Blogs from Germany, Europe - page 940

Hello to all. Mark and I are in Dusseldorf now waiting for our flight to depart for Bangkok. We cannot believe how quickly the time has passed in the past month. We said goodbye to Grant yesterday in Rome after having an incredible month travelling around Europe. In the days before he left, we went to Florence and wanted to visit the Duomo, but with our luck it was Sunday and it was closed. However, we were able to see the David which is really something. It is mind boggling to think about how someone could carve that from one solid piece of stone. We then caught a late train to Rome and crashed after a very long day from travelling from Croatia. The next morning we got up and saw everything there is to see ... read more

So… about that storm of homework… 3 big projects, 2 little weeks and the computer is not being cooperative. My big design project, the one I’m designing with the product design department and in cooperation with Melitta, has a final design, at long last, and in order to have a final model to show off, our teacher, Herr Kampe, arranged a pretty sweet deal with a modellbau (a workshop) that’s in Nürnberg (about an hour south of here). So, along came Saturday the 23rd and I carpooled down to the place with a few other students to jump into model making. I was totally flying by the seat of my pants, because I had no idea how I was even going to begin with this thing… it was supposed to turn out as a rubber placemat ... read more

I arrived in Berlin last night. After a detour on the wrong train from the airport I found my way to the hostel an hour later then expected ;) Found two guys from Norway who knew this alternative place, it's a community driven café/bar/club where the alternative people gather. Artists, punk-people, homo community, just everyone "else" :) This night they had live performances by a few different Sing & Songwriters and as main artist "Kitty". Small time singer mixing the voice of Elin Sigvardsson with an electric guitarr and drums. All in all I found the place and the people to be more interesting then the music. Didn't bring the camera there unfortunately. Today I walked around in Berlin for hours, went to Checkpoint Charlie and the Topography of Terror exhibition. I'm kind of tired of ... read more

Hello everybody!!!! We are in frankfurt and we like the city!!!! Very nice and Lina is really happy as they have starbucks coffee!!!! Our hotel is nice and cheap including breakfast (18 euros a night) Prag was horrible!!!! At least at the train station. Everybody was rude and because of their incompetence we missed our train to fankfurt and had to take another one. It was really horrible. The trip from krakow to prag wasn't that great either. But good thing is we met a german boy (17 years old but looked like 15) who had overslept on the train and ended up in prag with no money. So we had a few laughs with him. Going to paris tomorrow for four nights. booked a hotel for 22 euros a night walking distance from Moulin Rouge! ... read more

Today we went on a walking tour led by a Canadian/Berliner named Brian. It was just mind-blowing! Brian really new his stuff and had many stories to tell. I can't possibly narrow six hours down but I will mention some highlights. One thing Matt and I were blown away with was standing on the site above Hitler's bunker where he was brought above ground after he killed himself. We also saw the sight of the book burnings where there was an arty memorial underground. We walked through a controversial memorial to the Jews that consisted of different levelled cement blocks. As well we looked at a memorial for the 96 men who voted against Hitler and in one way or another under Nazi rule lost their lives. Of course we saw the exsisting part of the ... read more