Tag Archives: Guided Tours
Copenhagen, Part Four
10/5-10/14 We arrived back in Copenhagen by early afternoon and bade Simone and Dillon farewell until later that day when we would meet them for dinner back in town. Bev and I took the train back out to Vedbaek and settled in for a relaxing afternoon by ourselves as Maria and Gorm had accompanied the […]
Europe 2014 – Siena – We Seek Out the Tuscan Wine and Food Experience
Timeline: October 11th – 13th Lyndsay arrived at the Siena Central Train Station late Saturday afternoon; we picked her up and brought her back the short distance to camp. We’d laid into some wine and snacks and spent an hour or two relaxing and getting caught up on news from home, solidifying plans for the […]
Europe 2014 – La Gruyère: The Fondue’s and Don’ts of Switzerland
Timeline: September 25th – 26th Editor’s Note: Jessica again graces the blog with an excellent retelling of day or two in cheese and chocolate country. Enjoy. What a day, what a day. It all started with a late checkout from our hotel in Lucerne. We had a snack breakfast in the Mann Parents room and […]
Europe 2014 – Fussen – Buy One Get One Free Castle
Timeline: September 22nd Monday would be a full day with our planned drive a couple of hours into the Bavarian Alps to take in both Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein before checking in to our hotel, the Zum Hecten in Fussen. Our departure in the morning was a little complicated as Marty needed to pick up a […]
Europe 2014 – Fest 2 – Oktoberfest from a Locals Perspective
Timeline: September 19th – 21st The plan for the Saturday of Fest was to venture to Marienplatz at 10:00 am for a two hour guided tour of Munich (through the TI), then meet up with Marcus (Marty’s distributor in Munich) and Jeff (Marty’s business partner) back at the hotel around 3:00pm in order to make […]
Europe 2014 – Berlin – Help From a Friendly Stranger
Timeline: August 16th – 24th The long drive to Berlin was easier to manage as it was all on autobahn, with a number of stretches that had no posted speed limit. The GPS we are using, a Garmin 3590 (a very fine device) shows the current speed limit and your actual speed in the […]
Europe 2014 – Amsterdam (Bev) – Kansas Meets Amsterdam
Timeline: August 5th – 9th Anticipating a complicated morning and hoping to be able to make a move to Field Three before we ran our various errands, we bought some coffee and chocolate croissants from the market and then checked in at Reception to see about moving. The gods of travel smiled upon us that […]
Europe 2014 – Madrid: Another Good Tour
The Steve’s guide recommends taking one of the Madrid tours sponsored by the TI in town, so our destination on July 4th was Plaza Mayor and the office there. As mentioned earlier, the second day into town is easier as you become more and more familiar with the routine of the commute. We arrived at […]
Europe 2014 – Sevilla, Coincidence is Just God’s Way of Remaining Anonymous
We returned to town the next day for a pair of tours recommended in the Steves guide, hosted by Conception Delgado. The first, Sevilla Cultural Show and Tell was a nicely paced and informative 15 Euro visit that hit the highlights of the central part of town, full of background information about it, the lives […]
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