Showing all posts tagged "2016"
Melk and Mauthausen
Altar: (1) a place designated for offering sacrifices to God; (2) marker of a special place, event, or person in order to commemorate or memorialize said event or person.
Wednesday, 22-June, was a challenging day. In order to wrap my head around ...
Posted on June 22nd, 2016
Where to eat in Brno
If you like burgers and you happen to be visiting Brno in the Czech Republic, you must eat here:
And you must get this:
Posted on June 18th, 2016
Budapest Day Trip
We're on the train to Brno as I write this. It's a short trip from Vienna, so this will be a relatively short post. Also, I apologize in advance for this page loading slowly. It has a lot of relatively high resolution photos on it.
We arrive...
Posted on June 18th, 2016
Day Trip to Budapest
Today we're going to Budapest. Here's a map of a few things we might try to see. Never been there before, so, naturally, any planning we've done may go right out the window once we get there! :)
Posted on June 17th, 2016
Karlskirche
What you're looking at here is the high altar at Karlskirche (St. Charles Church) in Vienna. We visited this cathedral on June 6, 2016. This church we erected in honor of St. Charles Borromeo (1538–1584), patron saint of plague sufferers. In 1713,...
Posted on June 6th, 2016
Call to worship
This morning, 4-June, while with a student at the Anker down the street from Das Millicanhaus, which is across the street from Servitenkirche, we caught the bells ringing calling people to mass. Click here to listen to about 10 seconds of audio.
Posted on June 4th, 2016
Stephansdom
There are many cathedrals in Vienna, but the most iconic and, arguably, the most well-known and important one is Stephansdom (a.k.a., St. Stephen's). Two days ago (2-June) our group went for a tour.
[Note: I did not take this photo (I wish I had!)...
Posted on June 4th, 2016
2016 Summer Euro
Well friends, this evening begins the final orientation sessions for our summer European studies trip. Our students will arrive in town this afternoon. We have orientation this evening and tomorrow, and then we bus to Dallas and fly from there to ...
Posted on May 22nd, 2016
Spring Break
For Spring Break we traveled to the farm in Iowa to see my parents. They added on to their house a while back and are still getting things finished up and put away. On Monday morning, the carpet layers came and put down new carpet in the new addit...
Posted on March 16th, 2016