Less than 2 months to go!!!
We leave Eugene on May 22nd. From May 22nd - 25th Starting out in old Historic Boston to visit Amanda. Staying at Jury's Boston near Copley Place and about 5 blocks to Boston Common and downtown Boston.
This hotel used to be the Boston Police headquarters.
Then on to Rome on the Red Eye - we get into Rome at 7:50 in the am!! Hopefully we can sleep on the plane. We are staying at the Beldes Guest House near the Vatican. Note the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in the background. The picture is of the rooftop bar!!
After 3 nights in Rome, we will take the train to Milan through Florence and on to Varenna on Lake Como. We will stay on Lake Como 4 nights and might take a day trip to St. Moritz, Switzerland. We will be staying at Albergo Milano in Varenna. Very Peaceful!!
After 4 nights in Varenna we will fly from Milan to Paris for 1 night at the Eiffel Kennedy hotel so that we can atttend the quarter finals of the French Open.
After the French Open, we will rent a car in Paris and drive to the Loire Valley to the city of Amboise on the Loire River. We will stay at the Le Manoir les Minimes - shown below. We would like to stay here for 3 nights but it was only available for 2 so we will head north to Normandy from here.
We are not sure if we will go to Mont St Michel or right to Bayeaux on June 5th. Whatever we decide, we will go through LeMans so that Dan can drive part of the LeMans track.
We will definitely be in Bayeaux (1st city liberated by the US on D-day) on June 6th for the 65th anniversary of D-day. We found a very nice B&B right in the center of the city.
Hôtel La Tour du Pin.They will be having a parade and a dance the day we arrive. We will spend 3 nights in Bayeaux, doing day trips to the D-day beaches, the memorials, cemetaries, etc. We would also like to go to the city of
Honfleur, which is on the English Channel about 4o miles from Bayeaux. See picture below!
After our time in Normandy we will travel back to Paris for 4 nights. We rented a studio apartment 2 blocks from the Seine and the Pont Neuf in the Latin Quarter. I wanted to be able to cook and not have to deal with the rude Parisian waiters very often!!
The apartment sits above a Chocolatier on Rue Dauphine and is in a 15th century building. Note the stone walls. I am really looking forward to this destination!!
June 13th we will take the train to Calais and ferry across the English channel to Dover for a 1 night stay at the Loddington House hotel which sits under the white cliffs of Dover!
June 14th we will take the train into London to Charring Cross station and then the tube across the Thames to Plaza on the River. We are spending our last nights in Europe by splurging for a 1 bedroom apartment right "on the river Thames". We are hoping for the view below but we will see what we get a view of - the building is trianglular shaped so 1/2 the views are of Westminster and the other half are of Kensington. But, we won't be spending very much time in our room anyway!!
June 17th we will head back to Boston, have lunch with Amanda and fly back to Eugene. Exhausted, I am sure.
Keep checking back for all the details as we travel across Italy, Switzerland, France and England!!
