16 days until Budapest, Vienna, Prague with my mom, first time in these cities for her and they were her choice- she's 80, have our ballet and concert tickets, looking forward to doing whatever she is able to do!

6 more days! Ended my job yesterday; packing my house today and tomorrow, moving on Sunday, unpacking at the new house Mon & Tue, then back to NO Wed to catch a plane Thursday am!!

Spent hours today rearranging flights for a cousin who is joining us...the volunteer crew who is gutting houses told her yesterday they are getting to her house on March 15...the day she was supposed to join us in Venice! She is coming the next week to Rome instead ... Katrina just keeps messing with us!

5 weeks total...can't wait!

Back to packing :(

Anne

104 days til I take my parents to London for our 2 week cruise to the Baltics. Can't wait.

Looking for another trip in the meantime to cure my wanderlust. ;)

Hi

We are of to Malaysia on March 16th. We have been to KL before but this time we are also checking out Langkawi and Perhentian Islands :-) We have to get our act together and book all the stuff that we need...plane tickets to fly inside Malaysia, tickets to the Formula1 race in KL etc.

And on the 8th of April we are going to Paris again :-) We have been there before (http://gardkarlsen.com/paris.htm) but it is been a while ago.

Regards
Gard
http://gardkarlsen.com - trip reports and pictures

In three days I leave for Venice!mamma mia,I have a lot to do.I'll be hemming three pairs of slacks tomorrow night,if you want to come over and help!

I'm going the 'other way', from England to the State, on March 17th (be there for Paddy's Day, for some reason I always seem to be in the States for Paddy's Day!).

I'm visiting a friend in Santa Monica and then taking a car to do a desert drive, probably taking in Vegas for a couple of nights. Other than that, I've no real plan for what to do - unlike most of you people, I'm too bloomin' lazy to plan everything in advance!!!

49 days until our second trip to France.
Thanks to all of you we have our plane and train tickets, hotels booked, car rented, restaurants reserved and a list of things to do that would fill months let alone the days we have to spend. With the exception of Paris, all will be new. I am really excited (which is why I am on this forum at 6 AM).
April 23-30 Paris
May 1 - 2 Lyon
May 3 - 8 St Remy
May 9 - Le Rey (Le Vignan)
May 10 - Meyrueis
May 11 - Estaing
May 12 - Saint-Cirq Lapopie
May 13 - 18 Domme (Saturday - Thursday)
May 19 - 20 Amboise
May 21 - 24 Paris

Hi amyb
>ira, will you share where to?

Happy to.

Fly into Munich, rent car, go to Salzburg
On to the Salzkammergut - Hallstatt and one other town
Up to Rothenburg and down the Romantic Road
Over to Lake Constance
On to Dijon and Strasbourg
Fly home from Stuttgart

About 24 days, in all.

((I))

Sounds wonderful, Ira. That sounds like a great route. Already looking forward to the trip report!

March 25th- Atlanta with sister and our four kids- driving.

"Real" trip- June 12th:
Gothenburg, Sweden
Colmburg, Germany
Lucerne, Switerland
Luxembourg
Brussels

My DH, and 7 year-old twins. Can't wait. My husband's middle life crisis has become a trip of a lifetime. He's buying a Saab convertible!

19 Days to go...WHOOOOPIE.

I will be departing L.A. on March 23, headed to Amsterdam, Bruges, Antwerp, Brussels. This is a two week trip. 4 nights in Ams., 3 in Bruges, 2 each in Antwerp and Brussels. :)

I am pretty ready. I have the luggage picked out and ready, I have most of the little things I need, working on choosing which walking shoes to keep and which to return, I bought a few pairs :) So, yeah, overall I'm so ready!

This is a first time Europe trip. Only other places I've been are: Jamaica, Puerto Vallarta, and various large cities in the USA.

I'm most looking forward to simply taking it all in. Being an English teacher and Jewish, I guess I'm anxious to see the Anne Frank House, Jewish Museum, and Dutch Resisitance Museum in Amsterdam.

In Bruges I'm looking forward to just relaxation and taking it slow. Some bike riding and beer :)

Antwerp I'm not really sure yet.

Brussels, I'm looking forward to going to Breendonk Concentration Camp.

Of course in two weeks there will be SO much to look forward to.

OH! ANd I'm looking forward to taking a ton of fantabulous pictures.

Tallulah--I'm in Hollywood, Have fun in L.A. while I'm away :) Don't go too wild!

Only twenty five days until Italy--third trip to Italy and also the third trip to Europe within a year which is not the norm for us. Flying into Rome and out of Milan. New places to see on this trip will be Orvieto, Venice, Lake Como, and Milan. We have twelve days for this trip--not enough time! We are definitely all ready with the exception of getting rail tickets.

26 days! We go to Barcelona for a week.Then Join a Rick Steves tour to Provence that leaves us in Nice. On our own in Nice and the Cote d' Azur followed by train to Lyon and who knows where. We end of course in Paris....!

110 Days until I go to Paris. I'll be there for 18 days (including Bastille Day) unless I can manage a side trip over to either Italy or England. This is only going to be my second time to Paris and I was there last in 1999 (aaah I can't believe it's been that long!) I'm 22 and ready to start seeing the world and Paris is up definatley up first.

I know I'm totally ready-- prepared is another thing. I can't decided wheter to bring a suitcase (impractical but I can fit so much more) or a backpack (seems more managable.) Have fun everyone!

It's 24 days until our trip to Rome and Amsterdam. It's our first time to those cities, but our second to Europe.

The flights and hotels are booked, and the itineraries have been written, but I've been too busy to do all of the reading/research that I normally do. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to start focusing on that this week. I also need to get the confirmation of payment for the Scavi tour. What a pain.

My husband is really looking forward to checking out Vatican City while I'm looking forward to just walking around both cities and trying to take them in.

Fun thread!

Exactly six months b/f we meet up with
a RS tour in Palermo. Two weeks in
Sicily and S.Italy ending up in Rome
for 3 days; off to CT for 4 days then
Venice for 3. Varenna for 4 days and
then 5 days still open. Maybe around
the Veneto region.

This is our 3rd Italian trip and first
tour. Usually we do Slow Trav types
of holidays so this is a real departure
(!).

We are celebrating our 40th wedding
anniversay - I hope taking a tour
doesn't mean we're officially Over The
Hill (and Far Away) LOL!

March 31 we fly SFO to Paris. We'll spend two nights in Paris, then drive down to the Dordogne for another extended stay. We'll be bringing along the dog and my mother-in-law this time. We'll stay the two nights in Paris at the top of the Butte Montmartre, a neighborhood I've never even visited. Not sure how that'll go, but it was the mother-in-law's idea! It'll be an adventure, no doubt. Can't wait be in Dordogne for the spring!

64 days and a wake up til we go to Italy for 15 days! airline tickets in safe, hotels booked, uffizi and accadamia ressies booked, praying for scavi confirmations, and dates marked on calendar for trenitalia 60 day window ressie making days. Also waiting to make borghese gallery ressies. Am I excited? Am I making my friends and coworkers insane? NAH, just another day (:) but you know, it is true, the time will be here sooner than you can imagine! In November, 6 months out, It seemed a long way away, but time has a way of sneaking up on you! (and don't you wish the 2 weeks you are there went as slowly as the 2 weeks before you got to go??)

Aix-en-Provence/Grenoble in 2 weeks: I'm giving a seminar at the law school in Grenoble, so Mr. W and I are going enjoy a weekend away from Paris. I spent 6 weeks in Grenoble a few years ago, studying French - and I don't really need to see it again, but neither of us has been to Provence.

But that trip doesn't really count. Our next big trip is Oman (we leave 4 days after we get back from Grenoble). We'll be there for 2 1/2 weeks - lots of diving, a trip to the mountains and a night in the desert. First visit to Oman (and the Gulf region) for both of us (although Mr. W used to live in Egypt and speak a little of the Egyptian variant of Arabic).

Lots of fun trips!

We leave for Cambridge UK July 17th. Four glorious weeks. Planning weekend trips to Dublin and Scotland. I am NOT ready at all, a bit nervous actually, since I have yet to book train or plane for our weekends. It is our 3rd summer in Cambridge, but my first trip to both Ireland and Scotland! I am sure a weekend at each will be much too short, but we are excited anyway.

66 days until Italy- Flights and accomodation reserved. Car will be leased this week.
Levanto,Tuscany,Venice, Lake Garda, Piedmont and Nice,France.
3 weeks total.
Looking so forward to returning to Venice. Levanto, Lake Garda and Lucca will be new to us.

12 days before I go to rome for 7 days, with a possible daytrip.
I need to photocopy my tourist guide text and restaurant recommendations and to maybe go over the text once more. Hotel, 2 walking tours and possibly the Borghese gallery visit (haven't got a reply from them yet) are all booked. It's my first time in Rome and I'm thinking about going to Italy again in Ocotber. This year I'm trying to take 3 shorter trips as opposed to last year's 2 longish, so I get to experience Europe more often. Early or mid June is looking like 1.5 days in Paris and 6 in Copenhagen, although I keep changing my mind.
For the moment, eagerly waiting to eat good Italian food, visit museums and walking around the city. I have absoluetely no picture in front of my eyes of how Rome should look like, which makes me happy - It's going to be a total surprise.

Tamara - thanks! But I promise that I don't need to go away to go wild - haha! ;-)

Yikes - 5 days til Germany and I'm not packed! This will be the second trip for my hubby and myself, but the first for our 17 year old! I am so excited to be taking her to Germany.

We'll visit family for the first 4 days, then off to the mountains for the rest of the trip. Yeah!

Now where was that thread about packing light.....
H

15 days till Rome and Florence for 10 days. Scavi tour,Borghese Gallery, Ufizzi, Accademia all booked. Itinerary is all planned with side trips to Tivoli and Ostia Antica.

Guided tours of Vatican, Colosseum, Forum and Florence.

Looking forward to good food!

My next confirmed trip is to the West Coast. My man and I booked tickets for Seattle this week, leaving NYC on my birthday (7.22) and a return ticket from LAX. He took two weeks off and I'm a teacher (you know what that means! Send your hate mail to [email protected]) Our plan is to spend a few days in Seattle, hop a train down the coast to Eugene and Portland, then hit San Francisco before ending up in LA where we'll meet up with the lovely Tam (http://tamaraeden.blogspot.com), that you all know and love from the Fodors' forums. Our day-to-day itinerary is not worked out yet but you can track our progress at http://upthedownstaircase.typepad.com/costero_del_amor.
Potential in-between trips are jaunts to Toronto and Atlanta...Toronto likely, Atlanta, bloody expensive!

August 28th I will be landing in Roma, my beautiful native city.

After a couple of weeks I will be heading to Provence and Paris..I shall return September 26.

I am overly excited because this time I will be traveling in style," Business class" and my ticket is free..thanks to AA Advantage miles club.
Cin Cin to All...:)

13 days until Paris! Flying out the 17th and coming home the 28th.

Well, the important parts of getting ready have been taken care of! I booked flights last Thursday and on Friday reserved my spot in a week long class at ELFE (also hoping the afternoon wine class takes place!) I'm waiting for a co-worker to reply to my email about crashing on the sofa bed in the corporate apt. Lucky devil was transferred to the Paris office for a year!

If I get the sofa bed I'll book a nice hotel for my last three nights as a treat. If no sofa bed then I'll find some budget options for the entire trip. Maybe split the stay between a couple and get a chance to try out new places.

This is my third trip to Paris, but my first solo. About a year and a half ago I decided I wanted to spend my 30th summer in Paris taking the month long language course at the Sorbonne and then a few extra weeks to travel around the country--my husband was going to join me for the last week or two. I've spent that year and a half slowly saving up the funds in my special Paris '06 savings account. THEN I was cast in a show that attracted some attention and we're re-opening in June with an open-ended run! Which is awesome, but means no summer in Paris. The cast and director were sympathetic and we found a way to carve out these 10 days for me. Bless 'em.

I'm most looking forward to my language course. And also experiencing Paris on my own! (and the Fodors GTG)

just one week til we fly to paris to meet up with my brother and wife whom i have not seen for awhile.

really anxious to show them around. their first trip, and our fourth.

i have gotten so many wonderful recommendations from here, but not enought time to use even a small portion of them this time!

fly out to barcelona after paris, then after showing them that fun city, we take a train home to valencia just in time for the last two crazy days of fallas.

Flygir;l!
In exactly 42 days, headin' for France for the umpteenth time...we've experienced all regions except Alsace which we're including for a barge trip in the Strasbourg-Lorraine stretch. Briefly touched Strasbourg several decades go and was impressed with the town, the encircling river Ells and the architecture.

First, we're going direct to Provence and Cote d'azur, one of our favorite regions...going to be in Tourettes sur Loup for a week and in and around St. Remy for another week, using both as bases for day-tripping before joining up with the barge in Strasbourg...ending with a four day visit to Paris.

All ressies made, flights confirmed, taking TGV from CDG to Avignon to pick up car, and returning it to Avignon, and training to Strasbourg, and then from Stras to Paris.

I see where RobJame is going to be in St. Remy a few days after we leave...you'll enjoy the vicinity, I'm certain.

Everyone, have fun, and feed your travel bug well....never let it die!

Stu T.

Possibly not a good response for a European thread, but as a European who has just come back from 3 weeks in Cape Town, we are eagerly awaiting our next trip there in Jan. 2007 - 6 weeks this time. The only problem is that we cant actually book a flight this early, but have already booked our accomodation. Sun, palm trees, great wine, good food, and wonderful scenery. Plus a country that has a lot of challenges, but seems to be meeting them more than some others. Lots to look forward to. I have to admit that before that we will probably be in Toronto to see family. Has its own benefits, but not quite the same.

Pakabug - Bastille Day in Paris is *amazing*! Just make sure you get up fairly early and make your way over to the Champs-Elysee to get a good place on the side as the crowds get pretty deep. The aircraft flying over was a sight to behold. Later in the afternoon over at the Ecole Militaire, there were parachutists jumping out of helicopters way up high and landing in the area. Pretty spectacular.

wow, this is great! so many trips coming up for so many people.

Next trip....to Los Angeles in 12 days. Going with my younger son, 12 yo, to visit my sister and BIL. First trip to LA as sis just moved there from NYC in August.

Looking forward to fun with family, Malibu/Santa Monica, Getty Center, Hollywood Blvd, and Disneyland/California Advernture. Just doin' the LA thing. Oh, and some warm sunny weather would be great! Everything is organized as far as flights and rental car, but no packing done yet. Better start sorting through some warm weather clothing.

Next Europe trip...June 16th for 2 weeks. Staying in Wengen, Milan, Lake Garda, and Venice. Second time to Italy, but first in Switzerland. First visit to Northern Italy - all cities new. Air is booked as are hotels. Still need to work out train schedules. I have tons of notes from this forum and trip advisor.

Looking forward to seeing Swiss Alps, Last Supper and Duomo in Milan, scenery and outdoor dining along Lake, and everything in Venice. Of course, can't wait for great meals and lots of gelato.

26 days to French Polynesia. 3 nights in Papeete, and 10 nights in Bora Bora. And I am definitely ready!
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5 Days to italy! I'm not ready....still need to get everything together, but I have my hotels, etc. I taking my 17 year old sister - so I want everything to be perfect!

88 days to wheels up. 4 days in Rome, 4 days in Athens (for my nieces wedding), 4 Days in Santorini. First time in all places! My husband has pointed out that I've spent more time on these sights researching the trip than we'll actually spend ON the trip. Oh well, I think that's half the fun.

Fun4All4... Hopefully we'll have nicer weather here in So Cal by the time you get here. Everything is relative, but highs in the 50's and rain is a little tough on us softies that live here. :)

I'm going to the WORLD CUP, baby! And it's a "boys" only trip.

Due to work commitments (new job) I had to cut the trip down to 9 days from 17 :-( but it's better to have travelled and returned than never to have travelled at all.

We will spend 5 nights in Munchen - one of my travelling mates has a step-nephew who lives there and we are going to get tapped into the local sports viewing scene - can you imagine staying and partying with a baseball fanatic from Boston during the World Series?

Then we are off to Nurnberg for three nights - that's where we have tickets to a game. I have never been to Nurnberg (6 times to Germany) so I am really looking forward to this part of the trip. Finally, 1 night in Rothenburg, just cause I love that damn place so much and my friends have never been there.

Oh my, the beer, the beautiful beer ( Bamberg, Kulmbach - Daddy's coming home soon!), the pork "everything", and the sweet rich breads.

Did you ever feel you should have been born somewhere else? I know some people will say that it wouldn't hold this much allure for me if I lived there, but I would be so ready to try and prove them wrong.

Heaven... I'm in heaven....

Oh yeah, and then maybe the Amalfi Coast in September - ehhh!

TOMORROW MORNING! ISRAEL!

even that flying elephant is strangely not annoying today :)