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TexasEd

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  1. TexasEd started following The Italy Thread
  2. I would love to see Vienna or Budapest but I think we might head South instead of east so we get to Italy. Maybe I can do a Prague, Vienna Budapest tour in the future.
  3. I know your post was to Damor but I do have all that in my trip. Just trying to figure out the best routes. I think I'm doing pretty well so far. Damor, I did put my trip into AI and it added details that I had in my head but laid them out. I did not include dates yet since they are note settled but that will be next. I don't have a strategy on the CC/points game yet. I don't have a lot of regular travel and don't have the cards with annual fees. I typically use American and Hilton but will be flexible. Looking at Booking.com for all the smaller places I'm going and finding a good selection.
  4. @Damor Interested in your trip, especially the Weltenburg part. I'm cross posting my tentative plan to do Bavaria and Northern Italy from the Italy thread to get the feedback on the German part. Travelers are me and wife plus kids 19, 17, and almost 13 Land in Munich Get rental car and use it to go to Dachau for a couple of hours and then move on south. Could possibly do another day closer to Munich but not sure what to do. Find a base near the Austria border (Leaning Garmisch or Oberammergau) for 3-4 days and do day trips to Oberammergau, Hohenschwangau, Neuschwanstein, Zugspitze, etc. Turn in Rental car in Germany, maybe in Garmisch-Partenkirchen due to the train line to Innsbruck. Train leg from Garmisch to Innsbruck (80 minutes?). Innsbruck could be a day trip and then continue or overnight stay. Italy Train leg from Innsbruck to Northern Italy base for 4-5 days. I love Vicenza and have been there multiple times, Padua is another good option. Do things in town and day trips to places like Venice, Citta-Della, Verona, Vicenza/Padua, etc. Venice - From my experience I don't think I want to stay in Venice but take the train in and do a day trip. (Train for 5 people from Vicenza is about $100 round trip without a discount) Train leg to Rome 2 nights in Rome for a full day with priority sightseeing of St Peters, Sistine, Colosseum, and a few others. I've done this solo before and the busses were very easy to use to get around but that was over 20 years ago. Depart Rome Notes: I'll be looking to reduce airfare as much as I can so if landing in Frankfurt and a train to Munich area made more sense I would do that so any recommendations welcome. Driving in Italy is not fun, not even when I was in my 20s, so I would like to do intercity trains. Looking at available rail passes and discounts now. If we're there 5-7 days with several intermediate trips and one longer trip I hope I can find something. Something I read said that the Euro rail pass was not a good deal for Italy. Family has never been to Europe. I have been to most places on this list including all the Bavarian sites, Innsbruck, Vicenza, Venice. I have not been to Padua or Verona so I would want to include those. I did a 24 hour layover in Rome 20 years ago. 19 year old wants to see the dolomites, I think a train ride from Innsbruck to Italy sounds good to me. We could get a car and drive up there one day if that doesn't scratch the itch.
  5. IIRC your trip was a lot of hiking, right? I think we could do one day of hiking but not multiple. Did you have teens with you? (Neuschwanstein can be a hike to the top too) I was planning on the Zugspitze being a gondola day before we get to Italy. Whole plan is a draft right now though.
  6. Train tickets default to second class. 13 year old qualifies for a free ticket most of the time. I was doing a lot of night driving doing shift work training people when I was there in the 90s. I thought I was going to die a few times in the roundabouts and single lane roads. It’s where I learned to like cappuccino Edit: Parking and vehicle size are another consideration. I can get a 5 seater with luggage space easier in Germany than Italy. The bill goes up crossing borders with additional fees and insurance so trying to work around that too.
  7. Love this. It's the dichotomy of a rural and metro vacation though. Rural you have a lot of travel time between places and urban you can get overwhelmed. Here's my thought after a day of looking at plans and I know this is the Italy thread but Austria and Bavaria and right next door. Travelers are my and wife, Kids are/will be 19, 17, and almost 13 Land in Munich Get rental car and use it to go to Dachau for a couple of hours and then Find a base near the Austria border (Leaning Garmisch or Oberammergau) for day trips to Oberammergau, Hohenschwangau, Neuschwanstein, Zugspitze, etc. Turn in Rental car in Germany, maybe in Garmisch-Partenkirchen due to the train line to Innsbruck. Train leg from Garmisch to Innsbruck (80 minutes?). Innsbruck could be a day trip and then continue or overnight stay. Italy Train leg from Innsbruck to Northern Italy base for 4-5 days. I love Vicenza and have been there multiple times, Padua is another good option. Do things in town and day trips to places like Venice, Citta-Della, Verona, Vicenza/Padua, etc. Venice - From my experience I don't think I want to stay in Venice but take the train in and do a day trip. (Train for 5 people from Vicenza is about $100 round trip without a discount) Train leg to Rome 2 nights in Rome for a full day with priority sightseeing of St Peters, Sistine, Colosseum, and a few others. I've done this solo before and the busses were very easy to use to get around but that was over 20 years ago. Depart Rome Notes: I'll be looking to reduce airfare as much as I can so if landing in Frankfurt and a train to Munich area made more sense I would do that so any recommendations welcome. Driving in Italy is not fun, not even when I was in my 20s, so I would like to do intercity trains. Looking at available rail passes and discounts now. If we're there 5-7 days with several intermediate trips and one longer trip I hope I can find something. Something I read said that the Euro rail pass was not a good deal for Italy. Family has never been to Europe. I have been to most places on this list including all the Bavarian sites, Innsbruck, Vicenza, Venice. I have not been to Padua or Verona so I would want to include those. I did a 24 hour layover in Rome 20 years ago. 19 year old wants to see the dolomites, I think a train ride from Innsbruck to Italy sounds good to me. We could get a car and drive up there one day if that doesn't scratch the itch.
  8. Yeah, I'll pass my 2013 truck on to one of the kids, sell a kid car and then upgrade me. I would love to get a 2020-2022 Porsche Cayenne but probably won't happen. I'll end up staying status quo for 6 months to a year and then get something more generic.
  9. Yeah, I was thinking they must have gotten bad case of Salmonella.
  10. trying to do something similar, did you come up with an itinerary? I may do a combo of Bavaria, Austria, Dolomites, Venice, and maybe into Croatia, Could use Rome as a layover city coming or going and do two days there. Wife and 3 kids have never been to Europe, I've seen some of the stops on the way but not Croatia. High priority sites would be a WWII prison camp (Dachau), Neuschwanstein Castle, Salzburg (Sound of Music), then down to Italy through the Dolomites to Vicenza (a Maybe) and Venice. We could then take the train to Rome.
  11. I'm feeling the pull between saving money (I have no car payments now) and the realization that the next car I buy will be the most expensive ever and that it may be cheaper today than it will be next year or the following.
  12. Has this been quoted today?
  13. Did they run this operation through Twitter DMs instead of Signal chat?
  14. See my prior post about this. I did not see a game thread when I posted before. Had nothing to do with the Big XII wanting to see Cincinnati lose and was all about their lack of discipline. I have no SEC pride, fuck all the other teams in the SEC, except Ole Miss, my brother went there.
  15. Yeah, those interactions took me from passively rooting for Navy to actively. I'm thinking, that Naval cadet is a potential Marine or SEAL. There's also the "stay calm under pressure" and "psychological warfare" aspect as well. The Cincinnati guys flapping their gums looked more and more stupid as the game slipped away to the more disciplined team.
  16. Revealing that he had a CT Scan and not an MRI is like no-shit, that fat fucker wouldn't fit in an MRI machine and would stroke out from the tube/claustrophobia and the gas from farting.
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