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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 ...
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 ...
End of the line!
... to the last destination. This actually worked in our favour. Had the cruise actually finished in Basel we would have needed a cab to the train station to start the next leg of our journey. As it was the bus took us there directly at no cost to us!!
So this is the end of the cruise, was it worth it? Absolutely, I would certainly do another. I can recommend Avalon as a professional, well oiled machine. Service as brilliant,housekeeping 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 ...