Sorry this is so delayed! I went to Berlin two weeks ago, and since then have been busy non stop with my Swiss Alps class. The field trip to the Alps was this Monday through Wednesday, and my final was yesterday. Tomorrow I leave for Portugal, where I will be hiking up the coast until Thursday, and then on to Spain! I” be back to Freiburg on the 24th, missing the first day of my next class, Ethics and Sustainability. Ok, enough of the travel details, let’s move on to Berlin! (Sorry about the fewer captions this time btw, I have an early flight tomorrow!)
My travel buddies: Jazmyne and Sarah
Museum Island!
Monument to the Jews killed in the HolocaustBrandenburg Gate
The hotel where Michael Jackson held his kid out over the balcony! (left side, second window up)TiergartenThe Holocaust MemorialEvery block is a slightly different size, the inside is like a mazeA parking lot, previously Hitler’s BunkerThe site where Hitler’s body was burned, now a sandbox…
A note here: the site of the bunker is now unmarked to dissuade any Neo-Nazis from coming to pay respects and other horrific things. Very smart on the part of the Germans.
Monument to Georg Elser, the man who missed blowing Hitler up before WWII by 13 minutesThe only remaining Nazi building standing, the former Air Force buildingBerlin Wall, outside the “topography of Terror” a museum about the Gestapo
“Checkpoint Charlie” except not really, the actual site is a block away
Humboldt UniversityMonument to the book burnings outside the UniversityGate in PotsdamNeuer GartenSanssouci
Obligatory Berlin Wall Pic
Berlin was amazing! A 3 day weekend was enough time to see the city and for a day trip to Potsdam, but I think I need to go again so I can see all of the amazing museums.
Ok, on to my class field trips! I thought I’d throw in some pictures of our excursions to prove that I actually go to class, even if that class involves walking around nature preserves and vineyards that are growing on an old volcano…
Look at how these trees grew around this rock!A natural “ice-hole”, the microclimate allows for snow and ice!My prof measuring the surface temp
Western Green LizardKaiserstuhl, “The Kaiser’s Seat”
And then we went to the Alps!
The Bissen System! It takes water from the mountains to irrigate the valleyThe cold water changes the soil environment of irrigated meadows
SO MANY BABIESThe inside of this church had some very old, very odd murals
…..Organic vineyardNot so-organic vineyard. They spray! That’s why the plants are so different underneath the vines
Post-hike beer
My typical peace sign pic, mom hates it because she says it looks like Nixon but I wasn’t alive for that sooooAlex stopping to smell the flowersSkulls from the Black Death, they just had them piled up inside an old churchGondola up the Alps!
Here it is again
They use these pens to sort out sheep by size!
The Alps largest glacier! (It’s receding, of course)I wasn’t readyStill wasn’t readyPeace out alps!
So there we have it! I wrote a 5 page single spaced report about 2 days of field study so I’d say we learned a lot. Look forward to another VERY large post in 2 weeks, all about Portugal and Spain!
All Abroad! 