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Salzbergwerk
We visited a 500 year old salt mine in the German Alps, still an operating salt mine. There was a mine cart tram, a wooden slide, a boat ride across an underground Salt Lake, and lots of historical information about mining salt. Did I forget to mention the overalls! Check out our salt miner fashion.…
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Dachau
Many of the words I used here came from the information at the site, but feel so wrong. Prisoners implies something that doesn’t properly encompass the crimes inflicted on the innocent people tormented here. Work house was used as part of the nazi propaganda that this was a work camp, not a torture and death…
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Finally a pretzel!
We found a place that had only coffee and pretzels. It was in the market in Munich. You know it’s good when all the locals are there drinking coffee and talking to each other. It was less than $2 for a coffee and a pretzel.
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Munich arrival
Eden Hotel Wolff in Munich is our first hotel and our home for the next five nights. It is literally right next to the train station for ease of travel. We got unpacked and were a bit tired and hungry so we went ahead and ate at the hotel restaurant. It was a bit on…
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Take me to Church
This church was about 2 blocks from our apartment. It was stunning and we were drawn to the repaired hole in the side from damage during WW2. We did a little research and found that it has an impressive organ (teehee), and on Thursday evenings they do a playing open to the public. Aside from…
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Remi
For dinner we went to Remi in Berlin, a Michelin star restaurant. I didn’t take a single picture even though every dish was beautiful, so photos are from others off the internet. We sat outside at a little wobbly table on metal chairs covered with a cushion barely more than a cloth. David had a…
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The Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall stood from 1961 to 1989, separating West Germany from East Germany. It was torn completely down by 1994, only a very small portion of the original wall still remains. In short, the wall was put up and guarded by East Germany to keep the people from fleaing to the west. The area…
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