DIANA mini

Berlin Dome

Berlin tv tower

The Bauhaus- the birth of modernism

sculpture at the Dachau concentration camp 

Dachau

memorial at Dachau

Dachau

where all the barracks were where the prisoners stayed used to be

pond at Olympia Stadium (home of the '72 olympics)

BMW Velt (world)

EXCURSION: DAY FIVE

We woke up the next morning and got a surprise stop at the Porsche Museum.  We didn't get to go inside but got a few good pics in the rain.

Ohh the excitement!

When we separated for lunch Brian and I found a bus stop that is done by Peter Eisenmen!  Ahhhhh! What a find! I was excited that we found it and I proceeded to model and pose under it as Brian took pics.

We climbed to the top of a spire on the Charlemain's Cathedral.  This has got to the largest building that I have ever seen in my life and we climbed to the top! I am amazed at how people were able to engineer and construct something with so much mass and detail in the time period they were in.

night time shot from the ground

the group on the ground admiring the site

EXCURSION: DAY FOUR

Woke up bright and early again and our first stop  was in a small town called Augsburg.  We visited a small community there that was originally built in the 16th century and was for lower income residents.  The whole community was gated and the gates closed at 10 pm.  We got to go inside one of the apartments and the church.

Then we set off for Cologne and right outside the city we stopped at a castle that sat on top of tall foot hill and over looked all the land near it.

Mercedes Museum was next on the list and that place was sweet!  The floor plan of the museum is double helix and there are two different ways to go through the museum.  One was chronologically and the other was by subject.  I wish that we had more time there but due to the bad weather and the lack of speed of the bus we were a tad bit behind schedule.