We are busy planning our adventures for 2014 and wanted to re-cap 2013.  It was a busy year and our goal is to experience even more in the coming year.  Here’s a summary of where we were throughout this past year:
January/February:  Berlin, Vienna, Trier and Palermo, Sicily were our destinations during these first two cold winter months.

March:  Ulm, Brugge and Oostende, Belgium

April:  Jay was in Phoenix to finish his MBA studies at Thunderbird.

May:  Indian Wells (California), Lisbon, A Coruna, Gijon, Santander, Bilbao (Spain), Bayonne, Bordeaux, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, St. Malo, LeHavre (France), Antwerp

June:  We concentrated on German cities this month–Eltville, Bad Homburg, Aschaffenburg, Worms, Marburg, Limburg, Mannheim, Augsburg, Koblenz Speyer Freiburg and Kassel.

July:  More of Germany–Königstein, Hochheim, Ludwigslust, Schwerin, Wismar, Rostock, Warnemünde and Göttingen.  Then to France to visit Nancy, Baccarat and the WW I battlefields at Verdun.

August:  Kronberg, Karlsruhe, Liechtenstein, Lake Constance, Switzerland, Austria, Rothenburg and Paris.  Another highlight was attending a political rally featuring Chancellor Angela Merkel.

September:  Reno, Tahoe, Portland, Monterey

October:  Rome, Sorrento, Messina, Santorini, Crete, Marmaris, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Palestine, Galilee, Cyprus, Antalya, Rhodes, Kusadasi, Ephesus and Patmos

November: Dijon (France), Würzburg, Hameln, Bremen, Bodenwerder, Lauterbach

December:  Leipzig

Our first trip of the year is this weekend to Regensburg, Germany.  Stay tuned.