Fall '17 Itinerary ver. 1.05

So, in the fall of 17 an old friend and former co-worker is retiring.  She's organized a group rate for anyone wanting to join her on a Scenic Cruises voyage up the Danube from Budapest to Nuremburg. She and a bunch of others are off to Praha (Prague) after.

Our portion of the cruise/tour is nine days long. And Scenic gets raves from every we know who has taken a cruise with them (not many, most of them travel agents with some experience of other lines, including Viking).

We've been to Praha a couple of times and while we would love to find ourselves back there the temptation to go where we've not been before was too much for us.

So...

We originally planned a couple of days doing the Nazi Rallies/Trials history tourist stuff in Nuremburg and then training it to Marseilles from Munich so as to grab the train onwards to Aix-en-Provonce where we'd camp out in an apartment we know and love for a couple of weeks.

Geri expressed a need to see the museum on the site of the Buchenwald concentration camp and hence the '.5'.

And now?

• Budapest to Nuremburg on the cruise.  Nine days.
• Day and night in Nuremburg.
• Rent car and drive to Weimar. Wander the city.  Overnight.
• Buchenwald tour and overnight/recovery.
• Drive to Munich airport or hauptbahnhof, drop car, fly/train to Marseilles, train to Aix.
• 16 days and nights in Aix, side trips here and there. 

A bit unusual for us that we'd rent a car.   But we can get the latest model Smart forfour for 4 days (we both drive smart fortwos) for E166 and because the train from Nuremburg to Weimar is a milk run, the car saves us a tonne of time.  More even in getting to Munich for either the train or a plane.

If thoughts or suggestions, especially regarding accommodations, please leave a comment below.