DH and I are leaving on March 22 for 5 days in Prague, 3 days in Vienna, and 5 days in Venice. It's our 4th time in Prague, and second in Vienna and Venice. Have tickets, apartment reservations, and tons of great ideas from you Fodorites. Can't wait to see Venice again, although DH wonders why I haven't had enough of one flooded city (post-Katrina New Orleans!)

In 2.5 months, my BF and I head off to Germany. We will spend time in Munich, Halle and Aachen. I don't think we are ready at all because we are still waiting on his passport to come in the mail! (STRESS!!!) But, I've been going through all my travel books, and getting advice from this site, so we have a ton of ideas for what we want to do.

This will be my 4th time in Munich, and I've never been to Halle or Berlin or Aachen. My BF has never been overseas.

I am most excited about showing him my favorite city (Munich) and just being there with him. Also, hiking the trail from Tegelburg to Neuschwanstein (he's excited about that too) and seeing my friends and the towns they live in (Halle and Aachen).

Knock on wood, it's two weeks to go before I get to return to Paris.

Happy travels to all!

francofile, won't you join our gtg?

3 weeks from tomorrow!
First time to Italy .... Rome, Venice, Florence, Milan. I can't wait!

44 days until I depart for Paris! 6th visit-12 nights this time. I'm all booked at hotel, have air tickets in hand and confirmed my appointment at the spa for steam and massage for the afternoon of arrival (gets rid of the jet lag for me). I received my tickets in the mail last week for a Mozart concert at the Opera Garnier and my much too long restaurant list ready (more research my my daughter, the chef:) ). All I've left to do is contain my excitement and try to stay focused at work!

I mentioned this in another thread, but my next visit to Europe begins on Sept 01, 2006. Plane tickets are already purchased (BA is one of my favs) and the hotel is booked. I'm taking my sister who, aside from being there once briefly when she was a kid and then 3 years ago on a quick daytrip from London, has wanted to visit Paris without it being a blur. Since I've been there quite a few times (just about every year since 1996), I'm playing the tour guide for my sister. This time around, I'll be there for an uninterrupted stay of 7 full days. Of course, we'll see the major sites/attractions while there. I've been doing some research on this site about restaurants in Paris. Believe it nor not, but I've never eaten in a restaurant there that specializes in traditional French dishes. So, this time around I want to rectify that! We'll be staying at a hotel in the 7ème - an area I'm quite familiar with. I'm really looking forward to going back to Paris.

24 days :)

Replacement for stolen passport arrived yesterday. Pet sitters arranged. Work schedule: dealt with.

Plane tickets, hotels and trains are booked, which is more planning than we usually do, so I guess I'm ready.

It's out first time to Amsterdam (not counting a a dozen trips through Schiphol, anyway), Berlin, Prague and Munich. A lot for one trip, but we're calling this a reconnaissance mission ;-)

All is well...as long as management and pilots play nice.

Italy June '07, 4th trip to Europe after just visiting Germany/Austria/Prague this past fall. So now I'm once again addicted to this forum, researching Tuscany, Amalfi Coast and Venice and sipping Limoncello as I do.......who cares if it's winter!!!!! ;-)

It's nice of you to ask me to join your GTG, iregeo. I'll definitely think about it and if our schedule fits, then we can drop by.

Leaving for Paris on May 11. We will stay in the city for six nights and then go to Bayeux for two nights, coming back to a CDG airport hotel for a night before our early departure for home.

We are planning day trips to see Chartres Cathedral and to Giverny. It is my third and my husband's second trip to Paris, so we don't have a busy itinerary scheduled. Just hoping for good spring weather and leisurely strolling the city, eating crepes and ice cream and macarons and chocolate.

This is what we have got booked so far:

Dubai 7 April for one week, flying British Airways, staying at Mina-A-Salam. First time to Dubai, so really excited.

Barcelona 12 May for the Formula One race, an annual event, love the atmosphere and the racing.

Anguilla 13 December for 3 1/2 weeks, for our annual Christmas holiday.

Maybe going to Israel in August, son due to play in an international cricket tournament, however this may get cancelled due to insurance issues.

In between, trips to my home country Norway.

Flying out of San Francisco to Israel on March 8 for 2 weeks!!! Woo-hooo!!

Ready, but not packed. Last minute fine-tuning - fighting my office printer for the 2-sided card copies! It makes each copy darker, argghhh!

Will pack on Sunday after checking the weather.com

Looking forward to seeing The Land, meeting friends, and the food... ahhh, the food!

And then the jetlag, and cholesterol, and doctor's tsk-tsk, and research, research, research like crazy for a river cruise. History will repeat itself :)

Off to Paris in 11 days. Am I ready? Not really. It was a last minute trip and other personal stuff has been going that I haven't had much time to research like I did when I went to Italy last year.

This is my second time to Paris and my husband's first. I'm looking forward to spending time with my husband. :)

I'll be at Dulles exactly a week from right now getting ready to board a flight to Paris, then on to St-Cirq.

I think this will be my 69th trip to France - but I may have lost count...

Will report on the status of the house martens...

I still have 112 days until this year's (3rd) trip to Ireland -- add about 365 to that for next year's trip to Italy. The 'budding' plan is for northern Italy, as it's our first time there. Venice, Milan, Florence, some small villages along the way.

110 Days to go. That certainly seems like too long, but talking about it makes it feel closer. We have the airline tickets over and within Europe purchased, the car rentals lined up, and most of the hotels set. We even have one dinner reservation!

We're going to Mariefred on Lake Malaren in Sweden for Midsummer's Weekend, then we fly to Riga and spend a week exploring Latvia and Estonia. Next we go to Copenhagen for three days, then on to Paris for four days and four days in the Champagne district before heading back to Stockholm for a couple of days.

I'm always eager to get back to Stockholm, since the city energizes me, but I'm probably looking forward to visiting the Baltic States the most because I expect they will be quite different from other places we've seen in Europe. Also there will be two languages to sample that are quite unlike anything else (I know Estonian is similar to Finnish, which is a rather unusual language; I don't know where Latvian fits in). It might be trime to dust off some of my very limited college Russian, although some folks in those countries might not want to be speaking Russian. And on another note, the champagne houses will be nice! Good luck to all the rest of you; I envy those (many of you) with closer departure dates.

6 weeks until second trip to Paris for 5 days...very excited...staying in Marais for first time, want to visit the Louvre again and see the Ingres exhibit, the Pompidou center, and do a walking tour of Montmarte, and an evening boat ride...shop, eat, drink wine, see sites we haven't seen before, and also relax. Going with husband and teenage daughter.

This summer my husband and I will be going to Israel for three weeks without daughter (She will be going to Spain and Israel with teen group). I am excited to see everything - Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and we're going to drive and tour through the northern part of the country, experience everything, see some friends, see our daughter and her friends, and eat a lot of hoomous.

Now I am thinking about where to go next year...Sicily is high on the list, Buenos Aires is second, maybe Spain...I am always ready to go to Italy...

73 days till we head to Europe. First a week in Provence ... (3rd time to France, first to the South), then a week in Northern Italy, mostly Piemonte ... (4th time to Italy, but first to this region). Then we finish up with 2 days in London (been there twice before)on our way home to Philly.

May 15, come on!

Larry

Hi f,

My next trip to Europe is May, 2007.

I have the itinerary pretty well worked out.

((I))

We leave in 13 days for a week in London and a week in Paris. First time for both of these places and only 2nd trip to Europe. First time to Europe for my parents who will be coming with us.

I am pretty well prepared. Looking forward to seeing all the incredible sites and learning more about the history, and of course eating and shopping!!!

San Juan, Puerto Rico, for a week in May.

Then France again! I'm definitely addicted. I can't count the times I've been to Paris.

This coming September, it will be a week in Normandy and another week in Brittany. And of course, a few days in Paris.

Ginny

Next trip to Europe is in 35 days. It's to Germany and Switzerland and Italy. Probably about my 20th time.

I've got tickets, hotel for the first few nights and the last two nights. The rest is "seat of the pants" go with the flow. We have a rental car so can go, see, do "whatever..."

(My next trip is in 12 days, but not to Europe) It's my second trip to Valley Forge PA.

I leave in 22 days for my 9th trip to Paris.

I still need to do some shopping to add to my wardrobe, but other than that I'm ready!

What I'm looking forward to most is the FOOD, and hopefully more "romantic" adventures.

6 days until my next trip which is San Francisco but that doesn't explain why I am hanging around the Europe forum. :) 217 days until we leave for Italy, our first time there. I have tickets and accommodations booked. Excited doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about it!

I forgot to mention that Tiff's trip report is part of the inspiration for deciding to do Italy next. It's our first trip to a non-English speaking country :) (unless you count Scotland or Ireland or Wales!)

3 weeks...for Spring Break (plus a few extra days)
Paris, Avignon, Barcelona, Granada, Sevilla...
my kids' first trip to Europe. :)

ira, will you share where to? ;-)

Paris, rented a studio in 4th arrond. in 5 days for 5 days thanks to all wonderful suggestions here. Just returned from trip to CA high desert, hiking and jeeping in joshua tree nat'l park and stay at great old hacienda on an oasis in 29 palms( 1 hour out of Palms Springs--went in for dinner but stayed out in the desert for pur black night skies , millions of stars and total quiet......
In August to Portugal of 3 weeks to attend son's wedding...........and........if i keep reading these threads there will be more.

Six weeks today we fly to London for a couple of days. London is familiar territory. Then to Lisbon (first time) for a week, including a couple of days at a professional meeting. Then back to London and pick up a car to tour southern England (Bath, Salisbury) and Wales for a week, also new territory. It's all booked but for the second last night. I look forward to all of it.

24 days to my trip to France. Have been 3 times before, but always Paris & vicinity. This time 11 days total: Avignon (with day trip to Nimes); Dijon; Paris for a few days with a side trip to Rouen.

I swore I would save money and stay in US/Canada this year. Maybe one roadtrip down south and one to use air miles to Vancouver, but airfare deals just too good to pass up to Paris.

In fact, now that I'm taking this trip, I almost have enough frequent flyer miles for another European trip instead of US/Canada. Maybe this fall...? Hmmm, where to?

Three weeks to go, then three months in Europe - fourth long trip since I took early retirement. Starts in Greece, ends in London.

Looking forward most to - Delphi, Knossos, Crimea, northern Romania, lovely, lovely Alps, and of course London. First and last parts are set, middle still a work in progress.

I'll feel a lot less stressed after I get my leaky roof replaced - Tuesday I hope! I still have some financial stuff to organize, and I can always read more.

13 days until Maui! I have plane tickets and I'm going with my mom, who booked the vacation home exchange, so I have a place to stay but know nothing about it (of course I'm not paying a dime for this trip either, since it's mom's treat. So it could be a hole for all I care. It's warm, it's free, it's Hawaii!)

This will be my first trip to Hawaii. I'm working 80 hour weeks lately so I need it. Especially a trip with the hubby and kids left home!

I haven't had any time to get prepared (don't know when I will either!), But let me pack a bathing suit and bring a few novels and I'm happy.

I do plan to kayak with whales, take the road to Hana, and mom wants to do a luau. A massage on the beach sounds good too.

Ah.....13 more days....just get me through 13 more days.....

12 days to Paris.

I'm not even sure I remember how many times I've been there but its been five years since I was there last.

Six days before we depart Toronto for Prague, Vienna, Salzburg, Venice, Luzern, and Bacharach over a 15 day trip. Four chaperones, 31 teenagers (aged 15 - 19), all with an appetite for adventure. We travel with our own coach for the whole time. We developed our own itinerary (not a packaged school tour) and have filled it with culture, museums, walking tours, yodelling lessons, gondola rides, Rhine cruise, a day at the spa at Baden Baden etc. It will be a wonderful, exhausting time.

I'm leaving for Italy in 82 days!!!

First time - visiting Rome, Florence, and Venice.

Airfare is booked as well as hotels, although I am still researching hotels to make sure we haven't missed anything, so any suggestions would be welcome!

Now I'm reading everything I can about each city so we can make the most of our time there - only have 10 days, not counting travel time. This forum has been very helpful - thanks for all the input!

What I hope will be the highlights of the trip:

Ancient Rome & The Vatican (still waiting to hear back regarding the Scavi tour)

A day trip from Florence through the Chianti region to Sienna and/or San G, and lots of Italian wine - we won't be driving!

A few romantic days in Venice with my hubby - sadly heading back home on my birthday.

Can't wait!!!

this is great! glad to start such a nice thread.

well, ok, my next TRIP is to Florida in one week. I guess I should have said European trip - but I'm glad everyone chimed in about all over!

16 days - going to Scotland!!!!!

I cannot wait!!!

You sure fly around, my friend. :)

This is the most traveling I've ever done in a year (and it's all in the 1st 5 months!): LA in 3 weeks to visit a friend; France in just over 2 months (2nd time in France), taking my mom because she's finally retiring; and maybe a trip to Vegas (1st time) with friends squeezed in mid-April. Pretty sure there will be a Europe trip in the fall again. 2006 is looking great! :-)