Gnome and Ed research breweries for the trip

The past weekend was jam-packed with research and planning for the trip. We went to the Savvy Traveller and picked up a few necessities, and the Chicago library for a huge stack of guide books. Bill also brought the vast stack of tourism materials he'd received from several of the cities we're going to.

We spent a few hours in the Four Moon going through as much as we could, picking out information we should take along and identifying where we wanted to go. I don't know that I've ever seen anyone in there before with a map of Europe spread across the table! We actually managed to look at it all and get the stack down to a manageable size.

On Sunday, we got a thrill when we finally located information about Neuenkirchen, which is too small to appear in any guide books. It may be small but it looks like there are a lot of restaurants there! And a distillery, which Mr. Ioanes mentioned in his e-mail! This is so exciting.

So 8 weeks to go... I think we'll be ready...!