Chris, The best route through to Germany is through London England.
From there you can get connections and good fares on throughout Europe.
I won't burden you with my list of stuff, I figure your family will want
their needs met on this, your first trip.
I shipped about 300 pounds of automatic gate operators from China for
about 275$ Us by Federal Express.
Might want to contact Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT, he's
almost local, in Austria.
Stan

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:51:24 -0500 80 Westy Pokey <pokey@VANAGON.ORG>
writes:
> For what I want to ship it would be cheaper to fly to Germany
> and pick it up myself.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris