Category: Trips to Europe
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A Busy Day in Munich
On the morning of July fourth, we started with a driving tour of Munich. One of the first things we saw was the building where the infamous Munich Agreement was signed, in which Neville Chamberlain “appeased” Hitler by allowing him to take a piece of Czechslovakia. Chamberlain believed he had maintained “Peace in our time,”…
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Driving through four countries to see castles that may or may not be the Cinderella Castle.
Sunday morning, it was time to leave our hotel in Engelberg to head to southern Germany. There was a brief scramble as we were leaving as Daniel accidentally packed his room key for the hotel. The key is an actual key that turns a real lock, and not just a plastic key card, so the…
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High speed trains, ultra-tall mountains, and rainy days in Switzerland
Early on July 1st we went to the train station to take the high speed train to Switzerland for the next, less urban phase of the trip. There we were to travel through the Alps, go to the top of Mount Pilatus, tour Engelberg and Lucerne, and eat at an Alpine Lodge. Traveling at just…
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Fancy Palaces, Scary Catacombs, and High Hills in France
After our night of major monuments in Paris, we headed out to Versailles the next day to see the palace and gardens. We arrived early, before the palace opened at 9am, and had a chance to see the newly refurbished front entrance. While we were waiting, it was time for… When we were able to…
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A day in the life of a Paris tourist
After semi recovery from jet lag, we took a bus tour of Paris on our first full day. Partially, we had a chance to see new things, and partially our travelers had a chance to see the things they didn’t realize they had seen due to the exhaustion at the end of our Champs-Elysees walk.…
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Overcoming Air travel Difficulties To Visit France With 12 Students
Europe Trip 2016 was on! We made it to the airport and were ready to cross the ocean to see France, Switzerland, and Germany. After overcoming the types of problems that never occur to people traveling by air alone or in small groups, like Laura’s tickets not matching her passport and the people at the…
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Our Jetsetter Weekend in Barcelona
In mid-January, Laura and I left for a trip to Barcelona over a long weekend. The tour company that we use to take students abroad intended the trip as a “training tour,” but we would also be celebrating Laura’s birthday while we were there. So, on January 14th, we boarded the smallest plane in America…
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A day in Super Expensive Zurich
On August 18, we disembarked from our cruise ship and took a cab to the train station in Basel, Switzerland. The cab fare was our first clue as to how expensive Switzerland was. People had warned us of the expensiveness of Switzerland, but it is so expensive that we didn’t really grasp the expensive nature…
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Medieval Colmar and Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks
On our last day of the Rhine River Cruise, Laura and I toured the Old Town of the city of Colmar in France and the Black Forest in Germany. Colmar is a lot like Strasbourg – it was not bombed during the Second World War and features relatively intact medieval architecture. In fact, at first…