The trip begins with some time at the Connie at the TWA lounge in JFK before travel on ITA Airways to FCO and a stay at Hotel Raphael in Rome. Next to Stuttgart, where we'll pick up a Porsche for a week split across nights in the black forest, Switzerland and France. After returning the car, we'll spend 2 nights at the Munich Andaz. Our return trip includes a 4 hour layover at LHR and as much lounge hopping in terminal 3 as I can get away with.

Index to high points:

TWA Hotel
Hotel Raphael Rome
Picking up the Porsche
Hotel 1280 Krone
Zum Hecht
Geisingen, Germany
Grindelwald, Interlaken, Lauterbrunnen and Hotel Bergwelt Grindelwald
Strasbourg and Hotel Leonor
Porsche Fun
Returning the Porsche and Stay in Munich
Airport Lounge World - MUC
Qantas Lounge - LHR
British Airways Lounge - LHR (Terminal 3)
Cathay Pacific Lounge - LHR
American Airlines LHR-JFK and the point of this stupid and futile gesture