VIDEO TOUR GUIDE OF OUR TWO GERMAN STUDENT EXCHANGE CITIES

 Browsing the internet, I came across this video that gives us a tour guide of the two German cities which have been our destination during our school exchange visits there: Frankfurt & Nuremberg. The video belongs to the series of Rick Davies Europe Travel guides. On it you can see many of the places we've visited in both cities during our stays there. A reminder of some great experiences.

Video: GERMANY'S FRANKFRUT & NÜRNBERG:

Exchange 2019 / Friday 3rd May, TRIP TO SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

Second day trip of the whole group of students to Santiago de Compostela, where we visited a Cidade da Cultura Gaiás, Santiago's old town: the market, the Cathedral, parks and University campus.

Here are group photos taken at Obradoiro square by the Cathedral.

Santiago views:

From Gaiás,

From Alameda
Obradoiro square:

Exchange 2019 / Thursday 2nd May: SECOND DAY @ CORUÑA

Third day of the German students' stay in Coruña. They spent some time at school and later visited the aquarium and the fish market at Plaza de Lugo.

In the afternoon the complete group toured the old town, as you can see in the photo above, taken at the Colegiata.

Exchange 2019 / Wednesday 1st May: TRIP TO COSTA DA MORTE

Today, although it was a holiday, Spanish & German students met to go on their first day trip of this second part of the exchange programme.

The trip's destination was a Costa da Morte with stops at Vimianzo, where we visited its castle and its craftwork exhibitions. (Photos below with students at top of the castle tower)

The second stop was at Cape Fisterra, Europe's continental land's end, seing its lighthouse. (Photos below and the first photo of the whole group and teachers above).

Third stop at the falls of the river Xallas into the ocean at Ézaro.

Last stop for lunch and relax at the beach in Louro. As you can see the weather showed four season in one day from a misty, even rainy morning at times, to a sunny afternoon at the beach.

Exchange 2019 / Tuesday 30th April: GERMAN STUDENTS' FIRST DAY @ CORUÑA

First day of the German students in A Coruña. This morning they visited the Domus (first two photos: German students and their teachers: Julia Westenburger & Christian Derendorf) and the Torre de Hércules.

These visits came after having been welcomed by the Spanish teachers and the school's vice-principal and having had breakfast at school.

In the afternoon, they even went for a walk along the beach shore... It's because they don't have a beach near in Kronberg.

KRONBERG STUDENTS @ CORUÑA

Fifteen German students from the Altkönigschule in Kronberg in Taunus and two teachers will be arriving this evening for their week stay in Coruña on the second part of the 2019 Student Exchange with 'Rafael Dieste'.

This is their planning for the week:

Monday 29th:

- Arrival at Alvedro airport at 19:55h. Families collect them there.

Tuesday 30th:

- 8:30h:  Meeting at school and attending first class.

- 9:20h: School welcome reception at classroom ING3. 

-10:00h: Visit to DOMUS & TORRE DE HERCULES. 14:10 meet their Spanish partners.

- 17:00h Visit to CASA PICASSO. Walk around the city centre.

Wednesday 1st: 9:00h Day trip to COSTA DA MORTE. All students will go. 

Thursday 2nd: 

- 8:30h: Attending first two classes of the day.

- 11.00h: Visit to CASA DOS PECES & fish market at Plaza de Lugo. 14:10 meet Spanish partners.

- 17;30h: Meet at María Pita: Walk around the old town.

Friday 3rd: Day trip to SANTIAGO. All students will go.

Weekend with families.

Monday 6th:

- 8:30h: Attending first class.

- 9:20h: Last farewell meeting.

- 10:00h: Departure to Alvedro.

Exchange 2019: BACK FROM KRONBERG IM TAUNUS

Today Tuesday 9th our students from the 2019 Exchange with Altkönigschule in Kronberg im Taunus are back to their normal classes again. It was a week stay in Germany. Collecting on this post group photos of students and teachers taking part in it. In the photo above, all the students at the top of the Main Tower in Frankfurt.

This second photo in Heidelberg, again, the whole group of Spanish and German students together with their teachers: Julia Westenburger, Hilda Fraga and Ramón Neira.

The third photo with the complete group and teachers at Kronberg castle.

This photo shows Spanish students and teachers on a bridge over the river Main with Frankfurt's skyline in the background.

The Spanish group at the school's welcome reception.

Spanish students at the airports: above, waiting in Santiago. Below arriving at Frankfurt-Hahn.

Exchange 2019 / Private visit Sunday 7th April: NEROPARK & BOWLING GREEN, WIESBADEN

Exchange 2019 / Private visit Sunday 7th April: NEROBERG-RUSSISCHE KIRKE, WIESBADEN

Exchange 2019 / Private visits Sunday 7th April: NEROBERGBAHN, WIESBADEN

The Nerobergbahn is a funicular railway in the city of Wiesbaden, Germany. The line links the city with the Neroberg hill to its north, where visitors may view a panorama of the city.

The line opened in 1888, and is one of the few funiculars with water propulsion. At the upper station, tanks on the downbound car are filled with up to 7,000 litres of water to ensure that it is heavier than the upbound car. The downbound car then pulls the upbound car uphill with a 452-metre long steel cable. When the downbound carriage arrives at the lower station, the water is discharged and pumped uphill.

In 1939, it was planned to convert the line to electric propulsion and to provide larger cars, but the outbreak of World War II prevented this. The line was taken out of service in 1944 due to war damage, and service was restarted in 1948. In 1988 the line was protected as a technical monument by the State of Hesse.

Exchange 2019 / Private visit Sunday 7th April: WIESBADEN