Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts

Follow This Years Tour Live

The Library of the South Carolina State House
This week is our family's history tour, and this year we're in South Carolina studying Revolutionary and Civil War history. We are post photos from it regularly, to see them follow along on the Discering History blog, or @discerninghistory on Instagram. 

Western Theater of the Civil War Tour

Our tour this year was on the Western Theater of the Civil War. We traveled through Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. Here are some pictures:


The Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson
Fort Donelson
Joshua speaking

Waverly Plantation
Exploring Chickamauga Battlefield

Chattanooga
Found this cave hiking up Lookout Mountain
Group Picture

See more here.

Reformation on the Rhine

Many significant events in the Reformation happened along the Rhine River, and you can listen to a talk Dan gave at hour house here:



You can download the slideshow here.

Rhine Cruise - Day 3, Strasbourg

Strasbourg Cathedral
Today we arrived in Strasbourg, France while eating breakfast, and started our bus tour after breakfast. Strasbourg has transferred from German to French rule many times, and now houses the European Union Parliament and Place de la Republique. We visited the Cathedrale de Notre Dame, or Strasbourg Cathedral, with the famous astronomical clock. Dan climbed the 335 steps to the spire of the cathedral while Kendra went shopping. We saw a couple of other cathedrals where some famous reformers preached, ate a pretzel for lunch instead of going back to the ship, then boarded the boat for our canal cruise. This was Dan's favorite day of the trip.


On the way up the cathedral spire
City Gate Towers
Tanner's business & house on left
Gutenburg Statue
View from Church Spire

Rhine Cruise - Day 2, Freiburg

Model of Medieval Freiburg
After lunch we boarded a bus for Freiburg & Breisach. By the way, we cruised with AmaWaterways and they provided QuietVox headsets in our cabin which we used on all of our walking tours and recharged them in our cabin. They also provided umbrellas, robes and slippers for our use onboard. Whenever we returned from touring, they had hot towels, hot mulled wine, and hot peach tea, and no security to go through. All in all, it was more pleasant than the large ocean cruise ships, not to mention the complimentary soft drinks, beer, and wine for lunch and dinner, and it was never hard to find a table to sit at.

Freiburg Munster (cathedral)
Inside Munster
On our way to Freiburg we saw the Black Forest, grape vines, American barracks (soon to become much needed apartments), and strawberry and asparagus fields. First we toured the Munsterplatz, then the history museum, and saw the customs house. I almost bought some crystal antique wine glasses, but when I found out they were from France, they didn't seem like a good souvenir from Germany (I forgot we would be in France the next day - ha! ha!)


Custom House
Breisach Cathedral

Rhine Cruise - Day 1, Basel

Map of our Itinerary
To celebrate 25 years of marriage, Dan & Kendra took a one week cruise on the Rhine River. The posts will be written by Kendra, but edited & posted by Joshua. We drove to Baltimore, MD on the Monday immediately after the NCFIC Worship of God conference and flew to London, where we spent about 5 hours in the airport before our flight to Basel, Switzerland. It was cool and rainy when we arrived at our ship, and we had about an hour before the welcome aboard celebration. The ladies were presented with a rose, we were introduced to the ship's crew, then onto dinner. We were very well fed and had friendly service all week.
Source.
After dinner we walked along the river to the cathedral in Old Town Basel, where we were surprised to see a carnival, possibly leftover from the Octoberfest. Erasmus died in Basel, on his way from Frieburg to Brabant. He is famous for many writings, most notably his Greek New Testament translation, which later became known as the Textus Recptus.


Patrick Henry Tour - Day 6, Red Hill






















Patrick Henry Tour - Day 5, Monticello