Hello all!
So, since my last beer filled blog rant, we have been a very busy couple of bavarians!! We went to Dachau concentration camp memorial, which was very informative, very powerful, and of course, very very sad. It is the only camp that was used throughout the whole of the third Reich (1933-1945), and we were able to see what bunkers looked like as hitlers reign transformed. We were also able to go into the gas chambers. Technically theyare not allowed to say they were ever used at Dachau, because they have no evidence of them using them for mass killings. They were, however, sId to have been tested, mosst likely on single prisoners at a time. It was very very eery to be in the actual showers.
On a more lively note, the next day we took a day trip to Augsburg! We went to see the cathedral, which is supposed to have the oldest stained glass windows in the world. We did see a cathedral, but didn't see stained glass, so we don't know if it was the right one. It was old though! And the town of Augsburg is just lovely.
Today we took a tour of Neuschwanstein castle, which is the original Disney castle! It was much younger than it looks, being built around 1880, never finished though. It wAs really interesting to learn about how it came about, and King Ludwig II.
Tomorrow we are off to Cologne for a couple of days, then off to Paris!!
Ta for now
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Didn't your jaw just drop when you stepped off the train and saw the Cologne Cathedral? I loved it! Seeing the towers from a distance was pretty, but standing under it completely blew my mind. And apparently it's even OLDER than the O'Keefe Ranch. Enjoy Deutschland and Paris!
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