Sunday morning, we woke up and prepared ourselves for a long Alsacian adventure. We got on a bus and enjoyed a gorgeous ride through the countryside to Haut-Kroenigsbourg Castle. Alsace is not only gorgeous, but the perfect place to come in fall. There are the Vosges mountains in the background, tiny villages tucked in between [...]
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Strasbourg Part Two
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Strasbourg!!
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This weekend our program took us on a trip to Strasbourg, France. It was one of the coolest things I have ever done. The provinces of Alsace-Lorraine have changed hands several times between France and Germany. In medieval times, it belonged to Germany, but became French under Louis XIV. After the Franco-Prussian War and the [...]