Day Nine…The Louvre and Other Paris Sights We have combined days nine and ten, because although we did a lot of sightseeing we thought you would only like the highlights. Day Nine…The sights we have seen today were unbelievable - The “Arc de Triumph”, The Louvre, and an evening cruise on the Seine (saw the light show at the Eiffel Tower). We found a Starbucks; it seems at the little cafés you have to pay for each cup of coffee so we added to the small cup during breakfast with a big Starbuck’s coffee. The “Arc de Triumph” was beautiful [View Full Entry]

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Day Eight…Having fun in Paris Today was packed with surprises…Did you know that they run the French Peachtree Road Race? Well, we saw it today. Of course, it is run along the Seine River. It appeared to be as large as the Peachtree. The amazing part was that there were bands set up along the Seine. We took pictures of two of them. One band was playing “Mustang Sally” and the other was playing “Take me to the River.” Both in English….Amazing! Can you imagine bands at the Peachtree Road Race playing French songs? I don’t think that is going [View Full Entry]

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Day Seven... on the way to Paris Well it was a fairly uneventful trip until we tried to wash the car as instructed. How many Americans does it take to wash a car at a French carwash? Evidently more than two... I believe I broke the car wash, and Gail was so pleased. We had an exciting trip on the train from CDG airport...We got on the RER after consulting two different sources.. I would suggest that it was not the most pleasant journey. We changed from the RER to the Metro. The RER was straight forward; the Metro was [View Full Entry]

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Day Six….A day of Chateaus We were able to see three great Chateaus today and all were totally different. Gail of course had some tense moments while I was driving through the country side and small towns. The first of the trio was Chateau de Chenonceau, which is right next door to our hotel. It is fantastic and was built around the 16th century and filled with many fantastic works of art. We really enjoyed the Chateau, but will not bore you with details (see the pix). The second was the Estate of Chambord. The Chateau was begun in 1515 and [View Full Entry]

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Day Five: On to Chenonceaux This morning after breakfast in the charming breakfast room, we said goodbye to Monique Chartier and headed for Chenonceaux. The GPS has a mind of her own. Gail decided to drive today because there was not much traffic and we were on A6 (Autobahn)…She did take the car over 100 mph, but cars were passing us as if we were standing still. We had to get off the main road which then took us through this little bitty one road- town, Courtnay. She made it through the tiny streets with much prayer and screaming. The GPS [View Full Entry]

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Day four: Going to Beaune Today started early. Our room in our charming little hotel faced the street. They started emptying garbage cans around 5:00 AM. Of course, we both woke up and started the day. The best way I can describe the bathing situation is to say that it was a tub/shower. There was a tub, and a hand held shower nozzle, but there was no shower curtain. The best we could do was to squat in the tub, and spray our bodies. Larry had to help me rinse my hair, which was hysterical. I washed my hair before [View Full Entry]

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Day 3……On the way to Colmar, France….after a fantastic breakfast with fantastic views we were on our way to Colmar, France. We had a little bit of a difficult road change which forced me into a power U-Turn, which brought me to an intersection which I found out was a no left turn intersection. This of course was a mere moment of excitement for Gail (she will kill me this year) after I made an illegal left turn and ran over some little bitty rubber things with reflectors on them that separated lanes (Alana tell Loraine she would be proud). [View Full Entry]

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Day two… October 5, 2009…The Day of the Car We left Stuttgart after breakfast and headed to Sindelfingen to pick up the car. The whole day consisted of setting up paper work, an informational presentation about the history of the Mercedes (more on this later), a factory tour, and finally getting the car. We imagine that the presentation was extremely informative; however, somehow we ended up in the German presentation. We were a little confused as to why they did not do one in English, but we just set there through the whole thing not understanding anything, but Tuscaloosa, Al [View Full Entry]

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The first day 10/4/09 - This is the first installment of Larry and Gail’s travel bog. The journey began by taking a flight on Delta operated by Northwest on a KLM plane. Jackie was kind enough to take us to the Marta - We started our “Celebration” of Gail’s Graduation (the Terminal Degree - Doctor (EDD)) going to Europe (Germany) for her Graduation Present (Mercedes - Benz) and “Celebration” of our 40 wonderful years of Marriage (Gail may see this a little differently) with a trip to Germany and France. John was nice enough to open up the Delta Crown [View Full Entry]

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