Our last day was a great last excursion. We started at the Feyenoord Soccer Stadium and ended up at a relaxing dinner with the rest of the class. Overall this trip has been a life changing experience. Never have I been able to experience so much of so many cultures in one week. From the [...]
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21/5/2025
Today we woke up for a very fun boat tour of the port. We got to see up close more of the action that goes on in the port, and what the general layout is. After our tour we visited a historic monumental church/meeting place that held the planners of the soon to be mayflower [...]
20/5/2025
We went to Delft today and saw a lot of incredible architecture and churches that dated back to the 1600s. We hiked to the top of a church and saw a gorgeous view of the whole city. After we went to see a nearby small town with old grain windmills and had fresh fruits and [...]
19/5/2025
Today we had an incredible tour of the Port of Rotterdam. This was one of my personal favorite tours as we got to bike all around the city of rotterdam. We biked in a special bike tunnel that crossed under Nieuwe Mass River. After our tour of Rotterdam we got a tour of The Hague [...]
18/5/2025
Today we travelled throughout the city of Amsterdam, one of the most gorgeous views of Europe I have personally seen so far. Our tour led by a Purdue Alum, was incredible and very fun. The cities architecture stood out a lot from previous cities, as all of the buildings survived the previous wars and did [...]
16/5/2025
We started the morning with a very emotional and dark morning at the Dachau concentration camp. Dachau holds one of the first concentrations camps. This camp based the designs for the rest of the concentration camps to exist. From the gas chambers to the stoves that burned over 50,000 jewish people. It was an eerie [...]
15/5/2025
Today our group started the day at the BMW Museum. There we were able to experience and see luxury cars and racing simulators up close. It was a really fun experience that started the day on a great note. After our tour of the BMW Museum, we went to a local german university and had [...]
14/5/2025
This morning we had an incredible visit to the FC Bayern Stadium. We walked through the entire stadium including the locker rooms and got a true taste of what a German sporting event looks like. After that experience we found ourselves at the Munich Residence Palace. We toured through rooms of gold, silver, and many [...]
12/6/2025
Mercedes was a really great experience. Seeing the line really opened my eyes towards what maximum efficiency was. Over 5 conveyor belts moving extremely slow, but always moving. The factory consists of many sections with automated robots to keep simple tasks simple and fast. A cool section of the line was the install for the [...]
11/5/2025 – Logan Bateman
First day complete! Really exciting day, navigating the train systems and learning about a lot of the architecture in Stuttgart. So far the trip has been a great experience and I am looking forward to Mercedes and Porsche Tomorrow.
