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Bruchsal, Germany - 24th May 2009
By: fam-united
Finally the weather is better again, so we went outside to take some photos of the beautiful flowers in Petra's garden.
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Posted Jun 14, 2009, 4:56 pm
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Heidelberg, Germany - 24th May 2009
By: fam-united
My host family drove to Heidelberg, because their son begins with work experience at a medical laboratory tomorrow. So they thought, if would be a good idea to look where this laboratory is and then go to see the castle. But it was so crowded at the castle, that we turned around and decided to go there sometime later. So we only had been able to take a photo of the bridge.
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Posted Jun 14, 2009, 4:57 pm
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Koblenz, Germany - 1st June 2009
By: fam-united
Petra and her family visited Ralf's aunt and uncle in Koblenz today. They also invited Ralf's parents to join them - and us, of course.
Koblenz is a city situated on both banks of the Rhine at its confluence with the Moselle, where the Deutsches Eck (German Corner) and its monument (Emperor William I on horseback) are situated.
It is the third largest city in Rhineland-Palatinate, with a population of c. 106,000 (2006).
Here you see the confluence of Rhine (right side) and Moselle (left side).
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress
(German: Festung Ehrenbreitstein) is a fortress on the mountain of the same name on the east bank of the Rhine opposite the town of Koblenz.
It was built as the backbone of the regional fortification system, Festung Koblenz, by Prussia between 1817 and 1832 and guarded the middle Rhine region, an area that had been invaded by French troops repeatedly before. The fortress was never attacked.
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Posted Jun 14, 2009, 5:03 pm
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Igel, Germany - 2nd June 2009
By: fam-united
We had a short stop at Igel to take a photo with the Igel Column, also Unesco World Heritage. The brothers Lucius Secundinius Aventinus and Lucius Secundinius Securus built it around 250 for them and deceased relatives. It shows scenes of daily life of cloth merchants and of mythology.
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Posted Jun 14, 2009, 6:22 pm
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