At these sites, you'll find State Department travel warnings and announcements as well as links to State Department information sheets for each country we'll visit.

• • Travel Warnings
  • French Information sheet
  • Holland Information sheet
  • Swiss Information sheet
  • Italian Information sheet
  • German Information sheet
  • Czech Information sheet
  • Danish Information sheet
  • United Kingdom Information sheet
  
  

City guide
You may also find the following sites helpful in preparing yourself for everything these cities have to offer.

The Netherlands

Amsterdam

This tourist menu will lead you to many aspects of Amsterdam The very modern and new museum for technology in Amsterdam, the New Metropolis This very complete site from the Van Gogh Museum will really prepare you to enjoy the real thing in May! Holland's largest museum, The Rijksmuseum, can be exhausting. Visit it on-line before our tour to prioritize your time.

France

Paris

To find out what's happening while we're there, check out Pariscope..even if you don't read French, you'll find great things to do. Go to the "web" link at the bottom of the page and there you'll find all the Paris museum links. You can also choose to listen to live French radio stations from this site. A guide to Paris entertainment, food and many other aspects of Parisian life. Here are the matches scheduled for the French Open while we're there! If you'd like to try to get into the French Open, see this Roland Garros site. To book tickets for the Louvre before we get there, so you don't have to wait in line, click here and you'll be able to do it all on line. Check out our hotel and its facilities.

Switzerland

Interlaken (not a part of the EU)

General information about Interlaken, including a photograph of the mountains we might see.

Italy

Florence, Rome and Venice

Florence A general guide to Florence The Maggio Musicale Arts festival which we'll be able to catch next summer. Check if anything is on while we're there. Another great link to the attractions of Florence.  Rome Check this link with the Vatican to see if the Pope will be in town while we're there.  Venice Here's a place to begin your exploration of Venice before we get there. Check out this link to our hotel in Venice!

Hungary

Budapest

Everything you might want to know about before we get there at this site. Check out our hotel in Budapest.

Republic of Poland

Kraków (not a part of the EU)

Everything you might want to know about Krakow before we get there. Check out our hotel in Krakow.

The Czech Republic

Prague

Everything you might want to know about Prague before we get there. Find out about how to see the changing of the guard at Hradcany Castle

Germany

Munich and Berlin

Here's a look at some of the trains we'll be traveling in Germany during the trip.  Berlin Our hotel in Berlin...see what kind of experience you're in for. See our National Archives and Records web-site about the Berlin Wall particularly President Kennedy's cue card from his famous speech there. For a more personal look at the Berlin Wall from a British perspective, visit Chris De Witt's Berlin Wall page. A pot porri of informative Berlin web sites: Culture; Capital City, Tourist Info and Cityscope

Denmark

Copenhagen

Here's the overall Copenhagen site to start a tour of what you may want to see while we are there. Check out our hotel and its facilities. While we're in Copenhagen, you may want to take a day trip to Mälmo, Sweden.

United Kingdom

London

A comprehensive London guide which can lead to many other sites. If you'd like to go to the first two days of this year's Wimbledon tennis match, keep looking at this site until it's updated. To get theatre tickets for London, go here, choose Frames Version or Non-Frames Version and browse all the plays. Then call them with a credit card handy and pick up your tickets about 15 minutes before show time this summer. From the U.S., dail 011 44 and not the first "0" to get the box offices. Here's another great site to buy London Theatre tickets on line. Here's a new all-purpose London Pass which will get you nearly everywhere and into nearly everything.