The following photos are tagged travel:
| Paging Dr Freud |
Inside a sculpture on campus |
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| The WWII-damaged Kaiser William Memorial Church |
Nazi-branded S-Bahn train from the 40s |
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| Fecking big locomotive |
WTF, asymmetric camel |
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| Patrick the cow |
Everyone loves eisbären (aka. polar bears) |
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| Warmer penguins outdoors |
Looking at you |
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Currywürst, I missed you |
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| Rucola Salat mit Parmesanmousse |
Lemongrass beer, wussy enough for me to like it |
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| Island skyline silhouettes from the lagoon |
Bone on the ossuary island |
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| Ossuary island (rear) & marshes in the lagoon |
Questionable fishing net techniques in the lagoon |
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| Vines and ornamentals on Torcello |
Old church on Torcello |
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| Multi-colored Burano houses |
The Leaning Tower of Burano |
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| Multi-colored Burano houses |
Those Italians and their towers, eh |
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| They used to use arsenic on a tiny island half a meter above sea level 50m from the shore? |
Murano: canals, but less crowded |
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| Venice evening |
Flowers on Venice Island |
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| Venice Island canals |
Yummy octopus with tomato and creamy polenta |
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| Modern frieze on Calle Del Morion |
Gondolla overturned, 3 children in water |
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| St Marco Basilica |
In San Marco Square |
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| Baby fish at the water-door in the Palazzo Ducale |
Golden Staircase in the Palazzo Ducale |
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| Last bridges without handrails in Venice |
Watching the tourists |
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| Venice Island's Grand Canal |
Not-so-hidden canal (and Bologna not Venice!) |
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| Window on 'hidden' canal |
Contents: 7 churches |
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| Bologna porticos |
Neptune's fountain |
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| Due Torre (Two Towers - both on a lean) |
Learning to punt |
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| Learning to punt |
In the Botanic Gardens |
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| Lilypads in the Botanic Gardens |
The Radcliffe Camera |
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| Christ Church |
Christ Church |
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| London Underground |
Baby figs with syrup and mascapone |
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| Imperial War Museum |
A park folly |
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| Swans on the Round Pond |
Lunchtime in London |
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| Spoils of war from the Harrods Food Court |
Cob Nuts, Rambutan, and Persimmon in the Harrods Food Court |
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| Harrods |
Cornish Pasty |
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| Tower Bridge |
Tower of London Raven |
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| Waterloo Block, Tower of London |
Traitor's Gate |
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| The Tower of London |
Detail of Zhan Wang's sculpture in the British Museum's Great Hall |
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| Shelter |
St Paul's across the Millenium Bridge |
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| The Lloyds Building |
The London Cocktail Onion |
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| The London Gherkin |
The Gherkin |
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| Leadenhall Market |
Leadenhall Market |
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| Chinese Ginseng Wine... best mixed with lemonade, or anything other than ginseng wine |
British pub food... Yorkshire Pudding and roast |
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| The Pirate Club |
Canal boats from "Little Venice" |
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| Many mushrooms at Burough Market |
Cheeses and meats at Burough Market |
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| Wimpy Restaurant |
Big Ben |
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| Moon Jellys |
Black Sea Nettles |
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| Pacific Sea Nettles |
Flower Hat Jellyfish |
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| Small 2cm-across jellyfish |
Chinese Sturgeon |
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| Tropical fish in the Ocean Park aquarium |
Sharks in the big Ocean Park aquarium |
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| Ying Ying, Ocean Park |
Jia Jia, Ocean Park |
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| Excellent Jasmine tea, tasty BBQ Pork Buns, sea-slug-like vegetable dumplings |
Tasty Green Apple Juice, Wonton Soup, Chicken And God Knows What Dumplings |
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| Maxim's Restaurant in City Hall for dim sum |
Recognise this subway art? |
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| Crab for dinner on Cheung Chau Island |
South China Sea from Nam Tau Tin Hau temple |
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| Gameplayers outside Nam Tau Tin Hau temple |
Cheung Chau temples |
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| Cheung Chau temples |
Cheung Chau beaches |
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| Egg Tart and a muffiny thing |
Dried fish stalls on Cheung Chau Island |
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| Fishing boats in Cheung Chau's port |
Old and new in Hong Kong's harbour |
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| Central Pier |
Hong Kong architecture |
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| Hong Kong at night, from Victoria Peak |
Hong Kong Island at night, from Kowloon |
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| Lush red subway-station tiling |
Clone buildings vs. dense green bush |
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| Theraputic pebble walk |
Brightly colored flying bug on the hill trails |
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| Unknown spiky plants in the WWII kitchens |
Vibrant cactus in the WWII kitchens |
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| Flowers in the WWII kitchens |
Flowers in the WWII kitchens |
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| Flowers and butterflies in the WWII kitchens |
Flowers in the Hong Kong Island hills |
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| WWII communal kitchens |
Views down to the Hong Kong Island city |
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| Contains disappointingly little cocktail, but does have random poetry |
Hong Kong harbour |
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| Kowloon/mainland Hong Kong, from Quarry Bay |
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| Tai Chi in the park in Quarry Bay |
A writer of songwriters |
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Coast by London Arch |
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| London Arch (Ex-London Bridge) |
Lace curtains |
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| Near Loch Ard Gorge |
The Razorback, by Loch Ard Gorge |
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| Loch Ard Gorge |
The Twelve Apostles |
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| The Twelve Apostles |
Still looks like NZ to me |
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| Apparently in Australia |
The other option was 'Rainbow Swirl' |
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| First ocean |
Now ugly enough to be kitsch |
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| Persons allowed in BBNT |
BBTN opening times... to the minute |
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| Frankfurt at dusk |
Apfelwine (apple cider) and a delicious heart attack at Atschel |
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| Sun going down on the Main River at Frankfurt |
Rabbit |
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| Heidelberg sunset, from Königstuhl |
Heidelberg at dusk, from Königstuhl |
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| The older funicular to the summit of Königstuhl |
Random findings in Heidelberg |
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| Heidelberg Castle in the fading sun, early autumn (stiched panorama) |
Heidelberg from across the river |
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| The Heidelberg Castle, from across the river |
Heidelberg Altstadt & Alte Brücke |
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| The giant keg |
The second-generation moat |
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| Advanced toilet technology |
Ornate door inlays in Friedrich's Building |
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| A stove/heater sitting-place in Friedrich's Building |
Stove/heater hatches in the hall in Friedrich's Building |
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| A stove/heater in Friedrich's Building |
Friedrich's Building from the Heidelberg castle courtyard |
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| The Ludwig Building from the Heidelberg Castle courtyard |
Ottheinrich's Building from the Heidelberg Castle courtyard |
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| Entrance to Heidelberg Castle's courtyard |
Heidelberg Castle's Powder Tower |
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| Model of the Heidelberg Castle ruins (opposite side) |
Model of the Heidelberg Castle ruins |
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| Breakfast in Germany |
Ferns? In Germany? Guess so. |
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| Walking along the railway tracks |
Scenic trails in the Black Forest |
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| Talspeere/dam over the Schwarzenbach River |
Beautiful forest in the Schwarzwald |
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| Stripped fir trees |
In the Black Forest |
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| The Murg Valley |
Morning sunrays through the trees |
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| The Murg under Forbach's covered bridge, early morning |
Early morning in Forbach |
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| Swarzwald Kirschtorte (Black Forest Gateau) |
Forbach's covered bridge over the Murg |
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| 'God rays' over the Hechingen countryside |
Early autumn trees |
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| Hechingen & countryside from Burg Hohenzollern |
Castle & autumn trees |
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| Burg Hohenzollern from close |
Burg Hohenzollern courtyard |
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| The spiral entrance to Burg Hohenzollern |
Entering Burg Hohenzollern |
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| Burg Hohenzollern (it's only a model/shh?) |
Slowly getting there... |
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| 4km to go... keep walking... |
Bark (in the Stuttgart Schlossgarten) |
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| Stuttgart Schlossplatz & Königsbau |
Stuttgart Schlossplatz & Neues Scloss |
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| Sauerbraten (Swabian roast ox dish) |
Our alien friends |
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| Munich, with even more authentic post-Oktoberfest camera angle |
Munich, with authentic post-Oktoberfest camera angle |
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| Ein maß (aka beer) |
From here on in, pretty much everyone is drunk |
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| Sorbet (with candied ginger stem?) rules |
Yummy ravioli with steinpilzen (ceps/porcini) |
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| Corn drying on the side of a house |
Fir trees & mountains, from near Patsch |
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| Valleys and mountains, from Hafelekar |
Looking down the Alps, from Hafelekar |
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| Innsbruck and beyond from Hafelekar |
Looking over Innsbruck from the bottom of the Nordpark |
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| The view from Patsch, bright & early |
Twilight over the Alps, from Patsch |
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| The Goldenes Dachl (Golden Roof), Innsbruck |
Brillant liquor shop in Innsbruck |
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| The Alps from the Wipptal through Innsbruck |
Real Wiener schnitzel! |
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| Prolly more interesting in person |
Castle Aggstein |
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| Burg Aggstein's commanding view over the Danube (2) |
Burg Aggstein's commanding view over the Danube (1) |
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| Fahrafeld close tag (nerd joke alert!) |
More cowbell |
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| Interesting plants with spindly things, anyone know what they are? |
Fire Salamander! |
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| Valleys in Austria |
Vienna city streets |
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| Peterskirche high frieze & oculus |
Peterskirche interior |
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| Peterskirche |
Votives in St Stephen's Cathedral |
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| Pulpit in St Stephen's Cathedral |
St Stephen's Cathedral - Vienna architecture, old.. |
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| Vienna architecture, new.. |
In the Hofburg Burggarten |
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| Antique duck squeezer |
Secret Austrian Imperial bread-roll-holding napkin folding technology (no, really) |
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| Imperial dinner service goldware |
As it happens, Freud was Austrian... |
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| Imperial treasury & riding school in the Hofburg |
The Minoritenkirche |
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| The Hofburg Burgtor |
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| Maria Theresien Monument |
Maria Hülf Church interior |
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| Maria Hülf Church |
The best würst? |
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| Postscriptum Dr. Ludwig Keplers |
Calendar in the Kepler Museum |
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| Bust of Johannes Kepler |
Winner of the biggest-tower competition, Regensburg |
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| The Steinerne Brücke over the Danube |
Painted window in the Regensburg Cathedral |
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| Chapel in the Regensburg Cathedral |
Regensburg Cathedral |
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| Too cute not to post |
We rate this burčák stuff! |
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| St. Barbara Church, Kutná Hora |
Coat of arms in the Sedlec Ossuary |
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| The Sedlec Ossuary chandelier, contains every bone in the human body |
Bone pyramids in the Sedlec Ossuary |
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| The Sedlec Ossuary |
Genuine filth is so rare these days |
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| Aren't you a bit short to be stormtroopers? |
We totally failed here |
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| Fred & Ginger |
Sunset over Prague |
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| Me showing... not so much the Poweriser skills |
Charles showing his Poweriser skills |
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| Not the fries you were expecting |
Fresh ones cost more |
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| Cool lift shaft in the town hall tower |
Charles in the town hall tower |
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| Looking over Prague to Prague Castle |
Borscht |
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| The Old New Synagogue (really) |
The Church of St James |
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| You can see why the guy has a headache |
Current "pointiest building" world record-holder |
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| Prague-style ornate ironwork |
The main Astronomical Clock dial |
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| The Astronomical Clock tower |
The Prague National Theatre building at night |
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| Streetside cocktails, we likey! |
Sculpture on Charles Bridge |
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| Cool door & facade of the Italian Embassy in Prague |
Hrm, Eve wearing clothes? |
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| Painted glass window & painting in the Prague Castle cathedral |
Window ornamentation on the Prague Castle cathedral |
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| Cathedral at Prague Castle |
Sculptures at Prague Castle |
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| At the Gemäldegalerie |
No prizes for guessing which one's mine :) |
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| You can make up your own joke for this one :) |
'Seats' in a standing-cafe |
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| Bratwurst on Rails |
Kaffee und Kuchen |
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| Berlin Currywürst |
Orangerie at Sanssouci |
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| Weird stumpy things (anyone know about these?) |
Weird tree with stumpy things (see next photo) |
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| Hall ceiling fresco in the New Palace |
Hall in the New Palace |
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| Decorative columns in the New Palace |
Beautiful chandelier in the New Palace |
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| Those ones are just for the workers! |
The Sanssouci New Palace |
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| Golden Chinese Tea House sculptures |
Chinese Tea House at Sanssouci |
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| Sanssouci palace grounds |
Courtyards at Sanssouci |
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| Sculpted freize detail at Sanssouci |
Sans Souci ('Without Cares') |
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| The Berlin Victory Column |
Fading colors in the Tiergarten |
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| Late afternoon in the Tiergarten |
Memorial to Soviet soldiers |
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| Inside the Reichstag cupola |
The Reichstag building |
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Berlin scars |
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De-swamping pipes |
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| The Berlin Wall |
The Berlin Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe |
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| The Berlin Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe |
The epic Brandenburg Tor (Gate) |
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| Great when you see it in 3d, but you might have to take my word for it :) |
Cuneiform tablet |
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| Ishtar Gate detail showing painted molded brick sculptures |
Model of Babylon's Processional Way and Ishtar Gate |
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| Babylon's Procession Way |
Lesser Ishtar Gate at the Pergamon Museum |
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| The Trabi Safari |
The Berliner Dom |
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| An overcast overview of the Berlin quarter that includes Museum Island, the Reichstag, and a bunch of other historical places |
The imposing Cologne Dom |
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| Interesting fruit (and plentiful figs) |
Found another Hang player |
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| Cologne at last |
Why don't we do this to more ugly industrial facilities? |
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The Ludendorff Bridge piers (now contain a peace museum) |
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| Ancient cranes |
And some sweet palatial houses |
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| Not short on churches either |
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| Wine comes in carafes |
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| Bergische Waffeln (mit saurkirschen) |
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More lovely tropical flowers |
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| Action shot |
Up periscope! Er, periscopes! |
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Birds by Ikea |
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More storks |
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| No babies to deliver today? |
A clutter of pink flamingos |
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Chirpy tropical birds |
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| BirdPark "panorail" |
Penguins (action shot) |
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| Penguins (at rest) |
Penguins! |
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| The Singapore MRT trains |
Hindi temple in Singapore |
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| Mystery Indian vege #3 (macro) |
Mystery Indian vege #3 (about 40cm long!) |
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| Mystery Indian vege(s) #2 |
Mystery Indian vege #1 |
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| Mmmm batura |
Somebody call Guinness |
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| Singapore orchids #2 |
Singapore orchids #1 |
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| Singapore bridges |
Duckies! |
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| Nice Singapore public urban spaces |
Lobster onna plane (inna bun?) |
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| Musical bells artwork |
Melbourne riverside |
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| The Eureka Tower |
Giant baby dodgems |
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| St Patrick's Cathedral (I think) |
Royal Exhibition Building |
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| Melbourne ANZAC War Memorial |
Like the detachable lights on undercover cop cars |
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