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EUROPE & MOROCCO  September-December 1999

EUROPE

FRANCE  (2 weeks) Paris; home-stay in Alsace; swans and muskrats in Strasbourg

GERMANY  (2 weeks) Mosel River Valley: "Roman Ruins Rights" in Trier; Moselkern; frantic trip to Berg Eltz castle; Berlin: two home-stays; walking tour of city; Berlin Wall Museum

CZECH REPUBLIC  (2 weeks) Prague; discussing American "propaganda" with family in Kutna Hora; Budweiser factory in Ceske Budejovice; train to village of Cesky Krumlov

POLAND & SLOVAKIA  (1 week) Poland: home-stay in Krakow; Auschwitz concentration camp; Slovakia: Stary Smokovich in High Tatry Mountains

HUNGARY  (2 weeks) Budapest: two home-stays; marble-lined thermal baths; glittery opera house; antique subway

SPAIN   (2 days) Futuristic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

PORTUGAL  (10 days) Traveling with two American friends; port in Porto; fado in Lisbon; megaliths in Evora

NORTH AFRICA

MOROCCO  (3 weeks) "Thyroid-challenged" smugglers on a train; sticky fingers in a Tangiers souq; beginning of tour in Casablanca; carpet fiasco in Fez; camping with Berbers in Sahara Desert; hiking in Atlas Mountains; snake charmers in Marrakech market

2002-2003   (UNITED STATES)

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