Post #1 - Retirement trip plans

Retirement trip plans.

We have been busy the past few months making plans for our big retirement trip in August.

Here is our itinerary so far.

August 10, 2007 - We're taking a flight from SeaTac to JFK and then on to Heathrow in London.

August 11, 2007 - We have a studio apartment reserved for one week at Carlton Court, 120 Maida Vale, London. We are planning a few day trips out of London during the week.

August 18, 2007 - We're taking an Aerolineas Argentinas flight from Gatwick to Madrid. We will be touring around Spain and Portugal for two weeks with no prescheduled plans.

August 31, 2007 - We have a one bedroom apartment reserved for one week at the Royal Regency, in the Vincennes section of Paris. Jan and Frank Trummel are coming to spend some time with us in Paris.

September 8, 2007 - We plan to take a train from Paris to Geneva, Switzerland, with Jan and Frank for a week at Portes du Soleil, Val d'Illiez, Switzerland. It is a ski resort (in summer) at the end of a long road up in the Alps.

September 15, 2007 - We'll be saying good-bye to Jan and Frank and head south into Provence, France, as we work our way down into Italy.

September 22, 2007 - We have a studio apartment reserved for one week at Palazzo Catalan, Soriano nel Cimino, near Viterbo, Italy. This is an hour north of Rome by train.

September 29, 2007 - We have a week to travel around southern Italy making our way over to the eastern coast near Bari.

October 6, 2007 - We have a one bedroom apartment reserved at Hotel Villaggio Cala Corvino, Monopoli, Italy. It is on the Adriatic south of Bari.

October 13, 2007 - We have a week to travel farther south in Italy making our way to Sicily.

October 20, 2007 - We plan to travel from Sicily to Tunisia by ferry and spend a week at a one bedroom resort the Residence Hayet, in Hammamet, Tunisia.

October 27, 2007 - We plan to fly from Tunis to Cairo, Egypt for a week during which we'll visit the pyramids at Giza.

October 31, 2007 - We will take a train south to the Valley of the Kings in Egypt and stay there a couple of days sightseeing.

November 3, 2007 - We'll fly from Cairo to Dubai to visit with Jen and Bruce.

After that we have no definite plans, but hope to fly east to India and Bangladesh, then maybe Thailand before we head back to the US.