Holiday plans

[wiseheart]

So, since we're not going to the festival in Bad Ischl, Austria, with the choir (a really ugly story that I might tell you when I'm less depressed about it), Mum and I will actually have the money to plan some decent holidays again. Due to the financial crisis, we weren't sure we'd be able to do the Bad Ischl thing and private holidays, but with Bad Ischl out of the equation, well...

In any case, we've studied the offers of the travel agency we usually go with, and found several very promising possibilities.

1) Benelux Tour - the pearls of Flanders and Southern Germany. 8 days, 7 nights, travelling by bus. I'm especially excited about the chance to visit Delft and several of the Belgian Hansa towns like Gent, Antwerpen, Bruighes, Leuven and so on.

2) Romantic Germany - sound good, too, but the cities that would be really interesting for me I've already seen, and the rest is, well, not so exciting. Although there's a spectacular waterfall and several pretty little towns on the menu.

3) The Wonders of the Alps - Austria and Southern Germany. Mum likes it... I'm not that excited about it. Sounds nice, but too short for actual holidays and too expensive for an additional trip. We'll see.

4) Elsass and Southern Germany - again, sounds very nice, and I'd love to visit Strassbourg and Colmar, but the rest is of less interest.

England and Wales - 11 days, 10 nights. The program is incredible, I'd absolutely love to go; plus we still have some British currency from our trip to Cambridge three years or so ago. But: there is only one tour, and it's set uncomfortably close to the restart of school around the end of August. Besides, days 1. and 11. would be spent on the bus, getting there and getting back, and I really don't know whether we would be up to it.

So, I think the most likely choice is #1: the Benelux tour. We've got DVDs about some of the places, so we can get into the spirit of things; and besides, it's not the same whether you have to travel 640 kilometres to reach your destination or 1140 kilometres, I'd think. Also, the travel agency makes this tour six times, and four of those times are quite doable for us.

Comments

[karri-kln1671.livejournal.com]

I'm going to Frankfurt later this year. :) Oh, I adore England and Wales! I'll never be able to spend too much time there.

Sounds like you'll have a nice trip whichever one you pick.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Hey, Karri, welcome back! Have you got a new journal or a new username?

I'd love to go to England and Wales, too, but not this year, I think. Perhaps if they choose a better time slot next summer...

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

Hmm...some nice choices. #1 certainly sounds lovely. That you could choose a time that doesn't leave you on a long bus ride right before school starts seems good, too. (And I'm sorry the choir trip didn't work out. Wah!)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me, too. But you can always count on human malevolence to destroy the plans and the joy of others.

[artemis10002000]

These are very nice choices you've got. The England and Wales Tour sounds intriguing, but if it's so close to the start of school and you are still exhausted from the bus travel, getting back to school after the holidays will probably be worse than it already is.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That's my only counter-argument indeed. So we'll probably go to the Benelux trip. It's lovely, with all those Flemish Hansa towns included and whatnot...

[artemis10002000]

You'll have a great time there, I'm sure. I've heard that these are very beautiful towns. And... Belgish chocolate :P

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah! Here with the endorphines!

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

The Flemish trip sounds fun!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It's a very rich programme, and the trip is not too long, so it's the best candidate.