The following blog details my 5 city tour last week to Prague, Dresden, Leipzig, Potsdam, and Berlin: Saturday February 2 45 students from the IES Program signed up for a 5 city tour during our week break. The trip started bright and early at 8am which meant 6am for us 18th district dwellers. Our first stop was Prague. I can't say much about Pra...

Berlin's major museum of contemporary art is housed in Berlin's oldest surviving train station, the Hamburger Bahnhof built in 1845-47. We saw all three of the temporary exhibitions in place on August 12, but alas saw very little of the permanent collection before we were herded out as closing time approached. The first exhibition, which continu...

Well, where do we start. We have had quite an adventure since our last post. We have battled through strong winds, rain and sunshine to make it the 590km from Copenhagen to Berlin, and we have arrived in one piece (almost). Yesterday we had our first bike troubles as I got a puncture and Kristin's front brake vanished but we are still smiling! G...