Recent Outing

A regular exchange program between our school and one in Magdeburg takes place, with 15 or so students from each school visiting the other. The Germans were here for a week, and since the Monday after Pentecost was a holiday, I was able to join the group for a bus outing to two sites. The first was in Godolo (with umlauts, which I cannot type), the summer/vacation palace of the Austro-Hungarian emperor, in the process of being restored after being (ab)used for decades as barracks, hospital, senior center, etc etc. The other was Holloko (more diacritical marks missing) which was more strenuous and more interesting. Yes the palace was historic, but it was somewhat sterile and formal. Holloko is a small farming village which was built up in the years just before WWI. After the war it went into general stagnation, but not total decay. Abut 50 of the original buildings remain, and nearly all of them have been repaired/restored to appear like they did 100 years ago. It is a one-street town, with large uneven cobblestones that are murder to walk on. And about half a mile away is a fortress perched on the tip of a eroded volcano core

I will post some pictures I took