Floriade Express - by Ferry

Today, we have a full day at Floriade 2022 in Almere, which has been designed by award-winning Dutch architect and urban planner Winy Maas to be a green extension of Amsterdam. With its focus on ‘Green Cities of the Future’ there are four main themes: Green, Food, Energy and Health. Exhibits will demonstrate how cities can be made more attractive and resilient by creating more parks and vertical gardens; the latest ideas for sufficient, healthy and affordable food; solutions and inventions in the field of sustainable energy; and how good food, exercise, flowers, plants and trees can help with life in the city. Additional features include orchard houses and jasmine flower hotels, a restaurant in a rose garden, a lily pond swimming pool and a city arboretum with a walkway of over 2,000 trees, planted according to their botanical name. Botanical contributions around the site will come from growers all over the world and we can expect a riot of colour and inventive planting.

This morning we transfer to Amsterdam where the morning and early afternoon if free to explore this historic and vibrant city. You may wish to take a canal cruise, browse the floating flower market or visit the

Rijksmuseum or Van Gogh Museum, or indeed any of the many other museums in Amsterdam. Later we return to our original departure points travelling via the Calais to Dover ferry.