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Travel Blogs from Wasselonne
Learning and Seeing European Politics
Right after my friend Evann left, I traveled with my class to Strasbourg France to see the European Parliament. In my political science class, we have been studying the parliament and its role in world politics. It is a multinational parliamentary assembly consisting of 736 members and 27 of the EU's countries and is the only political group that is directly elected by the people. After a three hour drive we arrived at the European Parliament which is a really futuristic ...
Oh what a night!!
Our Monday started after our train got in at almost 10 pm and Marlin drove Strasbourg France. Did you know that roads just STOP? Yep. GPS sucks here and there was mini heated words about turning the wrong way down and one way and then backing up and turning where it was not allowed. I Called the hotel and he told me he did not know where we were. Great! So we parked in an underground lot and walked with all of our bags down cobble stone and brick streets. We were tired ...
Another city...
... new shoes buy one get one 50% off. score! they are like baby clouds on my feet and super cute. stephanie and i had a wonderful lunch of gnocchi and pizza and a bit of wine. on the walk home from shopping we stopped at a local pub with the most beautiful wood tables. met up with marlin and had a wonderful dinner and we even had room for desert. now we are all super tired and trying to plan out our tomorrow.
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Another Country
... is huge and contains several parts which detail not only time but phases of the moon, placement of planets, and figures which move on the quarter hour. There is a life size cockerel which crows 3 times each day at 12.30 when the religious figures have had a wander!
The usual market place and old buildings were in evidence as you would expect. The Kammerzell House situated at the edge of the cathedral square was one ...
Oct 1, Rhein Valley
... we stopped in they had markers on the wall of the building showing how high the river got! The last one was 1995 but there were probably five in the last 50 years. That would have been 12-15 feet over the wall of the river. Most spectacular for me were the old city walls, old buildings and numerous castles. There were often three castles in sight at any one time appearing on both sides ...