Steve's European Exploits: Off Traveling Europe!

Its been a busy couple weeks. This last week I had to finish and present a design for a row house as well as take a couple tests. This is because the school is taking a 3 week break from classes for traveling. woo hoo!

Week 1: (Oct 12-18) Architecture Tour with school of Western Germany and The Netherlands. I will be going to see Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Utrecht. I am very excited to see all the architecture in these cities.

Week 2: (Oct 19-25) Rome and Florence! I am going on an optional tour of the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance. I am super excited to finally see all of these iconic and extremely influential and beautiful buildings, paintings and sculpture. The Coloseum, The Pantheon, St. Peters, Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's David, Boticelli's Primavera, Il Duomo in Florence, and much much more.

Week 3: (Oct 26-Nov2) I will be traveling on my own for the last week of the break. Starting in Florence, I will use the rail pass I bought to go back to Copenhagen through 3 amazing cities: Zurich, Munich and Berlin. I am planning to meet up with another DIS student in Zurich and spend a couple days with him in Switzerland. Switz. is an extremely beautiful county nestled in the Alps. I am very excited to experience the breathtaking landscapes. After Zurich I will take a train into Germany and spend a few days in Munich. Munich is an amazing city full of Museums, other architectural attractions and of course... the heartland of German beer. I very excited to see my favorite brewery: Spaten as well as the famous Hofbrau Haus. There also many interesting museums I want to see such as the BMW museum. After Munich, I will head north on a train to Berlin. Berlin is a huge city with a large variety of Museums and cool architecture, and has been one of the cities I am most excited to see.

I am planning on taking as many night trains in between cities as I can and stay in youth hostels in each city. It will certainly be a big adventure as this is my first time traveling Europe on my own. Prayers for safety, wisdom, and health are much appreciated.

Wow.... what a trip... and it all begins this morning... so now that I am mostly packed... I need to get to sleep as I am catching the bus ride to Germany early in the morning... *yawn.

Until my next post chronicling my amazing adventures, I will leave you with some renderings of the row house in Copenhagen I designed. I really enjoyed working on this project and am fairly pleased with how it turned out. Enjoy.

Front street facing facade: