Planning a vacation to Western Europe!

A trip to France, Italy and Switzerland has been on the cards for quite sometime now... So we made the Schengen visa and now the planning had to start.... We planned the trip for the first two weeks of September... It took me almost the full of August to plan the entire trip out... We didn't want to go through a travel agent.... The vacation was a successful one, all went as per the schedule,  we were able to find the hotels and all the tourist places with the help of maps without much difficulty... I felt an air of satisfaction and pride when all fell in place :) MH (My hubby) was pretty impressed with my planning and organizing skills :)  Planning tools used were internet, Lonely planet's Western Europe guide book bought from Landmark, Madras... Endless hours I spent on surfing to find out which cities to visit, where to stay and what to do in each of these cities... Finally the itinerary was done... We flew from Oran, Algeria to Lyon, France... We used the Eurail pass to travel in train within Western Europe... I would recommend to plan your trip by yourself instead of going through a travel agent if your young at heart, want to be a little adventurous, have the time to plan and resources -fast internet and want to save some bucks :) The following posts will be on each of the cities we visited and some travel tips as well :)

My first post

The idea of starting a blog has been in my mind for more than a year now... I used to wonder what will I write in my blog and so on and so forth... Finally, I have realized that I have lot of stuff to pen down, so here goes my first post...A small introduction about myself.. I am an Indian woman living in Algeria with my husband... The main reason for starting this blog is to let my family and friends as to the happenings in my life here in Algeria... Living far away from my homeland, hope this blog helps me feel closer to my family and friends back home.... The people who have inspired me to start a blog is the muscat blogosphere :) Before moving to Algeria this February, I lived in Oman for a year :) My first few posts will be about our recent vacation to France, Italy and Switzerland :)