Hi Room 11,
Since I last posted which was ages ago, we have almost finished our trip.
After Rome we went to Corfu, Greece for 3 nights. Here we mainly spent time by the pool in the sun and went on a boat tour over the to many parts of the main island of Corfu. We nearly didn't make it here due to ferry strikes but our tour manager managed to pull some strings to get us there. There were lots of stray dogs and cats around but they seemed to be well looked after and looked well fed.
Following Corfu, we spent 24 hours on a ferry similar to the ones we have that go over the Cook Strait and we headed to the Venice. Venice is a city built on water designed to escape the approaching enemy. Today it is sinking but the old city still attracts tourists every year for the infamous gondola ride - boats that navigate the narrow canals. There are no cars or bikes allowed in the old city and people catch bus boats and drive boats along the canals to get to work every day.
Then we moved from Venice to Vienna, Austria we saw many amazing buildings and spent the event at Prater Park - an amusement park - we rode many rides and won a giant minion on a claw machine. We also spent an afternoon in a museum that had many artefacts including bones of dinosaurs and a robot T-Rex. Austria reminds us a lot like New Zealand - green and clean.
After Austria we started our drive to Munich, Germany. On our way we stopped at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp. These started around the time of World War 2. Jews and other who didn't conform to Nazi Germany. A place of torture, hard labour and death. A very sad place to visit but one that makes you think about where the world is now and makes you thankful for the country we live in. When we arrived in Munich we went into the city and saw the Marienplatz - a gothic clock with 32 dancing figures and 43 chiming bells.
The Austrian Tyrol was calling and on the way we went white water rafting. The air temperature about 10 degrees celsius and the water even colder. We were It was great fun in grade 3 rapids and would highly recommend white water rafting if you haven't done it. We then stayed in in Hopfgraten a small village below the Alps. Think of the Sound of Music and you'll understand where we were.
We then began our trip through the Swiss Alps and stopped at our next stop Lucerne and went to the home of the Swiss Army Knife and Swiss watch mechanisms. We arrived at Engelberg where we caught a gondola up the mountain to our accomodation half way up Mt Titlis. It is hard to believe they are heading into summer and it is still snowing on the mountain. We spent the next morning on toboggans, in glacier caves and walking along wire bridges. The next morning we woke to snow so left the mountain with a fresh layer of powder. If only our mountains received this much snow our season would never end.
We have arrived in St Goar, a small village in Germany. We are here for the night until our last two nights in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Our tour is coming to an end and we have made many life long friends and I hope many of you will experience these things one day. I trust you are all well and have heard you made the final our Super Sport and hopefully you came away with a win. If not, we will play harder in the next super sport and hope to come away with the trophy. Hope you all are behaving and are enjoying your specialisation choice and Kapa Haka. I will send Mrs Wood some photos via email hopefully so you can see what I have seen.
Talk soon!
Miss V and Luke
Since I last posted which was ages ago, we have almost finished our trip.
After Rome we went to Corfu, Greece for 3 nights. Here we mainly spent time by the pool in the sun and went on a boat tour over the to many parts of the main island of Corfu. We nearly didn't make it here due to ferry strikes but our tour manager managed to pull some strings to get us there. There were lots of stray dogs and cats around but they seemed to be well looked after and looked well fed.
Following Corfu, we spent 24 hours on a ferry similar to the ones we have that go over the Cook Strait and we headed to the Venice. Venice is a city built on water designed to escape the approaching enemy. Today it is sinking but the old city still attracts tourists every year for the infamous gondola ride - boats that navigate the narrow canals. There are no cars or bikes allowed in the old city and people catch bus boats and drive boats along the canals to get to work every day.
Then we moved from Venice to Vienna, Austria we saw many amazing buildings and spent the event at Prater Park - an amusement park - we rode many rides and won a giant minion on a claw machine. We also spent an afternoon in a museum that had many artefacts including bones of dinosaurs and a robot T-Rex. Austria reminds us a lot like New Zealand - green and clean.
After Austria we started our drive to Munich, Germany. On our way we stopped at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp. These started around the time of World War 2. Jews and other who didn't conform to Nazi Germany. A place of torture, hard labour and death. A very sad place to visit but one that makes you think about where the world is now and makes you thankful for the country we live in. When we arrived in Munich we went into the city and saw the Marienplatz - a gothic clock with 32 dancing figures and 43 chiming bells.
The Austrian Tyrol was calling and on the way we went white water rafting. The air temperature about 10 degrees celsius and the water even colder. We were It was great fun in grade 3 rapids and would highly recommend white water rafting if you haven't done it. We then stayed in in Hopfgraten a small village below the Alps. Think of the Sound of Music and you'll understand where we were.
We then began our trip through the Swiss Alps and stopped at our next stop Lucerne and went to the home of the Swiss Army Knife and Swiss watch mechanisms. We arrived at Engelberg where we caught a gondola up the mountain to our accomodation half way up Mt Titlis. It is hard to believe they are heading into summer and it is still snowing on the mountain. We spent the next morning on toboggans, in glacier caves and walking along wire bridges. The next morning we woke to snow so left the mountain with a fresh layer of powder. If only our mountains received this much snow our season would never end.
We have arrived in St Goar, a small village in Germany. We are here for the night until our last two nights in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Our tour is coming to an end and we have made many life long friends and I hope many of you will experience these things one day. I trust you are all well and have heard you made the final our Super Sport and hopefully you came away with a win. If not, we will play harder in the next super sport and hope to come away with the trophy. Hope you all are behaving and are enjoying your specialisation choice and Kapa Haka. I will send Mrs Wood some photos via email hopefully so you can see what I have seen.
Talk soon!
Miss V and Luke
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