tell me about your next trip

Going far from Europe to warm weather destinations:
Trinidad and Tobago, Panama, and El Salvador in a couple of weeks.

Cuba in January. England and France in May.

PS After we return to Miami from Cuba, will try to catch a last minute deal on a cruise from Ft. Lauderdale. Have done that in the past.

Germany, Switzerland, and Paris in June

Transatlantic cruise to Rome in April, followed by 3 weeks in Sicily.

The Picasso Museum in Paris is now reopened and twice as large. You won't want to miss that.

We are headed for Spain next year, three full weeks. It's all planned out. We write our own guide books and print them using CreateSpace.

Next trip will be to Great Britain, hopefully 2015 but possibly delayed until 2016, either mid-May into June or mid-August into Sept. Not sure how long (probably 4-6 weeks) but want to get to Channel Islands, Wales, Isle of Man, Outer Hebrides and a little bit of Northern England. I'd like to do it all in one to save an international airfare but may end up breaking into two. Enjoying the planning stage right now.

Enjoy your trip to London and Paris!

Arizona in March. Preliminary in May and June: Prague, castle Karlstejn, castle Loket (future and less disneyfied Cesky Krumlov), Brno, Ostrava, Warsaw, castle Malbork, Gdansk, Sopot, Zakopane, highlights of Slovakia.

Off to London England for Christmas (our daughter lives there) with a 4 day trip to the Cotswolds. In March we are heading to Turkey for a month long visit to explore the culture and sites and walk parts of the Lycian Way. Happy travels to all.

Next September, taking my Mom back to Italy. She'll be 81, and wants to see Lake Como and Venice again. First three nights in Varenna to relax and recover from jet-lag, then off to Venice. Just plan on wandering, getting lost, and eating well.

I heard a rumor that we were going to Kauai this summer for a wedding. Thinking about three weeks June 2016-Netherlands-Belgium-Northern France/D-Day beaches, ending up-as luck might have it-in Paris!

@ sanderskn,

So far for 2015 and this is tentative

Lisbon > Madrid > Malta > Rome & South of Rome > Berlin

happy trails.

Amsterdam, Paris and Italy in May. Still agonizing over itinerary and logistics. Balancing the desire to book everything early for best fares, and peace of mind yet still wanting to keep flexible knowing how things can change. At least the airfare is locked in so we are committed to going back after three years when we vowed to go back the next year. Took awhile to build up the miles because the wife won't make the flight from California unless it's business class.

I'm very excited to be going back to Italy next year for the first time in 20 years! Rome and areas south of Rome.

New Zealand for three weeks, after Christmas.

wish I could respond to everyone directly. Thanks for all of your replies. I've had fun reading them! Have fun on all your trips.

@Leigh - how wonderful to go back to Italy again! I haven't been there at all, hoping to go in a few years.

@Rosemary: I would love to spend Christmas in London! Merry Christmas!

@Eric: how nice of you to take your mom to Italy. I'm sure you will both have a great time.

We will be spending a month in Italy next fall. Half will be on our own, primarily staying in agriturismi in Tuscany and Umbria, with three days in Venice snuck in, and then the last two weeks on the RS Village Italy trip. We have seen Rome, Milan, Florence and Siena in the past and have also spent time in Cinque Terre, so plan to spend more time in rural Italy this go round. Am polishing up my Italian language skills on Duolingo.com.

Should be biking with my Jack Russell, Thor, from Vienna up the Danube and through part of Germany. From there across the Alps (some train time, but not much) and into Sudtirol. Had a chance to investigate the wunderbar bike paths with Thor this last September when we were there.

@Alex: I would love to be able to do that with my dog! I have a pug. I also grew up in CO.

I'm taking the Best of Europe Tour in May, so Holland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and France with an extra half week in both Amsterdam (pre) and Paris (post) followed by a week in Scotland. I'm so excited!

Happy Travels Everybody!

We take inexpensive cruises in the Fall, and just returned from Aruba/Curacao/Turks & Caicos.

Because Europe's flights (for the most part) are going to be expensive this year, we're flying to Las Vegas for 3 days, then non-stop to Honolulu for a week and flying back thru San Francisco for 5 days. Booking individual flight legs on budget carriers was almost $100 cheaper than just flying non-stop with one of the major air carriers.

Great topic! March: 1 week visiting a freind near Houston. Mid October, a RS Spain tour, 14 days Best of Spain!

For 2015 I'm going to India in January and Hawaii in October. 2016 will probably be France.

@sanderskn,
Love traveling with my Jack, Thor. We have been 3 times with him to Europe. PM me if you want info on going with your buddy. You can check out his travels at: http://travelswiththor.com

53 days to go . . . Venice for the start of Carnevale, then Spain for 3 weeks, mostly Andalusia but also Barcelona for the first time. I signed up for the RS MyWay Alpine tour in June, and I'll tack on a weekend in Vienna before, and about 2 weeks after, split between Alsace and Paris. Yes, it is my favorite city in the world too. I've been to London several times and always enjoy it tremendously. Great combination, great way to celebrate.

Just an idea right now, but maybe Portland, then the Bay Area in September.

Plan had been to go back to France for a few weeks in May, but then I was lucky enough to snag tickets to a U2 concert in NY in July (I've been wanting to return to NYC so bad!). So, NYC for 5 or 6 nights in July, and most likely will do France in mid-Sept. Probably concentrating on the South - hubby wants to go back to the Cote D'Azur and Provence area...I'd love to drive from the bottom to the top and see Mont St Michel again, but realistically, I know that we'd be rushing too much to do all that.

We are booked on a 9-nt Southern Caribbean cruise in Feb with two other couples. By then we will really need a break from winter.

Hopefully we get back to Europe in September but we have to wait to see how DH's work situation goes in the new year. I am cautiously optimistic.

I have also been hearing that some of the North American Liverpool FC fan clubs are trying to put together a fan convention this summer; if it comes off we are definitely going, no matter what. We are hearing possibilities of Florida, Chicago or Vegas for that. Chicago would be great because we can drive.

All in all I guess I was smart to carry over five vacation days into the next year!

We are going to Paris, London, and then ? this summer with our son and his family. All of us have been before except for one granddaughter who will be 10. All together we'll be gone for 4+ weeks. We're still planning our last week when they'll be in at a Scottish fiddle camp and we will travel somewhere else. Love Skyscanner for planning the London to Everywhere part of our final free week. The possibilities are endless. We have our flight tickets for 6, we're watching dates carefully to book other ground transportation and we have house exchanges arranged for Paris and London. Very excited to finally be able to take family with us again.

I'm splitting up with my wife so it looks like the next trip is a biking trip in France with a friend who is also a Lt. Colonel in the Air National Guard.

The idea that's looking good is to go in September. Start in Paris, train to Rouen, rent car, drive to Honfleur, Bayeaux, Mont st. Michel, and Saint Nazaire. Drop the car, rent bikes and ride roughly along the Loire to Nantes, Angers, Tours, Blois and Orleans with some detours for great sights. Turn in the bikes and train back to Paris.

I'd like to explore the Dordogne area but this route seems to make perfect sense because my friend will want to see some of the military sights in Normandie and the route is convenient to Paris.

My mouth is watering over some of these trips! Next October I'm planning to go to Amsterdam, Germany to visit a friend, Wales for a couple days, and finally London to visit another friend. So many places in the world to see, so little money!

Road trip to San Diego right after Christmas. Next will be Greece in April, on a tour (alas, not RS tour): Nafplion, Corinth, Delphi, Athens, Crete, and then (leaving the tour) either more Crete or Rhodes before flying home. My wife lived in Greece 47 years ago and is telling me all about it. I'm trying to learn the Greek alphabet so I can at least try to understand signs, menus and such.

Have a wonderful trip next June, sanderskin!

Andalucia in April!

Fantastic topic! I love to hear everyone's great ideas. It keeps me adding to my future trip list. We're staying relatively close to home in 2015 because we're finally getting our home built on Orcas Island, WA this summer. Our road trip in July will begin with the Missoula half-marathon and then head north to Glacier, Banff and Jasper national parks and finishing at Harrison Hot Springs in beautiful British Columbia. I've lived in the Pacific Northwest all my life (so far) and have never been to these gorgeous places (except Harrison). We can't stop talking about our road trip through England, northern Wales and Scotland last July. Hopefully we will be able to venture into the Alps in 2016. Bon voyage and happy 2015 to all!

San Diego & Phoenix in February/March; RS St. Petersburg, Tallinn, Helsinki followed by time in Germany in June/July; Northern Greece, Macedonia, Albania in October; Turks and Caicos in November. lots of planning to do!

Disney World for Christmas and then Singapore, Cambodia, Indonesia and Japan this summer. I would love to see Paris one day, so that's the next dream trip.

All the trips on here sound wonderful! I'm headed to southern France at the end of March for my honeymoon. We are flying into Nice, and plan to make our way down the coast toward Perpignan (we'll see how far we get with all the stops I have on my list!), and then taking a train to Paris for the last two days.

Yes all these trips sound amazing! We will be going to Florida for 10 days when the weather here in Michigan gets frightful as it always does then in May 2015 we will be traveling for the first time to Italy, with 5 nights in Rome and 3 in Venice then flying to Paris for a week before coming back home. I can't wait!!!

What a fun topic and just full of new ideas for the future. For 2015, these are what I have planned: Istanbul for a week in March, Village Italy tour in June with half my family, London for 10 days with the other half in July and the Balkans in October with friends. I'll be happily busy traveling a good part of the year!

Bulgaria next September. It's definitely a new part of the world for me! Meanwhile, I'm hoping for a long weekend in Portland or Vancouver.

Going on my first cruise to Western Caribbean with my Dad in early February leaving out of New Orleans, then Whistler Canada in late February with office mates, and then it is back to Europe-Spain and Portugal for the first time in September. Tracking the airfare now for Spain/Portugal trip. I will be posting questions on basic itinerary soon.

Oh, and also, would love to take my now 7 year old granddaughter to Paris when she turns 10. Whenever I am not actually "on the road or in the sky's," I am reading this Forum and planning the next trip.

Happy travels,

Linda

I just booked my trip for mid-May 2015; first stop Krakow, then by train to Warsaw, then short flight to Prague and home from there. 4 nights each city. Now I can focus on the fun part of planning and researching what I want to do and see, and, as I always do when preparing for a trip I've also been reading literature set in these countries, starting with Isaac Bashevis Singer and a recent book called "Three Minutes in Poland" by Glenn Kurtz, a family memoir inspired by camera footage taken by his grandparents when they visited their birthplace, Nasielsk, in 1938.