This weekend we went to Parsburg, a small village with an army base. One of the students who went on the first of these Germany study abroad trips liked it so much she moved here. She's the director of the public library on the army base. We visited her library, which was a very nice library. She seems to have almost unlimited funding. All the books were in good shape, new furniture everywhere, new shelves, etc. Nice. Too bad Uncle Sam doesn't care as much about his school children as he does his soldiers.
Parsburg is near the medieval city of Regensburg. The city is hundreds of years old and still looks medieval. We toured a palace. It belongs to Princess Gloria Thurn Taxis. I had never heard of her before, but her family got filthy rich when they invented the postal system in Europe hundreds of years ago. It was a lavish place. We weren't allowed to take picutes. The flag was on the palace roof, which meant the princess was there. We didn't see her, but we saw her car parked in the courtyard. She drives a little compact car. Regensburg is on the Danube River. Here are some pictures I took of a little village near Parsburg, and some internet pictures of Regensburg because I left my camera in the van when we were there. And there's a picture of the princess.
