Baltic Weekend
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Berlin is like Muenster cheese--pungent, delicious, exotic, but intense. Once in a while, you want to take a break. It was a great pleasure watching our students relax and even play during our weekend in Greifswald.
The town, a harbor of the Adriatic Sea across from Sweden and Denmark, dates from the 12th century. Some of the prominent buildings of town square date to the 13th. It was a member of the Hansestic League, formed to fight pirates raiding from the Baltic Sea, before coming under the control of the Swedish King, then Prussia, before becoming part of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern within the German empire, 3rd reich, GDR, and finally, Bundesland.
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For most of its history, the town has lived off fishing, and some students tasted that past in the form of locally caught flounder fillets and smoked or raw herring Fischbrötchen.
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Students stayed and played at the Majuwi, the Maritimes Jugendherberge (youth hostel), in the harbor neighborhood of Wieck.
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