The following 43 days are the culmination of our travels through the following eight countries: Czech Republic (three days), Slovakia (pass through on the train), Hungary (four days), Austria (two days), Germany (11 days), Holland (two days), France (seventeen days) and Belgium (three days). For those of you that have already read this, we commend you for your diligence. Since the journal was done originally on the road, we have now gone back and added photos to each day if you would like to get a better feel for the areas visited. Of course we always welcome you to join in the blog and write your comments in so they will be posted to the site.

At the bottom of each summary page is a “read more” line. Merely click on the “read more” and it will open up the entire day for you. At the bottom of the full daily page, left click with your mouse on the “next” and it will take you to the next day.

At the end of each days write up is the photo section. Left mouse click on the first photo and it will take you into a slide show of the day’s photos. To stop the slide show and return to the days story, just hit the esc key in the upper left corner of your computer.

We hope that you enjoy the story as much as we enjoyed the trip. Please don’t feel obligated to read this, but enjoy it as you wish.