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We often give talks entitled "Let's talk about travel in Europe," and this is a portion of the program we hand out.
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Our Travel Philosophy
• We are not campers, we travel in a Recreation Vehicle because
Our clothes are on a hanger.
There are goodies in the refrigerator.
We know who used the toilet last.
• We travel with the idea that
If we have no schedule, we aren’t late.
If we don’t care where we are, we aren’t lost.
If we have no itinerary we’re exactly where we ought to be.
If we can’t see IT this trip, we’ll see IT next time.
• When we travel
It’s amazing how many stupid, ignorant, inefficient people we meet if we are in a bad mood.
• We have published three books about our travels in Europe.
Invitation to France
Invitation to Germany
Invitation to Italy
They are available at http://www.InvitationToTravel.com
• Go to http://www.travel-tidbits.com/
and you will find a thousand (and more) Travel-Tidbits, and Photo-Tidbits that tell about our travels in Europe.
We have visited each and every place listed below.
• Favorite Ruins
Amphitheater, called The Arena, Pula, Yugoslavia
Castle, Heidelberg, Germany
Cathedral, Glastonbury, England
Cenobitic monasteries, Metéora, Greece
Coliseum, Rome, Italy
Delfi, Greece
Ephesus, Turkey
Greek Temples, Agrigento, and Paestrum, Italy
Hadrian’s Wall, England
Herculaneum, Italy
King Minos’ Palace of Knossós, Crete
le pont d’Avignon, St.-Bénézet Bridge, France
Megaliths, Carnac, France,
Parthenon, Athens, Greece
Pompeii, Italy
Pont du Gard, France
Stonehenge, England
• Roman Theaters:
Anatomy Theater, Padova, Italy
Arles, France
Fiesole, Italy
Gubbio, Italy
Nimes, France
Orange, France
Ostia, Italy
Pompeii, Italy, Teatro Grande
Pompeii, Italy, Odeum
Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, Italy
• Greek Theaters:
Athens, Herod Atticus Odeum
Athens, Theatre of Dionysos
Delfi, Greece
Dodóni, Greece
Ephesus, Turkey
Epidaurus, Greece
Siracusa, Sicily, Italy
Taormina, Sicily, Italy
• Greatest This, Greatest That: Natural Treasure
Alps, and The Matterhorn
Berchtesgaden, Obersalzberg, Germany
Chamonix, France
Fjord Coast, Norway
Grand Canyon of the Verdon, France
Plitvica National Park, Yugoslavia
Southwest Coast of Ireland
• Greatest This, Greatest That: Man-Made
Blessed Kinga Chapel, Wieliczka, Poland
Benediktinerstift Melk, Austria (Emmy's ancestor was the architect.)
Castle, Heidelberg, Germany
Cenobitic monasteries, Metéora, Greece
Charles Bridge, Prague
Châteaux du Haut-Koenigsbourg, France
Cistercian Abbey, Ebrach, Germany
Dióriga Korínthou (Corinth Canal)
Eiffel Tower, Paris
Ephesus, Turkey
French Alsace
Grand Parade, Cork, Ireland
Herculaneum, Italy
Mostar Bridge, Yugoslavia
Parliament Building, Budapest
Parthenon, Athens, Greece
St. George, and Gospa od Skrpjela, Yugoslavia
Stonehenge, England
Virgin Mary’s house, on Mount Solmissos, Ephesus, Turkey
• Roman Amphitheaters (70) We Have Visited: (15)
Germany; Trier
Yugoslavia; Pula
France; Paris, Périgueux, Arles, Nimes, Fréjus
Italy; Lecce, Lucca, Pompeii, Pouzzoles, Rome, Siracusa, Spoleto, Verona,
• European countries we have visited; (30)
Andorra 1 trip, Austria 7 trips, Belgium 7 trips, Czech Republic 3, Denmark 2, England 3, Finland 1, France 9, Germany 9, Greece 1, Hungary 1, Iceland 1, Ireland 1, Italy 8, Liechtenstein 2, Luxembourg 9, Monte Carlo 8, Netherlands 7, Norway 1, Poland 2, Portugal 1, San Marino 4, Scotland 1, Spain 2, Sweden 2, Switzerland 7, The Vatican 4, Turkey 1, Wales 1, Yugoslavia 4 times.
• Others, along with travels in Europe; (3),
Crimea 1, Morocco 1, Ukraine 1,
• Islands in the Mediterranean/Adriatic Sea; (11)
Corsica, Crete, Hvar, Korcula, Mallorca, Míkonos, Pátmos, Rhodes, Santoríni, Sardinia, Sicily
• We’ve been to these European towns and cities (among thousands of others):
Amsterdam 4 trips, Antwerp 2 trips, Assisi 3, Athens 1, Auschwitz 1, Bamberg 3, Barcelona 1, Bellagio 1, Berlin 3, Bern 4, Bonifacio 1, Bonn 5, Brugge 4, Brussels 5, Budapest 1, Caernarfon 1, Cagliari 1, Carcassonne 4, Copenhagen 2, Dachau 2, Dresden 2, Dublin 1, Dubrovnik 3, Edinburgh 1, Ephesus 1, Florence 5, Frankfurt 9, Geneva 2, Genoa 5, Glasgow 1, Hamburg 2, Heidelberg 9, Helsinki 1, Herakleion 1, Istanbul 1, Lisbon 1, Ljubljana 2, London 3, Lourdes 2, Luxembourg 5, Madrid 1, Melk 2, Milano 4, Munich 4, Nürnberg 3, Oberammergau 1, Odessa 1, Oslo 1, Palermo 1, Palma 1, Paris 9, Pátmos 1, Pisa 3, Pompeii 3, Prague 3, Reykjavik 1, Rhodes 1, Rome 4, Rotterdam 4, Santoríni 1, Strasbourg 7, Stratford-upon-Avon 1, Stockholm 2, Tanger 1, Trier 9, Vatican 4, Venice 7, Versailles 4, Vienna 2, Warsaw 2, Yalta 1, Zagreb 2.
• From my chair in my den I can see Collectibles from
England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, (and more!)
• And from Pacific Islands: Majuro, Ponape, Saipan
• European Cathedrals (churches) we have visited: (151)
Aachen, Amberg, Amiens, Angers, Angoulęme, Antwerp, Assisi, Auch, Auxerre, Avignon, Avon, Avranches, Bamberg, Barcelona, Basel, Bath, Bautzen, Bayonne, Beaugency, Berlin, Beziers, Bologna, Bonn, Boulogne, Bourges, Bremen, Brugge, Brussels, Caen, Carcassonne, Châlons, Chartres, Châteaudun, Chester, Clemont-Ferrand, Comburg, Coutances, Coventry, Dresden, Dublin, Ebrach, Esslingen, Fecamp, Ferrara, Fiesole, Florence, Fougéres, Frankfurt, Freiberg, Freiburg, Fribourg, Glastonbury, Gdansk, Geneva, Ghent, Glasgow, Grasse, Halle, Hamburg, Hildesheim, Jumiéges, Köln, Konstanz, Korcula, Kraków, Landivisiau, Lausanne, Le Mans, Leipzig, Limburg, Loches, London, Lourdes, Lübeck, Lucca, Luxembourg, Mantes, Maria Laach, Melk, Mettlach, Metz, Milano, Modena, Mont St. Michel, Monte Cassino, Montefiascone, Moret, Mulhouse, Munich, Münster, Nantes, Naumburg, Nördlingen, Nürnberg, Oliwa, Oria, Orleans, Orvieto, Paderborn, Padova, Palma, Paris, Parma, Passau, Perigueux, Perouges, Perugia, Pisa, Poznan, Prague, Provins, Quimper, Regensburg, Rheims, Ripon, Rouen, Sacra di San Michele, Salisbury, Salzburg, San Gimignano, San Leo, Sarlat, Senlis, Sens, Seville, Siena, Soissons, Speyer, Spoleto, St. Denis, St. Lazir, St. David, St. Lo, St. Malo, Strasbourg, Toledo, Torino, Toul, Trier, Trondheim, Udine, Ulm, Utrecht, Venice, Vienna, Wells, Wetzlar, Wieliczka, Worms, York, Zagreb,
• Most important to us, and the most interesting, are:
The people
Architecture and antiquities
Geography
• We have sailed on ferries or ships over 75 times in 17 Countries,
Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Wales, Yugoslavia (World wide we have “touched” 124 ports on 5 Continents.)
• European Trips in Rec. Vehicles---------------------Camp nites.---Countries
1970 — VW Van,-------------------28 days,-----4,500 mi.---19-------10
1979 — Dodge Cobra RV,---------96 days,----10,900 mi.---56-------16
1980 — Dodge Cobra RV,--------171 days,----17,500 mi.-123-------17
1983 — Dodge Transvan,----------87 days,-----8,000 mi.-- 50--------9
1985 — Dodge Transvan,---------156 days,----16,400 mi.-102-------17
1988 — Renault,-------------------130 days,-----8,400 mi.---70--------8
1989 — Renault,-------------------115 days,-----8,700 mi.---77-------10
1991 — Peugeot,--------------------78 days,-----6,800 mi.---53--------6
1995 — Fiat,------------------------107 days,-----5,300 mi.---55--------8
Totals-------------------------------968 days,-----86,500 mi.--605
• For us the RV means:
Stove — Our cook was the best in Europe
Refrigerator for food and goodies
Our own Beds, Pillows, Blankets
Chemical toilet, we know it’s clean, and we know where it is.
Shower, hot water, our own soap and shampoo
Clothes on hangers
Storage for all we buy
Costs that we can afford
Convenience beyond your wildest imagination
• The RV and a campsite make a convenient, quiet, comfortable place to spend the night so we are rested and ready to sightsee again in the morning. In travel, as in life — different strokes for different folks.
• We don’t say our way is the only, the best, or even an acceptable way to travel, for anyone but us. The camping is not important, the sightseeing is.
• Reservations for nightly accommodations are never made, and when we leave a campsite in the morning, we often have no idea which country we will be in by evening. But we do know it will be a delightful day.
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