Back at Werder

We all arrived back in Werder safely last night after another loooong bus ride. However it was made all the more pleasant along the way with the help of Frau Zimmer´s "Great German Bus Quiz" (aided by Herr Black as the official scorekeeper!).

Samstag was a very wet day - in Berlin anyway. I met Gemma and Alicia on the train into Berlin and saw Chris and Jack on the train home from Berlin - so who else was in Berlin?

My destination was the museum für naturkunde - just as well I am a Biology teacher because I found it really interesting!! The world´s largest dinosaur is on dispaly in the entrance hall - meet Jurascopes ....

After the museum visit we were trapped by the rollerblading marathon skating through the city ... it rivals round the bays!!

I trust your weekend has gone well - there will be more information about our weekend activities in the next post.

SALZBURG

Hello!


Today we were off to different country: Salzburg, Austria.
After a big "all you can eat" Breakfast we set off.
Once we arrived we had a 1 ½ hour long walking tour through Salzburg. We were shown Famous and old historic buildings and were told about there history.







We were also shown some places in which scenes from the musical "Sound of Music" were film.
After our interesting tour we got a few minutes free time to get some lunch, and then we were off to Fortress Hohensalzburg. It is a massive fortress situated on the top of a very large mountain. It was defiantly an impressive building with an amazing view from the top tower.

After the tour we had some more free time for shopping before we had to get back on the bus to go back to the Youth Hostel.


We were very lucky with the weather as it never rained but unfortunately because of the cloud we were unable to see the Bavarian Alps clearly.
Tomorrow we set back off for the long journey back to Werder.
Until later.
Bye Bye

Alicia

Todays Report 26 sep

Today !

first of all we had cerial and giant pretzels for breakfast, and after that we were ready to go - to munich!

First of all we had a guided tour through munich, we saw all the sights of munich had to offer, including a huge church, the city, visual art and the local malls. the picture you saw was of the old town hall, the ´rathaus.´

after we saw that, we enjoyed some authentic delicious german 'weißwurst' (or white saussage) at the hofbräuhaus in central munich.

after that was the best part - we saw the oktoberfest! there are many big rides - i went on a rollercoaster that completly outdid anything at rainbows end !! there was also alot of german dancing in the beer tents which was fun to watch, its an awesome event!

This is a photo of one of that hats that i got, and alot of the others also got similar hats too.

bis später - Chris.

p.s This is gordan cleaning up his mess in our room

Tuesday's activities

Our hostel is set in a beautiful valley - we have seen it from the top of the gondola ride as well as when we walked from Aschau village - about 15 minutes down the road. The houses and shops in the village are very photogenic!

In Bayern

There are a few days to catch up on as everyone did lots of different and exciting things over the weekend. The computers here have made it difficult to log on to the blog so everything is a little behind schedule … more will follow as we get up to date!
Monday’s bus trip was long and hot – but still interesting along the way and worthwhile to get to the Bavarian Alps (Bayern). We left a little late but soon made up the time along the Autobahn – we drove along the same one for nearly ten hours! The countryside was flat farm land for most of the way, although many of the pretty villages on the side of the autobahn were shielded with barriers presumably to keep out the noise – but it also prevented us seeing the houses clearly. It will be good to look around Aschau village which is where our hostel is. There were several stops for food along the way– typically at Burger King and McDonalds!! Thirty senior students from a school in Jena filled the bus after a couple hours travelling and it wasn’t until after 5.00 that we approached the alps and reached our hostel. It is right under the mountains with a village just down the road – a gondola to ride up to the peaks close by and about 70km München (Munich of the Oktoberfest fame) in the west and Salzberg (across the border in Austria) to the east. Chiemsee is the lake nearby (with castles included on its islands) which is our first trip to look forward to on Tuesday.
There must be five different school groups at the hostel so you can imagine it is rather large – we have six rooms each with their own bathroom – two for the boys, two for the girls and two for the teachers. There is buffet breakfast and dinner – we had BBQ steak and sausages tonight and will report on the breakfast menu in the next blog.
We will get some photos of the team for the next posting so you can see that we are all fit and well – the good weather and German food are helping to keep us fit and energetic!!

The Weather in München (Munich)

Berlin - the Reichstag and the shops!

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