Preparing to leave for Istanbul

Well, the time has arrived for us to start final preparations for our upcoming trip to Europe. All flights and key train transportation arrangements as well as key apartment rentals have been made.

Our general travel path in Europe, with our starting point in Istanbul and ending point in Frankfurt, can be seen here.

We used the website vrbo.com for all of our apartment rentals in each of the following cities (click on the city name to see info about the apartment awaiting us in that city)...

Istanbul
Rome
Florence
Munich
Berlin
Paris

For our last few days in Frankfurt we used the website Booking.com to secure a room in the Hotel am Zoo.

Not much to do now but practice packing, waiting and trying our best to not forget something important, like say a passport or two ... :-(