Day 10 (5/18/2022 - Munich)

We gathered in the morning to tour a fusion reactor. The afternoon was free to the students. All are well. 

 Video:  https://youtu.be/7DN3N071yWU

Day 9 (5/17/2022 - Munich)

All is well!  We had a day filled with BMW museum, Olympic tower, lunch, and Deutsches Museum.   Video will follow tomorrow. 

Video:  https://youtu.be/LufzUmmMtOU

Day 8 (5/16/2022 - Stuttgart/ Munich)

Today was the longest day as we traveled to Munich via Ulm…we stayed in Ulm for a few hours to climb the steeple of the world’s tallest church, then went on to Munich.  After checking in, we had a 3-hour walking tour of the city,  All traveled well and arrived in Munich in good spirits. A video will come tomorrow. 

Video:  https://youtu.be/qjYfa3ILvgk

Day 7 (5/15/2022 - Stuttgart free day)

We checked in with everyone to make sure they made it back from their evening fun.  Many were off to some of the attractions in town for today. 

Ed and I spent our time (9 hours) doing as much in Stuttgart we could manage!  Video highlighting this endeavor is below:

https://youtu.be/QgaLqCJt4io

Day 6 (5/14/2022 - Stuttgart)

It was an interesting day in many respects. We have never had a hiccup in our scheduling for tours in nine years, until today. The Mercedes-Benz Museum was closed despite our confirmed reservation. It seems something came up in April, which they needed to attend to over the last week - and didn’t inform me of this situation:

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/mercedes-benz-reportedly-sold-world-s-most-expensive-car-in-secret-auction-188613.html

I guess it takes a week to run the auction, secure the funds, prepare the car to be shipped, etc!

So, we carried on to the Porsche Museum and that tour. 

Many came with us as we explored new laundry options since our usual option for all these years had been gutted recently, despite checking whether they were in business via the internet a few weeks ago!

Sigh!

Tomorrow they have a free day and funds we have allotted them so they may go to any museums, sites, etc that are cultural and their individual kind of fun!

Tonight’s video:  https://youtu.be/X7hsGO6lpKo

Day 5 (5/13/2022 - Freiburg/ Stuttgart)

We finished our activities in Freiburg, traveled to Stuttgart and acquainted the students with getting around the city. All is well and all are in good spirits. It’s a good group and we are pleased to have them here I will work on today’s video tomorrow. 

Video:  https://youtu.be/5LU99gVPt1w

Day 4 (5/12/2022 - Strasbourg, France)

Well, this part of the trip was very uncertain until the last couple days. We were able to travel to and from Strasbourg, France with no issues. I am glad they were able to experience this historic town, specifically, we visited the UNESCO World Heritage site, Grand Íle.  The video compilation is below:

https://youtu.be/VCzJWDkW0tA

PS - we took a boat tour around the island. The footage is time lapsed and in two parts there were locks, you will see a lot of cement in both cases as we were raised up in one and lowered in the other…