Yay! We've finally moved beyond "uh yeah, we have plane tickets" and settled on our itinerary, which we developed from talking to Dzia dzia and from reading his unit history. We plan to hit Verdun, Luxembourg, Aachen (with day trips to Cologne & Liege), and Brussels. And we're doing this in approximately 9 days, including travel time, so we'll really be hustling!
The cool thing is that the castle where Dzia dzia's unit was stationed at in Luxembourg is now a hostel, and Bill and I have managed to book ourselves a night there! (The other cool thing about this is that we now have lodging for TWO nights - yippee!)
We're still wrestling with the transportation question. I
really want to rent a
SmartCar for part of the time (they are so cute!), but we're not sure whether taking trains make sense the whole time, or if we'd be better off renting a car for part of it - in which case, no SmartCar for us.
In the meantime, Bill is figuring out the camcorder (right, Bill?!?) and amassing a collection of materials from various tourist bureaus. We should probably look at that stuff.
Stay tuned for more Crusty updates!
