The River Queen: A regal, art deco boutique cruise ship (recently rated #1 ship in the entire cruise industry in the 2012 Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Cruise Poll)
This October, actually late September we are off for Europe with friends Shoe and Carol. The trip and itinerary is pretty much complete, at leas the big decisions. Â Of course there will be minor changes along the way but we now have a good idea as to there we will be when.
Pat and I will depart the USA  on or about September 28, 2013 via Space-A, Shoe and Carol will be using commercial air.Our plan is to meet up in Amsterdam, Netherlands on October 1 at the Bellevue Hotel. We board the River Queen on October 3, 2013
The basic trip comes together as follows:
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We arrive in Basal Switzerland (10/15) and pick up a car and head east towards Zurich and possibly Lugano, (Hotel TBD) then on to Vaduz in Liechtenstein to the hotel Landhaus am Giessen (10/16-17), where we spend our second night off the boat.  The next day we tour the city of Vaduz then head for Royal Castles Neuschwanstein where we spend the night at the Hotel Müller Hohenschwangau (10/17-18).  Our next stop Augsburg and the Hotel Villa Arborea (10/18-19). Note: We may do a side trip to Munich.
Our next stop is a apartment in the Black Forest area for a week that we will use as a home base in Germany.  We arrive on 10/19-10/26 at the Apartment in Zell am Harmersbach.  On Saturday we board a train to Paris for a week in Paris at the Marais Style apartment (10/26-11/2).  Shoe and Carl head back to the USA and Pat and I hang around for a couple more days hoping to arrive state-side on November 6th.
Be sure to check in with this BLOG beginning October 1, 2013….
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