Trip Pics

Yup, I'm alive.

My trip was a lot of fun- especially since it was my first time in all of the sites I visited. I'm posting photos from the trip here, under the jump, for anyone who wants to see them. You'll finally get a real post within the next couple days.



From Prague, where I stayed a few days before taking a bus to where the cruise ship was docked, in Nuremberg:

 

Couldn't resist the shot below, what with the beautiful pink moon above the city. The Charles Bridge is the prettiest place to go in Prague at night- although the entire city is lovely lit up.

I love old architecture in general, but I find old religious buildings especially interesting.

While in the Czech Republic, I visited the former concentration camp of Terezin. As much as one might read about the Holocaust or watch documentaries and movies about it, nothing makes it hit one's gut quite like walking where the victims once walked.

Next, from Nuremberg:

Then Regensburg:

A stop at the Weltenburger Kloster, where I had some tasty beer in its beer garden. Weltenburger is one of those delightful abbeys that has been making its own alcohol since medieval times. I got a couple of beer steins + a Christmas tree ornament there.

 

A view of the Danube on the way to the boat I rode back to the cruise ship.

Then Kelheim:

So much foam- you can tell how often I've poured beer from a bottle. This is at another beer garden.

After getting drunk, my drinking companion and I stumbled around Kelheim and made it to the ship three minutes before it was to leave dock. The ramp for walking onto the ship was gone, so she and I jumped onto the railing and climbed over it.

I have two other Kelheim photos, but I'm like "Hurrrr durrrrrr im drunktrgsr4rfw3" in them. Sorry, Kelheim.

I forgot to recharge my camera's battery the night before I walked around Passau, so I don't have any photos of it. ^_^; Someone else from my cruise kindly agreed to email me his Passau photos, but hasn't sent them yet.

Next up, the town of Melk, where I visited another snazzy abbey.

Then Vienna:

Here we have Schönbrunn Palace.

Behind the palace, in the garden area.

And last but not least, Budapest:

 The next two photos are of Holocaust memorials- each leaf on the Tree of Life has a Holocaust victim's name inscribed on it, and the bronze shoes lined along the Danube's bank represent the shoes that Holocaust victims were ordered to remove before being shot there.

Back in the castle district, I caught the changing of the guard at Buda Castle.

And I was kind of amused by this- from the bestseller shelves in a bookstore in Budapest. (There is NO ESCAPE, evidently.)

That's it!