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Learning and Seeing European Politics
... been to France over these past couple of months I am always amazed by what a beautiful country it is (and their elaborate and delicious pastries). The city was heavily decorated for Christmas and very cold but I wasn't as freezing once I bought an authentic french barrett. I started out by going in the church and decided that was the prettiest one I have ever seen. Even though it is not as big as the church in Ulm I loved the colorful stained glass with biblical pictures ...
Ma Francais est Tres Mal
Over the weekend I traveled with my Aunt to visit her boyfriend, Carlos, in Pfalz, Germany. It is a beautiful, ancient looking part of Germany with historical architecture, rolling fields and is right on the French boarder. As you drive through the towns in Fals all the locals are selling apples, pumpkins and new wine and speak with an original German dialect (a mixture of German slang and French). We started out the day with a small hike up a mountain that had an old ruin on ...
Oh what a night!!
... and domes dwarfed us and quite frankly was very humbling. We took lots of pictures and were there for over an hour. I am still In awe! We continued to walk and Amanda made her first purchase... A scarf!! I am on the lookout for a hat. Problem, having a hard time finding one the fits my head. Weird! We stopped for lunch in this little pizzeria and just plowed through gnocchi with shrimp and mushrooms and a pizza with artichokes, ham and an egg. Yum!! The day ...
Another city...
... prunes! sadly stephanie has broken out in some sort of rash, so the first thing on out to do list is to try and find a pharmacy and get something to ease her itchies. the pharmacy was right across from the hotel. they really don't have benadryl, but the phamacy person recommended something else. i hope it works.
we hit up the cathedral notre dame, petite fance district, and shopping. stephanie and ...
Another Country
... were amazing - and so many of them.
The cathedral contains a large astronomical clock - the third to be on the site. This version dates from the 1840s and there as no way the guide was going to miss out on showing it to us when a quarter hour action was happening! She reckoned there is a copy in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and google tells me she is right but I have no memory of seeing it there! The ...