My Easter Holiday was 2 weeks. Long.
I think I will split it up into about eight sections so it may take more than a week to write about.
For this post, I don't have access to photos right now (they're in my dorm room, and I don't want to walk back down that hill and then walk back up in two hours in the rain, because it is supposed to rain later today as well), so I think I will just give a summary of what I might talk about in each post.
2. Florence
David, Medici's, leather, The Arno, Duomo di Firenze, "individual pizzas", Ponte Vecchio, The Uffizi
3. Tuscany and Cinque Terre
Cheesy Pictures, frustrations with lack of payphones, steps and hills, wine, towers, more gelato, some sunshine, zebra cathedral
4. Rome
Crowds, easter, the Vatican, the Colisseum, the Forum, the metro, Mama Angela's, the cappuchins and their decorative bones
5. Salzburg
Festung Hohensalzburg, Mozart, Sound of Music, Walking everywhere and along the river, cloudy, Mirabell
6. Innsbruck (with a section on Bologna)
The hostel without locks, the Alps, the colorful houses, lack of information on hiking trails, alpenzoo, the alps, the alps, the alps
7. Munich
Dachau memorial, sausage traditions, Augustiner's, Hofbrauhaus, expensive but safe, Bavaria, pretzels, BEER, Rauthus-Glockenspiel
8. Fussen
Hohenschwangau, Neuschwanstein, ridiculous fog, horse-drawn carriages, UNO with a danish couple, tourists everywhere, Found american students!, stein souvenir, getting back home
I was a bit glad to get back "home" to people I knew and sleep in my own bed. I actually did miss England a bit. I wasn't quite expecting that. It's also nice that it's a bit warmer out now than when I left. Spring is coming, however slowly.
I was happy to hear you were able to go to the Hofbrauhaus and Dachau, during your ventures through Germany. When your Grandma and Grandpa Etzler came to visit me in Germany, we took a tour of southern Germany and visited both of those places. While Grandpa doesn't remember the Hofbrauhaus (too much beer), I can assure you he had a great time.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, Dachau was a very sobering experience. The camp is literally at the village's gates. I couldn't imagine how humnity could be so cruel and others within the town complacent to what was happening.
Haha, I can see why someone wouldn't remember Hofbrauhaus very well...those 1L servings contain a lot of beer. It was a very sobering experience to visit Dachau and I think among the other students studying abroad a pretty unique one. 43,000 deaths is such a huge number...I could maybe understand not knowing what was going on until 1936, when the death count was much lower, but after that I don't know how you could not know...and I'm sure some people could see what was going on in the fields...but I could see how they'd be afraid of the SS guards in training as well. And I could see the people buying into the propaganda as well, I think that's something Hitler mastered maybe better than anybody else. It's scary to think about. But yeah I think visiting the place makes me want to make sure I never let something like this happen but genocides are still occuring in Africa and no one is doing much about them either.
DeleteI loved Munich though, it was one of my favorite cities!