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Europe Trip 2015 Germany & France (but mostly France)

Here is the route we are going to take.

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We fly out of Portland and into Frankfurt.  We pickup the rental car in Kelsterbach.  From there we drive to Oberammergau.  We go see Dachau and Mad King Ludwigs castle.  Then we drive to Colmar snd stay there for 2 days.  Then we go to Montbard for a week where Bunny learns some French language.  Then to Amboise for 5 days.  Then on to Beynac for 6 days. From there we may swing down to the south of France and do a drive thru of Carcassonne and Arle before landing in Annecy for 5 days.  Then we finish off the trip in Bacharach Germany.  We will go from there back to Kelsterbach to drop off the car and fly out of Frankfurt.

Donnez-moi deux pains aux chocolats. Vite!

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So Marty and I are off to Europe! What? Again?? WHY?? Didn’t you just do this, like, last year?

Let us explain. We really weren’t going to go on a big (i.e. EXPENSIVE) trip this year. Ya gotta kinda stagger those bank-busting retirement adventures or your money will expire before you do. BUT Bunny has been interested in going to an immersion program in France for, well, decades. She found a relatively low key one in a little town outside Paris but it was booked solid this year and well into 2016. Then, about a month ago, Bunny got an email from the immersion program teacher, saying there was a cancellation. Did she want a week in early October? Bunny thought it was a sign :). Marty thought it was a sign, too – that we were going to go WAY over our vacation budget this year. (Honestly, Marty was all in, right from the start…).

So we leave Tuesday (that’s tomorrow!). We’ll have a few days in Germany before the immersion week and then another three weeks meandering around France. We hope to share our adventures – with any of you who find yourselves with time on your hands, mindlessly sitting in front of your computers – in this blog.

(BTW, the photo above is of a lovely Oregon eatery, not an authentic French boulangerie . We included it because the bakeries in France rank among the top 10 reasons we like to go there. We promise much better photos if you check back in a few days!)