EUROPE 2007 31 Days by Coach (Trafalgar Tours) Starting from Seattle, USA 5 September - 6 October London, Paris, Chartres, Tours, Bordeaux, Lourdes, Pau, Biarritz, Burgos, Madrid, Toledo, Barcelona, Montserrat,  Cannes, Monaco, Nice,  Pisa, Montecatini,  Florence, Assisi,  Pompeii,  Genoa, Isle of Capri, Sorrento, Venice (including Lido & Burano islands) Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Oberammergau, Liechtenstein,  Lucerne, Freiburg, Heidelberg, St. Goar, Boppard, Cologne Amsterdam, Calais, Dover, London This is just a small fraction of the 3500 photo's  taken For the full story- see the trip journal below.

 The Trip Journal (PDF)  12 pages         (Click on a photo for a larger version)

                  
    At the Copthorne Tara hotel, and the Cafe Rouge, Lancer Square, Kensington, London

                    
  Views from our Paris hotel (the Renaissance La Dafense) and snacking at a Pastisserie

     
  Eating dinner on the Champs Elysees

       
Paris at night:  Notre-Dame  and  Le Tour Eiffel
 

    
Palace at Versailles: Grounds and the Hall of Mirrors
 

   
Chartres cathedral... and nearby grocery store

            
 Squat Toilet  in a rest area on Autoroute A-10, near Potiers
 

    
 Scenes from Biarritz (France) on the Atlantic coast
 

         
The Cathedral and Grotto at Lourdes

         
City gate and Cathedral in Burgos, Spain

     
Toilet and bidet in our hotel room at the Puerta de Burgos - Beautiful and absolutely spotless!

       
Downtown Madrid,  palace,  Statue of Columbus

     Our Madrid guide talking with  Luigi, our tour director 

       Toledo- Spain

       
The incredible Cathedral in Toledo

      Sagrada Familia (Antonio Gaudi's Cathedral) Barcelona
 

       
Gaudi's El Parc Guell, Barcelona
 

      On Montserrat

        Fancy WC in Cannes- France

        Nice (France)
 

             
 The beautiful little hilltop town of  Saint Paul de Vence in the hills above Nice
 

        Carol - road sign in Saint Paul de Vence

      The Principality of Monaco and its crowded harbor

    Carol, Laveta and the Leaning Tower      Polizia Municipale, Pisa

    Breakfast in the hotel:  Montecatini Terme,  Italy

            Firenze (Florence)
 

                
At our hotel, the  Windsor Savoia, on the hilltop of Assisi and the Basilica De San Francisco
 

           Naples:  Leaving for the Isle of Capri and harbor fire.

    Mount Vesuvius

            
 Various views from The Isle of Capri 
 

  Capri- Young and Old

      Pompeii- Human death mold and painting on a Bordello wall

 Rome- Sign at the entrance to the Catacombs

        Inside St. Paul's Basilica- Rome

                 
      Rome at night.  Our tour bus (Laveta in center) waiting to load up.

    View from our hotel:  the  Mercure Roma Delta Colosseo

           
 St Peters Basilica
 

    Jim at the Vatican   

           
Carol and Laveta in the Map Room - also a painting- Vatican Library

     The Colosseum

    After a great dinner at the Mangrovia Resturant

         Carol and Laveta at the Trevi Fountain

                 Sign near Saint Mark's Square- Venice

         
Having fun in Venice
 

   Sunset on the Grand Canal
 

      Arriving on Lido Island (Venice).   Hotel MaBaPa
 

           
A day on Burano Island (Venice)
  

    
In the hills above Vienna, Austria
Carol and Laveta waiting for the U-Bahn (U-4) to our hotel 
 

       
Dinner in a countryside Wine Village In Grinzing, near Vienna
(Weingut Heuriger-Reinprech restaurant)

                     A great dinner, a short walk from our Vienna hotel

           
Salzburg, Austria

               
 Berchtesgaden and the Kehlsteinhaus  (Hitler's Eagle's Nest)
Tunnel to elevator and the building.  Everything is original as built in 1938
 

     Hitler's meeting room and entrance.

               The Rococo interior of  Basilika zu Lieben, Salzberg

   Shopping in Salzberg

       
Lunch stop on the road
 

       
Innsbruck, Austria
 

Operation on a stuffed animal-  Innsbruck hospital /fire department

           
At the Wittlesbach Hotel,  Oberammergau, Germany
 

         
Driving through Austria- Alps and in 14 kilometer long tunnel

              In the Principality of  Liechtenstein
 

Roadside Switzerland
 

        
Our hotel room in the Raddison Lucerne,  Lucerne, Switzerland

             
The  Dying Lyon of Lucerne  and views in the city
 

             
Jim, Carol and Laveta On Lake Lucerne
 

          
The cable car to Mount Pilatus
 

            
A mountain church  and summit of Mount Pilatus
 

                  Alpine horn and the cog-train back down the mountain
 

          
Freiburg, Germany with Bratwurst and Brochen-  and inside the Freiburg Cathedral
 

   Heidelberg, Germany
 

                  The great gothic cathedral in Cologne
 

            
A Rhine cruse between Saint Goar and Boppard, Germany

                At a lunch stop near Arnhem, Netherlands

               
Amsterdam, Netherlands

     Entering the Red Light District, Amsterdam

              
Amsterdam- Last dinner with our tour group (Carol close-up)
 

      Laveta in Calais, at the Ferry dock and Cliffs of Dover
               
London- Buckingham Palace
 

           
London- Walking and in Double-Decker London bus returning to our hotel
 

                     
The Duke of York pub- a half block from our hotel.

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