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Jun 1998 Swiss/German Holiday
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notes... we've got photos too, but they're not here.
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Preparation
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of my 3 international trips this year, would Mary go to Australia, Switzerland,
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or Japan?
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Mary and Mom compare notes about travel through Switzerland
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borrowed some "travel in Germany" books from Keith and Betsy
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travel jems on the web: <A HREF="http://www.oanda.com/cgi-bin/ncc">currency
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converter</A>,
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<A HREF="http://bahn.hafas.de/bin/db.s98/detect.exe/bin/db.s98/query.exe/e?">rail
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route site</A>,
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<A HREF="http://gogermany.miningco.com/library/weekly/blschedfallK-M.htm">Rhine
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Cruise</A>, Schönburg castle
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<A HREF="http://www.rhinecastles.com/hotel-schoenburg/e/arrangements/">Riesling
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Wine Tour</A>
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Sat, 20 Jun: Dan, Mary, Brennan and Justin drive to OKC
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The Business Trip
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Sun, 21 Jun: Dan watches USA lose to Iran in the World Cup from a bar in
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the Chicago airport.
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Mon, 22 Jun: Dan arrives Zurich, train to Geneva
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Tue, Wed, Thu: W3C Meeting at CERN in Geneva
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Friday: Geneva
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bus to down town
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rose gardens, water park
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lunch at Daval Et Fils
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to Mainz: Saturday
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Saturday: to Mainz
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6 hour train ride across Switzerland and Germany in June
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long chat with a local who had seen both wars, travelled extensively
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Hotel Schottenhof: a block from the train station
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dinner at La Vecchia Roma (which world cup game did we watch?)
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Sunday: to Oberwesel and the Castle
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stowed our bags in a locker in Mainz; planned to retrieve them after the
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cruise, but... had no time!
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10:01 Koln Dusseldorfer (KD)
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<A HREF="http://gogermany.miningco.com/library/weekly/blschedfallK-M.htm">Rhine
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Cruise</A> - Mainz to Oberwesel
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lunch on the boat
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Schönburg
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castle...<BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.rhinecastles.com/hotel-schoenburg/e/arrangements/">Riesling
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Wine Tour</A>: tour of Weingut Laius-Knab... brought some back!
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dinner in the castle: 5 course meal. Note: we're still in our travelling
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shorts, having left our finery in Mainz
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Monday: to Luzern
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train back to Mainz; get bags out of locker
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Mainz to Luzern (5.5 hrs)
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a bit of gift shopping, dinner at Montrose by the lake
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Tuesday: Mt. Pilatus in Luzern, to Zurich
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Mt.Pilatus tour:
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across the lake for an hour an a half
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up the steepest cog-wheel train in the world to the peak
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lunch at the top
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down in a cable car
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train to Zurich
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took in a movie:
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<A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?Six+Days+Seven+Nights+(1998)"><CITE>Six
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Days Seven Nights </CITE>(1998)</A>; fair
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lazagne, Pino Grigio at Ristorante Pulcino
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The Long Trip Home
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Wed: back thru Chicago to OKC, reunite with the kids
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Thu: drive back to Austin
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