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Well, we are in Berlin today. And have had a great view of everything from the bus bathroom, where we spend most our time these days (Just today) with extremely pissed off stomachs! We both got food poisoning sometime the last 2 days, and it struck today! Absolutely miserable to be throwing up while travelling on a bus for hours and no chicken and stars cambells soup. But we are surviving. It just happens to be the longest day of the tour also! touring berlin, flying to copenhagen, and not arriving at the hotel untill after 10! But we`ll make it!
Last time I wrote we were in Salzburg, one of the most beautifull cities in the world! we went from there to Prague,,, maybe the ugliest city in the world! And got to enjoy a strings concert by the prague royal orchestra! We watched it right by st. vitales cathedral... google that, it was incredible! I think it inspired batman!
Since, we´ve been to wittenburg, the cutest city known to man! in the words of Alisha, it´s a small city with lots of little buildings of different color stucco´s. I say it´s straight from a chick flick!
The last thing I want to talk about is MAUTHAUSEN concentration camp. Words cannot describe what we saw. Even driving up to the camp, the feelings in the bus and in the woods were solemn, and utterly sickening. The area that they built it in is one of the most beautiful areas I have ever seen with the fall leaves on the forest, the river winding through, then you go up over a small rise, and in front of us was a fortress surrounded by barbed wire which immediately caused a feeling of lightheadedness. We visited a few different areas of the camp, and like I said, I am at a loss of words! Finally after viewing the "Stairs of death" (please look it up) we went into the camp itself, including the barracks, graveyard, and execution chamber. The most sickening, humbling, and sad sight I have ever seen. One of the only things that has ever literally made me sick to my stomach. Yet the most powerfull thing that both Alisha and I felt, was the presence of those who died there. Indescribeable, but we literally felt their souls among us. I am very glad that we had that opportunity to visit there, but even visiting there is something that I pray never will happen again. I can´t even imagine what those people went through.
Anyways, it´s time for us to go. We love you all and think about you everyday!
S&A
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Wow - I've always heard that Prague was beautiful! But you guys thought otherwise? That's how it goes - but I really want to see Salzburg after hearing how much you liked it. As for the concentration camp - I can't imagine how intense that experience was (much more powerful than all the pictures, movies and stories you can read in 8th grade . . . I used to teach the Holocaust in my English classes). Hopefully you are also keeping a journal of all your experiences - remembering is the hardest part. Love you guys!
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