MAY
10-12 : |
CASTLES
OF THE RHINE AND MOSEL AND BEYOND |
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10
– |
Arrive
Frankfurt 2:30.p.m. British Airways – Overnight in Beilstein |
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Frankfurt
to Beilstein 142 km (1 hr 41 min) |
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Hotel
Hans Lipmann (KB) |
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11
– |
Beilstein
to Luxembourg – Overnight in Luxembourg |
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Beilstein
to Luxembourg 133 km (1 hr. 23 min.) |
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Include
Zell, Cochem, Trier,Burg Eltz |
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12
– |
Luxembourg |
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MAY
13 -16: |
BLACK
FOREST ( Plus short side trip to Suhr, Switzerland) |
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13
– |
Luxembourg
to Baden Baden – overnight Baden Baden |
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Lux.
To BB : 258 km (2hrs, 22 min.) |
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Hotel
Am Market, Belle Epoque, or *Romantik Hotel der Kleine Prince |
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New Opera
House |
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Alternate
overnight in Freiberg, Freudenstadt, Triberg |
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14
– |
Baden
Baden |
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15
– |
Baden
Baden to SUHR, Switzerland – overnight Suhr |
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BB to
SUHR: 235 km ( 2hrs. 16 min.) |
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Via Basel |
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16
– |
SUHR |
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MAY
17-20: |
BAVARIA |
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17
– |
Suhr
to Schonau am Konigssee (near Berchtesgaden) –overnight
SaK |
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Suhr
to SaK: 476 km (5hr 18 min) |
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Hotel
Alpenhotel Zechmeister Lehen KB |
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18
– |
Schonau
am Konigssee - overnight |
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Visit
Berchtesgarden and environs |
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19
– |
Berchtesgaden
to Bad Aibling (Munich) –overnight BadAibling |
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B to
BA: 109 km (1 hour 10 minutes) |
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Bad Aibling
is 62 SE of Munich |
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Augsberg,
Nurnberg, Dachau,& Waldsasssen Library |
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Romantik
Hotel Lindner |
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20
– |
Munich |
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21
– |
Munich
to Dresden – overnight Dresden |
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M to
D: 470 km (4 hr. 26 min) |
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Hotel
Bulow Residenz KBp.159 |
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MAY
22-24: |
BRANDENBURG
AND SAXONY |
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22
– |
Dresden
to Berlin – overnight Berlin |
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DtoB:
193 km (2 hrs. 20 min) |
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Hotel
Residenz or Brandenburger Hof Berlin |
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Visit
Wittenburg and MeiBen |
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23
– |
Berlin |
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24
– |
Berlin
to Potsdam – Overnight Potsdam |
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B to
P: 43 km ( 50 minutes) |
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****Schlosshotel
Cecilienof –site of Potsdam Conference1945 |
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MAY
25-30: |
LAND
BETWEEN THE SEAS |
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25
– |
Potsdam
to Rostock – Overnight Rostock |
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P to
R: 226 km (2 hr 11 min) |
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18 km
west of Rostock: Hotel Freidrich franz Palais KB |
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26
– |
Rostock
to Lubeck – overnight in Lubeck or Travemunde |
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R to
L: 120 km (1 hr. 23 minutes) |
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Hotel
Jensen or onto Travemunde resort |
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27
– |
Lubeck
to Sylt (Westerland) – overnight Westerland |
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L to
S: 197 km (3 hr 23 min.) |
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Leave
early in order to get to car ferry |
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Hotel
Stadt Hamburg or Restaurant Jorge(rooms,too) |
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28
– |
Sylt
(may look at hotel in Benen Diken Hoff in Keitum |
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29
– |
Sylt
to Hamburg – Overnight Hamburg |
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S to
H: 197 km (3 hr 8 min) |
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Hotel
Prem on the so. Shore of AlsterLake in town – take day
ferry tour |
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INTO
THE NETHERLANDS |
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30
– - |
Hamburg
to Groningen |
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Hamburg
to Groningen – overnight Groningen |
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H to
G: 298 km (2 hr 37 min) |
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31
– |
Groningen
to Goslar |
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G to
G: 350 km (350 km (3 hr 25 min) |
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Hotel:
Hotel Kaiser worth |
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BACK
INTO GERMANY |
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Braunschweig-Call
Henning Ulrich |
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JUNE
1 – 4: |
MIDDLE
GERMANY AND HIGHLIGHTS OF THE HARZ MTS. |
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AND PARTS
OF ROMANTIC ROAD AND NECKAR VALLEY** |
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1
– |
Goslar
to Quedlinburg – overnight Quedlinburg |
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G to
Q: 86 km ( 1 hr 5 min) |
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Romantik
Hotel Am Bruhl KB p.228 |
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Include
Wernigerode-train ride, Halberstadt,Brocken,Osterude,Clausthal,
Eisleben, Magdeberg |
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2
– |
Quedlinburg |
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3
– |
Quedlinburg
to Eisenach – overnight Eisenach |
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Q to
E: 144 km (2 hrs. 30 min.) |
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Hotel
Auf Der Wartburg |
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Will
visit Weimar and Buchenwald, Kassel, Bad Hersfeld |
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4
– |
Eisenach
to Rothenburg – Overnight Rothenburg |
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E to
R: 226 km (2 hr 24min) |
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Route:
To Wurzburg, Bad Mergenthem,Weikersheim,Creglingen,to R. |
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From
Wurzburg , part of Romantik Road |
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5
– |
Rothenburg
to Frankfurt – Overnight Frankfurt |
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Rothenburg
to Heidelberg to Frankfurt |
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T to
H:165km (1hr 32 min) : H to Frank; 90km (1 hr. 01 min) |
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Total
km Rothenberg to Frankfurt: 215 km ( 2 hr 33 min.)l |
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R to
Neuenstadt, Bad Wimpen to Heidelberg (Romantik Road) |
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May include
visit in Heidelberg if Maria & Tom Noor are there |
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IF near
Schloss Guttenberg at 3 p.m. Eagle’s Fllight |
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6
– |
Fly home
via Frankfkurt-London-USA: 7:00 a.m. |
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Minimum
total kilometers to drive: 3218
Minimum total miles to drive: 1995
Most of Germany is nine hours ahead of Pacific Daylight time
in USA
Original purpose of the trip: to drive the A-2 highway, listed
in a Times article as one of the ten most beautiful drives
in the world. We have done the other nine over the past few
years. At the end of our trip to Germany, we will have driven
all ten! |
