Hello Eveyone:
Hope this note finds you all well and safe from these scourges that seem to plague us all.
My trip two years ago was cancelled by COVID - rescheduled for 12 months later - cancelled again.
SO - here we are: I decided 6 months ago to take this trip. I was in miserable physical condition as a result of an indulgent lifestyle. 6 months in the gym - 199 pounds to 182 - waist from 39" to 33" - ready to travel. :-)
Here is the new journey: (leaving tomorrow morning - so - comments may not render results. :-)
Thanking you in advance for all the wonderful advice received in this forum -
Packing light following Rick Steves guide for the first time. Interesting.
THE FAREWELL TOUR
Calvin & Carol Williams
- APRIL 12 – DEPART FOR FLORENCE, ITALY a. DELTA 5298 10:45 AM – ARRIVE APRIL 13 – 9:05 AM b. Monastery stays: Casa per Ferie Del Santo Rosario –Via G. Giusti, 35 Florence 50121 TRAVEL PLAN NO: 1280467239 – ABN 79 497 849 837 – 6 NIGHTS 13 APRIL – 19 APRIL
- FLORENCE VIATOR TOURS: a. 4/13 -Skip The Line: Accademia Gallery Tour with Michelangelo’s David @ 4:00 P b. 4/15 -Early Access Guided Uffizi Gallery tour with skip-the-line ticket @ 8:40AM c. 4/15 - Leonardo Interactive Museum – 2 PM d. 4/16 – Tuscany In One Day – sightseeing tour from Florence – (tour without Pisa) Departure: Piazza della Stazione, 50123 Firenze FI, Italy @ 8:AM (12 hours)
- APRIL 19 – DEPART FLORENCE – ARRIVE MILAN
Train –Florence to Milan - 5 H-10M
a. Monestary stays b. ONE NIGHT – 4/19- Villa Cagnola (LOG104)
OPERATED BY: The Conferenza Episcopale Lombarda – - APRIL 20 - Train – Milan to Nice – 5H – 10 M
Train – change – Nice to Marseille -2H -35M
APRIL 20 - AIRB&B – OVERNIGHT MARSEILLE - 7 Rue Armand Bédarride, Marseille, Provence Alpes-Côte d'Azur 13006
- APRIL 21 Train – Marseille to Montpellier – 2H – 20M Train – Montpellier to Barcelona – 4H – 40 M
- APRIL 21 AIRB&B - BARCELONA – Via Augusta, 25, 5-2, Barcelona, Catalunya 08006 4/22-4/23-4/24 & 4/25 (one night + 4 days )
- APRIL 25 – Train to Madrid – 2H – 50M -AIRB&B - Calle de Fomento 12 , 1ºC -Int, Madrid, Spain 28013– 4/26 – 4/27 – 4/28 (one night + 3 days) Depart 4/29 AM
- APRIL 29 - Madrid to London – (British Airways- Flight BA7068 – operated by Iberia) Depart 9:10 AM – arrival – Heathrow (LHR) London 10:35 AM)
- APRIL 29 OVERNIGHT –London - (EXPEDIA) THE FALCON INN- 20 MINUTES North of Heathrow Airport. Village Road, Denham, Uxbridge, England, UB9 5BE
- APRIL 30 RENT A CAR – DEPART FOR COTS ON THE WOLDS – NORTHERN ENGLAND
- APRIL 30 TO MAY 6 – AIRB&B - Sika Cottage, Quenington, THE COTSWOLDS
- MAY 6 – FLY HOME- 5/6 -Qatar Airways Flight 16 DEP @ 9:40 PM to Doha ARR-6:20 AM – 5/7- DEP Doha @ 7:50 AM flight 729-ARR Dallas @ 4:15 PM-5/7 -Dep Dallas@ 9:35PM-5/7--Qatar Flight 9010 -ARR GPT 5/7 @ 11:09PM