Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Our European Vacation Itinerary

Wed July 2 Depart to Zurich

Thurs July 3

Arrive Zurich
Drive Zurich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Through the Voralberg in Austria
Cable Car Up Zugspitze (if weather is good)
Dinner: Hotel on the Lake
Riessersee Renaissance Hotel #175113
http://www.riessersee.com/hotel-garmisch_e.htm

Fri July 4

Mittenwald
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Zugspitze & Wank Cable Cars
http://www.zugspitze.de/main_en.php
Dinner: Spago Partnachstraße
or
Werdenfelserhof Ludwigstrasse
or
Gasthaus Bräuwastl Zugspitzstr

Riessersee Renaissance Hotel #175113
http://www.riessersee.com/hotel-garmisch_e.htm

Sat July 5

Neuschwanstein (Enchanted Castles of King Ludwig II)
Oberammergau (Passion Play)
Wieskirche (The most beautiful rococo church on earth)
Dinner: See-Hotel on the Lake

Riessersee Renaissance Hotel

Sun July 6

Drive Garmisch – Corvara in Alte Badia, Italy 2h 42 min
Val Gardenia
Corvara
Lago Boa
Passo Armentarola
Dinner: La Perla

La Perla Hotel
http://www.hotel-laperla.it/offerte_e.htm

Mon July 7

Dolomites
Passo Falzarego
Cortina d’Ampezzo
Dinner: La Perla

La Perla Hotel

Tues July 8

Drive Corvara – Berchtesgaden 3h 41min
Drive through the Inn Valley
Obersalzberg (Hitler’s Hideout/headquarters)
Eagle’s Nest (Hitler’s retreat – captured by U.S. May, 1945)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehlsteinhaus
Dinner: Alpenhof

Alpenhof Hotel
http://www.alpenhof.de/wcms/bin/Server.dll?Article?ID=36&Session=1-PAUbM3R9-1

Wed July 9

Berchtesgaden Salt Mines
Wed Rossfeldstrasse (Road going 1500 m to mountain above Obersalzberg)
Dokumentation Obersalzberg
Hotel zum Turken (hotel seized by Nazi’s 1933, air raid shelter under hotel)
Alpenhof Hotel

Thurs July 10

Königsee
Salzburg (Mozart’s birthplace)
Dinner: Alpenhof
Alpenhof Hotel

Friday July 11

Drive Berchtesgaden – Munich 1h 30 min
Dachau Concentration Camp
Markplatz (Munich City Center)
Lunch: Hofbrauhaus
Dinner: Seehaus im Englischen Garten Kleinhesselohe

Munich Marriott
Berliner Strasse

http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/mucno-munich-marriott-hotel/

Sat July 12

Drive Munich – Heidelberg 3h 15 min
Weinstrasse Durkheim Flea Market
Lunch: Bad Durkheimer Riesenfass
Freinsheim
Dinner: Freinsheim
Restaurant Alt Friensheim, Korngasse 5
Heidelberg Marriott # 458784, 458785
Vangerowstrasse 16 011-49-6221-908 0

Sun July 13

Drive Heidelberg – Münchweiler 45 min
Weinstrasse
Sankt Martin
Lunch: Sankt Martin
Altes Rathaus
Deidesheim
Frankenstein Castle
Dinner: Hotel Klostermühle
Hotel Klostermühle
http://www.klostermuehle.com/hotel.htm

Mon July 14

The German Wine Road (deutsche Weinstrasse)
Lunch: Deidesheimerhof 06326-96870
Dinner: Hotel Klostermühle
Hotel Klostermühle

Tues July 15

Cruise up the Rhine River from Bingen to Sankt Goar
Tues Pfeddersheim (Vio’s Parents)
Visit vineyard
Worms Cathedral
Dinner: Hotel Klostermühle
Hotel Klostermühle (German only)

Wed July 16

Drive Münchweiler to Paris (Neuilly sur Seine)
Verdun
Douaumont
Fleury-devant-Douaumont
Citadel
Citadel de Verdun

Bd de la Citadelle
Reims


Paris
Eifel Tower
Seine River
Dinner : LILY DE NEUILLY
Marriott Courtyard Neuilly sur Seine
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/parcy-courtyard-paris-neuilly/

Thur July 17

Montmartre (North of Paris, Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh painted here)
Louvre
Catacombs
Dinner : Le Bistrot d'a Cote
Marriott Courtyard Neuilly sur Seine # 84541958

Fri July 18

Notre Dame Cathedral
Versailles
Châteaux along the Loire
Marriott Courtyard Neuilly sur Seine
Dinner: Le Vauban

Sat July 19

Depart Paris – Home

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