🌐 Europe Bucket List

Eastern Europe Trip

"3rd rate places" -Rick Steves 

https://blog.ricksteves.com/cameron/2020/01/third-rate-towns/

Czech Republic

Prague

Romania

Corvin Castle https://g.page/castelulcorvinilor?share

Ireland

Dublin, Sara

Scotland

Edinburgh 

England

Stonehenge, Cotswolds, Bath, and some pretty castles

Broadway Tower, England

London

Imperial war Museum

London eye

Watch a show or two at West End

Kensington park

Harry Potter tour

National Gallery

British museum

Churchhill’s war museum (haven’t been there, but hear about it)

Changing of the guard/ Buckingham

Windsor Castle 

Saint Pauls & look out on the city

Tower of London and a Beefeater tour

Parliament 

Westminster Abby

Red bus tour

Temple 

France

Normandy & countryside 

Paris: Eiffel, Louvre, Notre Dam, 

Alsace – Ribeauville, Riquewihr, Colmar, -Eguisheim; Eguishiem: beauty and the beast house and fountain. 

Colmar: old Town, saint pierre bridge, $6 river float, Fontaine Schwendi; covered market; eat Tarte Flambe (also called Flammiche), storks

-Gingerbread?

Strasbourg

Colmar 

Dordogne region near bordeoux 

Germany 

Bavaria (1 week): Black Forest, Rothenburg, Freiburg, 

-Munich: engineer museum, concentration camp

Heidelberg: bridge, old town (Alstadt) to the castle; Kormmarket to furnicular Train; Segway

Luge 5 min from Neuschuanstein

Monastery in Schauffhausem

Burg Hohenzollern, Germany

Denmark

Frederiksborg Castle 

Christus startue at evangelical Lutheran church

Switzerland

Interlaken, Zermatt, Grindelwald, Cog wheel train up, Lauterbrunnen

Innsbruck 

Interlaken: Lake Brienz boat tour, Giessbach Falls, Brienz Ballenberg open air museum

6 mile hike with view of Eiger, Moench, & Jungfrau

-Trummelbach falls

Grimmelwald

Drive the far side road of Thunersee

Broc, Switzerland callier chocolate factory 

Oversee bondensee ferry 

Bern: Medieval town center/ Old Town/Clock Tower/Berner Münster (cathedral).

Gurten (mountain, south)

Bundeshaus (Parliament building

Schadau Parl

Bear park

Granary

Temple

Austria

-Berchtesgaden

Salzburg, salt mine

Eagle’s nest & bunkers; b&b

Vienna

Hallstadt

Italy

Milan: duomo (cathedral) & square; Leonardo’s last supper (but ticket a month in advance); Lindt 

-Lake Como, Varenna (in between)

-Venice: gondola, vaporetto, opera

Tuscany: Pisa, Cinca Terra, Florence, Monterriggiorni, Sienna, Volterra

Pompeii 

Positano 

Capri

Rome: colosseum, forum, Victor Emmanuel, Lindt, opera

Vernazza (Cinque Terra)

Positano, Amalfi 

Dolomites (Austria before WWI); castelrotto/ kastelruth chairlifts; alpe di siusi

Volterraw, Tuscany (sandwich) 

Florence endwardo’s gelato by basilica 

Rome: boat ride in borghesi park above spanish steps; Nero’s golden palace tour

With full coloseum tour. Volterra, Tuscany (Etruscan); Monteriggiorni 

Greece

Santorini

-Danube; Budapest, Auschwitz

Netherlands

netherlands open-air museum in arnhem map

the hague den haag miniature city holland

Aalsmeer 

binnenhof 

Windmills: Kinderdijk, Zaanse Schans

Rotterdam engineering, down coastline in deltaworks barrier. 

Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam Museum, hiding place, Anne frank (buy tickets online), Van Gogh, Rijksmuseum (start with the Phillips wing and 17th century Dutch paintings), coco mama hostel; bike (donkey republic app), boat taxi; the Pancake Bakery (apple bacon), the Pantry, Sampurna (rice toefl)

Hotel Amsterdam de Roode leeu (loser stew)

Restaurant Tomaz in begijnnhof in Amsterdam 

Belgium 

Brussels, : Grand palace, cathedral, Palais Royal; kasteel de haar, Parc du Cinquantenaire, Parliament quarter

Bruges: Canal of Bruges, belfort tower

Morocco 

Hassan II Mosque, Casablanca 

Chellah ruins in Rabat

Riad Al Fassia Palace

Fes:

Mellah- Jewish Quarter

Chouara Tannery

The (blue) gates of Fes- Bab Boujeloud

University of al Karaouine (Qarawiyyin)

Fez Medina; Fes El Bali

Jardin Jnan Sbil

Dar Batha

The royal Palace- Dar El Makhezen 

Arms museum at Borj Nord

Al Attarine Madrasa 

Henna Souk

(Nativity costumes, shoes, trinkets, argan oil)

Barcelona (visitacity.com)

Sagrada Familia (tickets in advance: fast tack $26/ each) With tower access ($60)

Avinguda Diagonal

Casa Mila ($25.50)

-Gaudi's Casa Batlló ($29)

Gaudi house ($8)

Casa Amatllrr

Casa Lleo Morera 

Plaça de Catalunya 

Las Ramblas

La Boqueria

Columbus Monument

Palau de la Musica Catalonia

Barcelona cathedral

Magic fountains (night)

Park Guell ($12.50 or fast track tour $29)

Basilica de Santa Maria del Mar

Museu Picasso

Parc de la Ciutadella

Old Town

Hop on, Hop off bus ($35)

Flamenco show at Palecio de Flamenco ($40)

Or- Los Tarantos Flemenco 35 min ($17)

Segway ($28)

Marina Port Vell & pedestrian bridge 

Barcelona

Alhambra, Spain 

Nimes

Aquaduct

Riviera

Les Arcs

Nice, Montecarlo Palace

Old Town 

Beach at sunset 

Anita garibsldi promenade 

Nervi seafront

Boccadasse

Spianata castelletto

Circonvallazione a monte (public left from piazza Portello in the city center)

Genoa (buy spice mixes)

Drive between Monaco and Genoa/Vernazza: Dolceacqua, Apricale, Bordighera, Laiguegla, Portofiono 

Resolutions:

Photos with people/ hosts 

2 BOM

$ to musicians 

Face time boys

Backpack:

pillow case

Passports; photos

ID

Coats

Ponchos

Eye drops

Air pods

Pants

Shorts

Skirt

Shoes

Church shoes

5 garments

Mike Hat

Visor

Sunglasses

Pink Cardigan

Ski hat

Gloves

Grey light zip up

Socks (3 short & 2 tall)

Cosmetics 

G2G x3

Trail mix/ goji 

Selfie stick

Chargers 

wet wipes 

Smart Water

Sandals

Ziplock bags

Paris layover: rule of thumb 

You should have a minimum of 7 1/2 hours between flights before you venture into the city. Allow at least 3 hours for passage through immigration and security from your return to CDG and your connecting flight's departure, and that's assuming your bags are checked through to you final destination. These lines can be brutal at CDG and they don't care. That said, if you have a late afternoon or evening flight out of CDG, things get better than they are earlier in the day, but don't assume anything...allow three hours. This just means that you might not be as stressed.

That said, I would suggest that instead of the Eiffel Tower, you consider traveling to Notre Dame. Unlike the Eiffel Tower, the RER B line is direct to this part of the city, but you will have to make transfers to get to the Eiffel Tower. This link may make things a bit more clear:

http://parisbytrain.com/tag/rer-b/

Notre Dame is my favorite part of Paris. From the St. Michel/Notre Dame RER stop and depending upon how much time you have to be in city, time yourself so you have equal time to walk back to the station from wherever you might venture. Buy a round trip ticket at the CDG station so you don't waste your return time standing in line for a ticket back to CDG. Stay focused on being at the station for your return trip. After spending some time around Notre Dame, cross the Seine at Pont Neuf, round the corner at the Louvre, and head forward through the Jardin Tuileriers, Place de la Concordeand depending upon how much time your have, toward the Champs Elysees and l'Arc de Triomphe. The Eiffel Tower will rise in the distance to your left. We feel like we are in Paris when we take this walk and when we go the the Eiffel Tower, "we are at the Eiffel Tower."

Other:

Ordeur de Glance. Shelly went there

Beaulieu lord montegue estate car collection 

Grasse perfumery, Fragonard fragrance 

Eze northern monocco 

Free walking tours of cities 

Air B&B experience

Spain: 2 weeks. Do you recommend Barcelona over Madrid? We also are going to see a friend in Santandar for one week

France: Chamonix looks amazing or is there another area is Southern France you like. We may or may not make it to Paris.

Switzerland: We want to see the cute mountain towns and do some hiking. Any base area you recommend? Number of days required. Maybe 2 different bases for a few days each.

Northern Italy: I want to see the Dolomites and we want to take the kids to Venice

Austria: My son wants to see Salzburg and Vienna but Innsbruck and Hohe Tauern National Park looks gorgeous

Slovenia: Bled and Mt Triglav looks amazing but wondering about places with historic significance in Slovenia. Or could we skip Slovenia.

Croatia: Plitvice Lakes National Park and Split

Hungry: Budapest (A must)

Poland: Krakow, my boys know everything about WWII and they want to see this.

Southern Czech Republic and several small towns.

Amsterdam for a few days at the end.

Anne Frank Museum + Kids museum

• Eiffel tower, Catacombs Paris

• Loire valley castles?

• Oradour-Sur-Glane

• Germany – where? Berlin wall

• Malbork (Marienburg) Castle, near Gdansk

• at least one concentration camp (Sachsenhausen / Auschwitz- Birkenau, + Warsaw ghetto

• Krakow incl enamel factory

• the Wolf’s Lair?

• Tatras

• Prague

• Vienna

• Budapest

• north & central Romania?

• Dubrovnik, Croatia

• Montenegro

• Winter in Greece: Prespa, Vergina, Meteora, Delphi, Olympia, Monemvasia +++ can’t wait!

• Aoos gorge if weather permits (in lieu of Samaria gorge in Crete)

• boat to Italy

• Sicily?

• Perugia?, Rome, Florence, Pisa, Venice

• Nice, Arles, Avignon, Aix-en-Provence, Carcassonne etc southern France

• canoeing Pont du Gard

• San Sebastian

• Barcelona

• tomato festival, Valencia?

• Madrid, Toledo because I have never been there

• fantastic Portugal – 

Europe Itinerary 2020 with James & Daniel

Monday, May 4 - sleep in Munich

Tuesday, May 5 - Munich area

Sleep before the Tree Walk

Wednesday, May 6 - Tree Walk (Nationalparkzentrum Lusen), Czech, drive close to Salzberg

Sleep by Salzburg

Thursday, May 7 - Salzburg, Saltmines, Eagle’s Nest, Halstatt

Sleep between Berchtesgaden and Innsbruck OR maybe Halstatt

Friday, May 8 - Drive thru Innsbruck to Lauterbrunnen

Sleep in Lauterbrunnen

Saturday, May 9 - Trimbelbach falls, cog train, go to Grindelvald

Sleep in Grindelvald

Sunday, May 10 - Church in Interlaken, Drive to Colmar France

Sleep by Colmar

Monday, May 11 - See the Alzas area, drive to Eltz or Heidelburg

Sleep by Heidelburg or Eltz (still deciding)

Tuesday, May 12 - Maybe drive thru Rotenburg

Sleep by Augsburg

Wednesday, May 13 - Drop off car at 9am, Fly home

Mennlichen, iconic lookout