Vienna to Rhine

 

The German club students from Potter-Dix school, took a ten day trip to Europe this summer. The tour started in Vienna, Austria and ended in Frankfurt,Germany; even though they went all they way to Switzerland. Two other EF tour groups also traveled with them. The expirence was very educational and fun. They took a 10-hour flight there and a 9-hour flight back;along with a few plane rides in between. They had all different kinds of food there, markets everywhere. They even have a McDonald's, Subway, Burger King, and even a Starbucks! There were many different street performers, like living statues, singers, portrait artists, etc. Their 'malls' were called a pedestrian zone, where no vehicles or bikes could roam, and you just walked everywhere! Alot of the buildings there were still kept in their old-fashioned form. The churches were very detailed from the murals on the celings, to the hand carved statues in the walls. "The scenery was just to die for, so green and beautiful."-Many of the students quoted. The highlight of the trip was the tour of the Neuschwanstein castle, and the salt mines! A few of them can not wait to go back either. Even though the students got homesick, they still had a blast!

 

From left to right: sunset view from the plane ride there, coolest looking pop bottles ever (measured in liters, not ounces), a poice car, and an 8-man bike in Salzburg.

 

From left to right: Our tour guide Indira, the girls in front of the Schloss Shonbrunn palace in Vienna, a local 'surfing' on still waves in Germany, and a living statue in Vienna.

 

 

From left to right: The opera house in Vienna, Mozart's birth house(translated), in Salzburg, Hundertwasser village in Vienna, and the Schonbrunn palace's fountain also in Vienna. The statues represent the god Neptune with his triton.

 

Guten Tag!