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30 January 2012

Fellow Rocklander

 Just hanging out in a café trying to be Parisian

Never can have too much coffee, or wine for that matter

29 January 2012

Afternoon in Montmartre

Steps in Montmartre

Morgan and Sarah, posing with the Parisian background

Beauties

28 January 2012

Versailles

 Walking through the gardens of Versailles

Loyola kids in love

Picture perfect

15 January 2012

Charlottenburg Palace and Museum Island

Charlottenburg Palace

More of the palace grounds
 
 National Gallery of Art; one of the museums on Museum Island

The S-bahn passing through the Island

14 January 2012

A day of garten-ing

 Volksgarten, the people's park

Random architecture next to a gas station

 Tiergarten, or the animal garden; also the largest garden in Berlin

The Brandenburg Gate at dusk

13 January 2012

Sachsenhausen Memorial

A boot testing path; prisoners were forced to test different types of boots for quality by running in then for 12 hours.  The boots they were given would be either 2 sizes too small or too large.

 A washroom designed for 140 prisoners, but shared each morning by 400

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A view of the camp and the path that leads towards the infirmary

12 January 2012

East Side Gallery and Kollowitz Platz

 The U-Bahn heading from Warschauer Str. to Ostkreuz

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Berlin Wall; "You have learnt what freedom is and will never forget"

Berlin Wall; German communist politician Erich Honecker kissing Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev

Graffitied side of the Berlin Wall

11 January 2012

Berlin tour on a cloudy day

 The German Cathedral, located in the Gendarmenmarkt

 The Konzerthaus; a German theatre, also located in the Gendarmenmarkt

Neue Wache; a Memorial to the Victims of Fascism and Militarism, burried here are the remains of an unknown German Soldier and a concentration camp victim

The Berlin Cathedral and TV Tower

08 January 2012

Last night in Prague

Memorial to the victims of Commnism

 The East side of the river all lit up

Prague nightscape

07 January 2012

Lesser Town

 View from the West side of the Vlatava River; Dancing House on the right

Prague's version of the Lock Bridge

John Lennon Wall; I loved you

John Lennon Wall

Old town, Wenceslas Square, and Prague Beer Museum

 View of Old Town Square from the clock tower

More of Old Town Square and the Astronomical Clock Tower

Wenceslas Square

Beer tasting ranging from an IPA to a chocolate beer to a raspberry beer at the Prague Beer Museum

05 January 2012

Prague Castle, St Nicholas, and the Museum of Music

Old town Prague, filled with pastel colored buildings

 A bird's eye view of Prague

More pretty buildings

 Czech made grand piano

A glass harmonica

04 January 2012

Jardin du Luxembourg

The little things

Attack of the birds at the fountain

Luxembourg Palace/Museum

Always be ready for rain in Paris