It has been tradition in our family that each high school graduate goes on a trip, it started with Jerry in 1983. Jim, I, Gina, Jerry and his girlfriend at the time, Nevette, went to the big island of Hawaii. The next year when Gina graduated she chose to go back to Hawaii with her girlfriends. Fast forward to the next generation, 2010 and Jordan's graduation. Gina, a single mom at the time, decided to take Jordan to New Zealand. Jim and I went along. 2012 was the year Ella graduated, Jerry & I took Ella and her girlfriend, Mallory Baker, back to Hawaii which was Ella's birth state. She and Jerry had not been back there since she was a baby.
Now it is 2017, Mallory's graduation year. Gina and I will be taking her to Europe, which will be her first time outside of the United States. Since I am the one with the most time on my hands and the most trips to Europe under my belt, I have had the pleasure of doing most of the travel logistics. Mallory is in charge of deciding what we are going to do in each city.
While not complete, our itinerary so far is as follows:
May 18, 2017
Leave Anchorage via Icelandair at 3:20 pm
May 19
Arrive Paris Gare de Lyon 12:55pm, driver will take us to our Airbnb at 1 Rue des Livirains, Chessy, France
May 20
Spend day at two Disney Parks close to the Airbnb
May 21
Take train into Paris
May 22
Explore Paris by day,7:14 pm take night train, Thello, to Rome
May 23
Arrive Rome Termini 9:40 am, next Airbnb is at Vicolo del Farinone 31, very close to Vatican
May 24
Have audience with the Pope 10am, tour the Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel and St. Peters Bacillica
May25
Explore Rome
,May 26
Leave Rome 1:57 by train to Monterosso, one of five villages in Cinque Terre (the Italian Riviera) We will stay in the hotel LeSirene
May 27
Kayaking in the sea
May 28
Hiking and relaxing on the beach
May 29
Leave Monterosso by train to Visp, Switzerland, here we will stay in a small village in the Alps at another Airbnb
May 30
Travel short distance by train to Zermatt, village of the Matterhorn
May 31
We will leave Switzerland by train at 10:06am, arriving in Barcelona at 8:34 pm. Here we will stay in a private apartment
June 1
11:00 am we will take a tour of Antonio Gaudi's church, Sagarada Familia. then tour the city by the hop on hop off bus
June 2
Barcelona
June 3
We leave Barcelona at 11:45 pm Icelandair and layover 15 hours in Reykjavik, Iceland
June 4
We land in Iceland at 2 am, rent a car, where we will try and get some sleep, then go to the Blue Lagoon, famous for it silica hot water and facial mud.
We depart at 5 pm, arrive Anchorage at 4:20 pm and collapse from exhaustion!
This is the first trip that Mallory, Gina and I will take together but I hope it is only the beginning of many travel adventures,
Hope you had enough time in Rome to explore and fall in love with it!
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