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  • 2010
    • Prague
      • Prague Pictures
        • Hotel President
        • Bridge over the Vltava
        • Hradčany castle
        • The Rudolfinium
        • Main square with Hus Statue and Týnský chrám in background
        • St. Mikuláš
        • Astronomical Clock
        • Astronomical Clock
        • Leaving the main Square, the Prašná brána, and old city gate
        • Náněstí Republicky, another square, more commercial
        • Prague streetcar
        • A government building
        • St. František (l) and St. Salvátor (r)
        • Along the Vltava
        • Karlov Most and the Vltava
        • Kafka Museum
        • Národní Museum
        • Prague State Opera
        • Prague State Opera interior
        • Prague State Opera interior
    • Czech Republic
      • Czech Pictures
        • Český Krumlov-Hotel Ruze entrance and sgraffitoed building
        • Český Krumlov-sgraffitoed building
        • Český Krumlov
        • Český Krumlov-cobbled main street
        • Český Krumlov-side street
        • Český Krumlov-monument in the square
        • Český Krumlov-view of the square
        • Český Krumlov-view of the square
        • Český Krumlov-view of the square
        • Český Krumlov-the village church
        • Český Krumlov-inside the church
        • Český Krumlov-scene along the Vltava painted by Egon Schiele
        • Český Krumlov-view of the castle
        • Český Krumlov-closeup of castle tower
        • Český Krumlov-bear pit at castle entrance
        • Church organ
        • Second church organ
        • Český Krumlov-sgraffitoed wall in the castle
        • View of Česky Krumlov from the castle
        • View of Česky Krumlov from the castle
        • Monastery at Zlata Koruna
        • Monastery at Zlata Koruna
        • Monastery at Zlata Koruna
        • Monastery at Zlata Koruna
        • On the road to Plav
        • On the road to Plav
        • At the Plav farmhouse
        • Lunch at Plav
        • The Český Krumlov train station
        • Riding through the Šumava
    • Bavaria
      • Germany Pictures
        • The Czech-German border
        • The Czech=German border
        • Welcome to Germany!
        • Nancy & Ben at the border
        • Bavarian countryside
        • Bavarian countryside
        • Bavarian countryside
        • Bavarian countryside
        • Bavarian countryside
        • Trailside flowers
        • Solar panel farm
        • A quiet lake
        • Goats in a field
        • End of the trail-waiting for the bus
        • The Altstadt Hotel
        • A Passau street
        • A Passau street
        • Danube River steamer from the hotel window
        • Confluence of the Ilz
        • Park at tip of Passau peninsula
        • Looking down the Danube from the park
        • Bike trail at the park
        • St. Stephen's Cathedral (town side)
        • St. Stephen's Cathedral (river side)
        • Bridge of the Inn
        • The kissing bridge
        • Along the Inn
        • Approaching Vornbach
        • The church at Vormbach
        • The church at Vornbach
        • Vornbach church entry
        • Vornbach church interior
        • Vornbach church altar
        • Schärding town square
        • Schärding pharmacy
        • In Schärding
        • In Schärding
        • Along the Inn
        • Along the Inn
        • Along the Inn
        • At Dult
        • Boris tries the bull
        • Inside the beer hall
        • The oompah band
        • At Dult
        • Huntsman actor
    • Austria
      • Austria Pictures
        • Leaving Passau
        • Sailing down the Danube
        • Sailing down the Danube
        • Sailing down the Danube
        • Sailing down the Danube
        • Sailing down the Danube
        • Sailing down the Danube
        • Sailing down the Danube
        • Sailing down the Danube
        • From the bike trail
        • From the bike trail
        • From the bike trail
        • From the bike trail
        • Austrian town-roofs & gate
        • Weissenkirchen street
        • Weissenkirchen by night
        • Raffelsberger Hof
        • Raffelsberger Hof
        • Weissenkirchen alley-night
        • Garden by the road
        • In the Wachau
        • In the Wachau
        • In the Wachau
        • In the Wachau
        • Circus setting up at Melk
        • Melk Abbey
        • Abbey entrance
        • Main hall of abbey
        • Cereminial headdress
        • Model of abbey
        • Abbey library
        • Baroque abbey church
        • Church organ
        • Pew in church
        • Pew detail
        • View from abbey terrace
        • View from abbey terrace
        • Castle ruins in the Wachau
        • James and Nancy taking shots at the find dinner
        • Group photo
    • Vienna
      • Vienna Pictures
        • Hotel Stefanie
        • Hotel Stephanie-Kronprinz Rudolf restaurant
        • Danube canal
        • Schwedenplatz
        • Trolley and bus at Schwedenplatz
        • Entrance to the Prater
        • Ferris wheel entrance
        • Display in Riesenrad museum
        • The Riesenrad
        • A Riesenrad car
        • On the way to the top
        • View of Vienna from the top
        • View of Vienna from the top
        • One of many prime Prater attractions
        • The Musikverein
        • Hotel Sacher
        • Karlsplatz
        • Karlskirche
        • Karlskirche
        • Karlskirche interior
        • Karlskirche interior
        • Karlskirche ceiling
        • Wien Staatsoper
        • Fountain near the opera house
        • Staatsoper auditorium
        • Staatsoper auditorium
        • Staatsoper additorium
        • Chandelier in Staatsoper auditorium
        • Staatsoper staircases
        • Staatsoper foyers
        • Staatsoper foyer decorations
        • Staatsoper foyer decorations
        • Main staircase of Staatsoper
        • Opera on screen outside Staatsoper
        • Stephansdom
        • Stephansdom
        • Stephansdom interior
        • Stephansdom windows
        • Stephansdom windows
        • Stephansdom interior
        • Stephansdom interior
        • Stephansdom organ
        • Stephansdom organ
        • Schönbrunn Palace
          • Schönbrunn Palace subway entrance
          • Schönbrunn Palace, front
          • Schönbrunn Palace, front
          • Palace front decoration
          • Schönbrunn Palace, front & side
          • Fountain in courtyard
          • Schönbrunn Palace, rear
          • Schönbrunn Palace from the Gloriette
          • In the park
          • In the park
          • In the park
          • In the park
          • In the park
          • In the park
          • In the park
          • In the park
          • In the park
          • Wagon in the park
          • The Gloriette and Neptune's Fountain
          • Gloriette & Neptune's Fountain
          • Neptune's Fountain
          • Gloriette
          • Gloriette
          • Restaurant at rear of Gloriette
          • Labyrinth entrance
          • Zoo entrance
          • Side paths from the park
          • Side path from the park
          • Side path from park
          • Estate greenhouses
          • Estate greenhouses
          • Gardens flanking palace
          • Gardens flanking palace
          • Gardens flanking palace
          • Gardens flanking palace
          • Gardens flanking palace, with orangerie
          • Gardens flanking palace
          • Orangerie
          • Gardens flanking palace
          • Gardens flanking palace
          • Gardens flanking palace
          • Gardens flanking palace, rose trellis walkway
          • Gardens flanking palace
          • Gardens flanking palace
          • Gardens flanking palace
          • Gardens flanking palace
          • Gardens flanking palace
          • Enjoying the gardens
        • Griechenbeisl entrance
        • Man counting money in Griechenbeisl entrance
        • Rathaus
        • Rathaus
        • Rathaus tower
        • Rathaus windows
        • Votivkirche
        • University
        • Parlament
        • Parlament
        • Parlament statue
        • Parlament pediment
        • Burgtheater
        • Burgtheater roof
        • Burgtheater front
        • Volksgarten
        • Volksgarten
        • Volksgarten
        • Volksgarten
        • Volksgarten
        • Volksgarten
        • Naturhistorisches Museum
        • Maria Theresien statue
        • Maria Theresian statue, side view
        • Kunsthistorisches Museum
        • Kunsthistorisches Museum
        • Kunsthistorisches Museum ceiling decoration
        • Some works of art are on the plaza
        • Hofburg entrance from the Ringstrasse
        • Hofburg
        • Hofburg
        • Hofburg
        • Trolley on the Ringstrasse
        • Figlmüller front
        • Figlmüller rear
        • Zu den 3 Hacken
        • Saturday evening crowds on the Kartnerstrasse
        • Fountain near Stephansdom, Saturday night
  • 2011
    • Paris
      • Paris Pictures
        • Place Vendome
        • Hôtel Château Frontenac
        • Place de la Concorde
        • Palais Garnier
        • Palais Garnier-side
        • Palais Garnier-side
        • Palais Garnier-rear
        • Palais Garnier-interior
        • Palais Garnier-interior
        • Palais Garnier-interior
        • Palais Garnier-interior
        • Palais Garnier-interior
        • Palais Garnier-interior
        • Palais Garnier-interior
        • Palais Garnier-interior
        • Palais Garnier-interior
        • Palais Garnier-interior
        • Palais Garnier-interior
        • Restaurant l'Ardoise
        • Eiffel Tower
        • Eiffel Tower
        • Eiffel Tower
        • View from Eiffel Tower
        • View from Eiffel Tower-Palais se Chaillot
        • View from Eiffel Tower
        • View from Eiffel Tower
        • View from Eiffel Tower
        • View from Eiffel Tower-Champ de Mars
        • Carousel next to Eiffel Tower
        • A tour boat
        • Small craft
        • Along the Seine-Alexander III Bridge
        • Along the Seine
        • Along the Seine
        • Along the Seine-Pont Neuf & Ile de la Cité
        • Along the Seine
        • Along the Seine-Notre Dame
        • Along the Seine-Notre Dame (rear)
        • Along the Seine-Notre Dame
        • Along the Seine-Musée d'Orsay
        • Along the Seine-Eiffel Tower
        • Tuileries entrance
        • Tuileries
        • Tuileries
        • Carousel in the Tuileries
        • Tuileries
        • Tuileries
        • Tuileries
        • Tuileries
        • Tuileries
        • Tuileries
        • Tuileries
        • Tuileries
        • Tuileries
        • Tuileries
        • Cafe in the Tuileries
        • Louvre-Richelieu wing
        • Louvre-Denon wing
        • Louvre-Sully & Denon wings
        • Looking back from the the Louvre plaza
        • Looking back from the Louvre plaza
        • Arc du Carrousel
        • From the Arc du Carrousel to the Arc de Triomphe
        • Arc du Carrousel
        • The Pyramid
        • Inside the Pyramid
        • Notre Dame Cathedral
        • Notre Dame Cathedral
        • Notre Dame Cathedral
        • Notre Dame Cathedral
        • Notre Dame Cathedral-rear
        • Notre Dame Cathedral-rear
        • Notre Dame Cathedral-bishop's residence
        • Sainte Chapelle
        • Sainte Chapelle-lower chapel
        • Sainte Chapelle-lower chapel
        • Sainte Chapelle-upper chapel
        • Sainte Chapelle-upper chapel
        • Sainte Chapelle-upper chapel
        • Sainte Chapelle-upper chapel
        • Sainte Chapelle-upper chapel
        • Sainte Chapelle-upper chapel
        • Sainte Chapelle-upper chapel
        • Sainte Chapelle-upper chapel
        • Sainte Chapelle
        • Arc de Triomphe at night
        • Arc de Triomphe-under the arch
        • Arc de Triomphe-war dead
        • Arc de Triomphe-eternal flame
        • Arc de Triomphe-east down the Champs Elyséea
        • Arc de Triomphe-south to the Eiffel Tower
        • Arc de Triomphe-west toward La Defense
        • Arc de Triomphe-NE toward Montmartre
    • The Loire Valley
      • Beaugency & Tavers
        • La Tonnellerie
        • La Tonnellerie grounds: cleaning up the marrons
        • La Tonnellerie pool
        • Church in Tavers
        • Road from Tavers to Beaugency
        • Town gate
        • Town citadel
        • Town Square & Jeanne d'Arc
        • Jeanne d'Arc statue
        • Statue & tower
        • Notre Dame Abbey
          • Notre Dame Abbey
          • Notre Dame Abbey
          • Notre Dame Abbey
          • Notre Dame Abbey
          • Notre Dame Abbey
          • Notre Dame Abbey
          • Notre Dame Abbey
          • Notre Dame Abbey
          • Notre Dame Abbey
          • Notre Dame Abbey
          • Notre Dame Abbey
          • Notre Dame Abbey
          • Notre Dame Abbey
        • Tower
        • Academy
        • Old town map
        • Downtown
        • Old church
        • Loire bridge at Beaugency
        • The Loire at Beaugency
        • Quicksand pool
        • Quicksand pool
        • Saturday market
        • Saturday market
        • Saturday market
        • Saturday market
      • Château de Chambord
        • Morning repair clinic
        • The route review
        • Nuclear plant on the road to Chambord
        • Van support on the way
        • The picnic
        • The picnic
        • The picnic
        • The picnic
        • The picnic
        • The château
        • I was there!
        • Our group
        • Helical staircase
        • Chapel
        • Roof detail
        • Display case
        • Architecture
        • Bed
        • Bed
        • Bed
        • Parquet floor
        • Ceiling detail
        • Outbuildings
        • Architecture
        • Tower detail
        • Chambord grounds
        • Chambord grounds
        • Chambord grounds
        • Chambord grounds
        • Chambord grounds
      • Blois to Amboise
        • Blois castle-around the courtyard
        • Blois castle-around the courtyard
        • Blois castle-around the courtyard
        • Blois castle-interior view
        • Blois castle-interior view
        • Loire bridge at Blois from south bank
        • On the trail from Blois to Ambois
        • In the rain-approaching Alain for his photo op
        • Karen's turn
        • My turn
        • In the rain-approaching Alain for his photo op
        • Crossing the flower bridge
        • In the van at Chaumont ready to shuttle to Amboise
        • Terry & Mike press on
        • Le Manoir les Minimes
        • In the wine cave
        • In the wine cave
        • In the wine cave
        • At the tasting
        • At the tasting
        • Part of Amboise fortress
        • Amboise chocolate shop
      • Chenonceau & Clos-Luce
        • Getting ready for the ride
        • On the road
        • On the road
        • On the road-sunflower field
        • On the road
        • Swans in a canal leading to the château
        • Path to the château
        • Autumn crocus along the path
        • Approaching the château
        • The château-front view
        • Watchtower
        • Wing of the château over the Cher
        • Evidence I was there
        • Château grounds
        • Château grounds
        • Château grounds
        • Looking up the Cher from Chenonceau
        • Château grounds
        • Château grounds
        • Looking up the Cher from Chenonceau
        • Château grounds
        • Château grounds
        • Château grounds
        • Château grounds
        • Château grounds
        • Château grounds
        • Château grounds
        • Château grounds
        • Château grounds
        • The Château
        • Château interior
        • Cypresses approaching Amboise (a la Monet)
        • Clos-Luce
          • The house
          • Grounds
          • Bed
          • Bed
          • Stained glass
          • Tapestries & chandelier
          • Tapestry
          • Les trois belles mademoiselles
          • Table
          • Grounds
          • da Vinci museum
          • da Vinci museum-tank model
          • da Vinci museum-weaponry
          • da Vinci museum
          • da Vinci museum-canal lock proposal
          • Grounds
          • Garden
      • Château de Villandry to Noyant de Touraine
        • Château de Villandry
      • Chinon
        • Crissay/Manse
        • Crissay/Manse
        • Crissay/Manse
        • Farmland
        • Paul & Sharon on the road
        • Church at Avon les Roches
        • Church at Avon les Roches
        • Refreshments at the van
        • Vineyard
        • More vineyards
        • Grapes & roses
        • Grapes & roses
        • Cows watching us
        • In Chinon
          • Entering Chinon with the castle and the Vienne
          • Jeanne d'Arc statue
          • Chinon
          • Chinon
          • Chinon
          • Chinon
          • Chinon
          • Along the Vienne in Chinon
          • Bridge over the Vienne
          • The Vienne
          • Chinon
          • Chinon
          • The castle in Chinon
          • Chinon
          • Chinon
          • Chinon
          • Boats in the Vienne
          • Chinon
          • The castle
          • Chinon
          • Town square
        • On the road back
        • On the road back
        • On the road back
        • Dinner table at Château de Brou
        • A serenade to cap it all off
      • The Group
    • Versailles
      • Versailles Pictures
        • Our contact Claudia
        • Looking down the plaza to the stables
        • Hallway with statues of kings
        • Upper level of the chapel
        • Detail over doorway
        • Paintings
        • Paintings
        • Paintings & passage
        • Paintings
        • Paintings
        • Paintings
        • Ceiling
        • Painting
        • Door
        • Ceiling
        • Statues & decoration
        • Ceiling
        • Statues and decoration
        • Ceiling
        • Paintings & ceiling
        • Ceiling
        • Decoration
        • Anteroom to the Hall of Mirrors
        • Anteroom to the Hall of Mirrors
        • The Hall of Mirrors
        • The Hall of Mirrors
        • Royal apartments
        • King's bed
        • Royal apartments
        • Royal apartments
        • Royal apartments
        • Ceiling, royal apartments
        • Queen's bed
        • Ceiling, royal apartments
        • Royal dining room
        • Painting
        • Painting
        • Painting
        • Painting
        • Painting
        • Grounds
        • Grounds
        • Grounds
        • Grounds
        • Fountain & Lake
        • Fountain
        • Grounds
        • Grounds
        • Grounds
        • Grounds
        • The Lake
        • Looking back toward the palace
        • Topiary
        • Lower fountain & lake
        • Lower fountain
        • Lower fountain
        • The lake
        • Looking back to the palace from the lower fountain
        • Movie of the palace exterior
        • Les trois belles mademoiselles at the gate
  • 2012
    • Puglia
      • Masseria Torre Maizza
        • Masseria Maizza
        • The bungalows
        • Flower near the bungalows
        • Old olive trees on the golf course
        • Palms
        • Flowers on a wall
        • Solar panel farm
        • To the pool
        • The pool
        • Next to the pool
        • Next to the pool 2
        • Next to the pool 3
        • Terrace beside the pool
        • Bikes waiting for us
        • The arbor
        • Barbara & Kathy
        • Terrace bar
        • The dining room
        • Olive trees prepared for harvest
        • The local road
        • Vegetables for the masserias and olive trees
        • Luigi & Edoardo explain the world to us
      • Egnatia
        • Excavations
        • Town plan
        • Key to town plan
        • Excavations
        • Excavations
        • Excavations
        • Amphitheater notes
        • Amphitheater
        • Basilica notes
        • The basilica
        • "Main Street"
        • Furnace
      • Ride to Monopoli
        • Adriatic surf
        • Southern Apennines
        • Approaching Savelletri
        • Savelletri harbor
        • Leaving Savelletri
        • Trulli north of Savelletri
        • Trulli home
        • The Adriatic
        • Pause to rest: (l-r) Sarah, Donna, Beth, Barbara (2), David
        • Monopoli Buildings
        • Monopoli Buildings
        • Monopoli Buildings
        • Monopoli Buildings
        • Monopoli Buildings
        • Plants in a window
        • City wall
        • Cathedral
        • In the cathedral
        • In the cathedral
        • In the cathedral
        • In the cathedral
        • In the cathedral
        • Monopoli harbor
        • Monopoli harbor
        • Monopoli harbor
        • Monopoli harbor breakwater
        • The fort
        • The fort
        • Cannon in the fort
        • Street beside the city wall
      • Road to Ostuni
        • Olive oil museum
        • Museum grounds
        • Museum grounds
        • The museum
        • Museum grounds
        • Entry gate
        • Museum grounds
        • Chapel
        • The group (l-r): f-Malcolm, Suzanne, Kathy, Barbara (1), Chris, Pete r-Luther, Rich, Marty, Joan, Louis, Donna, Beth, Barbara(2), Karen, Sarah, Alan, David
        • Presses
        • Old press
        • Grinding wheels
        • Il Frantoio-courtyard
        • Il Frantoio-main building
        • Il Frantoio-different kinds of olives
        • Il Frantoio-grounds
        • Il Frantoio-grounds
        • Il Frantoio-herbs drying
        • Lunch at Il Frantoio
        • Lunch at Il Frantoio-Edoardo & Luigi
        • Olive grove-Ostuni in the distance
        • Approaching Ostuni
        • Almost there
        • View from Ostuni to the Adriatic
        • Ostuni hill
        • Ostuni Palace Hotel
        • Statue in town square
        • Cathedral
        • Overhead connector
      • On to Otranto
        • Mounting up at Melpignano
        • Otranto
        • Otranto beach
        • The harbor
        • Breakwater from the beach
        • A good place for gelato
        • City Wall
        • Fort sign
        • Fort
        • Statue in the plaza in front of fort
        • Fort walls
        • Fort
        • Fort
        • Fort
        • Fort
        • Fort and moat
        • Fort
        • Cathedral
        • Bell tower
        • Tree of life mosaic
        • Tree of life mosaic
        • Mosaic detail
        • Masseria Montelauro sign
        • The masseria
        • Dining terrace
        • Montelauro pool
      • Pasta-making and the southern coast
        • Nona welcoming us
        • Edoardo and Nona talking
        • Barbara (2) does the twist
        • Sarah tries her hand
        • Cliffs and caves approaching Santa Cesarea
        • In Sant Cesarea
        • Heading north from Santa Cesarea
        • Tower in desuetude
        • Beach at Porto Badisco
        • Stone bridge and rough country
        • The radar station at Cape Otranto
        • The last roundup: bikes turned in
      • Lecce
        • Edoardo says good-bye
        • Patria Palace Hotel
        • Old amphitheater
        • Old amphitheater
        • Piazza St. Oronzo
        • St. Oronzo statue
        • Church
        • Lecce building
        • Piazza Duomo
        • Piazza Duomo
        • Piazza Duomo-bell tower
        • Cathedral entrance
        • Cathedral entrance detail
        • Piazza Duomo
        • Piazza Duomo
        • Cathedral interior
        • Cathedral interior
        • Cathedral interior
        • Chiesa di Santa Teresa
        • Chiesa di Santa Teresa-interior
        • Chiesa di Santa Teresa-papier maché statuary
        • Chiesa di Santa Teresa-papier maché statuary
        • Chiesa di Santa Teresa-papier maché statuary
        • Porta Rudiae-old city gate
        • Porta Rudiae-old city gate
        • Building near Porta Rudiae
        • Porta Napoli-old city gate
        • Lecce church
        • Lecce building
        • Roman theater
        • Roman theater
        • Castello di Carlo V
        • Statue (Columbus?)
        • Public garden
        • Public garden pergola
        • Public garden
        • Public garden
        • Public garden
        • Public garden-Tito Schipa bust
        • Public garden
        • Public garden
        • Public garden-Garibaldi bust
    • Rome
      • Rome city pictures
        • Termini-the Rome railroad station
        • Ponte Nenni-closest bridge to the hotel
        • The Tiber
        • Spanish Steps
        • Fountain below the Spanish Streps
        • Monument near the Spanish Steps
        • Base of monument
        • In a church
        • Fontana di Trevi (Trevi fountain)
        • Trevi fountain statue
        • Crowd at the Trevi fountain
        • A mall
        • A mall
        • Obelisk
        • Sant'Andrea della Valle
        • Sant'Andrea della Valle
        • Sant'Andrea ceiling
        • Sant'Andrea sculpture
        • The Pantheon
        • Pantheon ceiling
        • Pantheon interior
        • Farnese Palace
        • A church
        • Piazza Navona
        • Chiesa di San Paolo Entro le Mura
      • The Vatican
        • Exterior wall of Vatican City
        • Museum entrance
        • St. Peter's Dome from the gardens
        • The gardens
        • In the gardens
        • In the Gardens
        • Cone detail
        • In the gardens
        • Gallery with statuary
        • View back toward Rome
        • Statue
        • Statues
        • Statues
        • Statues
        • A ceiling
        • Statue
        • A bronze
        • Statue
        • Stone bath
        • Mosaic
        • Floor mosaic
        • Statue
        • A gallery with golden ceiling
        • Ceiling painting
        • Close-up of ceiling painting
        • Floor decoration
        • Ornate ceiling
        • Vatican buildings
        • Exit to the square
        • St. Peter's Square from the basilica porch
        • Colonnade around the square
        • The basilica porch
        • St. Peter's Basilica
        • St. Peter's Basilica
        • St. Peter's Basilica
        • The Pieta in the basilica
        • St. Peter's Basilica
        • St. Peter's Basilica
        • Swiss guards
        • St. Peter's Square
      • Colosseum and the Roman forum
        • Colosseum
        • Colosseum
        • Colosseum
        • Colosseum (Frank w/hat on left)
        • Colosseum
        • Colosseum
        • Colosseum
        • Colosseum
        • Colosseum
        • Colosseum-brick wall
        • Colosseum
        • Colosseum
        • Arch of Constantine
        • Nearby ruins
        • Nearby ruins
        • The Palatine Hill
        • On the Palatine Hill with old aqueduct
        • Old aqueduct
        • The forum
        • The forum
        • Runs
        • Ruins
        • Ruins
        • Ruins & part of Circus Maximus
        • Circus Maximus
        • View of St. Peter's from the Palatine
        • View of the Colosseum from the Palatine
        • Ruins
        • A Garden
        • Garden & wall ruins
        • Garden & wall ruins
        • Garden & ruins
        • Garnden & wall ruins
        • Garden
        • Ruins
        • View from the forum
        • Arch in the forum
        • View from the forum
        • Carvings
        • Leaving the forum
        • Columns
  • 2013
    • Munich
      • Munich Pictures
        • Hotel Laimer Hof
        • Building on Gaßnerstrasse
        • Election Sign
        • Schloss Nymphenburg
          • Schwaige Restaurant
          • Panorama
          • Schloss side and pool
          • Schloss pool
          • Schloss buildings and pool
          • Schloss front
          • Flowers
          • Schloss entrance & main building
          • Cobblestone Pattern
          • Steinerer Saal
          • Steinerer Saal
          • Steinerer Saal
          • Steinerer Saal ceiling
          • Steinerer Saal ceiling
          • Steinerer Saal
          • Gallery
          • Gallery
          • Gallery
          • Gallery
          • Gallery
          • Bed chamber
          • Gallery
          • Porcelain statuary
          • Statuary
          • Schönheits Galerie
          • Schönheits Galerie
          • Schönheits Galerie
          • Drawing room
          • Room
          • Bed chamber
          • Gallery
          • Grounds—rear of Schloss
            • Main garden
            • Fountain
            • Flowers and statuary
            • Poseiden statue
            • Athena statue
            • Bridge
            • Schloss from the gardens
            • Pond with ducks
            • Garden paths
            • Garden path
            • Swan in a pond
            • Sign for witches' house
            • Witches' house
          • Amilienburg
            • Amilienburg lodge
            • Interior
            • Interior
            • Painting
            • Bed
            • Bed chamber
            • Bed chamber
            • Table and statuary
            • Spiegelsaal
            • Spiegelsaal
            • Spiegelsaal Ceiling
            • Spiegelsaal
            • Spiegelsaal
            • Paintings
            • Paintings
          • Marstallmuseum
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Toy horses
            • Sleigh
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Sleighs
            • Sleigh
            • Sleigh model
            • Sleigh
            • Sleigh
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Sleigh
            • Kitchen
            • Kitchen
            • Tack
            • Sleigh
            • Sleigh
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Coach
            • Hearse
          • Museum Nymphenburg Porzellan
            • Porcelain
            • Porcelain
            • Porcelain
            • Porcelain
        • Hirschgarten
          • Entrance sign
          • Entrance
          • Browsing deer and rabbits
        • Fountain at Stachus
        • Along Kaufingerstrasse
          • City gate
          • Statuary in the gate
          • Pedestrian way
          • Michaelskirche
            • Front
            • Statuary
            • Sanctuary
            • Altar
          • Frauenkirche
            • Frauenkirche towers
            • Sanctuary
            • Casket
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
        • Viktualienmarkt
          • Pig members
          • Pig heads
          • Maypole
        • Marienplatz
          • Building across from Neues Rathaus
          • Neues Rathaus
          • Neues Rathaus
          • Neues Rathaus
          • Neues Rathaus-detail of Glockenspiel
          • Statue
        • Street musicians
        • Statue
        • Feldherrnhalle at Odeonsplatz
        • Hofgarten
        • Residenztheater (Bayrisches Staatsoper)
        • Hofbrauhaus
        • Hofbrauhaus oom-pah band
        • Augustiner Bräu
        • Bayrisches Nationalmuseum
    • Luxembourg
      • Luxembourg Pictures
        • Hotel Le Royal
        • Decorated elephants
        • Place de la Constitution
        • Park above casements
        • Pétrusse valley from Place de la Constitution
        • Bridge over Pétrusse valley
        • Alzette and Pétrusse Valley scenes
          • Rooftops
          • Bridge arches
          • Old casements
          • Grund
          • Grund building
        • Philharmonie in Kirchberg
        • Old bank
        • Railroad station
        • Place d'Armes
          • Bandstand with band
          • Sights worth seeing
          • La Lorraine Restaurant
        • Brasserie Guillaume
        • At Brasserie Guillaume
        • Oberweis-entrance
        • Oberweis-inside
        • La Lorraine restaurant
        • Cathédrale Notre-Dame
          • Cathedral entrance
          • Entrance detail
          • Sanctuary
          • Altar & stained glass
          • Organ
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Organ & stained glass
        • Grand Duchess statue
        • Ducal residence entrance
        • History museum
        • Old city gate
        • Old city gate
        • Old fortifications
        • Old fortifications
        • Vegetable gardens in the Azlette valley
        • Railroad bridge over the Azlette
        • Kirchberg buildings from the old city
        • Guillaume II statue
        • Building on Place Guillaume II
        • Casement
        • Looking out a casement
        • Looking out a casement
        • The Red Bridge
        • Government building
        • Place E. Humilius bus station
        • Fountain
        • Street musicians
        • Luxembourg American Cemetery
          • Entrance
          • Chapel
          • Chapel with guide in foreground
          • World War II map
          • Battle of the Bulge map
          • Unknown soldier memorial
          • Patton grave
          • Medal of Honor winner
          • Panoramic view of cemetery
    • The Moselle Valley
      • Metz to Thionville
        • Sophie
        • Metz cathedral exteriors
          • Cathedral-north face
          • Cathedral-north
          • Cathedral north-detail
          • Cathedral-north
          • Cathedral-north
          • Cathedral north-detail
          • Cathedral-west face
          • Cathedral-south face
          • Cathedral-south
          • Cathedral-south
          • Cathedral-south
          • Statue
          • West door
          • West door
          • South door
          • South door-detail
        • Metz cathedral interiors
          • Sanctuary
          • Organ
          • Interior view (organ?)
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass and decorative work
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass and organ
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
        • Tourist office building near cathedral
        • Moselle canal in Metz
        • Lower town square and buildings
        • Lower town square and buildings
        • Lower town square-protestant church
        • First view of the Sailing Home
        • Axel & Aernoud
        • Bert
        • Josie
        • Baris
        • Marte
        • Baris, Markus, & Marte
        • Sailing Home cabin
        • Sailing Home head
      • Thionville/Rodemack/Remich
        • Nuclear plants near Thionville
        • Rodemack
        • Rodemack town gate
        • Rodemack
        • Rodemack
        • Rodemack
        • Rodemack gardens
        • Rodemack
        • Rodemack
        • Rodemack
        • Sailing Home
        • Remich-Nennig bridge
        • View from the bridge
        • Remich from Nennig
        • Remich park
        • Remich park
        • Statue in the park
        • Park fountain
        • Carousel on Remich waterfront
        • Hotel with umbrellas
        • Remich waterfront
      • Remich to Saarburg
        • Roman Mosaic at Nennig
        • Roman mosaic at Nennig
        • Vineyards along the bike path
        • Some steep vineyards
        • Entrance to railroad tunnel
        • More steep vineyards
        • Vineyards
        • Approaching Kanzem locks
        • Entering the lock
        • The Kanzem lock
        • In the lock
        • Rising
        • Ready to sail
        • Steep vineyards
        • Castle
        • Welcome to Saarburg!
        • Fortifications in Saarburg
        • Cathedral in Saarburg
        • Church steeple
        • Waterwheels below the falls
        • Sluice and waterwheels
        • Walls
        • Waterfalls
        • Saarburg
        • Saarburg
        • Zum Pferdemarkt restaurant
        • Inside Zum Pferdemarkt
        • Saarburg village
        • Saarburg village
        • Saarburg & vineyards
        • Donna relaxing on deck
      • Saarburg to Trier
        • Getting ready to ride
        • Clappers at Mabilon
        • Frau Mabilon and a large bell
        • Saarburg from upstream
        • Trier
          • Across the Moselle
          • Colosseum
            • Axel and John at the entrance
            • Entering
            • The amphitheater
            • Panoramic view
            • A couple in the sun
            • Walls
            • Underneath the amphitheater
            • Underneath the amphitheater
          • Basilica
          • Cathedral
            • Rear
            • Side
            • Interior
            • Sanctuary & altar
            • Organ
            • Interior
            • Front
            • Statue at church
            • Angel statue atop tower
            • Interior
            • Ceiling
            • Stained glass
          • Town square
          • Obelisk
          • Buildings
          • Pedestrian alley
          • Porta Nigra rear
          • Porta Nigra rear
          • Porta Nigra front
          • Building decorations
          • Building with roof
          • Statue
          • Building
          • Building
          • Tower
          • Park
          • Park garden
          • Roman baths ruins
          • Geese
      • Trier/Schweich/Bernkastel-Kues
        • Bridge
        • Town and vineyards
        • River & vineyards
        • Roses & vineyards
        • Roman wineship tombstone
        • Hotel Piesporter Goldtröpfchen
        • St. Michael's church
        • Bridge at Bernkastel-Kues
        • Castle above Bernkastel-Kues
        • Weingut Anton Zimmerman
      • Daun to Bernkastel-Kues
        • Mounting up at Daun
        • The "false" lava bomb
        • The real lava bomb
        • Volcano museum
        • Martha Otten's home
        • Bernkastel & vineyards
        • Bernkastel & vineyards
        • Bridge to Kues
        • Castle at Bernkastel
        • Store sign at night
      • Traben-Trarbach to Beilstein
        • Maypole
        • Pünderlich ferry house
        • View from Pünderlich
        • Ferry at Pünderlich
        • Across from Pünderlich
        • In Pünderlich
        • Zell
          • Schwarze Katze fountain
          • Schwartze Katze Detail
          • Street scene
          • Church
          • Street scene
          • Sign
          • Street scene
          • Zell Mädchen
        • Moselle vineyards
        • Markus & Marte foraging
        • Calmont vineyards
        • Moselle town
        • Beilstein
        • Beilstein
        • Vineyards on the hill
        • View from café at the church
        • View from church café
      • Cochem
        • Along the Moselle toward Cochem
        • Castle on the Moselle
        • Kayakers on the river
        • Marte's magnificent place setting
        • Schwartzwaldkirchtorte
        • Serenade after dinner
        • Public artwork
        • Flooding high water marks
        • Pedestrian mall
        • Town square
        • Cochem castle
          • Cochem castle from the barge
          • Castle
          • Castle entrance
          • Castle
          • Exterior detail
          • Riverside entrance
          • View of Moselle valley
          • Cochem on the Moselle
          • Interior
          • Ceiling
          • Interior
          • Interior
          • Fireplace
          • Wardrobe
          • Castle entrance garden
          • Statue, rear view
          • Statue, side view
        • The Tour Gang
      • Koblenz
        • Spitting statue
        • Girl on stilts
        • Street scene
        • Koblenz tour guide
        • Church
        • Old Roman wall
        • Photo Fountain
        • Stumbling blocks
        • Church sanctuary
        • Moselle-Rhine confluence
        • Deutsches Eck
        • Kaiser Wilhelm I Monument
    • Berlin
      • Berlin pictures
        • Art'Otel Berlin Mitte
        • Spree
        • Spree
        • St. George statue
        • Nikolaikirche
        • Berlinerdom
        • Fernsehturm
        • Temporary construction museum
        • Along Unter den Linden
          • Hochschule für Musik
          • Schinkel statue
          • Schinkelsche Bauakademie
          • Liebknecht bridge & Berlinerdom
          • Looking down Unter den Linden
          • German History Museum
          • Neue Wache
          • Staatsoper
          • Humboldt University
          • Alte Bibliotek
          • Book-burning memorial
          • Frederick the Great statue
        • Komische Oper
        • Russian embassy
        • US embassy
        • Brandenburg Gate
        • Brandenburg Gate
        • Quadriga on Brandenburg Gate
        • Quadriga
        • Siegessäule
        • Reichstag dome in distance
        • Holocaust memorial
        • Site of the "Führerbunker"
        • Plan of the Führerbunker
        • Face statue
        • Märkisches Museum Ubahn stop
        • U-Bahn cars
        • Deutsche Oper
        • Deutsche Oper inferior
        • Sign at Checkpoint Charlie
        • Checkpoint Charlie reconstruction
        • Finance Ministry
        • Finance Ministry & Berlin wall remnant
        • Berlin Wall
        • KaDeWe
        • Alexanderplatz
        • Fountains at Alexanderplatz
        • S-Bahn cars
        • The Philharmonie
        • Philharmonie interior
        • Tram
        • Reichstag area
          • Reichstag
          • Reichstag-right side
          • Roof staturary
          • Reichstag rear
          • Entrance closeup
          • Left side
          • Bundeskanzleramt
          • Paul-Löbehaus
        • Potsdamer Platz
        • Potsdamer Platz
        • Zoologischer Garten
          • Elefantentor (zoo entrance gate)
          • Garden at main entrance alley
          • Garden and fountain
          • Deer
          • Statue near aquarium
          • Swan
          • Of the antelope family
          • Giraffe
          • Giraffes
          • Of the antelope family
          • Of the antelope family
          • Elephant
          • Elephant
          • Elephants
          • Elephants
          • Of the antelope family
          • Deer
          • Rhinoceros
          • Rhinoceros
          • Rhinoceros
          • Tapir
          • Hippopotamus
          • Wildebeest (?)
          • Bear fanny
          • Bear
          • Meerkats
          • Penguins
          • Penguins in pool
          • Otters (?)
          • Small mammal
          • Zebras
          • Of the antelope family
          • Birds
          • Panther
          • Leopard
          • Leopard
          • Leopard
          • Lion
          • Lion
          • Small cat
          • Small mammal
          • Rodent on rock
        • Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche
        • Looking down Kudamm
        • Brauhaus Mitte
  • 2014
    • Lyon
      • Lyon Pictures
        • Hotel Charlemagne
        • Hotel Charlemagne, side
        • Gare de Perrache from Rue Charlemagne
        • Place Carnot
          • View from Gare de Parrache
          • Place Carnot
          • Place Carnot
          • Place Carnot
          • Place Carnot
          • View back to Gare de Perrache
        • Rue Victor Hugo
        • Place Pradel next to the Opera House
        • Transportation in Lyon
          • Subway A Line
          • Croix Paquet subway stop showing slope
          • Detail showing cogs on C line subway
          • Subway D Line
          • Fourvière funicular
          • Funicular cable
          • Funicular cable mechanism
          • Tram
          • Trackless trolley
        • Opera House
        • Opera House front
        • Hotel de Ville from Place Terreaux
        • Place Terreaux
        • Bartholdi fountain
        • Bartholdi fountain
        • Bartholdi fountain
        • Musée des Beaux Arts
          • Museum entrance from Place Terreaux
          • Museum courtyard
          • Museum entrance & courtyard
          • Courtyard arcade
        • Café des Fédérations
        • Léon de Lyon
        • Léon de Lyon entrance
        • Ste. Blandine
          • Flowers near church
          • Ste. Blandine: entries, tower, and flying buttresses
          • Front & tower
          • Portal, tympanum, and archivolts
          • Portal clerestory with oculi
          • Choir and altar with stained glass
          • Pillars, clerestory, and aisle
          • 4-Part vaulting
          • Lancet window
          • Lancet window
          • Lancet window
          • Lancet window
          • Lancet window
          • Lancet window
          • Clerestory-lancets
          • Clerestory-lancets
          • Clerestory-lancets
          • Clerestory-lancets
          • Clerestory-lancets
          • Clerestory-lancets
          • Choir clerestories
          • Pulpit
        • Auditorium & Part Dieu
          • Part Dieu parking garage
          • Terrace
          • Auditorium exterior
          • Stage
          • Stage
          • Gallery
          • Gallery
        • Old Roman Theaters
          • View from street
          • View from street
          • Theater
          • Explanatory sign
          • Second theater
          • Theater with stage of different marbles
          • Stage and right half of theater
          • Recovered stone blocks
          • Upper level of theater
          • Explanatory sign
          • Marbles
          • Marble detail
          • Stage
          • Marble stage
          • Second theater
          • Marble column detail
          • Marble column detail
          • Engraved stones
          • Garden next to theaters
          • View of Lyon
        • Basilique Notre Dame de Fourvière
          • Basilica from bottom of the hill
          • Climbing to the Basilica
          • Towers
          • Towers, windows, and decorative work
          • Basilica plaza
          • Entrance
          • Movie of front towers
          • Exterior side
          • Arches detail
          • Choir and altar
          • Choir and altar
          • Ceiling
          • Wall mosaic
          • Column capital detail
          • Lancets
          • Lancets
          • Lancets
          • Pulpit
          • Wall mosaic
          • Side entrance with statuary
        • Observation tower next to basilica
        • Funicular stop at basilica
        • Street market in Vieux Lyon
        • Place St. Jean
        • Building on Place St. Jean
        • Statue in Plaza
        • Cathédrale St. Jean
          • Cathédrale St. Jean
          • Cathédrale St. Jean
          • The portals
          • Left portal detail
          • Center portal detail
          • Right portal detail
          • Exterior: north transept
          • Flying Buttresses-north side
          • Vaulting-six part
          • Pillars and triforium
          • Pillars, triforium, clerestory, and vaulting
          • Triforium
          • Organ and pillars
          • Aisle-lancets and oculus
          • Aisle window
          • Aisle window
          • Aisle window
          • Aisle window
          • Aisle window
          • Clerestory lancets and oculi
          • Clerestory lancets and oculi
        • Boulangerie for lunch
        • The Long Traboule
        • Descriptive plaque
        • Beginning of the traboule
        • Continuation of the traboule
        • Palais de Justice
        • Statuary at the bridge
        • Waterjets at bridge entrance
        • Cable-stayed bridge
        • Cable-stayed bridge
        • View down the Saône
        • View up the Saône
        • River cruise
          • Ticket booth (sans the late clerks)
          • The cruise boat
          • Bridge & buildings along river
          • View along river
          • Statue in cave
          • Four with cox
          • Decorative lock marker
          • Robert Schuman (not the composer) bridge
          • Schuman bridge close-up
        • Place Bellecour
        • Place Bellecour-Louis XIV statue
        • Centre d’Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation
        • Half track with quad 50 at the museum
        • Brasserie Georges
    • Burgundy
      • Cluny
        • Entering Cluny
        • Cluny buildings
        • Cluny church-what remains
        • Tour: archeological dig of church site
        • The floor of the nave
        • Floor of the nave and walls
        • Our guide and old church wall
        • Wall detail
        • Pillars
        • Window detail
        • Model of medieval Cluny
        • Cluny building
        • 1385 wall carving
        • Cluny building
        • Town wall and watchtower
        • Town gate
        • Town wall & gates
        • Decorative corner building
        • Cluny street
        • Public fountain
        • Obelisk
        • Cluny building
        • Windows
        • Tower
        • Cluny street
        • Street musicians packing up (or showing contempt?)
        • Restaurant for lunch
        • Monument
        • Cluny’s gothic church
          • Portal, archivolts, flying buttresses, and rosette
          • Nave, choir, altar, pillars, and vaulting
          • 4-part vaulting with upper pillars
          • Lancets and oculus
          • Lancets and oculus
          • Organ
          • Choir lancets
          • Rosette
      • Chapaize
        • Flowers
        • Garden near church
        • Garden near church
        • Graveyard at church
        • Romanesque church
        • Rear of church
        • Descriptive plaque
        • Church vaulting
        • Pillars
        • Stained glass window
        • House with flowers
        • On to Tournus!
      • Tournus
        • Hotel Le Rempart
        • Attitude adjustment required?
        • Along the Saône
        • Chateau
        • Fields & woods-hunters not visible
        • Chateau in l'Epervière
        • Refreshment stop in l'Epervière
        • SAS Museum in Sennecey le Grand
        • Inside the museum
        • Sennecey le Grand downtown
        • War memorial
        • Our lunch stop
        • Grazing Charolais
        • Legion of Honor garden
        • In the garden
        • In the garden
        • Abbaye Saint Philbert
          • Exterior-front
          • Exterior-front
          • Exterior-rear
          • Narthex vauting
          • Nave & choir
          • Nave vaulting
          • Aisle vaulting
          • Window
          • Window
          • Window
          • Choir windows
          • Choir window-detail
          • Organ
          • Organ
          • Flooring
          • Storage room
        • Monument aux Morts at Place du Champs de Mars
        • Entrance to Hotel Dieu and Musée Greuze
        • Courtyard of museum & hospital
        • A ward of the hospital
        • Individual bed
        • Hospital garden
        • Garden sundial
        • Hospital apothecary
          • Cabinet with medicines
          • Cabinet with medicines
          • Urns with medicines
          • Urns with medicines
      • Beaune
        • Along the Canal du Centre
        • Old building along the canal
        • Canal lock
        • The canal above (!) the rail line
        • View from the bike path
        • Bridge into Santanay
        • Public square in Santanay
        • Santanay statuary
        • Leaving Santanay for the vineyards
        • Harvesting grapes
        • Vineyards everywhere
        • One of the Grand Cru vineyards
        • About to start the climb to Volnay
        • Hotel Le Cep
          • Hotel Le Cep—entrance on Rue Maufoux
          • Enormous weeping willow in the courtyard
          • Entrance to inner courtyard
          • Inner courtyard
        • Farmland near Moux
        • Moulin de Cussigny
          • The mill with a bridge over a stream
          • Playing pétanque
          • Tables for dining
          • An outbuilding
          • Our group
          • Sophie, Jean-Philippe Lefils, and Jean François
        • Notre Dame Basilique
          • Transept exterior
          • Front portals with trumeau statue and archivolts
          • Nave, altar, & choir
          • Aisle window
          • Nave vaulting
          • Pillars, triforium, & clerestories
          • Aisle window
          • Aisle window
          • Aisle window
          • Aisle window
          • Window
          • Pulpit
          • Aisle window
          • Window
          • Choie lancets and oculi
          • Left aisle vaulting
          • Right aisle vaulting
          • Lancets & oculi
          • Lancet
          • Chapel windows
          • Lancet
          • Chapel windows
          • Lancet
          • Triforium and clerestories
          • Organ
          • Relaxing before the basilica
        • Beaune street scene
        • Beaune stores
        • Wine tasting at Bouchard Aînés & fils
        • Dinner at Relais de Saulx
        • Hôtel Dieu
          • Exterior & entrance
          • Market outside
          • Courtyard & tiled roof
          • Tower from courtyard
          • Courtyard
          • A ward
          • Lancets & oculi
          • Lancets & oculi
          • Kitchen
          • Compounding room
          • Medicines
          • Tapestries
      • Dijon
        • Lake Kir
        • Lock on Canal de Bourgogne
        • Boat in a lock
        • Lock detail at Pont de Pany
        • Grand Hotel la Cloche
        • Place Darcy & its arch
        • Place Darcy & tram
        • Fountain at Place de la Republic
        • Statue at Place de la Republic
        • Place de la Republic statue
        • Cathédrale St. Benigne
          • Front from the street
          • Window and arches
          • Portal and tympanum
          • Nave & choir
          • 4-part vaulting
          • Pillars, triforium, and clerestories
          • Pulpit
          • Choir clerestories
          • Choir lancets and oculi
          • Altar
          • Clerestory lancets & oculi
          • Clerestory lancets & oculi
          • Chapel lancets & oculi
          • Organ
        • Carousel on Rue de la Liberte
        • Ducal palace & Etats de Bourgogne
        • Ducal palace & Etats de Bourgogne
        • Ducal palace & Musèe des Beaux Arts
        • Place de la Liberation video
        • Ducal palace detail
        • Musèe des Beaux Arts detail
        • Mustard shop on Place de la Liberation
        • Extension of ducal palace
        • Eglise St. Michel
          • Front & portals
          • Nave & choir
          • 4-part vaulting
          • Pulpit
          • Aisle lancet
          • Choir lancets
        • Tiled roof
        • Rear of ducal palace
        • Rear of ducal palace detail
        • Notre Dame Cathedral
          • Exterior rear of choir with flying buttresses
          • Rosette
          • Portals
          • Left portal with vaulting, tympanum, and archivolts
          • Center portal with tympanum, archivolts, and trumeau statues
          • Right portal with vaulting, tympanum, and archivolts
          • 6-part nave vaulting
          • Choir windows
          • Triforium
        • Beaux arts on Rue des Forges
        • Video of Jardin Darcy entrance from Place Darcy
        • In Jardin Darcy
        • Greeting at last dinner
        • Kitchen demo at last dinner
        • Dijon Gare
        • Sign on platform directing to appropriate cars
    • Paris
      • Paris pictures
        • Our train at the Gare de Lyon
        • Millenium Hotel Paris Opera
        • Opera Comique, a couple blocks from the hotel
        • Eglise de la Madeleine
        • Inside the Salle Pleyel
        • Carousel and Metro entrance at Abbesses
        • Sacré Cœur
          • View from street next to our hotel
          • From the bottom of the hill
          • Carousel at the bottom of the hill
          • Lower funicular station
          • Upper funicular station
          • Looking up the steps
          • Video of Paris from Sacré Cœur plaza
          • Building to the side
        • Anvers metro stop
        • Gare du Nord
          • Gare du Nord
          • Gare du Nord
        • Gare de l'Est
          • Gare de l’Est exterior
          • Gare de l’Est arrival hall
          • Gare de l’Est train shed
        • Eiffel Tower from Place Alma Marceau
        • Théâtre des Champs Elysées
          • Theater facade
          • Theater interior: ceiling, murals, & upper boxes
          • Theater interior: boxes and rear orchestra
          • Stage
          • Riccardo Minasi & Joyce DiDonato taking bows
        • Hôtel des Invalides
          • Front
          • Moat around the building
          • Moat & Eglise du Dôme
          • Eglise du Dôme
          • Soldier models
          • Soldier models
          • Soldier models
          • Swords & muskets
          • Armor
          • Mounted knight
          • Swords & muskets
          • Mounted knight model
          • Mounted knight model
          • François I armor
          • Crossbows & muskets
          • Crossbows
          • Video of courtyard
          • Courtyard cannon
          • Early machine guns and cannon
          • WWI cannon-French
          • WWI cannon-German
          • Big Bertha siege cannon-photo and model
          • Miracle of the Marne taxi
          • WWI trench defenses model
          • Tank turret
          • Tank turret-German
          • V1 buzz bomb
          • V2 rocket: upper
          • V2 rocket: lower
          • B17 ball turret
  • 2015
    • Bratislava
      • Bratislava Pictures
        • Hotel Arcadia
          • Hotel Arcadia
          • Hotel Interior
          • Hotel Lobby Ceiling
        • Námestie SNP
          • A Church
          • Rebellion statue
          • Explanatory Plaque
          • Flagship Restaurant entrance
        • Fountain at Šafárikovo námestie
        • Statue at riverside park
        • Statue closeup
        • Along the riverwalk
          • A bridge
          • Stary Most bridge (under reconstruction)
          • Along the walk
          • A playground
          • Stredná Priemyselná Škola Strojnícka (Engineering School)
          • Statue
          • Bratislavský hrad from the riverwalk
        • Most SNP
          • Most SNP
          • Tower closeup
          • Bike/pedestrian way under bridge
        • Pool in Hviezdoslavovo námestie
        • Statue in Hviezdoslavovo námestie
        • Slovak National Theater
        • Kostol Zvestovania (Franciscan church next to hotel)
          • Exterior
          • Nave & choir
          • Altar close-up
        • St. Martin’s Cathedral
          • Exterior
          • Exterior
          • Exterior with choir
          • Nave & choir
          • Nave with vaulting
          • Nave vaulting detail and organ
          • Choir
          • Choir vaulting detail
          • Chapel altar
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
        • Medieval fortifications
        • Medieval fortifications
        • Statue and flowers at Rudnayovo námestie
        • Bratislavský hrad
          • Castle & grounds plan
          • Sigismund gate
          • Castle from below
          • Castle front & courtyard
          • Video of castle
          • Video of Danube valley from the castle courtyard
          • Courtyard
          • Statue in front of castle
          • Vienna gate
        • Trams
          • Tram
          • Tram
          • Tram
          • Tram
          • Tram
        • Slovak House restaurant on Michalská
        • Michael’s Gate
        • Michael’s Gate
        • Museum on Františkánska
        • Fountain on Františkánske námestie
        • Street bazaar at Františkánske námestie
        • Happy shopper at the bazaar
        • Fountain at Hlavné námestie
        • Whimsical statues
          • Sewer worker
          • Main Square Old City, Napoleon's Army Soldier
          • Bratislava photographer
        • Primaciálne námestie
          • Building on the square
          • Building on the square
          • Pedestrian sign on alleyway
          • Fountain before palace
          • Pennyfarthing play statue on the square
          • Primate’s Palace
          • Treaty of Pressburg plaque
        • Nová budova SND arts center
          • Obelisk outside arts center
          • Nová budova arts center
          • Opera house entrance
          • Upstairs lobby
          • Seating
          • Set for Barber of Seville
        • Bridges
          • SNP Most tower
          • Restaurant close-up
          • Upstream girder bridge
          • Girder bridge under construction
          • New arch bridge
          • Arch bridge underside
          • Downstream bridge
        • Tour boats
          • 4-Decker
          • Long & sleek
          • Another long & sleek
          • Not so long, but still sleek
          • Short & squat
        • Other river views
          • Bratislavský hrad
          • A church
          • Loading coal
          • New construction
          • Riverside park with arts center to rear
          • Stradná Priemyselná Škola Strojnícka (Engineering School)
          • Slovenské národné múzeum-Prírodovedné múzeum (Slovak National Museum-Museum of Natural History)
        • Reduta Slovak Philharmonic
        • Jimmy’s Restaurant on Michalská
        • Slovak National Museum
          • Slovenské národné múzeum-Prírodovedné múzeum (Slovak National Museum-Museum of Natural History)
          • Mammoth
          • Giraffe
    • Slovakia & Hungary
      • Szidónia Kastélyszálloda
        • On the dike leaving Bratislava
        • Swans beside the dike
        • The Danube dammed abouve the lock
        • After lunch at the dam
        • Leaving Bratislava & border inspection
        • Bizarre road sign near dam
        • Welcome to Hungary
        • Entrance to golf club
        • Hungarian cemetery
        • Hay, baled & stacked
        • The palinka tasting
        • Szidónia Castle
        • Szidónia Castle
        • Szidónia Castle ground plan
        • Pan-European Park (Páneurópai Piknik Emlékhely)
          • Hungarian-Austrian border
          • Welcome to Austria
          • Welcome to Hungary
          • Explanatory sign for 1989 border breakthrough
          • Detail of sign picture
          • Remnants of border fencing
          • Statue in park
        • Sopron
          • Várkerület ut
          • Várkerület ut
          • Flower bed
          • Church on Széchenyi tér
          • Building on Széchenyi tér
          • Statue of Széchenyi himself on his tér
          • Theater on Petöfi tér
          • Building on Petöfi tér
          • Building on Petöfi tér
          • Statue in Fö tér
          • Firewatch tower off Fö tér
          • Holocaust memorial in park
      • Esztergom
        • Eszterhazy
          • Tree-lined alley to entrance
          • Entrance gate
          • Eszterhazy park
          • Count Eszterhazy statue
          • Haydn statue
          • Entrance to palace
          • Eszterhazy castle
          • Castle & grounds
          • Video panorama of castle
          • Roof statues
          • Roof statues
          • Fountain
          • Fountain detail
          • Roof statues
          • Wall statues
          • Tour guide & stove in concert room
          • Concert room
          • Salle with missing picture
          • Salle with missing pictures
          • Salle
          • Mirror multi-reflection
          • Gold statue
          • Gold statue
          • Concert hall
          • Dining area
          • Painting
          • Dining area
          • Bedroom
          • Stove & wall decoration
          • Tea set
          • Paintings
          • Painting
          • Concert room
          • Hallway
          • Urns
          • Dining area & wall decorations
          • Tulips in a vase
          • Sitting room
          • Bedroom
        • Neszmely & strudel making
          • Making strudel: the Hungarians show us how
            • Stretching the dough
            • Adding the filling
            • In the pan
          • The men try
            • Too many cooks?
            • Nice elbow grease!
            • Working the dough
            • Stretching the dough
            • Oiling the dough
            • Adding the fillings
            • In the pan
            • Ready for the oven, with a tribute from the Hungarians
          • The women try
            • Preliminaries
            • Working the dough
            • Stretching the dough
            • Dough fully stretched
            • Adding the filling
            • Rolling the dough
            • In the pan, ready for the oven
          • A hearty lunch
          • The house of strudel
          • Linda tries the biplane
        • Nancy at the monastery ruins before the downhill
        • Csúlok Csárda restaurant next to hotel
        • Getting ready for the morning ride
        • View east from the top of the climb
        • View west from the top of the climb
        • Rail yard for the quarry
        • Narrow gauge tracks to quarry
        • At the ferry landing
        • The ferry arrives
        • Visegrád castle
        • At the picnic lunch
        • Hearty diners
        • Esztergom basilica
          • Front of basilica
          • Statue
          • Statue
          • View down the hill
          • View down the hill
          • Aisle & altar
          • Dome
          • Doorway frieze
          • Doorway frieze
          • Painting & transept
          • Painting & transept
          • Altar & choir
          • Choir
          • Choir
          • Organs
            • Organ
            • Organ
            • Organ detail
        • Fájdalmas Szüz-kápolna (small hilltop church,) lighted at night
      • Szentendre area
        • The group waiting to board the boat
        • River cruiser outboard of barge
        • Loading bikes on the boat, Mária Valéria hid (bridge) in background
        • Last view of Esztergom basilica
        • Enjoying the boat ride
        • Chatting with Csaba
        • Linda & Slovak hills
        • Along the Danube
          • Cliffs
          • River cruiser
          • Shoreline
          • A beach
          • The Danube bend
          • House along the shore
        • Vács
          • Walking up from the river
          • Március 15. tér (town square)
            • Town square with ruins
            • Town sauare with ruins
            • Town square
          • Fehérek Temploma (church)
            • Side view
            • Front of church
            • Church interior
        • Bodor Major ranch
          • Approaching the luncheon
          • Panorama of the horse ring
          • The charioteer enters
          • …and makes a circuit
          • …then waves to us
          • Horsemen
          • Horsemen in front of us
          • Cattle-drawn wagon
          • Horseman with whip
          • Donkey & rider
          • Horseman standing
          • The horse falls down
          • …and the rider takes a nap
          • Whipping open a bottle
          • John tries his hand at it
          • Looking for volunteers
          • Mary Ann dons a hat on the donkey cart
          • Mary Ann finishes a circuit
          • Horse & buggy
          • Standing on two, reining three
          • Approaching the stands
          • Close -up
          • Taking a bow
          • Linda on a horse
          • Mary, sans hat, on a horse
        • Holiday Beach Hotel
        • Wedding at the hotel
        • Hotel pools & poolhouse
        • View of the Danube from the Holiday Beach
        • Concrete utility pole near Skansen Museum
        • Skanzen Museum
          • Museum entrance
          • Indigo-dying workshop
            • Explanatory sign
            • Exterior
            • Interior
          • Windmill
          • Farm
            • Explanatory sign
            • Explanatory sign
            • Sheep
            • Sheep
            • Sheep
            • Poultry
            • Horses
            • Explanatory sign
            • Cattle
            • Cattle
          • Ivy-covered building
          • Train
          • Train tracks
          • Amphitheater
          • Stage at amphitheater
          • Farm building
          • Home with thatched roof
          • Country protestant church
            • Church
            • Altar, choirloft, & pulpit
            • Rear choirloft
          • Another church
            • Pews & altar
            • Organloft
          • A third church
            • Exterior
            • Altar & pews
          • Another country church
        • Zoltan & Csaba at Skanzen
        • Szentendre
          • Entering Szentendre town
          • Cobblestones
          • Lunch stop (yum!)
          • Statue with cross on town square
          • Church
          • Micro museum on town square
          • Micro-art descriptions
            • Overview
            • Camelcade
            • Chessmen
            • Flowering spray
            • Shod flea
            • Portrait
            • Sea
            • Map of Australia
            • Kobzar book
            • Abraham Lincoln
            • Life
            • Meeting
            • Swallows
            • Padlock
          • Town street
        • Farewell dinner
          • Musicians play
          • Singer sings
          • Dancer dances
          • Another dancer
          • Linda & Lisa serenaded
          • Helen serenaded, too
          • Dancers video
          • Serenade video #1
          • Serenade video #2
          • A final serenade
        • Umbrella statues
        • Day 9 ride to Budapest-the group with the umbrella statues
        • Ruins in Margit szinget-hegy (Margaret Island Psrk)
        • Ruins in Margit szinget-hegy (Margaret Island Park)
        • Garden in Margit Szinget-hegy (Margaret Island Park)
        • Margit híd
        • Margit híd
        • Buda hills from Pest
        • Parliament building, north elevation
        • Video of front of Parliament
        • Szent István Bazilika from Andrássy út
        • Statues along Andrássy út
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        • Street fair
          • Street musicians
          • Gyro ride
          • Gyro ride video
          • Man on stilts
          • Crowd at Hösök tere (Heroes’ Square) for horse racing
        • At Paprika Restaurant
        • Linda dances at the ballet
    • Budapest
      • Budapest pictures
        • Mamaison Andrássy hotel
        • Statue at Vörösmarty tér
        • Royal palace
        • St. Matthias church and Fisherman’s Bastion
        • Széchenyi István tér
        • Flowers near Széchenyi István tér
        • Erzsébet híd (Elizabeth bridge) & tram tracks
        • Széchenyi lánchíd (chain bridge)
        • Pest side of Széchenyi lánchíd (chain bridge)
        • Statue
        • Shoes along the Danube
        • Metros & trams
          • #2 Tram southbound at Széchenyi István tér
          • #2’s passing at Széchenyi István tér
          • Metro M2
          • Metro M3 station at Kelvin tér
          • Metro M3
          • M3 Metro
          • Another M3 Metro station
        • Szabadság híd (Freedom Bridge)
        • Gellért Baths
          • Front of hotel
          • Side entrance
          • Pools to rear
        • Keleti pályaudvar (East railroad station)
          • Keleti front
          • Entrance
          • Doorway detail
          • Statuary
          • The trainshed
          • Train in station
          • Panoramic video
        • Nyugati pályaudvar (West railroad station)
          • Side of terminal
          • Right front
          • Front
          • Trainshed
          • Panoramic video
        • Szent István Bazilika (St. Stephen’s basilica)
          • View from Andrássy út
          • Side of basilica
          • Basilica front
          • Portal detail
          • Photo shoot on steps
          • Interior
          • Ceiling detail
          • Dome
          • Altar
          • Interior shot
          • Video panorama
          • Stained glass windows
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
        • Magyar Állami Operaház (Hungarian State Opera House)
          • Front on Ándrassy ut
          • Foyer ceiling
          • Stairway
          • Waiting for the tour
          • Wood panel carvings
          • Wood panel carvings
          • Chandelier
          • Emperor’s stairway
          • Auditorium
            • A box
            • Proscenium with curtain
            • Boxes
            • Gallery
            • Boxes & upper gallery
            • Boxes
            • Boxes & upper gallery
          • A soprano sings
        • Tigris restaurant
        • Chain bridge at night
        • Royal palace at night
        • Mátyás templom (Matthias church) & fisherman’s bastion at night
        • Buda sikló (funicular)
        • Funicular car
        • Funicular machinery
        • Buda hills from Szent György tér
        • Buda street scene
        • Statue near Matthias church
        • Fountain near Matthias church
        • Mátyás templom
          • St. Matthias church
          • Tiled roof
          • St. Matthias church
          • St. Matthias with flying buttresses
          • Flying buttresses & roof tile detail
          • Roof detail
          • Doorway with archivolt & tympanum
          • Rose window
          • Apse (exterior)
          • Stained glass
            • Side chapel
            • Rose window
            • Lancets & oculus
            • Lancets & oculus
            • Lancets & oculus
            • Lancets & oculus
            • Rose window
            • Rose window
            • Lancets & oculi
            • Lancets & oculi
            • Lancets & oculi
            • Side chapel
            • Lancets & oculi
            • Lancets & oculi
            • Lancets
            • Lancets
            • Lancets & oculi
          • Decoration
          • Nave, pillars, and triforium
          • Nave, pillars, & triforium
          • Nave, Pillars & triforium
          • 4-part vaulting
          • Apse & altar
          • Altar
          • Organ
        • Szent István at Fishermen’s Bastion
        • View of Parliament from Fishermen’s Bastion
        • Fishermen’s Bastion
        • Fishermen’s Bastion
        • Fishermen’s Bastion
        • Video panorama of Fishermen’s Bastion
        • Flower island
        • Museum of Musical History
        • Street scene
        • Building
        • Buda storm drain
        • Statue
        • Royal castle from Szent György tér
        • Changing of the guard at Sándor Palota (Sándor Palace)
        • South side of Sándor, awaiting changing of the guard
        • Statue
        • Building east of Parliament
        • Building east of Parliament
        • Parliament
          • Statue
          • Statue
          • Dome
          • Exterior wall detail
          • Guarding the flagpole 1
          • Guarding the flagpole 2
          • Stained glass
          • Vaulting
          • Hallway
          • Stairway & atrium
          • Stairway & atrium
          • Stairs
          • Stained glass
          • Former upper house chamber
          • Former upper house chamber
        • Hösöl tere (Heroes Square) with Millenium monumnet
        • Szépmüvészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts)
        • Mücsarnok (Palace of Arts)
        • Vajdahunyad vára (Vajdahunyad castle)
        • Kós Károly sétány with flower bed
        • Drained pool & building
        • Drained pool & upstream pond
        • Upstream pond
        • Tower
        • Széchenyi fürdö (Széchenyi baths)
          • North side on Allakerti korut
          • Doorway
          • Video panorama-north side
          • West face
          • Video panorama-west face
  • 2016
    • Munich
      • Munich
        • Eisbach canal along Lerchenfeldstrasse
        • In the Englischer Garten
        • In the Englischer Garten
        • In the Englischer Garten
        • Chinese Pagoda area
        • The Chinese Pagoda
        • Biergarten
        • Statue on Maximilianstrasse
        • Tram approaching Maxmonument
        • Across from Max-Josephplatz
        • Hotel Stadt Rosenheim
        • View from hotel window
        • Ostbahnhof
          • Front from Orleansstrasse
          • Platforms at Ostbahnhof
        • Zum Brünnstein restaurant
        • Feldherren Halle at Odeonsplatz
        • Shirker’s Alley
          • Viscardigasse
          • Looking toward the Residenz
          • Looking toward Theatinerstrasse
        • Hofgarten
          • Residenz
          • Residenz garden entrance
          • Flower bed
          • Enjoying the sun and the garden
          • Fountain and Bayrische Staatskanzlerei
          • Flowers
          • Flowers
          • Gazebo
            • Gazebo
            • Gazebo with flower beds
            • Gazebo
            • Gazebo
            • Gazebo ceiling detail
            • Gazebo archway detail
            • Gazebo fountain
        • Residenz Hofkapelle
        • Views of the Maximilianeum
          • Back side
          • Back side
          • Side tower
          • Front, facing the Isar
          • Front, facing the Isar
          • Entrance tower detail
        • Isar views
          • Right channel, looking south
          • Right channel, looking north
          • Left channel, looking north
          • Left channel, looking south
        • Marienplatz glockenspiel
        • Marienplatz glockenspiel
        • Hauptbahnhof
        • Statue at Lenbachplatz
        • Obelisk at Karolinenplatz
        • Neue Pinakothek
          • Along Barerstrasse
          • Front and sunken restaurant
          • Entrance
        • Gasteig
          • Front
          • Rear & side
        • Isartor
        • Sendlingertor
        • Spatenhaus an der Oper
        • Starnberger See
          • An S-bahn at Ostbahnhof
          • About toboard the tour boat
          • View down the lake from the pier
          • Tour boat waiting for the next excursion
          • A regatta on the lake
          • Lakeside “cottages"
          • More homes
          • Lakeside view
          • Coming in to dock down the lake
          • View down the lake
          • Lakeside hotel
          • Hillside home and chapel
          • Another docking
          • Not all worthwhile sights were on the shore
          • The regatta continues
          • Returning to Starnberg
          • Paddleboarders and the regatta
          • Snackbar
            • Snackbar
            • Seating area to the side
            • Service door
        • Ratskeller
          • Entrance on Dienerstrasse
          • Interior
        • Munich surfers
          • Catching a wave
          • Staying upright
    • Lake Constance
      • Lindau and the Bregenzerwald
        • The Bayrischer Hof
        • The Bayrischer Hof
        • Along the Lindau Seepromenade
          • Hotel Reutemann
          • The old Lighthouse
          • Lion and lighthouse at harbor entrance
          • Ship in the harbor
          • Boat traffic
          • Seepromenade from the Lion
          • Bahnhof and Bayrischer Hof
        • Crossing into Austria
        • Lake Constance from Seehotel Bregenz
        • Along the bike path near Seehotel in Bregenz
        • Boat in Bregenz harbor
        • Boat again
        • Swan in the harbor
        • Bregenz harbor
        • Bregenz Festspielhaus
          • Stands & floating stage
          • Entrance to theater w/ TV screen
          • Stage set for Turandot
          • Lighting scaffolding
          • Seating
          • Seating
        • Returning to Lindau
        • The Bregenzerwald
          • Mountains and valleys with skydiver
          • Mountains and valleys with skydiver
          • Mountains and homes
          • Mountain and river
          • Mountain
          • In a valley
          • Alpine homes
          • Cattle grazing
          • River
          • Mountains and valleys
          • Mountainside homes
          • Lost biker?
          • Narrow gauge railroad
          • Mountain village
          • House with flowers
          • Käsespäzle restaurant
          • Mountain scenery
      • Überlingen
        • Zeppelin on the way to Friedrichshafen
        • Suspension bridge
        • Friedrichshafen
          • Lake ferry
          • Street performer
          • The zeppelin museum
          • Lakeside observation tower
          • Shops along the waterfront
          • Harbor fountain
        • Meersburg town square
        • On the road to Überlingen
        • Meersburg area vineyards
        • Bad Hotel Überlingen
          • Back of hotel from lakeside
          • Auxiliary buildings
          • Fountain pool
          • Gardens
          • Lake view from hotel grounds
          • Path along the lake into town
          • Path along the lake
          • Lawn area
          • Gardens
        • Fountain statue in Überlingen
        • Restaurant for dinner
        • Unteruhldingen
          • Museum parking lot-Wade adjusts his bike
          • Museum entrance
          • Recreated bronze age huts
          • Recreated huts
          • Thatching a roof
          • Hut on piles
          • Stone age huts and walkways
          • View across the lake
          • Sunken dugout canoe
        • Flowers in Meersburg
        • Orchards
        • Basilika Birnau
          • Front of Basilica
          • Basilika tower
          • Front of Basilica
          • Interior
          • Ceiling
          • Lake view video from basilika grounds
        • Überlingen Franciscan church
          • Front facing street
          • Aisle
          • Ceiling
          • Altar
          • Organ
        • City gate on hillside
        • The cheese shop
          • Entrance
          • Shop and dining tables
          • Peter shows thanks to the owner
      • Konstanz
        • Basilika Birnau from ferry
        • Unteruhldingen from ferry
        • Mainau Island
          • Flags at Mainau dock
          • Entering the gardens
          • Former estate manor
          • Looking back towards gift shop
          • The gardens
          • Floral & shrubbery display
          • Flowers
          • Tree shrub
          • Tall tree
          • Garden path
          • Flowers
          • Bodensee flower arrangement
          • Flowers
          • Flowers
          • Video of flower beds & path
          • Floral water cascade
          • Dahlia bed
          • Dahlia bed
          • Flowers
          • Dahlias
          • Dahlias
          • Sheep may safely graze.
          • Flowers
          • Phlox
          • Asters
          • Specimen tree and pathway
          • Flowers
          • Whimsical wood carving
          • Whimsical wood carving
          • Whimsical wood carving
          • Whimsical wood carving
          • Pond and fountain
          • Rose
          • Rose
          • Rose
          • Roses
          • Musk roses
          • Rose
          • Peacock flower sculpture
          • Ducks flower sculpture
          • Flower sculpture of a flower
          • Flowers
          • Schmetterlingshaus (Butterfly house)
            • Butterfly house entrance
            • Butterflies
            • Butterflies
            • Butterflies
            • Butterflies
            • Butterfly
            • Butterflies
            • Butterfly
            • Tropical flowers
            • Butterfly
            • Butterfly
            • Butterfly
          • Large tree
          • Trees & flowers
          • Sweden's tower
          • Arboretum
          • Huge tree
          • Seasonal garden
          • Seasonal garden
          • Seasonal garden
          • Rose
          • Flowers
          • Zinnias
          • Flowers
          • View of the the the lake from Mainau
        • Reichenau Island
          • Corinna points the way on the causeway
          • Entering Reichenau
          • Romanesque church on the island
          • Greenhouse & flowers
        • 47 Grad Hotel
        • 47 Grad from across the Rhine
        • Brigantinus restaurant
        • Brigantinus entrance
        • IMG_2860
        • Rhine & riverwalk from the back of the hotel
        • Video of Rhine from hotel
        • Aernoud and Corinna at Diessenhofen
        • Diessenhofen covered bridge over Rhine
        • Building on Rhine at Diessenhofen
        • Swiss countryside
        • Stein am Rhein
          • Clock tower at old town entrance
          • Looking back from main street to clock tower
          • Chocolate store entrance
          • Main street
          • Main street with church tower
          • Town square
          • Decorated building
          • Decorated building
          • Statue before decorated building with bay turret
          • Twon buildings
          • Decorated building
          • Fountain
          • Building with flowers
          • Decorated building
        • Final dinner serenade by Corinna & Aernoud
        • Final dinner serenade by Corinna & Aernoud
        • View up the Rhine as it leaves Lake Constance
        • Konstanz old town along the Rhine
        • Buildings in Konstanz
          • Dom restaurant
          • Pastis restaurant
          • A Konstanz street
          • Building with decoration
          • Decorated building
          • Fountain
          • Window ornamentation
          • Red eagle house
          • House with turret window
          • Decorated building
          • Window flower arrangements
          • Hochschule in Konstanz
        • Münster Unserer Lieben Frau
          • Church front
          • Steeple
          • Plaza and entrance
          • Aisle & altar
          • Main altar
          • Vaulting
          • Pulpit
          • Pulpit base detail
          • Side altar
          • Chapel altar
          • Organ
          • Stained glass
          • Stained Glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
        • Harbor entrance with Imperia and lighthouse
        • Lighthouse
        • Imperia
        • Railroad station
        • Swiss train at Konstanz station
        • Old railcars
        • Video of old railcars
        • Pano restaurant for lunch
        • Pedestrian bridge over the Rhine
        • Swimming in the Rhine
        • Patio at Holly’s restaurant
    • Zürich
      • Zürich
        • Hotel Opera
        • Decorated building across from hotel
        • Lake Zürich
        • Dreikönigbrücke
        • Rhinoceros statue off Bahnhofstrasse
        • Fountain off Bahnhofstrasse
        • Zürich tram
        • The restaurant that was not to be
        • Fraumünster Kirche
          • Square outside church
          • Church entrance and steeple
          • Church entrance
          • Church steeple
          • Nave exterior with buttresses
        • Wasserkirche
          • Twin steeples
          • Exterior statuary
          • Butterfly decoration
          • Nave. altar, & vaulting
        • Grossmünster Kirche
          • Steeple
          • Church from the plaza
          • Statue outside church
          • Nave
          • Ceiling & chandeliers
          • Organ
        • St. Peter Kirche tower with huge clock
        • Limmat River tour boat
        • the ETH
        • Building tower
        • Interesting roof decoration
        • Department store glockenspiel display
        • Department store glockenspiel display
        • View up the Limmat from Bahnhofbrücke
        • Hauptbahnhof
          • View from Bahnhofstrasse
          • South facade from the east
          • East facade
          • Main hall
          • Whimsical statue
          • Video of upper train shed
        • 1st day lunch
        • Opera House
          • Front facade
          • Ancillary buildings
          • Boxes and orchestra
          • Boxes
          • Proscenium
          • Ceiling over proscenium
          • Swiss girls relaxing on the plaza
          • …and more on the steps
        • Tonhalle
          • Front facade
          • Orchestra & stage
          • Ceiling & chandeliers
          • Ceiling windows
  • 2017
    • Brussels
      • Brussels
        • Hotel Sandton Brussels Center
        • Galleries Royales St. Hubert entrance
        • Galleries St. Hubert
        • Galleries Royale
        • Galleries Royale
        • Grand Place/Grote Markt
          • Grand Place/Grote Markt panorama
          • Town Hall
          • Grand Place-southeast side
          • Grand Place-west side
          • Grand Place-northwest side
          • Grand Place-north side
          • Grand Place-northeast side
          • Town Hall-detail
          • Beer Museum entrance
          • Grand Place-east side
        • Manneken Pis
        • Manneken Pis
        • Waffle store on Rue de Stoof
        • Sts. Michel et Gudule
          • Transept of cathedral from hotel
          • Front of cathedral from park
          • Front of cathedral
          • Center door archivolt
          • Left door archivolt
          • Right door archivolt
          • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
          • Clerestory and triforium
          • Organ
          • Pulpit
          • Clerestory and triforium
          • Ambulatory stained glass
          • Statue, triforium, and stained glass
          • Nave statuary, organ, choir, and vaulting
          • Four-part vaulting with clerestories
          • Nave
          • Vaulting, clerestory, and triforium
          • Choir and altar
          • Altar in choir
        • aus Armes de bruxelles restaurant
        • La Monnaie/de Munt opera facade
        • Opera auditorium
        • Gare Centrale
        • #5 Metro
        • #5 Metro
        • Gare de l’Ouest/West Station
        • #6 Metro platform
        • Subway platform map
        • The Atomium
        • Atomium bottom with people for scale
        • Statuary at Atomium
        • #7 Tram waiting
        • Inside of tram
        • Notre Dame de la Chapelle
          • Church facade
          • Church side with south transept
          • Nave and choir
          • Four-part vaulting and clerestories
          • Pillars and statuary
          • Clerestories and aisle vaulting
          • Pulpit
          • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass lancets with oculus
            • Stained glass lancets
          • Ambulatory lancets with oculi
          • Choir, altar, and lancets
        • Notre Dame du Sablon/Kavelkerk
          • Side of church with north transept
          • Four-part vaulting with stained glass clerestories
          • Organ
          • Great organ
          • Pulpit
          • Four-part aisle vaulting
          • Choir and altar
          • Choir lancets
          • Clerestories, triforium, and pillars
          • Stained glass
            • Lancets with oculi
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Lancets
            • Rose window
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Lancets with oculi
        • Musées Rouaux des Beaux Arts
        • Place Royale/Koningsplatz panorama
        • St. Jacques sur Coudenberg on Place Royale
        • Palais Royale/Koninklijk Paleis
        • Entrance to Parc de Bruxelles/Park von Brussel
        • Statues & passageway between Rue Royale and Rue Ravenstraat
        • Bij den Boer
        • Ste. Catherine metro station
    • Belgium and the Netherlands
      • Belgium and the Netherlands
        • Brugge
          • Hotel Navarra
          • Hotel Navarra courtyard
          • Swan-post stairway in Navarra
          • Belfry from Sint Jakobsstraat
          • Cafe Craenenburg
          • Markt panorama
          • Statue in the Markt
          • Beer wagon in the Markt
          • Bookstore on the Markt
          • Markt carraige ride
          • Belfort and Hallen
          • Inside the Hallen
          • Inside the Hallen
          • Belfort from inside the Hallen
          • Canal at Wollestraat and Roezenhoedkaai
          • Bruges houses on Garenmarkt
          • Bruges house
          • Gentpoort
          • Inside Heilige Magdalenakerk
          • Bruges house (sun flair)
          • Store sign on Geldmuntstraat
          • De Vlaamse Pot
          • Bruges street scene
          • Hotel Aragon
          • Tower
          • Canal to Jan van Eyckplein
          • City theater
          • The Burg
            • Burg panorama
            • Stadhuis
            • Palais van het Brugse Vrije
          • Blinde Ezelstraat
          • Belfort from the canal
          • Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk
            • Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk
            • Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk
            • Chapel with flying buttresses
            • Four-part vaulting
            • Aisle vaulting
            • Clerestory and triforium
            • Pillar
            • Organ
            • Stained glass
            • Ambulatory stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
            • Altar
            • Michaelangelo’s Madonna and Child
          • Sint Janshospitaal
            • Medicines
            • Medicines
            • Balances for weighing
            • Stained glass
            • Stained glass
          • Groeningemuseum
          • Groeningemuseum entrance
          • Begijnhof courtyard
          • Wijngaardplein
          • Minnewater
          • Building on Minnewater
          • Chocolatier Van oost
            • Van oost chocolates
            • Sophie De Cock
          • Pieter Pourbus restaurant
          • Sint Jakobskerk
            • Sint Jakobskerk
            • Nave and altar
            • Nave four-part vaulting and clerestory
            • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Ambulatory stained glass
              • Lancets and oculi
              • Lancets and Oculi
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
            • Altar
            • Choir and altar
            • Aisle eight-part vaulting with clerestory
        • Leaving Brugge from the barge’s stern
        • Ghent
          • Boat ride
          • Castle
          • Boat guide, bridge, and towers
          • Bridge and towers
          • House
          • Castle
          • Waterfront with tour boats
          • Sint Michielskerk
          • Sint Michielskerk
          • Waterfront
          • Stadhuis and belfort
          • Tram in town square
          • Town square
          • Sint Baafskathedraal
          • Sint Baafskathedraal
          • Town buildings
          • Belfort
          • Belfort
          • Town square building
          • Sint Niklaaskerk
          • Church entrance with archivolt
          • Flower market
          • Flower market
          • Bandstand at flower marke
          • Waterfront
        • Ferry ride across the Schelde
        • Dendermonde town square
        • Bandstand in Dendermonde town square
        • Dendermonde town square panorama
        • Town band percussion
        • Dendermonde bridge and canal
        • Caroline and Merel prepare the beer tasting
        • Ferry on the Schelde
        • Ramp to the ferry
        • Ferry dock across the river
        • VBT group on the ferry
        • VBT group and bicycles on the ferry
        • Chateau along the road
        • Temse from the Schelde bridge
        • Schelde at Temse from the bridge
        • Sheep grazing along the bike path
        • Pond with fishing huts along the bike path
        • Ree mugging at statue
        • Farm for lunch
        • The farm/restaurant
        • Penned animals
        • Antwerp
          • Statue in Vrijdagmarkt
          • Museum Plantin-Moretus
          • Courtyard of Plantin-Moretus house
          • Building in Vrijdagmarkt
          • Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal
            • View from Janblomstraat
            • View from Groenplaats
            • View of east end from Groenplaats
            • Sculpture in front of cathedral
            • Entry with archivolt
            • Four-part vaulting
            • Pillars
            • Clerestory
            • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Choir statue with stained glass lancets
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Rosette
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Chapel lancets and oculi
              • Chapel lancets and oculi
              • Chapel lancets and oculi
              • Chapel lancets and oculi
              • Chapel lancets and oculi
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
            • Pulpit
            • Main organ
            • Side organ
            • Choir and altar
            • Choir
            • Choir
            • Altar
            • Aisle four-part vaulting
          • Grote Markt
            • Stadhuis
            • Stadhuis and fountain
            • Medieval buildings
            • Medieval buildings and fountain
            • Fountain
            • Fountain
          • Museum aan de Stroom
          • Willemdok
            • Willemdok panorama
            • Ship near Willemdok
            • Crane near MAS museum
            • Square rigger at Willemdok
          • Caroline dressed to kill for dinner
          • Merel leaving the tour tram
          • Castle along the Schelde
          • Statue (on the cathedral?)
          • Rubens house
          • The Bistro-lunch near the Rubens house
          • Tram along Schoenmarkt
          • Antwerp port authority building
        • Dordrecht
          • Wolwevershaven
          • Drawbridge
          • Groothoofdspoort
          • Emblem detail
          • Old drawbridge to Nieuwehaven
          • Wolwevershaven
          • Ketch at Nieuwehaven
          • Colorful building
          • Marine crane at Nieuwehaven
          • Nieuwehaven with Grote Kerk
          • Wijnhaven
          • Wijnhaven to Scheffersplein
          • Caroline points out entrance to Wijnhaven
          • House with Wijnhaven entrance
          • Group at Het Hof van Nederland
          • Scheffersplein
          • Grote Markt
          • Grote Kerk
            • Grote Kerk
            • Ornate aisle vauting, organ, & windows
            • Aisle organ
            • Ambulatory windows
            • Ambulatory windows
            • Ambulatory windows
            • Stained glass
            • Main organ
            • Four-part nave vaulting
            • Pillars
            • Pulpit
            • Clerestory and triforium
            • Four-part vaulting
            • Stained glass
            • Choir and altar
            • Choir clerestory and vaulting
            • Altar
          • Swallowing raw herring
          • Sailing Home docked at Riedijkshaven
          • Rientje
          • Elina
          • Karima
          • Willy
          • Merel
          • Het drie mooie vrouwen
          • Alan with an embarrasment of riches
        • Kinderdijk
          • View of windmills from river dike
          • Mockup of windmill area
          • Mockup of windmill area
          • Windmills along the canal
          • The new pumping station
          • Windmill
          • Windmill
          • Windmills along the canal
        • View across polderland
        • Polderland sun & rain
        • Drawbridge
        • Lek River ferry
        • Riverdside houses at Vianen
        • The Breukelen bridge-New York, eat your heart out.
        • Windmill
        • Sheep may safely graze
    • Amsterdam
      • Amsterdam
        • Centraal Station
        • Centraal Station interior
        • Drawbridge on Laagte Kadijk
        • Resistance (Verzets) Museum
        • The tour group on Oosterdok
        • Amsterdam building
        • Canal building
        • Sign at the University
        • Begijnhof
        • Amsterdam American Hotel
        • Detail over door of Amsterdam American
        • Fountain in front of Amsterdam American
        • Hotel Vondel
        • Typical Amsterdam canal boat
        • View from canal boat
        • Church from canal boat
        • Tram at Leidseplein
        • Theater at Leidseplein
        • Prinzengracht houses from Leidsestraat
        • Building near Leidseplein
        • Upper stories detail
        • Bojo Indonesian Kitchen
        • Bike parking garage east of Centraal Station
        • Canal boats near Centraal Station
        • Bikes parked west of Centraal Station
        • Bikes parked west of Centraal Station
        • Bikes on east side of Centraal Station
        • NEMO museum
          • NEMO museum and pedestrian bridge
          • Pedestrian bridge
          • Charity run
          • Ramp to the rooftop plaza
          • View to classic ships from rooftop plaza
          • Panorama from rooftop plaza
        • Classic ships
        • Three-master
        • Amsterdam metro
        • Boats along Oude Schans (opera to right)
        • Munttoren at Muntplein
        • Bloemenmarkt
        • Rembrandtplein
        • Rembrandtplein
        • Amsterdam street with red bike lane
        • Vondel Park
          • Entering the park
          • Park scene
          • Park scene
          • Park building
          • Statue
          • Teahouse
          • Gazebo
          • Bridge
          • Park scene
          • Waterfowl
          • Bridge
          • Fountain
          • Statue
          • Colorful bird
          • Colorful bird
        • Het Concertgebouw
        • Rear of the Rijksmuseum
        • Stedelijk Museum
        • Rijksmuseum
          • Rijksmuseum
          • Reception hall
          • Foyer stained glass
          • The Night Watch
          • Ship model
        • With Caroline and Merel at Het Concertgebouw
        • Concertgebouw
        • Queen’s statue at Spui
        • Koninlijk Paleis & Nieuwe Kerk at the Dam
        • Building on Rokin
        • Koninklijk Paleis at the Dam
        • National monument at the Dam
        • Nieuwe Kerk
          • Exterior
          • Vaulting
          • Chapels
          • Vaulting
          • Clerestory
          • Pillars
          • Triforium and clerestory
          • Stained glass
          • Stained glass
          • Statuary
          • Altar
        • Museum Van Loon
          • Entrance
          • Room
          • Dining room
          • Room
          • Dinnerware
          • Bedroom
          • Room
          • Paintings
          • Bedroom
          • Bedroom
          • Dresser, fireplace, & mirror
          • Bedroom
          • Kitchen
          • Cookware
          • Garden
          • Cat sunning in the garden
          • Garden sundial
          • Rear of house from garden
          • Carraige house entrance from garden
          • Tack in the carraige house
        • Opera house
          • Opera house
          • Opera house
          • Entrance
          • Entrance lobby
          • Stage with two subtitle displays
          • Auditorium
  • 2018
    • Berlin
      • Berlin
        • Park Plaza Wallstreet Berlin Mitte Hotel
        • Potsdamer Platz Bahnhof
        • Potsdamer Platz
        • Holocaust memorial
        • Holocaust memorial
        • Reichstag
          • Reichstag with dome from the Brandenburger Tor
          • Reichstag entrance
          • Exterior decoration- detail
          • Inside the dome
        • Parochialkirche with carillon bells
        • Zur Letzen Instanz restaurant
        • Alexanderplatz video
        • Friedrichsbrücke to Museum Insel and the Berliner Dom
        • Alte National Galerie
        • Altes Museum from the Lustgarten
        • Berliner Dom
          • Dom from Burgstrasse
          • Dom from the Lustgarten
          • Pulpit and organ
          • Balcony
          • Organ
          • Altar and stained glass
          • Dom interior
          • Pulpit
          • Chapel
          • Chapel organ
          • Interior video panorama
        • Kaufhaus des Westen
        • Lunch stand
        • Wittenburgplatz U-bahn station
        • Tauentzienstrasse and the Kaiser Wilhelm Denkmal Kirche
        • Entrance to Führerbunker mockup
        • Altes Zollhaus restaurant
        • Olympiastadion
          • Approaching the south gate
          • A local street
          • Inside the stadium
          • A satellite field
          • Main gate (east) from the parking lot
        • Märkisches Museum
          • Märkisches Museum
          • Märkisches Museum
          • Berlin wall remnant
          • Berlin wall remnant
        • The Spree from the tour boat landing
        • The Spree at sunset, looking north
    • East Germany
      • East Germany
        • The Havel from the bike path
        • Glienicker Brücke
        • Brauerei Maurei on the Havel
          • The restaurant
          • Patio and the Havel
          • The Havel from the patio
          • Video panorama of the Havel
          • Houseboat on the river
          • Houseboat on the river
        • Russian house near Potsdam
        • Russian house hear Potsdam
        • Schloss Cecilienhof
          • Left side exterior
          • Right side exterior
          • Courtyard panorama
          • Red star garden
          • Chimney detail
        • Hotel Brandenburger Tor
        • Brandenburger Tor with plaza and street musicians
        • Brandenburger Tor, fountain, and hotel
        • Pediment detail
        • Fountain
        • Der Butt restaurant
        • St. Peter und St. Paul Kirche
        • Babelsberg Dampfmaschinenhaus
        • Schloss Babelsberg
        • On the road near Petzow
        • On the bike path near Petzow (with finger)
        • Werder Island
          • Bridge to island with cathedral
          • Cafe Hagemeister
          • Werder windmill
          • Boats waiting for regatta
        • Sanssouci Park
          • Commun
          • Commun arcade
          • Neues Palais
          • Neues Palais
          • Chinese teahouse
          • Approaching Schloss Sanssouci
          • Schloss with fountain and vineyard
          • Fountain and pool
          • Windmill near Schloss
          • Schloss Sanssouci panorama
        • Beskow
        • Bench in Beeskow square
        • Beeskow square
        • Straupitz windmill
        • The group at the windmill
        • Road sign in German and Sorb
        • Hotel Spreebalance
        • Hotel Spreebalance
        • Beach from bridge into Lübben
        • Bathhouse (?) at end of the Radweg at Lübben
        • Bridge from Radweg and beach over the Hauptspree into Lübben
        • View of hand ferry from the bridge
        • Stork statue in Lübben
        • Totems in Straupitz
        • Cattle grazing between Straupitz and Burg
        • Boat for Hauptspree cruise
        • Weir near boat landing.
        • Meissen Porzellan Museum
          • Porcelain statue
          • Display of tableware
          • Tea service
          • Tea service
          • Huge fruit basked with porcelain fruit
          • Ornate tea cup and saucer
          • Food tray tower
          • Ornate urn
          • Ornate vase
          • Candelabra
          • Large centerpiece
          • Large ornate urn
          • Clock
          • Large clock
        • Church in Meissen
        • Porcelain bells in church tower
        • Stained glass windows in the church
        • Town square in Meissen
        • Meissen town square buildings
        • Meissen cathedral at top of hill
        • Domkeller restaurant
        • View from Domkeller balcony
        • Meissen from the Elbe
        • Windmill on left bank of the Elbe
        • Bastei
          • Map of the area
          • Bastei
          • Bastei
          • Elbe valley from Bastei
          • Bastei
          • Elbe valley from Bastei
          • Elbe valley from Bastei
          • Bastei
          • Bastei
          • Bastei
          • Elbe valley from Bastei
          • Bastei and Elbe valley
          • Bastei
          • Bastei
          • Bastei bridges
        • Along the Elbe
        • Along the Elbe
        • Witwe Bolte cafe in Pirna
        • Pirna building
      • Dresden
        • Entering Dresden
        • Plaza statue
        • Royal palace
        • Zwinger palace
        • Semper Opera
        • Taschenbergpalais Hotel
        • Hotel Hyperion
        • Cafe at rear of Taschenbergpalais
        • Trompe l’oeil wall in Dresden
        • Royal jousting court
        • Royal jousting court, other side
        • Group bicycles
        • Wall mural of Dresden history
        • Archway (Taschenberbergpalais on right)
        • Dresden Frauenkirche
          • View from the street
          • Dome
          • Exterior
          • Entrance
          • Altar
          • Galleries (left)
          • Galleries (right)
          • Interior of dome
          • Altar detail
          • Organ
          • Pulpit
          • Cross rescued from fire bombing
          • Exterior
          • Luther statue in plaza outside Frauenkirche
        • Glass dome of music school
        • Farewell Dresden
        • Zwinger palace
          • Zwinger palace
          • Zwinger palace
          • Zwinger palace
          • Zwinger palace
          • Statues in Zwinger
          • Statues and fountain in Zwinger
          • Video panorama of Zwinger courtyard
        • Royal palace from street of hotel
        • Dresden building
        • Hofkirche (cathedral)
          • Altar
          • Pulpit
          • Side altar
          • Pillars and clerestory
        • War monument
        • TV tower
        • Concert hall, front
        • Concert hall, side
        • Altmarkt with vendor stands
        • Brühlsche terrasse
          • Entrance steps
          • View along the terrace
          • View of cathedral and palace towers
          • View across Elbe
          • View across Elbe
        • Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
          • Vermeer-The Procuress
          • Caption
          • van Valckenborch-The Tower of Babel
          • Caption
        • Inside Semper Opera
        • Inside Semper Opera
        • Alte Meister restaurant
    • Prague
      • Prague
        • Mamaison Hotel Riverside
        • Shells and courts near hotel along the Vltava
        • Memorial to NYC 9/11 firemen
        • Prague castle from Rudolfinium
        • Wenceslas Square
        • Můstek metro station
        • Fred and Ginger building
        • Fred and Ginger at night
        • Prague tram
        • Pražský hrad
          • Moat from the bridge
          • View from moat bridge
          • Entrance to Second courtyard
          • Fountain
          • chapel of sv Kříž
          • St. Vitus cathedral
            • Center and right portals, tympanums, and archivolts
            • Left and center portals, tympanums, and archivolts
            • Stained glass
            • Vaulting
            • Clerestory and triforium
            • Pillars
            • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
              • Stained glass
            • Nave and choir
            • Stairways
            • Towers, front and side
            • Descriptive panel
            • Side chapel with flying buttresses
            • Side view with flying buttresses
            • Exterior side and rear
            • Flying buttresses detail
            • Entrance
            • Chapels
            • Chapels
          • Trades exhibit
          • Medieval smith demonstration
          • Armor
          • Blacksmith demonstration
          • Building
          • Basilica of sv Jiří
          • Basilica pediment detail
          • Convent of sv Jiří
          • Building
          • Castle grounds alley
        • Rudolfinium
          • Exterior view
          • Outdoor pre-concert interview
          • Stage & interior
          • Orchestra and gallery
          • Side gallery
          • Ceiling
    • Amsterdam
      • Amsterdam
        • Owl Hotel
        • Muziekgebouw from the tram stop
        • Muziekgebouw great concert hall
        • Muziekgebouw great hall stage
        • Koninklijk Paleis
        • Van Gogh Museum from the street
        • Van Gogh Museum entrance
        • Restaurant Haesje Claes
  • 2019
    • Copenhagen
      • Copenhagen
        • Hotel The Square
        • Hall lamps in hotel
        • Fountain off Strøget
        • Restaurant Karla for smørrebrød 😒
        • Electric scooters
        • Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek on H. C. Andersens Blvd.
        • Rådhus
        • Fountain near Rådhus
        • Building on Vesterbrogade
        • Tivoli Gardens
          • From H. C. Andersens Blvd.
          • Tivoli entrance buildings
          • Tivoli entrance
          • Inside Tivoli
          • Inside Tivoli
          • Tivoli concert hall
          • Tivoli concert hall
          • Park & benches
          • Concert hall
          • Concert hall interior
          • Fountain & pond
          • two-decker carousel
          • Balloon ride
          • Swinging chairs half-way up
          • Swinging chairs near top
          • Pond
          • Statue
          • Chinese stage
        • Copenhagen Central Station
        • Søfarts monument
        • Den lille Havfrue
        • Kastellet
          • North Kastellet entrance
          • Inside Kastellet
          • Kastelskirken
          • Kastellet building
          • Kastellet buildings
          • South entrance to Kastellet
        • Skt. Albans Kirke
        • Soldier memorisl
        • Park outside Kastellet
        • Alexander Nevskij Kirke on Bredgade
        • Frederikskirke
        • Kongens Nytorv
        • Nyhavn
          • Nyhavn
          • North bank of Nyhavn
          • North bank of Nyhavn
          • South bank of Nyhavn
          • South bank of Nyhavn
          • Comfort station
          • Hans Christen Andersen house
        • Decorative tower
        • Fountain
        • Fleisch restaurant
        • Danish pastry
        • Cirkusbygningen
        • Nyhavn from Inderhavnsbroen
        • Inderhavnsbroen
        • Trangravsbroen
        • Operaen
          • Operaen from Nyhavn
          • Vika, our guide
          • Chandeliers
          • Chandelier detail
          • Aidotproim with Royal Box
          • Auditorium orchestra
        • Amalienborg Plads & Frederikskirke from Operaen
        • Skuespilhuset theater from Operaen
    • Denmark and Sweden
      • Denmark and Sweden
        • Our Danish tour guide at the castle
        • Helsingborg castle
          • Helsingør castle
          • Castle close-up
          • Cannons
          • Castle tower
          • In the courtyard
          • Ophelia actress & tourist
          • Castle chapel
          • Chapel organ
          • Chapel ornamentation
          • Ceiling detail
          • Castle drawing
        • Helsingborg town hall
        • Elite Hotel Mollberg in Helsingborg
        • Houses along the coast
        • Maritime museum
        • Landskrona castle
        • Landskrona castle
        • Denmark from Sweden
        • Windmill
        • Rest stop at a marina
        • Marina
        • South of Arild
        • Coast near Arild
        • Windmill
        • Candy store en route to Göta canal
        • Lunch stop before canal
        • Bergs Slussar locks at Göta canal
          • Locks on canal
          • Facilities near canal
          • Canal lock
          • Canal lock
          • Canal lock
          • Pond between locks
          • Miniature golf next to pond
          • Lock
          • Raised bridge over canal
          • Boat cruising under bridge
          • Lock filling with water
          • Boat in lock as water lowers
          • Series of six contiguous locks
          • Six lock group
        • Stockholm
          • Elite Hotel Marina Tower Nacka
          • Hotel at night
          • Ferry dock outside hotel
          • Gröna Lunds Tivoli from ferry stop
          • Gröna Lunds Tivoli across the bay at night
          • Gröne Lunds tivoli
          • Gröna Lunds Tivoli
          • Cruise ship approaching Viking docks
          • Stockholm city hall
          • Waterfront houses
          • Boats moored
          • Jail/hotel
            • Old jail entrance
            • Old jail, now a hotel
            • Door to garden courtyard
          • Livrustkammaren (museum)
          • Building in Storkyrkan (Nobel square)
          • Storkyrkan buildings
          • Bridge/entrance to Swedish parliament building
          • Swedish opera house
          • Bridge from Djurgården
          • In Djurgården
          • Canal in Djurgården
          • In Djurgåarden
          • Kryp In restaurant
          • Viking cruise ship moored
          • Vasa Museum
            • Bow of Vasa
            • The Vasa
            • Museum exterior
            • Museum exterior
            • Museum exterior
            • Museum from ferry
          • Street food vendor near Vasa for lunch
          • Street signs
          • Guards returning to barracks
          • Statuary in Nationalmuseum
          • Historical painting in Nationalmuseum
          • Fountain in Gamla Stan
          • Sunset over Stockholm
        • Faringso Hembygdsgard ((outdoor fold museum)
        • Farm machine at Faringso
        • Country church on Lovön Island
        • Group farewell outside Nacka hotel
    • Helsinki
      • Helsinki
        • Silja Symphony
          • Silja Symphony at Stockholm
          • My stateroom
          • Center corridor of the ship
        • Passing a cruise ship as we left Stockholm
        • Passing another Cruise ship
        • Two more cruise ships
        • Fortifications in the Stockholm archipelago
        • Small lighthouse
        • Hotel Haven
        • Kauppatori
        • Helsinki City Hall
        • Orthodox church
        • Helsinki Cathedral
          • Helsinki Cathedral
          • Helsinki Cathedral
          • Helsinki Cathedral interior
        • Helsinki University
        • Government building
        • Alexander II statue at Senate Square
        • Central train station
        • Trams
        • Church in the Rock
          • Church in the Rock
          • Church in the Rock entrance
          • Church in the Rock rear
        • Sports Hall
        • Opera House
          • Operan
          • Operan
          • Operan
        • Finlandia-talo
        • Finlandia-talo video
        • National Museum
        • Parliament building
        • Park near Parliament
        • Park near Parliament
        • Musiikkitalo
        • Mannerheim statue
        • Band concert at Kauppatori
        • Sky wheel Helsinki
        • Helsinki Metro
        • Escalators to Metro
        • Suomenlinna
          • Fortifications from the boat
          • Fortifications from the boat
          • Fortifications from the boat
          • Old submarine
          • Fortifications
          • Southern fortifications
          • Fortifications
          • Fortifications
          • Fortification bunkers
          • Fortifications & bunkers
          • Cannon
          • Cannon
          • Cannon
          • Ramparts
          • Carronades
          • Fortifications
          • Bridge between main & south islands
          • Suomenlinnan Kirkko
            • Front of church
            • Railing
            • Nave
            • Organ
        • Ateneumin taidemuseo
          • Exterior
          • Painting
          • Painting
          • Painting
        • Strindberg restaurant
    • Amsterdam
      • Amsterdam
        • Prinsen Hotel
        • Gebr. Hartering Restaurant
        • Stedelijk Museum from Museumplein
        • Albert Cuyptmarkt entrance

Paris pictures


IMG 1894

Our train at the Gare de Lyon

IMG 1912

Millenium Hotel Paris Opera

IMG 1921

Opera Comique, a couple blocks from the hotel

IMG 1895

Eglise de la Madeleine

IMG 1896

Inside the Salle Pleyel

IMG 1897

Carousel and Metro entrance at Abbesses

IMG 1920

Sacré Cœur

IMG 1905

Anvers metro stop

IMG 1906

Gare du Nord

IMG 1911

Gare de l'Est

IMG 1913

Eiffel Tower from Place Alma Marceau

IMG 1914

Théâtre des Champs Elysées

IMG 1953

Hôtel des Invalides



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