Your Holiday Itinerary

4-Day Break

• Day 1 – To Belgium for a three-night stay.
• Day 2 – The Prussians Defiant(included). We travel to Ligny where there will be a guided tour of the Ligny-Sombreffe battlefield. In the afternoon, we travel to Quatre Bras. Our guide will give an overview of the terrain and explain what happened and where. We can then explore the accessible parts of the battlefield for ourselves.B
• Day 3 – Wellington Holds the Line(included) Near Mont St. Jean, we’ll undertake a tour of the Waterloo battlefield. We look at the opening of the battle: Wellington’s deployment; D’Erlon’s attack; Picton under pressure; Ponsonby’s counterattack. We move on to Napoleon’s viewpoint at La Belle Alliance. We then consider The Fight for the Centre: walking the route of the Imperial Guard from Belle Alliance to Wellington’s centre, via the location of the major French cavalry attacks. La Garde Recule: up the slope and across the rise to where Wellington’s final reserve awaited the final attack. We have time to explore Wellington’s centre-right, visit the local attractions of the visitor centre or the panorama and climb the Lion Mound. Return to our hotel, pausing at Waterloo town to view the location of Wellington’s headquarters, and where he wrote his Waterloo dispatch.B
• Day 4 – Journey to Calais then return home.B

B=Breakfast