Hostels and Route

Wendy came over last night to work on some final planning for our trip. It was so good to see her! We accomplished a lot but still have a lot to do. We were very excited when we made reservations for our hostel in London. We are staying at the Journeys Paddington which is very central to Buckingham Palace, Waterloo station, The London Eye, etc. It's a new hostel and it's cheap. Our first hiccup was realized after we made the reservation. Because we made the reservation using a debit card, we are required to call ahead and confirm our reservation by 1200 hours the day of check in. Luckily, due to the time change (they are 6 hours ahead of us), we will be able to call before heading to the airport to confirm.

We also decided on a hostel for Paris: the Auberge International Jeunes. We are supposed to fax our reservation but I have sent an email asking about the possibility of emailing our reservation. If I haven't heard from them by tomorrow, I guess I will be making an international fax. Good thing I already have an international calling card!

There are a few things we are try to nail down with the itinerary. We can't decide whether we want to make Heidelberg a day trip and continue on to Munich that evening, or spend the night in Heidelberg and day trip to Fussen on the way to Munich. We are leaning towards the second scenario. We found a cute hostel in Heidleberg that was fairly inexpensive but has no air conditioning...You win some, you lose some.

Our next steps are to finalize route, decide on hostels, and make reservations. Hopefully by the end of this week, all of those things will have happened.

While reading up on Rome in a guidebook, I found an amazing site that we must go see. The Mamertine Prison is where the apostles Paul and Peter were held before there execution. It will be so amazing to walk on the same floors that Biblical characters once did.

Okay, I'll stop day dreaming and end this post.

The Mamertine Prison