Hi Everyone,
My wife and I will be doing our first Euro Delivery and celebrating our three year wedding anniversary in early May. This will be our first vacation together in Germany. I've visited Germany many times when I was much younger but don't remember too much of it. We go to Europe every year and have already seen most must see destinations, so going to big cities like Rome or Paris really isn't in our plans on this trip. We are looking for a relaxing trip before our busy season as work. I'm in my early 30's and she's in her late 20's, so any suggestion for someone our age would be great.
One thing I've haven't seen on any ED itinerary's are visits to watch manufactures or museums considering Munich is only a few hours away from the heart of the watch world. My wife and I both used to work in the watch industry before moving to marketing and look forward to visiting some of our favorite brands. Oh, and if you think 'festers are OCD, you need to visit a few watch forums. They'll put just about everyone on this forum to shame with their rants and level of OCD.
I'm looking for some input on what to do and see in the stop over cities I've listed or if there is another stop over we should make instead. I'd also like some help in route planning. I've searched this forum and haven't been able to find specific maps on how to connect to popular city pairs. I'll do my best with Google maps, but please let me know if you have an exact set of roads we should take.
Here is a rough outline of our trip. Just about everything is flexible including our arrival and departure dates.
Google map of trip
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 Get to Poznan from DC
Thursday, May 01, 2014 Poznan
Friday, May 02, 2014 Poznan
Saturday, May 03, 2014 Poznan
Sunday, May 04, 2014 Fly to Munich, BMW Museum, Marienplatz
Monday, May 05, 2014 Welt Pickup, Factory Tour, Drive to Fussen, Spend the night in Fussen
Tuesday, May 06, 2014 Fussen to Stelvio Pass to Lake Como (Is Stelvio really worth it? Heard lots of thing also about the Road to Hona, but with all of the trees, you couldn't see any of the landscape. The North Shore road was much better.)
Thursday, May 08, 2014 Lake Como, Rent a boat, Run into George
Friday, May 09, 2014 Lake Como, Drive to Bienne(Omega and Swatch Group), Schaffhausen (IWC), Spend the night in Zurich
Saturday, May 10, 2014 Drive to Baden-baden, Spa Day, Spend the night
Sunday, May 11, 2014 Drive to Hamburg, Pit stop in Kassel. Lived there for a few years when we emigrated from Afghanistan
Monday, May 12, 2014 Hamburg, Minatur Wunderland http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/ , Spend some time with family that lives there.
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Drop off in Hamburg or Bremerhaven (is one drop off place quicker to get the car to the US than another?)
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 Amsterdam
Thursday, May 15, 2014 Amsterdam
Friday, May 16, 2014 Fly back to DC?
My wife and I will be doing our first Euro Delivery and celebrating our three year wedding anniversary in early May. This will be our first vacation together in Germany. I've visited Germany many times when I was much younger but don't remember too much of it. We go to Europe every year and have already seen most must see destinations, so going to big cities like Rome or Paris really isn't in our plans on this trip. We are looking for a relaxing trip before our busy season as work. I'm in my early 30's and she's in her late 20's, so any suggestion for someone our age would be great.
One thing I've haven't seen on any ED itinerary's are visits to watch manufactures or museums considering Munich is only a few hours away from the heart of the watch world. My wife and I both used to work in the watch industry before moving to marketing and look forward to visiting some of our favorite brands. Oh, and if you think 'festers are OCD, you need to visit a few watch forums. They'll put just about everyone on this forum to shame with their rants and level of OCD.
I'm looking for some input on what to do and see in the stop over cities I've listed or if there is another stop over we should make instead. I'd also like some help in route planning. I've searched this forum and haven't been able to find specific maps on how to connect to popular city pairs. I'll do my best with Google maps, but please let me know if you have an exact set of roads we should take.
Here is a rough outline of our trip. Just about everything is flexible including our arrival and departure dates.
Google map of trip
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 Get to Poznan from DC
Thursday, May 01, 2014 Poznan
Friday, May 02, 2014 Poznan
Saturday, May 03, 2014 Poznan
Sunday, May 04, 2014 Fly to Munich, BMW Museum, Marienplatz
Monday, May 05, 2014 Welt Pickup, Factory Tour, Drive to Fussen, Spend the night in Fussen
Tuesday, May 06, 2014 Fussen to Stelvio Pass to Lake Como (Is Stelvio really worth it? Heard lots of thing also about the Road to Hona, but with all of the trees, you couldn't see any of the landscape. The North Shore road was much better.)
Thursday, May 08, 2014 Lake Como, Rent a boat, Run into George
Friday, May 09, 2014 Lake Como, Drive to Bienne(Omega and Swatch Group), Schaffhausen (IWC), Spend the night in Zurich
Saturday, May 10, 2014 Drive to Baden-baden, Spa Day, Spend the night
Sunday, May 11, 2014 Drive to Hamburg, Pit stop in Kassel. Lived there for a few years when we emigrated from Afghanistan
Monday, May 12, 2014 Hamburg, Minatur Wunderland http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/ , Spend some time with family that lives there.
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Drop off in Hamburg or Bremerhaven (is one drop off place quicker to get the car to the US than another?)
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 Amsterdam
Thursday, May 15, 2014 Amsterdam
Friday, May 16, 2014 Fly back to DC?