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Venice looks very Interesting

Rick Steve's Italian Cities

Since Esther and I love the water and are water babies, plus I love Amsterdam and Esther loved Lindau on our last trip, we are looking hard at Venice.  We watch a Rick Steve’s travel video last night on European cities and loved the Venice chapter.  Our boys even want to go now.  So I will be researching some more on a Venice stop on this trip.  If you have any Venice tips please comment and reply.  Thanks Steve Parker.

Esther’s First Travel Plan

Steve and Esther on the Rhine

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;

  1. $2k for flights
  2. $2k for hotels
  3. $2k for food
  4. $2k for Car rentals / Trains
  5. $1k for spending money
  6. $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.

  1. Amsterdam / Delft
  2. Brussels / Bruge
  3. Paris / Train to London and back
  4. Luxembourg
  5. Frankfurt / Rhine
  6. Stuttgart / Ettal
  7. Munich / Lindau
  8. 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.