Monday, June 23, 2008

Viking Today... 6/23

Today, the choir moves from Sarreguemines, France to Schlitz, Germany.
Sarreguemines to Schlitz

From the itinerary and the map, it looks like it's going to take them a while to get there.

On the way, this is what it might look like out the windows of the bus:
Blick, a city near the route
Rittersheim, a city near the route
Steinfurth, a city near the route
Annerod, a city on the way to Schlitz

The city of Schlitz itself is known for its 'Burgenring', or a ring of 5 castles that sort of surround the city. The population now is about 10,000.
Nice Schlitz View

The official Schlitz site has some good pictures on it... and a picture of the boys!
Schlitz Homepage

It looks like there's quite a few "old style" buildings in Schlitz
Buildings
Buildings 2

One of the towers in Schlitz resembles a candle and is decorated and lit like one over Christmas.
Normal Tower
Candle Tower
That's a big candle!

Tonight they have a BBQ planned with host families. I'm sure they're not actually staying in an open field, but here's a satellite image of the contact address from the itinerary.
Contact Address Map
Bridge Picture near contact address

1 comment:

Corinne Olinger said...

I followed some of the comments from the previous posts and came by some more photos. They were in one of the comments sections. If you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the comments (all in German, of course) you will see a few more photos. Here is the original comment.

"Hello VJ,
thank you very much for your response. As the author of the above article, which ikarusvpn was so nice to publish, I am really looking forward to meet that choir again.
I hope you do not mind that I copied your response and also published it in a forum where my article appeared first in German language. You find it at http://www.casperworld.com , then click upper left “Forum”, then “Internationale Youngstars - Musik”, then “Land of Lakes Choirboys”

Greetings from Germany"