Photo Essay: A few snaps from the editor’s trip to Germany and Austria
If you were wondering where the Post Independent editor was for three weeks in June, here’s a small glimps
City Hall in Hamburg, Germany.
John Stroud/Post IndependentA bridge with a smiley face sculpture over one of the canals in Speicherstadt, the warehouse district of Hamburg, Germany.
John Stroud/Post IndependentA typical brick residential building in the historic river port city of Lubeck, Germany, located about 90 minutes northeast of Hamburg.
John Stroud/Post IndependentLove locks on the main rail bridge that crosses the Rhine River in the Altstadt-Nord section of Cologne, Germany.
John Stroud/Post IndependentFerris wheel through the mist on a hot, muggy night at Wiener Prater, an amusement park in Vienna, Austria.
John Stroud/Post IndependentA view from across the street on the north side of Schoenbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.
John Stroud/Post IndependentView of the hilltop Hohensalzburg Fortress from a garden in the historic Salzburg City Center.
John Stroud/Post IndependentA small church tops this little island in the lake at Traunkirchen, in the Austrian Alps.
John Stroud/Post IndependentHallstatt is a small lakeside hamlet in the Austrian Alps.
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Our family travels began in Hamburg, Germany, where I attended the Rotary International Convention along with 25,000 other Rotarians from around the world.
Staying with some of our past Rotary Exchange students and their families, our visits included big cities and quaint villages alike, from Hamburg, Lubeck, Cologne, Bonn and Bruhl, Germany, and then on to Austria where we visited Vienna, Wels, Salzburg, Hallstatt and a few places in-between.
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