The Brucatos are running away from home!

Hello!

Those Traveling Brucatos just can't seem to help themselves!  This time, we're heading out to celebrate Christmas in France, and Robert's 75th birthday in Greece.

We have traveled in northern Europe in the wintertime before.  Well I remember freezing in England, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy and France.  This time, though, we'll be heading a bit south, to Greece, where hopefully (fingers crossed!) we will have slightly warmer weather.

But first, France!  We are leaving next Saturday morning, December 19th, and flying from Phoenix to Paris via Newark.  We will be spending three wonderful days in Paris, and meeting up with Jay and Tommy Stramat, who have spent the last three or four Christmas' in Paris.  From Paris, we head to Lyon, where we have rented an apartment overlooking the Saone River for two weeks.  Lyon is alleged to be the culinary capital of France (has anyone told Paris?) and it's a beautiful city we have visited before...but never to stay.

Then, on the 6th of January, we will return to Paris, and this time head to Beauvais, which is approximately 40 km north of Paris.  There we will take Ryan Air to Thessaloniki, Greece and start our newest adventure.  We will pick up a car there and make a circuit around the country, looking specifically for ancient ruins and monuments.  Fortunately, being a physicist, Robert knows the Greek alphabet ... very important, I am led to believe, in a navigator.

I have appended two maps.  One showing France and Greece, and the second with our specific itinerary for Greece.

Robert says he gets tired just looking at the Greek map, but I'm excited to see as much as we can while we're there!

We head back to Paris on the 30th of January, and home to Tucson on Robert's 75th birthday, January 31.

As always, we would love to have you join us!  Comments are always appreciated, and we will be carrying both Internationally enabled cell phones as well as our computer, so please feel free to write us at any time!

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We hope that everyone enjoys a safe and happy holiday season and New Year!

Lots and lots of love to all!
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