Dinner on the Rhine 1993
I ordered a few travel books from Amazon last night and two arrived today. One of the books is a 1994 version of the Rick Steves’ travel guide book we used in 1993; 2 to 22 Days in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Esther took a day off today and after leafing through the book, we started talking about the vacation trip back to Germany and Europe.
We figured a 3 week trip would cost about $10k;
- $2k for flights
- $2k for hotels
- $2k for food
- $2k for Car rentals / Trains
- $1k for spending money
- $1k for Gas and Gifts
This budget is very rough but probably close.
Esther said she wants to visit Holland because I talk about it all the time. She thinks Paris would be fun and Italy would be cool. She also wants to go back to Lindau on Lake Constance in Barvaria. Lindau might be her favorite German town we visited on our 1993 honeymoon trip. Esther would also like to go to London. I would also like to go back to London. I got to go to London for my job so Esther wants to do London.
We found a cool website that has a map and distance calculator between major European Cities. So we started looking at cities and a possible route based on 2 to 3 hour driving trips.
- Amsterdam / Delft
- Brussels / Bruge
- Paris / Train to London and back
- Luxembourg
- Frankfurt / Rhine
- Stuttgart / Ettal
- Munich / Lindau
- Zurich / Train to Venice and back
This might be too much for 21 days but its a good start. I am really intrigued by Venice.
Esther and I went to Germany for our honeymoon in September 1993. We are planning to return to Germany 2013 for our 20 year anniversary. This is our blog documenting our 1993 trip and the one we are planning for 2013. Right now, we are thinking about going with Esther’s sister and brother-in-law, Janice and Brad. They have never been to Europe, so it will be exciting for us to be their tour guides and introduce them to Germany, BeNeLux and maybe Switzerland and France. I would like to spend at least 3 weeks on this special vacation if not one month. I am thinking our budget will be at least $5k or more. I really don’t want to worry about money when I am there. I want this to be the trip of a lifetime.
