Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Het Schip

The apartment building on the Spaarndammer-plantsoen by Michel de Klerk...here for more

Borneo Eiland, Amsterdam

Six dwellings at the foot of the bridge above.

Hamburg, Germany

St. Pauli, the Red Light District of Hamburg, rivals Amsterdam. Two blocks off the Reaperbahn(also known as the "mile of sin") is Hermenstrasse- a men's only street. Woman are invited to come but are not welcome. This is one of the store fronts in a row of many that let you see the goods before they are purchased.

Berlin, Germany²

A little off-balance at the Garden of Exile at the Jewish Museum in Berlin.

Jewish Museum

Munchen, Germany

St. Augustine beer tent at the Oktoberfest. Each tent seats about 100,000.

Roasted fish served at the Oktoberfest.

Vienna, Austria

Werkbund Siedlung

Modern housing from about 1932 that includes houses from Neutra, Loos, and more. This is the smal open-air museum designed by Josef Frank.

St Stephen's

Jügendstijl

Krakow, Poland

At CK Bokar, a local brewery that served house beers in 5L tapped pipes, with two girls from Leeds and an Alaskan.

St. Mary's Basilica
From the tower the famous "hejnal" is sounded incompletely every hour to commemorate the medieval bugler shot while sounding the alarm to notify the invasion of the Mongols.

Oswiecim

"Arbeit macht frei" (Work brings freedom) : inscription at main gate of Auschwitz I

Budapest, Hungary

Magyar Mezogaodasagi Muzeum
Vajdahunyadvar is the complex of the Hungarian Agricultural Museum and an excellent example of Roman historicism.

Magyar Mezogazdasagi Muzeum

Hosok tere

Varosligeti Mujegpalya
The entrance to Europe's largest open-air skating rink during winter season is established on City Park Lake, which was drained as a result of renovation construction of the bridge (Kos Karoly).

Brno, Czech Republic

Katedrala sv. Petra a Pavla

Tugendhat House

Prague, Czech Republic

Czech Cubism

Karlův most

Berlin, Germany

Potsdamer Platz, as seen from the Neue Nationalgalerie.

Neue Nationalgalerie, by Mies Van der Rohe , located in the Museum District of Berlin and off the Spree River. It is home of 20th century European painting and sculpture ranging from classic modern art to art of the 1960s. The collection includes works by Munch, Kirchner, Picasso, Klee, Feininger, Dix and Kokoschka, or so I have read. I had the unfortunate luck of being there when the exhibition was preparing for a Picasso exhibit. I was looking forward to Kirchner's "Potsdamer Platz", which was painted shortly after the first WW, and now stands in contrast to the recent changes that are taking place on the site a few metres away from the gallery.

Unite D'Habitacion, by Le Corbusier

In the evening we made our way to the Reichstag and cued up outside as they took groups individually into the building. During the night of 27 February 1933, the Reichstag was burned, destroying the interior and the dome which surmounted the building. It was further damaged during Allied bombing of Berlin in World War II and left in this run-down state until the 1960s, when it was opened as a conference center. The Reichstag was the site of the German reunification ceremonies at midnight on October 2, 1990. In 1992 the building was transformed into the new home for the unified German Parliament. originally designed by Paul Wallot and completed in 1894, renovated by Sir Norman Foster

Potsdam, Germany

Potsdam is a city in eastern Germany of around 150,000 people, and the capital of the state of Brandenburg. It is situated on the Havel river, 26km south-west of Berlin. Its main train station serves as one of the termini of the Berlin S-Bahn Metro system. The city also features a series of interconnected lakes. The Orangery Palace served as the former house to royal guests.

The Sanssouci palace was the summer residence of Frederick the Great. It was built above the terraced vineyard from 1745 to 1747 by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff following the King’s ideas and sketches. The palace is judged to be the major work of rococo architecture in Germany.

Orangery Palace built by Persius, Stüler and Hesse in mid-19th century.

Berlin, Germany

Mercedes tower down the boulevard from Ku'damm.

At the lower end of Ku'damm, the crumbling tower of the bombed-out Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, seen in the distance, has been left standing as a memorial of WW2. Alongside is a slim church tower, built in 1961 with thousands of blue stained-glass windows set amid the concrete slabs. Berliners call it "the Compact and Lipstick".

Brugge, Belgium

The medieval Belfry tower (13th-15th century) is 88 metres tall and houses the former city treasury, in which Bruges' valuables (money and royal charters) were once kept. A climb of 366 steps takes the visitor to the top for an excellent panaramic view, so I've heard. The famous 47-bell carillon is also located here.

Late night at a brothel converted to a bar with the Flemish and few Aussies.