City and Itinerary Information
Please check often as this is the page I use to update information!!!
Karin and I are setting up pages for you for every city and some of the sights we will visit. So this page will concentrate on the timetable and arrangements for the all of us.
To see options and other information we have for you please click on the blue “city” page link.
We have started with the first place we visit and work our way down.
All information on these city pages is collected to make it easier for you and should be accurate to the best of our knowledge
(There are no guarantees and it is up to you to double check!)
General reflections and Karin and my humble opinion. Click here.
| City | City names in red reflect cities where we spend the night. City pages with all the information we have and a list of what are considered the top sights, is already started and will be implemented with more information as we come across it.To go there click on the links in blue in the city column or in the field to the right of the date. |
Reminders for Rudy |
| Sat – Sep 8 | Berlin | |
| Berlin | Looks like everyone, right now, is arriving in Berlin on the same plane at 8:20 AM from Amsterdam. I ordered a 30 seat bus, which will stop at the hotel to drop off our luggage and afterwards take us down to the Alexanderplatz, where all the Hop on Hop off Buses are leaving from.
Hotel: Wyndham Garden Berlin Mitte Osloer Strasse 116A Berlin |
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| Sun – Sep 9 | Dresden | |
| Dresden | The bus will leave at 9 AM to drive us to Dresden. We can drop of our luggage when we get there and do some serious sight seeing.
Hotel: Holiday Inn Express Dresden City Centre Dr.-Kuelz-Ring 15a, Dresden, DE, 01067 +49 351 8967889 |
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| Mon – Sep 10 | Seiffen, Prague | |
| Seiffen | With an 8 AM departure from the hotel in Dresden, we are on our way to the wood carving village of Seiffen. The “Made in the Erzgebirge” Christmas pyramids, smoky figurines and carved angels made this place famous. We will stop in at a demonstration workshop to see how some of it is made. We will leave Seiffen at 3 PM for the about 2 hour drive to the hotel in Prague. | |
| Tue – Sep 11 | Prague | |
| Prague | Arriving in Prague in the early evening on Monday, there is still time to explore the area around our hotel.
Hotel: Clarion Prague Old Town Hradební 768/9 The bus will leave on Tuesday at 4 PM sharp. According to the hotel, the bus can bring us to the hotel and pick us up from there. |
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| Schoenwald, Bavaria | Hotel: Gasthof Turm Grünhaid 4 95173 Schönwald Phone: +49.9287.50364 Why Schoenwald: This trip was originally brought up at an after “work” drink at Geier’s Sausage Kitchen Oktoberfest in Sarasota, Florida 4 years ago and involved 7 of us agreeing that we should do this. 3 of the participants were born in this region, 2 in Schoenwald and 1 in the nearby Selb. The bus company’s home base is in the next town over, in Rehau. As a part of this was to introduce to the other 4 friends of the group to our region in the true center of Europe, I selected the hotel that was used by members of our family if there were too many at a family gathering to sleep at the house. The hotel is also only a 1 minute drive away from the Autobahn, with quick access to the whole region. Here is a link to the hotel’s website (German language only). As this is the hometown of Gisa Geier (my sister) and myself, I worked out some history on the page for our house, which we rent out for vacations. Click here. |
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| Wed – Sep 12 |
Rothenburg ob der Tauber | 8-22 |
| Rothenburg ob der Tauber | Leaving the Hotel at 8:30 AM. Arriving before lunch you will have all afternoon to explore the city. Crawl around the city fortifications which still surround this town and see the sights, some of which go back more than a millennium. If you did not spend all your money in Seiffen, you can spent it here at Kaethe Wohlfahrt (they can even ship it, for the cost of mailing, home for you). Leaving at 5.30 PM to drive to a Gasthaus nearby for dinner, before we drive back to the hotel. | |
| Thu – Sep 13 | Moedlareuth, Bamberg, Forchheim | 8.30-22.30 |
| Moedlareuth | Leaving the Hotel at 8.30 AM. We will have a short stop over here on our way to Bamberg. Called Little Berlin by our GI’s, it is a remnant of the Cold War. Moedlareuth page click here. |
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| Bamberg | You will have about 5 hours to explore this UNESCO town before we board the bus at 4:30 PM. | |
| Forchheim | Here we hope to enjoy a 1½ hour guided tour of the Kellerwald scheduled for 5 PM and a Franconian Brotzeit (for my definition click here) afterwards (Brotzeit included in the price) on one of the “Keller”, they definitely will have beer and, yes, there will also be wine. We have to leave the Kellers at about 8 PM. |
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| Fri – Sep 14 | Nuremberg | 9-21 |
| Nuremberg | We are leaving the hotel at 9 AM on our way to Nuremberg. The bus will let us off at the tower gate by the Handwerkermarkt, most of the old town is a pedestrian zone. We are there during the Old Town Festival. Our bus will pick us back up at 7 PM sharp from the location where we got off. Remember, this is the pickup stop for all the buses and it is for loading and unloading only. If you are not in time, the train station is right across the street!!! | |
| Sat – Sep 15 | Regensburg | 8.30 |
| Regensburg | Departing the hotel at 8:30 AM our first stop will be in the UNESCO town of Regensburg and we will have time until 4 PM before we leave for the about 3 hour trip to the hotel in Salzburg, Austria where we will spend 4 nights. | |
| Sun – Sep 16 | Herrenchiemsee, Schloss Hellbrunn | 8.30 |
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| Mon – Sep 17 | Berchtesgaden | |
| Berchtesgaden | Hotel: Holiday Inn City Sterneckstr. 21, 5020 Salzburg, Austria Phone: +43 662 870408 We have reservations for the Salt Mines and the bus to the Eagle’s Nest today. |
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| Tue – Sep 18 | Salzburg Day is open for your exploration. |
8.30 |
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| Wed – Sep 19 | Neuschwanstein, Garmisch-Partenkirchen |
5.3 8.00 1hrtoMUC |
| Schwangau | The day will start with a 7:30 AM departure from Salzburg. Our first stop will be the gardens of Schloss Linderhof On to Schwangau which is situated between Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein. Hohenschwangau is King Ludwig’s family castle and on the mountain across is Ludwig’s fairy tale castle of Neuschwanstein. Neuschwanstein is one of the major tourist locations, we need reservations to get in, there is a scheduling problem, as you have to be there at least 1½ before your scheduled time on the ticket, which would cut down the time we have to spend in Garmisch Partenkirchen to less than 3 hours. If the weather is nice, I still would like to take their bus up to the Mary’s Bridge to have a view of the castle from above. |
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| Garmisch-Partenkirchen | We should have most of the afternoon exploring this charming Alpine Town. Back at the bus at 6PM as we have reservation at the nearby Gasthof Pflegersee for our somewhat official good bye dinner, before we drive to the Hotel in Munich. | |
| Thu – Sep 20 | Munich | |
| Munich | Hotel: Best Western Atrium Landwehrstrasse 59, Muenchen
Phone: +49 89 514190
Day is open for your exploration.
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| Dachau | In the morning at 8:30 AM, the bus can take those of you interested in a visit to the Dachau concentration camp. (No longer than 4 hours). | |
| Fri – Sep 21 | It is time to say “Auf Wiederseh’n”. For those of you who need to get to the airport, if you need help to get a transfer Karin and I are there for you. | |
| King Ludwig | Here is a Wikipedia link about the King that almost bankrupted Bavaria, but his palaces and castle are now one of the biggest money makers for the Bavarian government. |
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