Author: fishe418

We started off our day with a boat tour of the port. This included the residence areas and the industrial port. While we did a bike tour similar this boat view let us see and learn things that were not possible from land. It was cool seeing the cargo port in action. We then went [...]

Today we got a tour of the medieval town of delft. This marks our 4th place visited in the Netherlands. It’s interesting to be able to observe and be apart of Dutch cultures of these towns. They all are slightly different in regard to overall history and culture and function of the town which is [...]

Kicking off the day we went on a bike tour of Rotterdam. While we had some sort of grasp of the scale of both the city and its famous port, biking all around it really gave me a feel for how large the city truly was. We got to witness the shipping boats and the [...]

Arguably the most anticipated day of the trip. We went to Amsterdam. This is the first town we visited not destroyed in the wrath that was WW2. There we got a tour from a local and purdue grad which was very informative and interesting. The town was vastly different than anything I have ever seen [...]

Today we took an early train to depart off to Rotterdam. Today I learned tons in regard to navigation of German/dutch train lines. When we arrived we took a culture tour of the city. It was very different to Germany, it’s fascinating to see how much people and culture change just 1 nation to the [...]

Today we took an early train to Dachau camp, there we got a tour from a very knowledgeable german historian. He led us through the camp and provided the history of it and its significance back in times of war. It was shocking to hear but the messages he conveyed were very impactful. Later in [...]

Today we collaborated with German supply chain/IE students. We got to experience what it was like to go to class in a typical German college setting. This was an excellent venture as they were very hospitable and showed us the ropes. It’s a smaller more community based feel within your respected major here. There were [...]

Today we got to visit the Allianz Arena home of Bayern Munich. There we got a tour of the entire facility and got to visit the museum. Soccer is such a large part of culture here, the games are an entire day social gatherings and the sheer size of the area reflected that. We then [...]

Today we began by touring the Porsche factory. It was very neat seeing how it compared to the Mercedes factory the day before. While they both clearly want to optimize manufacturing processes, Porsches approach had to be more vast in its capabilities as they had a wider array of cars to produce and less, opposed [...]