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[QUOTE]Originally posted by notelvis: [QB] Well - I'm not a fan of Starbucks (the aroma in their shops gives me a headache) but I'll take one for the team and do some recon work on this in June 2014. That's correct! I melted the plastic on my AGR Credit Card just last week purchasing airline tickets from Charlotte, NC to Frankfurt. We'll be in that part of the world for 13 days. The trip will include a 2-3 day visit with my USAF Career brother-in-law but beyond that the interior planning is incomplete. We jumped on the airline tickets now because we felt like the fare available was unlikely to go any lower. My wife and daughter may spend a full week with her brother seeing cathedrals and beer halls all day while I experiment with how far I can go with my own 5 day Eurail Pass. At this stage - my wife and I have compiled a list of our TOP 3 'MUST SEES' and we'll compromise a final itinerary by March. Her 'MUST SEES' are 1) the Cathedral at Cologne, 2) Geneva, and 3) time permitting, Turin, Italy. My 'MUST SEES' are 1) the steam operated tourist railroad at Furka Pass in the Swiss Alps, 2) A concert by a world-class Austrian Brass Septet scheduled in a small Bavarian city near Munich, and 3) a visit to Hitler's 'Eagle's Nest' near Salzburg. While anything Hitler is most likely to be sacrificed, it is on my list because the villages surrounding the 'Eagle's Nest' were liberated in WWII by troops from the 101st Airborne..... the division I served with during my own Army time twenty years ago. Of course beyond the 'MUST SEES' are a collection of "Wouldn't it be nice to's.....' Those include a boat ride on the Rhine River and/or one of the many lakes in Switzerland or a visit to King Ludwig's Castle near Fussen. I can easily see a couple of 'MUST SEES' coming off simply because a 'Wouldn't it be nice' or two turns out to be much nearer to where we're at on a given part of the trip. Meanwhile - I've collected a handful of guidebooks and have become a huge fan of several websites..... most notably this one - [URL=http://www.seat61.com/]The Man in Seat 61[/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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