December 25, 2000 I just couldn't let the usual Christmas traditions go, so when we woke up on Christmas morning in our hotel in Versa...

  December 24, 2000 It was Christmas Eve AND Sunday and we were not sure what would be open, but we began our day by driving to Chartres to ...

  December 23, 2000 We got a good start the next day so that we could be at Mont-Saint-Michel at the exact time the tide was out. Mont-Sain...

  December 22, 2000 Our daughter had spent a semester in France as an exchange student with her university, and we were excited to finally g...

  December 20-21, 2000 We had taken the southern route near the Alps and the Austrian border on our way from Neuschwanstein to Salzburg, and...

   December 18-19, 2000 Mom was excited to take us to Salzburg, one of the cultural centers of Europe for centuries. The area has had inhabi...

  December 18, 2000 Neuschwanstein Castle is one of those places that everyone has seen, at least on postcards and calendars and in travel ...