Itinerary

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DAY 1 Monday, May 19

Depart Atlanta for Munich, evening flight. Vegetarian dinner and breakfast served enroute.

DAY 2 Tuesday, May 20- Germany, Austria

Arrive in Munich. Pickup van. Drive to Salzburg. Get settled in Hostel.

DAY 3 Wednesday, May 21 - Austria

Today we experience the "Sound of Music" with a bicycle tour of Salzburg, including the REAL von Trapp house! In the afternoon will visit the Mozart birthhouse and museum. (Will visit sites related to: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Christian Doppler, Wolfgang Mozart)

DAY 4 Thursday, May 22 - Austria

Drive through the majestic Alps as we tour the outlying area including "Sound of Music" sites. At the "wedding church" town of Mondsee we will eat Fraulein Braun's Apple Strudel. Continue on to Vienna. (Will visit sites related to: Franz Gruber, Joseph Mohr)

DAY 5 Friday, May 23 - Austria

Wake up late today after our drive to Vienna. It is a big city, but our hostel is on the edge of the city and located in the "Vienna Woods." Visit to the fascinating Medical History museum which includes the famous wax cadavers. Will also see some of the original works of Freud, etc.

City of Vienna Online

DAY 6 Sabbath, May 24 - Austria

Fascinating visits to expand our understanding of and appreciation for biblical backgrounds as we visit the Ephesus Museum, Egypt Museum, and the Papyrus Museum. Vespers at the Memorial Cemetary after visiting graves of Mozart, Strauss, etc.

DAY 7 Sunday, May 25 - Austria

Full day today. Start off with a Freud tour ending up at his Vienna clinic, now the Freud Museum. During this tour will also visit the Strauss Museum. Visit to the Narenturm the historical, and unique, psychiatric hospital. (Will visit sites related to: Alfred Adler, Sigmund Freud, Franz Joseph Gall, Viktor Frankl, Oskar Spiel, Carl Gustav Jung, Ludwig Beethoven, M.B. Czechowski, Paul Simmelweiss, Strauss family, etc.)

Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna

DAY 8 Monday, May 26 - Austria

Van tour of the area north of Vienna. Will include sites related to Freud, Beethoven, and Lorenz. High up on the Khalenburg, with Vienna spread out below, we will savor apricot and chocolate specialty dessert. A guided tour of the magnificent Schonbrunn Palace. (Will visit sites related to: Sigmund Freud, Ludwig Beethoven)

Schonbrunn Place

DAY 9 Tuesday, May 27 - Austria, Germany

Rather long drive today back to Germany. Visit to the Mathausen concentration camp.  Arriving Trockau late afternoon we get settled in the quaint village where we will spend the night.

Mathausen Concentration Camp

DAY 10 Wednesday, May 28 - Germany

Drive through the Thurinigen Forest to Jena. Early afternoon a walking tour of this university town and recent headquarters of Zeiss Optical. Visit the "Black Bear Hotel" where Luther spent the night on his return to Wittenberg from his "friendly" captivity in the castle. Tram and walking tour of Leipzig with a focus on sites related to Wundt, the university where he taught, his house, laboratories, and grave. And for lunch a "Wundt Falafel Sandwich"! The tour ends, with dessert at the Ice Palace where you may select your choice from lasagna, spaghetti, or pizza ice cream. Either is "out of this world." But if you are skeptical there is much more from which to choose. Late afternoon leave for Nibschen and sleep at the convent site of.Katrina von Bora, Martin Luther's wife. (Will visit sites related to: Jena - Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, Karl Volkmar Stoy, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Karl Zeiss; Leipzig - Wilhelm Wundt, Gustav Theodor Fechner, Johann Bernhard Basedow, August Hermann Francke, Oswald Kulpe, Philipp Melanchthon, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Tuiskon Ziller)

Black Bear Hotel

DAY 11 Thursday, May 29 - Germany

Visit Torgau and then on to Wittenberg. Walking tour of Wittenberg and visit to Luther Museum. Will spend the night in the Castle--same building as the church of the 95 theses. Albrecht Druer, "Praying Hands" sculpture also slept here. (Will visit sites related to: Luther and the Reformation, University of Wittenberg)

DAY 12 Friday, May 30 - Germany

Leaving for Berlin, we will stop on at Helmholtz grave. (Will visit sites related to: Hermann von Helmholtz)

DAY 13 Sabbath, May 31 - Germany

Worship service at hostel. Late morning and early afternoon visit to the Pergamum and Babylon Museum to gain insight into both Daniel and Revelation. Vesper service at the grave of Johannes Muller. (Will visit sites related to: Daniel, Johannes Muller)

DAY 14 Sunday, June 1- Germany

Walking tour, "Topography of Terror," which will include a visit to "Checkpoint Charlie" and the museum. Free afternoon. (Will visit sites related to: Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Josef Goebbels, Albert Speer)

Checkpoint Charlie

DAY 15 Monday, June 2 - Germany

Visit Humboldt University. Afternoon for preparations for early morning departure. (Will visit sites related to: Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Wertheimer, Wilhelm Wundt, Johannes Muller, Franz Brentano, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Kohler)

Humboldt University

DAY 16 Tuesday, June 3 - Germany

Transfer to the Berlin airport this morning for departure back to the US.

 

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