Slovakian Comb(s) Over

Monday, June 9, 2008

Bayern Essen

Here are the three main foods for Bayern, which is Southern Germany. The preztel, Bratwurst and Beer. But of course I have had to try all the good stuff while I am here...but those pictures will have to come later since I seem to have forgotten my flash drive in my room:(

The land where I could not speak the language

So over the weekend Ana and I went to Krakow, Poland. We decided that it would be better for us to take a tour of Aushwitz on Saturday and then tour the city with whatver time we had left. So above, we have part of the origianl gate from Krakow; the center picture is the center of the Old City of Krakow; the third picture shows the castle from the city which we were told by some other Americans that we should not miss visiting. We took an English tour of it but the inside is hardly original considering it was found in ruins. It went through two periods of renovation in the 1900s that the inside is just made up different periods of history of the city. I did not know half the people that were mentioned but the artwork and pieces were interesting to see.
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The bottem pictures are from Auschwitz I and Aushwitz- Birkenau concentration camps. I do not think any pictures that I took can completely explain what I saw at the camps. Auschwitz is so mcu smaller than the second camp and was all brick buildings. What people went through in the torture rooms is quite interesting. Or even when we walked through the gas chambers...to know that thousands of people belived what the Nazis were saying that they would be taking a shower...only they were walking into their death...the last picture shows Birkenau with all the barrakcs ruined in the back. Many of the barracks were set on fire just before the camp was invaded so that there would not be so much evidence left. This camp is huge! We went into the watch tower to see the overview of the camp and it is a little scary to see that camp with only the chimneys showing...definitely walked away in a somber mood from it...everyone was quiet in the bus after the tour was done and we had the hour drive back to to town.
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

who can guess what I did...

...so not everyone knows this but lets see who can tell what I did on Sunday...

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Some pictures from last week...

#Saw the ballet Schwansee

#took some walks near the river

#did laundry in my room

#and enjoyed some time on the playground

Castles

Weisenkirche

Neuschwanstein

So as everyone can see these are the castles that we visited on 30 June as a group. Neuschwanstein is the castle that Cinderella´s castle is based off of in Disneyland. This castle has never been finished since Ludwig died so early on. It just looks so beautiful sitting on top of a little mountain. Now Lindenhof, the last castle we visited was the only castle he did complete and you can tell from the inside. I don´t have any pictures from the inside because you are not allowed to so that they can perserve the colors and noone can seel their pictures to the public. Weisenkirche was a stop we made between the two castles along the Romantische Strasse. It was raining so I did not get a good shot of the outside but the inside was absolutely beautiful.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

how relaxing

So here is a map of Regensburg (that I forgot to rotate) but it gives everqone an idea how big the city is. I was able to run around the Altstadt in 30 minutes. It was amazing to see the Danube River in the morning light where everything is just waking up. When I went running, all the cafes were just setting up there tables and chairs and few people were heading to work. I am glad to start running again because it just helps the day get off on the right foot.