• Europe 2007

    31 Days by Coach (Trafalgar Tours)
    Starting from Seattle, USA
    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
    5 September – 6 October

    PDF, trip journal, 12pp

    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 roomat 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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