Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Concentration Camp Today

Below is the entrance to the camp. They have erected this monument to serve as the entrance and a museum. As you go under the entrance you see this large open space with several statues. All of the buildings are gone but they have erected these statues honoring the site.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

German Concentration Camp

I visited the site of a WW II German concentration camp located in Latvia. There were 39 barracks housing mostly Latvian Jews. There were no ovens at this location but they still killed thousands by hanging. There is also a spot on the way to the camp where 25,000 Jews were executed in a field. The Nazis were walking the Jews to the camp and decided to kill them in an open field. The Nazis killed the 25,000 Jews in less than three days.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Stockholm, Sweden


We traveled by boat to Stockholm for a day. Here are some of the sights of the city.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Field of Flowers

We found this field on our way back from Croatia.

Orthodox Church

During one of our many adventures into the Latvian countryside we came upon this old church. We started to look around and an old lady with four dogs appeared. She asked if we wanted to go inside and see the church. When we went in we saw a little alter that she had constructed.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Croatia Spider

In Croatia this is how they remove your car when you are parked in the wrong place. They call this the spider. They take a picture of the car before they remove it in case of damage. They do not give out parking tickets. This will cost the owner about $500.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Croatia Coast


Here are pictures of the Croatian coast.

Zagreb, Croatia

We went to some meetings in Croatia several weeks ago. Here are the pictures from Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

England

While in England we traveled to the south and ended in a town called Southhampton. Lots of history. During WW II the Germans completely leveled the town with bombs. Since then leave have rebuilt the city.

Monday, May 4, 2009

Wales

Here is Rhonda and one of our ISL students getting ready to go to visit a college in Wales. She never looks this happy when I am with her.