Today we went to Finland and we had to wake up at 4:30 in the morning get ready then go to the boat. The boat was two hours long. We got to Finland at about 8:15 am and we went to a cafe and we ordered some food then we went to a Moomin store…
Apartment Tour: Lund, Sweden
We have been staying in a friend’s apartment in southern Sweden. They were here with us for the first week and then left to visit Iceland on their Spring Break for the second week.
Apartment Tour: Warsaw, Poland
This is our Warsaw apartment, on the square of the Old Town.
The Berlin Wall History
On August 3, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build the antifascist barrier between East and West Berlin. It was meant to keep Western fascists from entering East Germany and to keep East Germany safe from West Germany. But it was really to keep people from East Germany from entering…
Berlin Wall: Death Strip
When in Berlin, you have to learn about the Berlin wall, and you know that we did just that. On our second day in Berlin, we went on a free tour that led us to one of the last remaining sections of the wall. The wall was surprisingly skinny and not that impressive. It amazed…
The B-24 Liberator from world war II
We went to a museum and on the ceiling there was an airplane from world war II. The airplane had seven people plus a bunch of bombs and weapons and stuff like that so it was pretty crowded in the plane. There were also some people in the very front, the back, and the bottom…
Apartment Tour:Berlin,germany
It took us about 24 hours to get to Germany but we have finally made it and it is freezing cold!!!!!!
Apartment Tour, Elephantine Island, Aswan, Egypt
This week we’ve been staying on an island in the middle of the Nile River. The only way to get there is by a small ferry boat. It’s close to the big town of Aswan but much quieter with two farming villages.
Way back to, Hanoi, Vietnam
Now I know that we were in Vietnam a while ago, but it still deserves a blog post. Immediately after we got off the plane, it was cold. We had just spent the last five months in hot weather with the occasional cold day or week, but this was a whole new cold we haven’t…
Apartment Tour: Luxor, Egypt
Our apartment in Luxor is very nice and as always we were surprised by how green it is along the Nile River. We later learned that many bedrooms in Egypt have domed ceilings to make the sunlight bounce off. It really does keep those rooms much cooler.