Momliz

I am in awe of the spreadsheet, and will attempt to duplicate - thanks for doing all the hard work and making my job easier.

stormbird

Hi Josephina,
Fantastic info - thanks. I too, have put everything into the old Excel spreadsheets but hadn't thought to pop in passport numbers etc or to send to a gmail account.

The page of contact information etc is also brilliant.

It's going to take me a while to read your full report but so far very impressive.

hopscotch

josephina,

Awesome! Thanks for the travel tips, and for the spreadsheet idea.

BTW, I stayed overnight at the CDG Sheraton about ten years ago. I had reservations in the city but as I was walking to the RER I noticed the Sheraton. My first thought was that it would be too expensive but it was convenient to walk over to the counter so I did. The price was lower than my room in the city. The Sheraton called them and canceled my reservation and I stayed there. How easy it was in the morning to walk out of the Sheraton and over to AF check-in.

I think you have captured some of the essence of Amsterdam that I never thought about with:
<i>We liked it that the sounds of the city was the sound of a throng--people talking in the Dam--and the bells of the trams and the ching-ching of the bikes as opposed to the sounds of engines. Air was clean. Bikes and trams are very, very good things, even if one's life is in constant peril from waves of bikers.</i>
I used to live in Haarlem and have spent a lot of time in Amsterdam. I see you found one of my favorite restaurants, the Luden. Since you drank so much Palm I assume that you were also in the Cafe Luxembourg just down the street, but I guess you would have mentioned it if you had been there.

josephina

Hopscotch: Funny you should post on the very two subjects I was discussing with my oldest daughter yesterday, Amsterdam and CDG.

She has an overnight in Paris on her way home from the Middle East and I said it was worth it to book at CDG Sheraton because she's going to be dead on her feet and by staying there, she makes no more decision for the day (isn't that half of travel--a finite end to decisions for the day?).

Second, we are thinking about Thanksgiving in Amsterdam. I can take my elderly parents who simply drool at the sight of another mass transportation system to conquer and yet have a wonderfully entertaining city to show to other family members.

As to the spreadsheet, many others have posted doing something like that, so I don't want credit for something I hardly originated. The only thing I can take credit for is demonstrably showing how darn useful the tool became as we descended into the no-man's land of changing variables!

Then again..I probably can take credit for using an old Avery label program as my mail merge. On the biking trip, our print-outs were the envy of all simply because everyone over 50 could actually read them.