Thursday, May 31: Departure from USA. Check your own ticket for time. Plan to arrive at the airport 2 hours before departure (airline requirement for international travel.) Friday, June 1: Arrival in Prague (3:40 p.m.) After clearing customs and picking up your luggage, exit area E. You will see minvans marked Airport-Centrum. It will cost 90 Kc@ and will take you into town and drop you at Namisty Republiky. Walk back toward gray building (Ceska Narodin Banka), and you should have the metro stop on left and an art deco building on right. At intersection, turn left on Hybernska. You will see the Meteor Plaza Hotel half way down the block. (011420) 2419 2554. Shower, nap and wait for the rest of us to arrive from Istanbul. Our flight arrives at 5:15; we should be at the hotel by 6:30. Dinner at nearby Domaci Pivnice V Celnici. Saturday, June 2: 9:00 a.m. departure for 1/2 day city tour by foot, metro and tram, lunch at Prvni Novomestsky, a brew pub. Afternoon and evening free so you can make your own concert arrangements. Sunday, June 3: 9:00 a.m. departure for 1/2 day city tour by foot, metro and tram, lunch at U Vladare. Afternoon free. 7:00 p.m. performance of La Traviata at the state opera house. Monday, June 4: Day free in Prague. Dinner plans t.b.a. Tuesday, June 5: 8:30 a.m. departure for Krakow by private coach.
			The Moldau with the Castle in the background as viewed from the Charles Bridge in Prague.
	MEALS ON TOUR: Breakfast and one other meal is included. The breakfasts in all of the hotels are international buffets. For dinners you can order from the menu within a certain budget range (generous). Fellow winos--bad news. After Prague we are in beer country. The beers are excellent and a good value. The wines are overpriced (A Fetzer Zinfandel was priced at $50 at one Warsaw restaurant.) I am budgeting a liter of beer each at dinner. You may substitute other beverages within that price range.

	Old Town Square in Krakow.	Tuesday, June 5: (Continued) Arrive Krakow at 4:30 and check into Hotel Dom Turysty, soon to be renamed to Hotel Wyspianski (01148124229566). 7:00 p.m. dinner at Pod Gruszka Wednesday, June 6: Depart at 8:30 for Auschwitz. Return to Krakow. 5:00 p.m. depart hotel for tour of Jewish Quarter ending with dinner at Ariel Restaurant. (I recommend renting Schindler's List to prepare for this day.) Thursday, June 7: 9:00 a.m. city tour including Cathedral, Royal Tombs, Sigismond's Bell and St. Mary's church. After a break for lunch in the main market square, we will depart the hotel at 3:00 for Wieliczka Salt Mines. Return to Krakow about 7:00. Dinner at Bohema Restaurant at 7:30. Friday, June 8: 9:00 a.m. departure for Warsaw. THE FINAL SOLUTION: Hitler's genocide policies hit Poland and Krakow particularly hard. We will spend most of Wednesday, June 6, trying to come to terms with the enormity of these unthinkable crimes. We will go first to Auschwitz and Birkanau and then to the Jewish Quarter in Krakow in the late afternoon. We will end the day at the Ariel, a Jewish restaurant that features talented folk music entertainers.

	Friday, June 8: (Continued) Arrive Warsaw at 2:30--3:00. Check into the Hotel Orbis Europejski, (+48) 826 50 51. Meet in lobby at 4:00. I will lead you on an orientation walk to Old Town Square to show you where all of our meals will be. Free time in Old Town Square until we meet for dinner at Restauracja Pod Herbami at 7:00. Saturday, June 9: I'm leaving the morning free as a number of the shops are closed on Saturday afternoon. 2:00 p.m. city tour with coach until 5:00. Meet at 7:00 p.m. for dinner at Restauraca Pod Samsonem. Sunday, June 10: 9:30 departure for excursion to Zelazowa Wola (Chopin's birthplace) to visit small museum and attend concert. Return to Warsaw in early evening. Dinner at Basylisch Restaurant Monday, June 11: Depart for Berlin at 8:30. WARSAW was devastated by W.W.II. The Warsaw uprising that began on August 1, 1944, resulted in the total destruction of the Old Town Square pictured on the right. When the uprising began, the Red Army was already in the suburbs of Warsaw. Inexplicably they did not enter the fight. The insurgents were able to hold out against the vastly superior forces, but eventually they surrendered and were slaughtered. The Nazis then blew up what buildings were left standing.And only then did the Red Army enter the city.		Old Town Square in Warsaw

	Brandenburg Gate, Berlin	Monday, June 11: (Continued) Arrive Berlin approximately at 6:30 and check in to the Upstalsboom Hotel Friedrichshain. (0114930) 293750 Dinner at Hotel Restaurant. Tuesday, June 12: City tour by foot, tram, and S-Bahn (pass provided) in morning. Afternoon free. Dinner TBA. Wednesday, June 13: Free day to use your transportation pass to go to various museums of your choice. Buffet dinner at hotel. Thursday, June 14: Morning transfers by Gray Cab in time for our various return flights. MUSEUMS: Good luck in making your choices of museums to visit. There are too many good ones to see in the day and a half that we have. Read your guidebook, pick three or four, go to them and figure that you will come back sometime to see the others. Dinner TBA: Notice that I have not chosen restaurants for our last two nights. I'm deliberately waiting to see what we are in the mood for. We may feel that we have overdone the Central Europe cuisine at that point and I may choose another ethnic cuisine--Thai, Chinese, or Italian. ROOMING LIST: SINGLES: Laurence Barker TWINS Careylin Dryden & Carrol Smith Sara & Charlie Lewis Allan & Maureen Nowotny Mary Rose Walls & Evelyn Rogers John & Linda Edmundson Dale & Patsy Meyers Richard & Ann Adams Carol Benge & Mark Johnson Mike Basore & Bess Nowotny