My travels in Germany Pictures and Photos

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March 22 - July 22


23 April

   
This is all about the Pulverturm (tower where they held the ammunition, etc.) for the old Oldenburg city.  If you click on any of the texts, they will load bigger so that you can read them better.

The pictures overlap a bit, but you can get an idea anyway.

  
One of the older buildings in Oldenburg, now a bookstore.  (built 1502, renovated 1888)

I ran into Ali (Iran) in the afternoon who showed me this great place to get Italian ice cream in Oldenburg, right next to the Lambertikirche.  

Then I met up with Anne who took me to a restaurant where her dad was meeting with some business clients (he works in window draping.)  He has a book about window drapings that has been translated into English. If anyone wants to read it, it is called     .

Sheep grazing behind the restaurant.

   
Anne's dad with an eel!

Dinner and dessert was excellent!  Above is what I had for dessert.  For dinner, I had pan-fried eel, which was quite good surprisingly enough!  I had never tried eel before, so I had to try it just for the sake of saying I had tried it, and it was enjoyable!

There is a tradition that goes along with eating eel as well, that you say as part of a toast.  Everyone gets a spoon filled with schnapps, and you have to wait until your thumb gets cold from the cold spoon, then you know that it's okay to do the toast.  The toast is in Platt Deutsch, a dialect of German.

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I lived and studied at the German university in Oldenburg which is near Bremen, and about two hours east of Hamburg, Germany.  Clearly visible on the map are Bremen and Twistringen, Germany.  When I go back, I'd like to visit Hannover and Berlin, as well as Cologne.  Also, I'd like to visit more German castles, Because I only visited two in Nuremberg.  Click on the Germany links on this page to see pictures and advice about studying abroad in Germany (and traveling advice for France), or click the links below to go to strive4impact.com's other pages.
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