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Travel Blogs from Mittelbergheim
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 ...
A day trip to colmar
stephanie and i decided to take a 45 minute train ride to colmar france from strasbourg. there was some great shopping, food, and wine. colmar is where the statue of librty was built. the town has a bit more of a german feel and is the home to flambe and fois gras. both were excellent! wedenesday we head back to colmar ...
Busy busy busy
... area and window shopped. We have reevaluated shopping because we have to carry it home!!! We had lunch at this little cafe that was warm and cozy and shared a bottle of Riesling from this area. It was all amazing and we decided we like currents and persimmons( little orange fruity things). Needless to at we are fearless...ha! Yeah right. The duck liver was good!!! So staying with the theme that 2 is better than one. We have stopped and an ...
Oh what a night!!
... out that we needed refreshments. I am so proud of myself. I ordered 2 local white lagers on tap. Granted I had my phrase book in front of me, the bartender smiled and was happy to serve us. I felt so good about my speaking ability that I asked for another. When in france!! We went back to the hotel to meet Marlin and here we sit waiting for him to take us to some Tomb restaurant. Well worth the wait!!!! We sat in this title balcony and had beer and escargot ...
Another city...
... the city. there are a bunch of old narrow roads they in current times have been blocked off for driving and are only used for walking and biking. unfortuneately GPS doesn't recognize that and it tried to take us down a few of these 'roads'. we figured it out with only about a 15 minute delay in our arrival time and made it to the hotel at about midnight. the hotel is pretty amazing! each floor has ...