A Big Adventure Awaits!

 In nine days,  I will be celebrating a milestone birthday. I've been thinking a lot about how to celebrate turning 70 for about a year! I decided the best way to celebrate would be another trip to Europe.

On March 13th, I will fly from Minneapolis to Amsterdam and then on to Budapest, Hungary. After a couple of days there, I'll take a train to Vienna. Two days in Vienna and back on the train to Nurmberg, Germany, on to Berlin, then Dresden followed by Munich (where I spend my birthday), a night in the mountains and then I spend the final three days  in Florence, Italy. In Florence, I'll be staying at the same hotel I did in November 2022, one I liked very much.

I'm traveling solo; I've done it before and can do it again. My sister is traveling in Australia and New Zealand right now with her best friend and she's the one I usually celebrate birthdays with, so I'm headed off in a different direction. I've booked three excursions:  an on-and-off bus excursion in Budapest, a tour of The Castle Nieuschwanstein the day after my birthday, and a tour of a museum in Florence. I'll fly home from Florence, again via Amsterdam.

The tickets and hotels have all been paid. I'm flying Delta and trains are through a company called Railbookers.

I'll be back on March 28th, so two weeks in Europe for my 70th birthday!