A Ski Bunny is Born Chapter 3

What I figured is that we would initially fly to London England for a week or so, then fly to Copenhagen Sweden for a week before taking a train journey down into Germany. There we would pick up a rental car and drive around the rest of the continent at our leisure, maybe through France to Spain, across to the Mediterranean Islands and most definitely onto Italy, then a leisurely drive back through Switzerland and Austria to Germany for our flight home. I had booked flights, hotels, cottages and villas in most places along the route and the overall trip would take us probably 2 or 3 months, but would be fun. We both agreed that such a trip had to be done through the summer months to get the best of the European weather, so planned on leaving sometime around the end of May that year.

The next few weeks flew by and the time for our trip so came. Kim and I had returned to our normal summer house on the mainland a few weeks earlier and a few days before we were due to leave we started packing. We both eagerly sorted through our joint wardrobe, picking out all of the dresses, skirts, blouses, lingerie, negligees, shoes, accessories etc etc that we wanted to take with us. When we had finished we had quite a large collection of things and spent a few hours neatly folding and packing them into our luggage trunks, one for each of us. We just managed to squeeze everything in and afterwards felt exhausted. "Kim, do you think we have enough?" I asked, sitting back on the bed and looking at the two full trunks. "Oh, sure" she said, "don't forget we'll have lots of shopping trips over there, we're bound to bring back more than we take!" "That's true," I admitted.

We had both dressed fairly comfortably for the day, not wanting to spoil any of our good clothes. I had my long blonde tresses clipped back in a mane comb and was wearing just a little eye makeup, mascara, powder and of course some luscious pink lipstick. I had on a loose yellow silk sundress, with halterneck shoestring straps which flared out to knee length.