* Mulhouse and Peugeot

Lunch in Sochaux then a visit to the Peugeot Museum which retraces the family's history as well as that of the car industry's. Dinner and overnight.

For a complete review of the history of the automobile then there's no better place than the excellent Schlumpf brothers Automobile Museum, in a converted 19th century cotton mill, with its fantastic collection of vintage cars. After lunch enjoy a visit to the outstanding French Railway Museum and admire some of the most prestigious locomotives of the last two centuries. Dinner and overnight.

All aboard for a steam train journey straight out of the past! From Cernay to Sentheim, through the romantic Vosges countryside, not only is the train itself classed as an historic monument, but the stations too have kept their style of yesteryear complete with station clock, ticket office, ticket stamping machine, and old petrol lamps or wood-burning stoves. Lunch.