July 7, 2013

ITINERARY WITH CONTACT INFORMATION

- July 30 – I leave from Halifax and arrive in Frankfurt July 31 and fly to Luxembourg City; Holly flies from Vancouver to Frankfurt and then takes the bus to Luxembourg City.

Leave 8:00 pm Condor Airlines Halifax to Frankfurt – Arrive 7:30 am July 31
Leave 12:50 pm Luxair Frankfurt to Luxembourg – Arrive 1:35 pm July 31

- July 31 – Jemp picks us up and takes us to Echternach where we will stay (courtesy of old friend Emelie Knepper) at the

Hôtel de la Sûre
Restaurant Steak-House
49, rue de la Gare -
Echternach (Luxembourg)
tél.: 011 (352) 728806
Email: restknep@pt.lu
http://www.hoteldelasure.lu/pages_frz/hotel_frz.html

- August 2 – 5 – We stay at Josee’s sister Germaine’s in Echternach and we’ll be meeting up with some of the old Girl Guides – emphasis on “old”. I'm hoping to drive to Trier to see what remains of the base there. That's where I went to school for a while in a barracks building which was turned in to a two-room school house for Canadian kids. I did my correspondence courses there because the teacher was an elementary school teacher and couldn't teach high school material.

- August 5 – Jemp and his wife pick us up and we drive to As, Belgium where we’ll stay at the Mardaga (where Ludo says he tells Dad’s story whenever he can and the plaque that Cousin John designed is still hanging in the lobby) and meet with Karel to say Hello and pick up some pieces of Dad’s Spitfire. See Dad's blog for more information on the wonderful trip Bill and took in January 2010 to the Hotel Mardaga - www.philtripe.blogspot.com.

Hotel Mardaga
Tel. 011 32 (0)89 65 62 65
http://www.differenthotels.be/en/Hotels/Hotel-Mardaga?r=1

- August 6 – 7 – I’m not sure where we will be staying yet but all will be resolved when we are there.

- August 8 – 15 – We will be staying at Jemp’s daughter Claude’s apartment in Luxembourg – actually it’s in Rammeldange which is on the Echternach side of Luxembourg city. Somewhere in there we’ll be going to Mely Gallo’s for dinner. She lives part of the year in her lovely chateau in Lauterborn between Luxembourg and Echternach.

I’ll be checking my email every day and sending you info. If there’s a phone, I’ll send that when I get there.

- August 15 – I fly home to Halifax. Holly is staying on for another week to tour around on her own staying in hostels and stuff.

Leave 10:40 am Luxair Luxembourg to Frankfurt – Arrive 11:30 am
Leave 3:40 pm Condor Airlines Frankfurt to Halifax – Arrive 6:00 pm