OUR MEGA BUS EXPERIENCE

After a late departure from Detroit, the Ann Arbor travelers were a little feisty and called the police on our sleepy driver after he missed the on ramp to Chicago two times. The police relieved him of his driving duties and Stephanie and I played travel Scrabble for 6 hours before a new bus came to our rescue.

Thank you Karen for still taking us in at 2 am.

Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

A parting gift from Scott -- now we will know when we are in trouble on the job at Euro RSCG.

Hidden Treasures of Madrid Map

I ran into MSR and Addy at Cass Cafe and Abby was so kind to draw us up a map of local hot spots and must-see's in Madrid!  Thank you Addy!!

Train Passes have arrived!!

Badass Calendar

Steves secret places of PARIS

Montparnasse Tower - Due west of the Eiffel Tower. Has a glass enclosed cafe at the top with a 360 degree view of the city. Best to go up before sunset to watch the city light up and to watch the sun go down behind the Eiffel Tower. Another reason to get there before the Eiffel lights up, is that when it does light up, for the first hour, 20,000 strobe lights go off every 10 minutes all over the tower. Crazy!

Montmarte - This area was home to working artist studios for people like Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet and Dali. Still lots of artists working in this area. There's quite a few night clubs in the area as well as the Dali museum.

St. Chapelle - Near Notre Dame. Most stained glass of any cathedral in the world. On a sunny day, the room literally glows violet. Not to be missed. Stunning!

Centre Pompidou - THE place to go to check out contemporary design work

Les Puces du Design - Crazy contemporary design market specializing in furniture, decor, accessories, etc

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St. Germain - historic neighborhood whith lots of coffee shops. kind of the intellectual center of Paris. All the existential writers hung out in the coffee shops here as well as Napoleon in his early years

THANKS STEVE!!!

love Jenna and Stephanie

STEPH'S TENTATIVE PACKING LIST

Planning of a Month and a Half Europe trip

This is not easy but some sites that have been helpful to us have been:

Airbnb.com

Priceline.com

Barcelona30.com

Couchsurfing.org

Place we are traveling to in order

Madrid, Spain

Barcelona, Spain

Pamplona, Spain

Paris, France

Dusseldorf, Germany

Inerloken, Switzwerland

Venice, Italy

Tuscany, Italy

East Coast of Italy

Rome, Italy

Then back to

Barcelona

Madrid

Love Jenna and Stephanie