Jed has to go to Switzerland for some business and so put on his facebook status to see if anyone wanted to join him and I emailed him to find out when he was going and get the details and so here we go!!! It always makes me a little nervous to go on such big traveling trips, but how often does an opportunity like this come along??? And with people that are willing and ready to commit to actually going?? And can afford it, and our work schedules allow it, and the price isn't too hard to swallow, and you want to go to the same places, and I could name off a whole list of stars that have to align for it to actually happen. Thankfully I had already started saving for my mountain bike that I wanted to buy this spring, but the mountain bike will have to wait a little longer.... but not too much longer since we all have the tax rebate coming this year!! Woo hoo for the government's economic stimulus plan!
Anyway, our tentative plan is to do this:
- Fly into Zurich, Switzerland and romp around the town for a good portion of the day and then rent a car and drive to Bern, Switzerland
- Jed will do his business in Bern and then we'll do some stuff there.
- Catch a train the next day to Salzburg, Austria and check out the home of the Sound of Music - I have been dreaming of doing this for years!!
- Catch another train to Venice, Italy and spend some time there checking out the Grand Canal and everything else that Venice is famous for
- Catch another train to Rome, Italy and see the Vatican City and Colosseum...
Zurich, Switzerland 
Bern, Switzerland
Salzburg, Austria
Venice, Italy 
Rome, Italy
8 comments:
you sure are traveling a lot these days! europe would be awesome!
OH MY GOODNESS - I'm so darn jealous. you had better post TONS of photos upon your return - and send me a post card - seriously, the shopping ALONE makes me drool.
I am so jealous! I haven't ever been able to travel outside the U.S and I would love to go to these kind of places. I'll be so anxious to see your photos when you return.
Like I said, thats fantastic! I love you Jess! :)
I'm fuji green with envy! Congratulations.
you are going to europe with a boy! hooray :)
Ha ha, in my reply to your email I asked where you were going. Here is a list!
While Prague is one of my favorite places that I've visited, it doesn't sound like you have time to fit it in. It's a 5 or 6 hour train ride from Salzburg, I believe. Definitely add Hallstatt though. It's way closer, lovely and inexpensive.
I always love to discuss European travel with anyone, but we only spent a few hours in Bern and Salzburg...so I'm not really of any help there. My husband has marked quite a few things in GoogleEarth though. You can get the files on his website www.exploreglobe.net.
Are you getting a Eurail pass? That made travel easy for us, but we rode a train almost everyday. I'd also suggest packing light because it's a pain to haul a lot of stuff around when you don't have a car. Ty and I did 10 days with one backpack each.
Anyway, good luck!
What! Amazing, Jess. Jealous is a word that comes to mind. Yeah, I may need to go repent now, or something. I'm so excited for you.
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