Located in a valley of the towering Alps, Trento is a city built upon Roman ruins. It was the summer residence for Italian bishops and was even once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. I went…
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Dear Pre-School Class: Last Stop Ireland
Before we headed back home we stopped in Dublin, Ireland. We saw Dublin Castle where the city began. Many buildings at night would go green, an important color for Ireland. We crossed back and forth…
Dear Pre-School Class: Seeing Croatia
Croatia is a land of beaches, Roman palaces and huge city walls. We went to our second Roman amphitheater. In the underground where gladiators once roamed, they had an olive oil museum and I worked…
Dear Pre-School Class: Romans and Juliet
We went to Italy and saw an ancient amphitheater and Juliet’s house. First we went to Trento, Italy. I saw dinosaur bones and did experiments at the Science Museum of Trento. The pizza was awesome…
Dear Pre-School Class: Touring Around Munich
We went to the top of mountain by a lake, rode rides at an amusement park and I flew a plane. We went to “Man” King Ludwig’s Neuschwanstein Castle. You first cross this really high…
Dear Pre-School Class: Back to Vienna and Touring Prague
We did another big trip seeing Vienna and the onto Prague. We rode in the Vienna’s Giant Ferris Wheel. You can even have dinner in it. Then we went and toured a huge palace called…
Dear Pre-School Class: Seeing Berlin, Gottingen and a Huge Palace
Last week we went to Berlin, Gottingen and saw what my dad called the palace of Schloss Nymphenburg. We headed to Gottingen where papa had work. We went out on paddleboats on a big lake….
Medieval Brilliance and Island Palace: Innsbruck, Chiemsee and Rothenburg
Dear Pre-School Class: My dad’s took me back to Austria. We rode a double decker bus across some high mountain passes of the Alps on the way. It was a long way down. In Innsbruck…
Dear Pre-School Class: Seeing Vienna, Bratislava, and Budapest
We took a trip to see Vienna with its Gothic churches, Budapest, ‘the Paris of the East’ and Bratislava with its futuristic bridge and medieval old town. First we went to Vienna and saw the…
Dear Pre-School Class: Zeppelins and Waterfalls
We headed to the big Swiss city of Zurich and took a short funicular up to see over the city on the lake. I went to a restaurant that put cheese on everything, yummy. Lucerne…