Bus to Marble Arch near our hotel: Victory Services Club

Hotel across street from Hyde Park

Napped

On & off bus tour of London - West End

Off at: Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square,

Nice supper in pub next to Palace Theater

Les Miserable at Palace Theater

Bus to Buckingham Palace

Watch changing of the guards - including 4 military bands and mounted cavalry

Toured Buckingham Palace

Cab at 7:00 AM to train station

Cab to hotel in South Paris

Trouble finding correct hotel; cabbie mad at hotel clerk

Group walk of about 2 miles around neighborhood

Metro to Louvre

Finally found Citirama bus tour

Bus tour of city

Louvre: 4 hours

Walked to Notre Dame

Waited while Mark got back his credit card

Walked to wrong train station: Montparasse

Metro to St Lazare train station

Train from Paris to Caen, France

Bus to World War II Museum

World War II Museum

Cab to train station

Train to Paris

Metro to Gare De l'East train station

Train thru Eastern France, Germany

Had to move to a car in the front of the train: Nancy (terrible trip)

During move, heard about crashes & deaths in NY & DC

Rona & Mark found hotel adjacent to train station

Nice room & nice continental breakfast

Train (9:12) to Salzburg connecting in Munich

Many fields, little towns, (stone) wall retained vineyards, hills,

Wonderful hotel 3 blocks from station; Joe & Theresa - honeymoon suites

Visited beautiful and most interesting "real" castle

Wonderful dinner & dessert

Beautiful continental breakfast

Visited beautiful garden in Salzburg

Train (12:05) to Strasbourg

Nice onion soup & apple strudel during 6 hour train ride

Walked "10 minutes" to Novatel hotel

Lovely dinner with Ronnie's

Odette called while out; Mark returned call - confirmed Friday night plan

Retro (subway) to train station to pick up Avis van

Drove to Strathof Concentration Camp

Stopped in Schirmeck for wonderful lunch

Returned to train station and walked back to hotel (Theresa tired)

Met Odette, Roland, Urbain, Marie, Lucile at Cathedral

Met Roland & Marie at Cathedral for walking tour of Strasbourg (La Petite France)

Followed Roland out to Obernai - gift shop

Followed Roland to Reichsfeld

Urbain's house

Roland's father's house

Toured Reichsfeld, grape fields, church, graveyard

Urbain's father's house

Walked to train station

Train to Paris

Met nice, retired priest (Father Potter) - compartment mate, from U of ND, who went to St. Johns graduating in 1947

Taxi to hotel (Lourvre - Sainte Anne) near Louvre

Walked to Louvre Restaurant... too expensive for TMM

Ate at local brasserie

Nice continental breakfast at hotel

Taxi to De Gaulle Airport

Called Kath at 10:00 AM (3:00 AM her time) wishing her Happy Birthday and telling her of our flight schedule per original itinerary