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SSssssshhhhh! It’s a secret!! I want to run away from home and I’m looking for some interested accomplices! I love Europe and have taken several trips to Paris, Rome, Florence and Venice…but this time, I want to take some of you, my paper art friends, along. I have done all the legwork…and am now wondering if anyone wants to go. The price is pretty darn good: $2000 * for 12 days in some of Europe’s most popular cities: Rome, Venice, Florence, Lucerne, Paris and London. All European transportation is included!!!
I mostly want to go to look for paper (I have a list of places I’ve been before and am working on finding some new ones), buy cool mail art supplies and check out my favorite art museums (the Orsay in Paris and the Uffizi in Florence)…but I’m also looking forward to eating at great restaurants, sipping wonderful wine and creating impromptu mail art for the slackers who decide to stay home (ha, just kidding)!!! I’m sooo excited!!! I hope some of you will consider coming with me!!
If you are interested, please send me an email and I will provide more information…but I want to book soon to get this best rate. I lined up a travel agent to help with booking to give people peace of mind…I’m not just winging this trip…I have professional assistance from a Carlson Wagonlit Consultant named Julie and she is awesome -- all of the money and such will be handled exclusively by Julie!
There are 3 potential dates available…
September 30, 2006 & October 28, 2006 & November 4, 2006
…and the itinerary is as follows:
Day 1 Board your overnight transatlantic flight. |
Day 2 Arrival in Rome, Italy. Time to rest or start exploring the Eternal City. At 6 p.m. meet your Tour Director and traveling companions and leave the hotel for a special welcome dinner with wine in one of Rome’s lively restaurants. (D) |
Day 3 Rome. Sightseeing with your Local Guide starts with a visit to the VATICAN MUSEUMS and SISTINE CHAPEL, world famous for Michelangelo’s ceiling paintings and The Last Judgement. Continue to monumental ST. PETER’S SQUARE and BASILICA. Cross the Tiber and visit the COLOSSEUM and the ROMAN FORUM, where Roman Legions marched in triumph. Then time for independent activities and exciting optional excursion possibilities. (BB) |
Day 4 Rome-Florence. An easy morning drive north to Florence, cradle of the Renaissance. Follow your Local Guide to visit the ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS with Michelangelo’s celebrated David, the magnificent CATHEDRAL, Giotto’s Bell Tower, the Baptistry’s heavy bronze “Gate of Paradise,” and sculpture studded SIGNORIA SQUARE. Later take a moment to check out the enticing shops with Florentine leather goods and gold jewelry. (BB,D) |
Day 5 Florence-Venice. Drive across the wooded Apennine Mountain range and through the lush plains of the mighty River Po to Venice. Enter the city in style by PRIVATE BOAT to meet your Local Guide. Highlights of your walking tour are ST. MARK’S SQUARE and the BYZANTINE BASILICA with its 1,000-year old gem-studded gold altar piece, the Clock Tower, lavish Doges’ Palace, and the Bridge of Sighs. Also watch skilled GLASSBLOWERS fashion their delicate objects. Afterwards wander at whim or join an optional gondola serenade. (BB,D) |
Day 6 Venice-Lugano, Switzerland, Lucerne. Through the lush Lombardian plains, past the commercial capital of Milan, into Italian-speaking southern Switzerland. Free time for lunch and to check out the chic boutiques in lakeside Lugano. Then admire the towering majesty of the Swiss Alps on the way to Lucerne via the 10-mile St. Gotthard Tunnel and William Tell country. (BB) |
Day 7 Lucerne. Admire Thorwaldsen’s LION MONUMENT and the ornate patrician houses lining the cobbled streets of the walled Old Town, then cross the famous covered CHAPEL BRIDGE to the Jesuit Church. Afterwards shop for Swiss watches and you may want to join an optional excursion to the top of a mountain! (BB,D) |
Day 8 Lucerne-Paris, France. Today cross the border into France and enjoy a fast ride on the modern highway skirting the vineyards of Burgundy and Fontainebleau Forest. Tonight you are in Paris, the traditional climax of a European tour. (BB) |
Day 9 Paris. Discover the world capital of chic and style with a Local Guide and admire its most famous sights: the Opéra, Arc de Triomphe, Champs-Elysées, Notre Dame Cathedral, and more. For a bird’s-eye view take the elevator to the second floor of Paris’ most famous landmark, the EIFFEL TOWER. An optional excursion to the lavish baroque Palace of Versailles is available. Tonight, a lively cabaret show might just be the ticket. (BB) |
Day 10 Paris-London, England. Board the EUROSTAR TRAIN to London, arriving in the afternoon. (BB) |
Day 11 London. Sightseeing with a Local Guide includes all the famous landmarks: Knightsbridge with Harrods, the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben beside the River Thames, Westminster Abbey, Whitehall’s mounted horseguards and the Prime Minister’s Downing Street, and Buckingham Palace. Highlights are a visit to ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL and the ceremonial pageantry of the Changing of the Guard, if held. Afternoon at leisure. |
Day 12 Your homebound flight arrives the same day. (FB) |
Reader Comments (2)
I am a mother and wife, but that does not change the way a feel, when it comes to traveling, starngely enough I have not travel a lot, I have been to some of the places you are marking to go to.
My home town was florence, 22years ago,I was born and bread there!!!
Now I live in england 11 miles from London.
I do go to Italy through switzerland and france every year. by car!!! infact the map above outline in parts the journey we take We will be taking the trip next week friday with another family, there first time!!!
By the end of the journey or adventure we have done 2500 miles, it is fantastic!!!
We camp near venice in one of the many campsites
the beach is grat ,plus the city is right on 15 minutes of the ferry boat.
Venice is a dream I love it!!!
I have been going there for many years visiting.
Florence is beautiful well I would say that of course.
It is full of ART the city of the reinnaisance, as a Florentine I can say that a lot of the people there get influence by the art, even the bus driver will at some point get to do some art in his lifetime, that is how strong the influence of the city is. Rome again is beautifull
So much to see.
If you can try to visit the shop IL PAPIRO it was born in Florence in fact they use to have 6 shops there.
I do know they have it in Venice and Rome, there paper is absolutly wonderfull, there are various shops around in Venice,I found one that sold beautifull paper with the architecture rappresenting the main city VENICE FLRENCE ROME PISA ect ect
It makes a beautifull collage especially if you intend to journal Naturally!!!
Well I truly hope that you will get your wish coming true. If you have any question let me know if I can help!
love sabrina
Ihave an exampe of the paper I have mentioned above I have cut it to make a collage it is diferent in the shop I will try now
well I saw it a minute ago but I am not sure where it is now sorry sabrina!!!
Ps they also have some fantastic marble paper and if you ask they do have some pages that have gone slitly wrong in the making ( but still nice) at cheaper price