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From: greg@olivee.UUCP (Greg Paley)
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Subject: Re: Suggestions wanted - Europe with kids
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Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 13:46:31 EDT
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> I somewhat agree with Richard Friedman(sp) in that that's an
> awful lot of change of environment until I rechecked the 
> original posting and noted that you'll be taking 6-7 weeks.
> However to cut down on travelling and presuming the major
> reason that you're seeing Denmark,Sweden & N. Germany is that
> they are on your way whilst heading south. Alternatives include
> exploring how much/little more it would cost you to pick up the
> car in other cities, Schiphol airport used to be real big on
> this several years ago. You could probably offset these added
> costs by getting a better rate on your air travel + you've 
> saved yourselves 350 miles of driving south  (including tolls,
> ferries and ar least one overnight stay).
> 
> 
> 
>     Dave Peak
>     @  ihnp4!hotel!dxp
> 
> "All the net's a stage and all the men and women merely ham actors !"
> - Rev Peak (apologies to Bill S.)

Thanks for the suggestion.  We do, however, really want to see 
some of the north countries.  You're right about questioning the
cost difference:  to pick up the car in Frankfurt would cost us
an extra $300.  I'm certain it will cost us a good deal more than
that for hotels, meals, gas, etc. to drive down from Gothenburg.
However, we've never been in the north and that will be one of the
few really new parts of the trip for my wife and I - southern Germany,
Vienna, Paris and London will be repeats of old favorites.

What we're most likely to knock off of the itinerary is the trip
to Vienna.  If we do that, we'll make a horseshoe-like loop from
Sweden down through Denmark to Southern Germany, across to Paris
and then up to London.  However, if someone comes up with an
absolutely wonderful idea for something to do or see in Vienna
or its environs, we may in fact take your suggestion and decide
to forget about Scandinavia and northern Germany and go that route
instead.

	- Greg Paley


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