Excellent tour leader, Karin and historian, Peter. The local guides for the most part were good although Gianni in Strasbourg was very hard to understand. Loved the boat part of the trip but would have preferred a longer time in Heidelberg rather than the night spent in Eberbach which was pretty but without much character. I would also have liked a longer time in Trier which was fascinating but we had too little time there to see all of the Roman sites. My wife and I would have preferred more free time and fewer communal meals. This was a large troop for Road Scholar (36)so consequently there was a lot of time wasted lining up and waiting for stragglers. The Hannong Hotel in Strasbourg was pleasant, well located and had a great breakfast. The Villa Monteparnasse in Paris was also well located but a bit down at the heels and had a mediocre breakfast. Overall, we had a fine time but the trip would have been better with less time in Strasbourg (skip the European Parliament--it is a modern soulless monstrosity containing a pretty irrelevant bureaucracy), fewer communal meals (the plat du jour in many of the restaurants we went to usually sounded more appealing than what we were served) and more free time. Keep the walking tours in Paris--they were primo, and the trip to Verdun and the Meuse Argonne cemetery which is a forgotten place and very moving. The bus trip back o Paris also gave us a good chance to see la belle France.