Travel Tuesday

Here are the rest of my photos from our river cruise in no particular order. I couldn't get them to upload in an organized fashion this time.

This was a little town in Budapest. I can't remember the name probably because I couldn't pronounce it. There's another photo further down with lampshades adorning another street.

 We encountered this art in Prague. Besides the man hanging above the street, look close and you'll see a woman in the background.

 This is the astronomical clock in Prague. It puts on quite a show every hour.

 We happened upon this tribute to 9/11 in Prague. It was so unexpected and nice. The rest of the world cared that it happened to us.

These shoes are a permanent display to represent where people were lined up by the Nazis and told to take their shoes off. They were then shot and fell in to the Danube in Budapest.

 Beautiful buildings everywhere---this is the opera in Prague.

 This hospital was incredible---built in a series of caves overlooking Budapest.

The cobblestone streets were just about in every city we went to. They were kind of hard to walk on so much, but really looked good. We couldn't get over how time consuming maintaining these roads are.

 This is the gazebo from The Sound of Music in Salzburg, Austria.

 I thought these watering cans were so cute as yard art at the bottom of the smallest street in Prague. The go from smallest to largest.

 Butch surprised me with this trip to the library where they have this huge tower of books. There's an opening where you can look inside with a mirror on the top and bottom. that makes it look like the books go on to infinity.

 Just our luck. We walked a very long way to see the Lennin wall only to find it closed off. Basically, it's some sort of long wall covered with graffiti. I do not know the significance to John Lennon, but there is a John Lennin restaurant, hotel and bar in the area.

I had to take this picture. The boats were parked side by side---just 6 inches apart. It was amazing to us that they could be so close without ever touching. Not only that, but we found out at the end of the trip that there was only 18" of water below the boat. Hard to believe that it could float in that little water.

 Here's that smallest street. There's a stoplight at the top and bottom to let you know when you can use it as only one person can fit at a time---only 18" wide.

 This was pretty cool. There are only 4 left in the entire Czeck Republic--this one in Prague. It's a continuously running elevator. There are no doors and it never stops. You just have to hop on and hop off.

 I couldn't get over this entire store of gummy bears! Now that I think about it, I wish I had bought something for Christmas gifts.

 Steph and Nicky under the Astronomical clock.

 Steph thought it was funny that Butch ALWAYS is prepared for anything. This is a really OLD first aid kit. He has just about anything you can imagine in there. It comes in handy all the time!

 This is a really bad picture because I took it through a microscope. In that little town that I cannot pronounce, there was this miniature museum. The artist created these incredible works of art in a microscopic format. This is an entire chess set---in all it's detail on the head of a pin. I couldn't figure out how the artist could possibly do it. None of the information was in English and the "worker" didn't speak English either. Still, it was amazing to see these tiny works of art.

 More road work.

 On one of our sight seeing trips, we saw this Confederate flag door. It seemed out of place for sure. Apparently, political correctness is not an issue here.

 The manhole covers were works of art.

 The lampshade adorned street.

 This was a bronze statue at the Prague train station to signify the thousands of people who put their children on trains to safety in England during WWII---never to see them again.

 The "dripping wall" in a garden in Prague.

 A shot from the top of the narrowest street in Prague.

 Scenic took us to a private concert at the Lichenstein Palace. This is some coronation carriage. Honestly, all the history on our trip has run together.

 We happened upon this little, beautiful park that we can only refer to as the "peacock park." There were peacocks all over.

 They are so used to people, that they aren't afraid.

 The stoplight at the top of the narrowest street.

 All of us in front of Schoenbrunn Palace. More history I don't remember.

 The full splendor of the carriage.

 This was a geo-cache in Prague---Darth Vader. Notice the beauty of this street.

 Another manhole cover.

 The watering cans from the little side.

 Cruising the river with a view from the top. We decided that we would have enjoyed at least one more day on the boat. Basically, we only had about 4 hours of daytime cruising time and another 2 hours on another day. Otherwise, we were constantly, busy sightseeing.

 The Charles Bridge in Prague. Prague was our favorite because we had three days here. We got to do and see everything we wanted.

 They serve a lot of boar.

In Prague, we had booked a private tour---which was awesome. This outside urinal without doors or any type of privacy was in a park outside the train station. What?? Obviously. it wasn't for women.

Well, that wraps it up. Our trip was so much fun, but now seems so long ago! 

We can't wait until our next adventure! We do have a few smaller trips coming up. All fun stuff!