Planning the trip...I came across Rick Steves' Europe web site and I was hooked. I read every inch of the site, then I ordered Rick Steves' book "Europe through the back door". After devouring it from cover to cover, and searching every other tour on the market for the next couple of months, I kept coming back to Rick Steves'. Decision made!.... Then the panic set in, what if the tour was only available to American's? Much to my delight, the tours are open to everyone. Tour booked, flights booked, passports underway, now we just have to sit back and wait 12 months till takeoff. We had to book that far in advance being in the southern hemisphere, as it was our winter that we would be travelling in. Therefore the kids only had a two week break from school, so we were not flexible with our tour dates. Now to tell the kids. We had not been on a holiday in three years, as we had purchased a new house which we were renovating. We had promised the kids the wait would be worth it, and indeed it was. |