Sitting in Salzburg, Austria tonight reflecting on the past few days and the beauty of Germany. What a contrast as we spent the first couple of days driving through the beautiful countryside (still marvelling at the reality that you can drive 165 down the Autobahn and have cars fly by you like you're standing still), gazing at the little villages, church steeples, the Bavarian Alps, and fairyland castles. And then stopping to enjoy walking the cobblestone streets of old mideval cities, gazing at the beautiful flowers that adorn this land while staying in hotels that are over 600 years old.
Simply put it truly has been a dream to be travelling as a family together through the country of Germany taking in the sights and beauty and wonder of this country.
Then this afternoon we made the drive north of Munich to the village of Dachau to visit what remains of the Dachau concentration camp - a very sobering reminder of the other side of this country - a sobering reminder of sin in this world and the atrocities that occur as a result. Not sure I can fully explain what it was like to walk through Dachau while trying to take in what actually happened in this place. As we walked through the old barracks, what remains of the gas chambers and creamatorium, and the road that prisoners would have walked coming into this camp, we did not speak much as a family but rather tried to come to grips with what had actually occured on the very streets we were walking down. Such a painful part in the history of this world.
Not sure how one takes in what we experienced here this afternoon, other than to weep over our sinfulness and thank God that He sent His Son to save us in our enmity towards Him!
And now, we get set to walk around historic Salzburg tomorrow, and then drive to Italy!
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