Germany, Prague, Netherlands

Definitely too many places, but to help us suggest where you might cut, please tell us what sorts of things you want to see and do during your time away from Kandern--and is that 17 nights, or will some of your time be spent in Kandern?

Is "we" an adult couple, or are there children involved as well? If so, what are their ages?

I'll start with a couple of places I visited in 2015:

For me Dresden is pretty much all about the museums. The city was heavily targeted during the war, and only a fairly small part of the oldest area has been rebuilt in the historic style. There are better options if you aren't interested in the museums, and if you are, I think Dresden needs more than one full day.

Berlin is huge, sprawling and stuffed with museums and historic sights that can keep a visitor busy for a week or more. Unless you go out to Potsdam, the architecture isn't what we tend to think of as "old Germany". It's not the sort of place I'd want to go for just a day or so. If you are museum-lovers, or if you want to take in a lot of the historical sights, I'd say four nights is a minimum time for Berlin.

I suspect that dealing with a car will be a challenge in some of the larger places on your list, with high parking fees if you choose centrally located lodgings that are convenient for sightseeing, but that's something you can re-visit when your itinerary is a bit firmer.

Let's see - how do I explain.....we'd like to see places that could be considered World UNESCO sites or similar. Looking for beautiful, authentic locations with special touches. Not real big on touristy places or museums (unless they are truely special). Wouldn't mind smaller, less known cities since we are there in high travel season.

The 17 days is travel time. We have another week or so in Kandern. We, is 4 adults.

Thank you again for helping us fine tune our plans

Skip Brussels and go to Brugges.

Bremen is nice, but geographically out of the way, I would skip it this time.

Most of these cities you can take in in a day, but there is a lot of travel involved in this trip.

Viaden and Luxembourg City as well as Trier, Germany are worth looking at, but you already have a full dance card.

Looks like the type trip I used to take. I’ve slowed recent trips down. I may see fewer places, but spend more time in each place. If the places on your list were small towns that only required a couple hours to see, then I’d say doeable, but they are not. In just the first three on the list you could use up 5 or 6 nights of your trip and not see everything they have to offer.

There was mention of visiting small towns. Are there other towns you would visit in place of the big ones? Especially since we not necessarily want to visit a lot of museum or touristy places?

The trip is doable provided you drop a few places, such as Haarlem, Brussels, Rothenburg od Tauber., maybe Nürnberg too.

How many days are you spending in Berlin? To see the old style Berlin, I suggest Spandau, Köpenick and Karlshorst districts, esp since Karlshorst has been undergoing construction, ie, see that architecture before they're gone.