Germany
and the Netherlands1998
We've decided to scoot out of here for a little while,
a long needed break from landscaping and work! I decided to build our itinerary
on a web page instead of Calender Creator Plus! Consequently, it's available
for you to see and perhaps follow along as we travel from day to day.
Since I was going to build it on a web page, I thought
I would see how much of this trip I could plan, reserve and purchase on
the internet.
Well, here's the story:
- Plane tickets were purchased Online at Northwest
Airlines, although, I did have the tickets mailed to me.(Something
about having them in my hand!)
- The car was rented at National Rent A Car but had to be done by phone.
Microsoft handles the National Rent A Car OnLine Reservations and
doesn't include international rentals.
- The Hotel
Eisenhut in Rothenburg Ob der Tauber was reserved and paid for with
E-Mail correspondance.
- The Hotel
Traube in Stuttgart was reserved and paid for with E-Mail correspondance.
- The ICE (bullet train) tickets from Frankfurt to Amsterdam were purchased
online from Deutche Bahn AG.
- The Hotel
De L'Europe was reserved and paid for with a phone call, although,
I understand I could have used EasySabre.Com
- All travel info for driving was printed from the interactive maps at
Route 66 of the Netherlands
All OnLine transactions (except NorthWest) were made in Deutche, though
several sites have English equivalents.
There are several links built into this page, follow them, and then
follow your nose when you get to them. For example, there are two links
to the Hotel
De L'Europe, it's a pretty boring link by itself. BUT, once you get
to the page, if you click on each of the five links above the name and
address of the hotel, you'll find lots of neat pages about the hotel.
The Stuttgart link is a German speaking page, so I've put a program
in this web page to translate it into English. Just click on the TRANSLATE
button immediately following the link and then click on translate again
(unless you use NS 4.5) to see the page in English. (Use your back button
until you return to this page when you are done reading the translated
text)
Our plans have changed! Since we were going to Germany on
vacation, General Motors decided to have Sarah meet with the engineers
at Opel. So with 72 hours notice, we're leaving for Europe earlier than
planned!
Thursday - December 1, 1998 |
Wednesday - December 2, 1998 and
take a nap before Sarah goes to Opal for meetings at noon. |
Thursday - December 3, 1998
Drive to Rothenburg Ob
Der Tauber
We are staying at Hotel
Eisenhut for three nights. |
Friday - December 4, 1998
While there, we will certainly shop at Kathe
Wohlfahrt's store. Somebody we know has been
there before! |
Saturday - December 5, 1998
More Shoping in Rothenburg
Ob Der Tauber.
(different www site than above) |
Sunday - December 6, 1998 We'll
be staying at Hotel
Traube (a Romantik Hotel)
for three nights. |
Monday - December 7, 1998 as
well as do some shoppping at the Christmas Markets. |
Tuesday - December 8, 1998
We heard of a little town called Tubingen
and decided it was a 'must see' while we are there. It was just voted as
the best place
to live in all of Germany. |
Wednesday - December 9, 1998
It's time to move on again, this time we're taking the ICE
train from Frankfurt to Amsterdam,
in the Netherlands. There's so much to see there, that we hope to just
whet our appetite so we can return and spend a week in Amsterdam all by
itself. We're staying at the Hotel
De L'Europe, it's right downtown, we should be able to do plenty of
"window watching" while we are there. |
Thursday - December 10, 1998
More time in Amsterdam |
Friday - December 11, 1998
Jump on KLM flight 49 at 4:20 pm and get back to Detroit at 7:00pm
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