Deutschland 2008: Travel Notes

Couple of notes on the trip planning so far...proposed itinerary:

Milan - Zurich - Lindau - München - Nürnberg - Rothenberg ob der Tauber - Stuttgart - Bad Wimpfen? - Amsterdam

Sounds like a lot and we'll have to really scrub it down if needed...Rothenberg might drop off the list if the hotel situation isn't the best...or it might be a stop-over on the way to Stuttgart.

When you think about it, our last trip was just as aggressive.

Stuttgart - München - Freising - Oberammergau - Lindau - Baden-Baden - Oberwesel - Berlin - Düsseldorf

But our CTQs are at least 2 days in Stuttgart and 2 days in München. We might even move that to 3, we liked München so much and really missed a lot of things on the menu.

1: Flying
2: Milan - tour - sleep in Milan
3: Train to Zurich (3.5 hours) - tour Zurich - sleep in Zurich
4: Train to Stuttgart (2:45 hours) - sleep in Stuttgart
5: Tour Stuttgart - sleep in Stuttgart
6: Train to Lindau (2:45 hours) - sleep in Lindau
7: Train to München (2:42 hours) - sleep in München
(Note: This train is ALX or the Allgau Express a direct to München!)
8: Tour München - sleep in München
9: Train to Nürnberg (78 minutes) - sleep in Nürnberg
10: Train to Rothenberg (1:30 hours) - tour Rothenberg - sleep in Rothenberg
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13: Tour Amsterdam - sleep in Amsterdam
14: Fly out of Amsterdam

Hmmm this is working out pretty well and actually is opening up more days. In 2006, we ended up driving for several hours per day...but using the trains will get us from point-to-point faster, although we will have to make up spontaneity in other ways. :)

OK, more to come later.

Tschüß!!