random access of the DVD format provide a superior means to research your travels! Watch in letterbox or 16x9 widescreen TV (for those of you with widescreen TVs). And because our DVDs are not restrained by region codes, you can also watch on virtually all PAL and NTSC DVD players around the world.

Here's what you'll see in the shows:

Germany's Romantic Road
The Romantic Road winds through some of Germanys most picturesque countryside complete with medieval villages and Baroque Palaces.  We start our journey in Wrzburg where we visit the spectacular Baroque Bishops Palace or Residenz and taste wine at one of Wrzburgs many wine festivals.  Next we visit the castle of the Teutonic Knights in Bad Mergentheim and a short distance away the Deutsches Auto Museum in the Renaissance Castle of Prince Hohenlohe-Langenburg.  Every July the medieval town of Dinkelsbhl celebrates the day the children saved the town during the Thirty Years War.  We get a front row seat complete with dancing, music and an historic reenactment.  We finish our trip in Rothenburg, the best preserved medieval walled city in Germany. 

TIP:  Travel options along the Romantic Road.     more

Germany's Rhine & Mosel
For centuries the Rhine has been a natural border and the main route for trade, people and ideas. We start in the ancient Roman city of Trier and travel up the Mosel River visiting vineyards and ancient castles. We'll take a scenic cruise down th Rhine for a sailor's eye view of famous Rhine castles and the lovely but dangerous Lorelei. In Koblenz we'll see where Julius Cesar destroyed two Germanic tribes but was never able to conquer Germany, and just down stream we'll see where American troops first crossed the Rhine during World War II at the bridge at Remagen. Our trip concludes in the city of Cologne where we'll visit the modern art museum and sample Kolsch, the local beer.

TIP: Taking a cruise down the Rhine.    more

Prague & Budapest
We leave Western Europe behind as we venture to the exotic cities of Prague and Budapest.  In Prague, we marvel at the startlingly beautiful old town and tour the labyrinthine castle that haunted writer Franz Kafka.  Bohemian glass dazzles us as we browse the flourishing shops in this former Communist country, and we witness the scene of the Velvet Revolution.  Then its off to Budapest where we surrender ourselves to steamy mineral spas, get serenaded by Gypsy music in one of the citys most traditional restaurants, and sway to the rhythms of Hungarian dancers.  We round out our trip with Budapests regal Opera House, and monuments of a bygone era in the Communist Statue Park. 

Tips on luxury hotels.   more