World History II

My trips to various cities have provided me with another perspective on history.

Excursions and Activities

• Maritime Museum
• historic harbour of Greenwich
• The Observatory
• The Greenwich Meridian

Maritime Museum Greenwich

Historical Greenwich

Potsdam

I visited Potsdam, which was the residency of the royalty of Prussia. It has impressive architecture with many castles in different styles. One of the castles, Cecilienhof, was built in built after an example of "Jagdschloss Gelbensande", which I have visited some years earlier. I visited Sanssouci palace - which was built by Frederick the Great of Prussia - and its park, which was fascinating. Actually, the ruins you see in one of the photographs from the park of Sans-Soucis are not really ruins, they are just made out to be ruins because it was fashionable at that time.

Dolmen

Additionally, I visited a megalithic tomb - a dolmen in Drente, the Netherlands.

Other Excursions and activities

• Tropenmuseum for world cultures in Amsterdam, The Netherlands for a more global perspective
  
• "Huis ten Donck" in Ridderkerk, The Netherlands
  
• documentaries about the French Revolution
  
• de rode Pimpernel - Novel about the French Revolution
  
• Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  
• Münster, Germany
  
• The great cathedral in Cologne, Germany
  
• Lübeck, Germany
  
• Schevenings Museum, Scheveningen, The Netherlands