Viking Today... 6/25

The itinerary for today is pretty vague. It only says, "Schlitz" But, in the update yesterday, Roger gave some more info that leads to some more links.

The "Landesakadamie" from the itinerary and the concert last night is actually the "Landesmusikakademie".

Here's a translated version of a page about the city with a great photo.
Landesmusikakademie from space

Roger said they're going to be heading out to Fulda today for some sightseeing.
Schlitz to Fulda

It looks like there's plenty to see in Fulda. It's a pretty big city with a population of about 64,000. In size and population, not far off from St. Cloud, Minnesota.

Our own Minnesota city of Fulda was actually named for the one in Germany. Fulda Minnesota has an area of 1 square mile... Fulda Germany has an area of 42 square miles.

A page of pictures of Fulda
Cathedral of Fulda
Fulda and the countryside
Fulda has great satellite imagery

There's a lot of good pictures on the German wiki. If you don't care to try and decipher the German, at least check out this nice panoramic shot!

The boys are slated to watch a soccer match between Germany and Turkey today with the Fulda fire department!
Another preview of the match
(Update: 6/26 8:24 - Looks like Germany won the match.)

Also... Mary Jo got a package with letters in it yesterday. She's forwarded them all on... if you haven't already gotten a letter, watch your mailbox!

Viking Today... 6/24

Today is a tough update. There's only a single line in the itinerary:

8.00 p.m CONCERT in the Landesakadamie

From what I've been able to find, a Landesakadamie is a high school.

Roger says they'll be getting a greeting by the Mayor of Schlitz. Wikipedia says that'd be Hans-Jürgen Schäfer. I think it's sort of funny that the German word for "mayor" is "Bürgermeister"

If you've looked around on your own, you'll know it's really hard to find good info about the town of Schlitz amid all the hits to Schlitz beer!

Schlitz Street
Captioned as Schlitz Town Hall

Let the Java load up and there's some neat 360 panoramas of Schlitz here:
Summer
Winter
Autumn in the country
Christmas

Has anyone gotten any mail yet?