Enjoy Bardstown. Nice little town. There is a cool monastery nearby (close to the Makers Mark distillery) called the Abbey of Gethsemani, home of Thomas Merton. It’s worth a visit to hear the cloistered monks sing the psalms, if you’re into that sort of thing.
And possibly boats. We had a boat ride from Positano to Amalfi scheduled as part of our tour, but higher seas caused it to be cancelled.
Crawford Notch, Mt Washington Cog Railway
I know some places of business/ unions have these types of accounts
Praha sometime this summer. Grandparents from Plzen. Dobry Den.
Poland is one of the stops for us this Summer - Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria.
Yes, we've done the Trafalgar tours over the years. They generally hit the biggest sights of every country or city. Two years ago we did the Denmark, Norway and Sweden tour which was very cool. You are on the go nonstop (super tiring) for about three weeks, but you see and do a lot.
Lovely. You’ll have an amazing time. As for going non-stop, that’s a necessary evil.
Can’t go wrong with any of those countries. Vienna is probably my favorite city in Europe. Budapest and Prague are also great even if some of the mysterious ‘behind the iron curtain’ aspect is gone. Bavaria is a must see. Lots of interesting small tows in that region right out of a storybook. That’s a really great trip you have set up.
I've learned to build in a break day. When we were in Italy last year, we spent one day just hanging around our Agriturismo (farm stay) in Tuscany. To some extent, our travel days were break days too, when we took trains to various destinations. The Italian high-speed trains are very good. Rental cars have gotten very expensive, but you really need them to do Tuscany outside of the big cities and it gives you access to farm stays, which can be very good. One of ours was on a sheep farm where they made their own pecorino cheese. Amazing food.
Regrading "behind the iron curtain aspect" - I was hoping some of that still remained. I was in the service in Germany the late 80's when it was still East / West. We wanted to go to West Berlin, but with all the unrest at the time they frowned on service guys going (the Wall fell about six months later). We did go to Austria back then, just like stepping back into the 1950's. I guess things have modernized after 35 years.
I was in Berlin in September. My wife and I remarked on the different feel of East and West Berlin.
Yeah, Budapest and Prague have modernized some but you can still see that old charm and picture the old Iron curtain days. That’s also true in eastern Germany where you can still see bullet holes in buildings from WW2.
If you’re going to Zurich, be sure to see the Chagall Windows at the Fraumunster.
There is a area near Nordbahnhof that has a long stretch of the Wall with a guard tower as an open air museum. I did go to East Berlin in 1973 and 1978 (the latter while on Penn State's Foreign Studies program to Cologne).
