Richard Hawley

Every other year we take Y9 to the Mittelrhein - Boppard/Rudesheim/Koblenz - that area. This year, the temperatures were absolutely scorching - mid to high 30s every day.

I made the pupils do this on a group photo at the Niederwald Denkmal -




See it even bigger for the full-on cheesiness

Other things we did -

Visited Siegfried's Musik Kabinett - a museum of hurdy gurdies and fairground and other musical cabinets.



Bird display at Burg Maus, high above the Rhine -


Consumed Bratwurst -


Dressed like Brits abroad -


..and saw some fine sights -

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Great pictures. I like the panoramic. How many images was that?

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Four all together. Good old Photoshop!

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the music place looks really boss would love to hear those very much

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now,then!

http://vimeo.com/5894852

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I liked that one about 30 seconds in. That one with the multiple violins with the circular bow was insane.

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I have had some great times in Germany.....my favourite place Konigssee, down by berchtesgarden (Bavaria)

You can take a little boat along the 'green' lake...usually a guy stands out on deck playing a trumpet..just a little tune...& it echo's all around the mountains..it's really beautiful..they call it....'Das echo vom Konigssee'.......

I spent a large chunk of my childhood in Germany at my grandma's near Hamburg - every summer and most christmases...I could wonder round by myself from being little all over the village - now I'm nervous if my kids arn't home on time. Lots of forests and beautiful scenery...
I would like at some time to go to where my mum's family came from - a place called Opole which is in Silesia - now Poland..I've just never got round to it....

germany's ace. heidleberg is one of the best places i've ever been to and as for the munich beer festival.................

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Just got back from the annual no-sleep excursion with 48 kids to Germany, where it didn't rain at all and it was scorching hot every day....however, I did get a stomach bug and honked my guts up on the Wednesday and ate virtually nothing from then until now....got all the kids back in one piece though.

Boppard

Koblenz

Stolzenfels Castle


More here

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It looks lovely, I've never been to Germany.

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The video of our first exchange trip earlier this year - I'm going back, taking 13 pupils, a week on Friday

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- we'll have to wait to see where efsb stayed, he left the link off!

Jimmy Porter and I had a trip to Berlin in September, which was grand. I've lived in Germany off and on during my life, but I'd never been to Berlin. We did the usual sights, including a very moving trip to a concentration camp about an hour by train from Berlin. This photo is of an art installation in the Jewish museum - Fallen Leaves by Israeli artist Menashe Kadishman. The thousands of faces are to represent the innocent victims of war and violence. They clank as you walk over them, I thought it symbolised the screams of the victims, and the sound will stay with me for ever.

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