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10 Country European Adventure – Summer 2012

John Waller
“Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, The Hague, Poland, Lithuania, Krakow, Auschwitz, Vienna, Salzburg, Italian Alps, Venice, Verona, Innsbruck, Munich, Frankfurt – ~10,000 km”

From European Trip. Posted by John Waller on 6/25/2012 (101 items)

Inside Notre Dame
These two gargoyles remind me of my nephews when they were little!
I looked, and suddenly there this was

I love this metro signe
The obligatory in front of the ___ picture – in this case, The Louvre
Its always a mob trying to see the most famous painting in the world
I think she would look better with arms myself

From an interesting angle
One of my favorite photos so far…
The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadero
Arc de Triumph – check

The inside of the Arc de Triumph

Its funny, but Amsterdam’s City Flag is a red background with black XXX – appropriate…

Rene and I try to kill each other in front of The Peace Palace in The Hague
The dunes at the North Sea at s’Gravenhage
This shack was built entirely from things washed up on the beach

Julie’s first sighting of a Sea
No dump zone
This is what 90% of Poland’s "highways" look like, but they are building ne…

Three generations at Belmontas

Gediminis Castle from across the Neris
Trakai Castle – home of the Lithuanian Grand Dukes since the 14th Century

The rocks are original, the brick from the restoration during the 50s – 80s.
I was a bad boy so they put me in stocks
Lithuanian malls – Julie’s favorite tourist destination
Jurate’s grandfather has a wing in the Traditional Music Museum in Kaunas

The Svedas Family Reunion – 20 (or so) Svedas’, Svediene’s or Svedaite’s.
A "typical" house in Nida

Jurate’s foundest childhood memories are of the dunes at Nida – here they are from th…
From the top of the 50 meter high dune – Russia’s Kaliningrad oblast is the dark gree…
The fire-breathing dragon is the symbol of Krakow

All of the great Grand Dukes of Lithuania were also corowned Kings of Poland and buri…
Pope John Paul II was the Archbishop of Krakow before being named pope – all Polish p…
The market square in Krakow is the largest medieval squaare in all of Europe!
The entrance to Auschwitz I – it is impossible to relive the fear, horror and brutali…

Through these gates at Auschwitz II / Birkenau, more than 1 million souls perished, i…
The remains of one of the gas chamber/creamatoria complexes at Birkenau where on this…
From the Czech Republic onward, around every curve in the road can turn up a castle l…
On our way to our hotel in Vienna – no actually to the Royal Apartments

The palace was beautiful, but newer and less elaborate than in France or Belgium
Jurate meets her hero!
In front of the staute to the great Empress Maria Teresa in front of her magnificent …
Jurate and I at the entrance to Mozart’s family home in Salzburg

The streets of Salzburg, the backdrop for the on-the-town scenes in the Sound of Musi…
The amazing view of Mt. Schlern from our window at the Schlern International Music Fe…
One happy camper…
The castle Jurate was going to/did perform at later in our stay.

Venice is all water-busses, water-taxis, private boats and of course, gondolas
Gondola traffic jam
The Lion of Venice – symbol of Venice and Othello’s nickname

My return to San Marco Square after 23 years
It’s easy to get lost in Venice, there are no big streets for reference.

Now we know where to come for all of our costumes.
A typical Northern Italy scene, this of old Verona
Legend has it that this was Juliette’s balcony
They say to rub Juliette’s boobs for luck – they’re very shining from all the rubbing…

We couldn’t figure out the connection, but there is Dante
At the Arena di Verona, the arena was built by the Romans and still is functioning to…

This was the most picturesque dinner we ever have had the privlege of being served – …

Jurate’s incredible musicianship, sensitiveity and talent brought a bunch of professi…
A classic Jurate pose…
Sona and Jurate were incredible together
Bolzano is 15 km from Vols am Schlern and is a great little big city right next door

There are great statues and fountains everywhere in Italy
This is one of my favorite photos of the nearly 2000 I took. This is a view of our vi…
Jurate and I fell in love with "The Schlern" and its environs. Around every…
Me trying to be artsy with me favorite subject

On our last day in Sud Tyrol, we were serenaded by this local yodel(er)
For some reason, The Golden Roof is the most famous tourist attraction in Innsbruck
Even the dogs are Tyrolian in Innsbruck

The Munich Town Hall’s animated chimers
Inside the world famous – and very rowdy and noisy – Hoffbrauhaus
That’s me drinking a beer at (in front of) the Hofbrauhaus.
The typical ham sandwich to be be washed down with German beer – yum!

That’s how we felt just a few hundred km from the end of our incredible trip

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