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| HERE ARE JUST A FEW PICTURES OF OUR TRIP TO GERMANY February 15 - 24, 2001 Many Pictures, Please be patient while they load |
| TRIER, THE OLDEST CITY IN GERMANY THIS IS THE PORTA NIGRA. IT WAS ERECTED BY THE ROMANS AT THE END OF THE SECOND CENTURY A.D. IT WAS BUILT WITH SANDSTONE BLOCKS AND USING NO MORTAR. |
| TRIFELS CASTLE IN THE MIDDLES AGES, THIS CASTLE WAS THOUGHT OF AS THE CORNERSTONE OF IMPERIAL POWER |
| LICHTENBERG CASTLE. IT WAS BUILT AROUND 1200, BURNED IN 1799 AND RENOVATED IN THE 1970S & 1980S. THERE IS A MUSIC MUSEUM IN THE PART OF THE CASTLE THAT WAS THE BARN. THE MUSEUM OPENED IN 1984. |
| The detail the Romans put into their architecture |
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| Here is a sample of some of the instruments in the museum |
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| BERLIN, A WONDERFUL CITY WHERE THE OLD AND THE NEW ARE MINGLED TOGETHER BEAUTIFULLY. |