Planning After visiting Europe five times in the last four years as members of these group tours, it was with very eager anticipation that we started planning a Christmas trip to what we consider the “coolest” country in Europe. We decided that my recently widowed Mother-in-Law would make a great traveling companion. We really wanted to have my son’s college girlfriend join us too. I began working on our itinerary as soon as we returned from London in August. I was working within rather stringent time restraints because Cassie, Tyler and Gail could only travel during their Christmas break. They were going to be off from 23 December until 2 January. In addition to that rather short time period, I feared that everything (stores, museums, castles, parks, salt mines, restaurants) would be closed on Christmas and
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