Autumn 2009 in Eastern Europe

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S: Autumn 2009 Eastern Europe

BC: RfRamirez'09 | This trip brought me tremendous appreciation of the past, love of the present and enthusiasm of the future. Above all awe to the loving God. | The vibrant red, yellow and orange leaves will turn brown and die....the tree will look dreary for a while. But in no time, the sun will once again shine, the flowers will bloom, and fruits to loom. It is the cycle of life.

FC: Autumn in Eastern Europe 2009 | Autumn is a second spring, when every leaf is a flower-Albert Camus

1: What a beauty from up up in the sky! Its breath taking, its divine! Its a great distraction from the uncertainty i feel within...travelling alone again. However I know I will regret the moment I will give in. | So.....Eastern Europe here I come!

2: Its all about...

3: The Konzerthaus

4: Yes, Its the Festival of lights in Berlin. Its a perfect time to stroll and admire the historic landmark as they are beautifully illuminated. (Unter Den Linden, Brandenburg Tor, Spree River, TV tower and Berliner Dom

6: On our way to Potsdamn...... | It was the residence of the Prussian kings until 1918. Around the city there are a series of interconnected lakes and unique cultural landscapes, in particular the parks and palaces of Sanssouci, the largest World Heritage Site in Germany.

7: Clipped hedges and trees | Baroque Garden

8: Sanssouci Palace | Wealth and Power

10: The Chinese House | The Roman Baths

11: Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor...... | summer an oil painting ... | and autumn a mosaic of them all. ~Stanley Horowitz

12: Dismissing my worries and woes in the bosom of mother nature.

13: Neues Palais | The Communs

14: The dutch quarter

15: Prost Berlin | MY 1st bier | Visitors tend to eat huge amounts of traditional hearty fare such as Hendl (chicken), Schweinsbraten (roast pork), Haxn (knuckle of pork), Steckerlfisch (grilled fish on a stick), Würstl (sausages) along with Brezn (Pretzel), Kndeln (potato or bread dumplings), Kaasspotzn (cheese noodles), Reiberdatschi (potato pancakes), Sauerkraut or Rotkraut (red cabbage) along with such Bavarian delicacies as Obatzda (a fatty, spiced cheese-butter concoction) and Weisswurst (a white sausage).

16: Berlin is hailed as one of Europe's high octane nightlife scene. Unfortunately, our visit in Berlin-Alexanderplatz' was not as described :( | “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

17: The Berlin Wall | East - West | June 1961- Nov 1989

18: The TV tower, Soviet war memorial, Reichtag and Olympic stadium

19: Sachsenhausen concentration camp

20: During the earlier stages of the camp’s existence the executions were done in a trench, either by shooting or by hanging. | A Nazi concentration camp used primarily for political prisoners . Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet Prisoners of War. | "Work will set you free"

21: The Pergamon Altar 180-160 BC | Greek and Roman art pieces

22: Etruscans art

24: Fernsehturm | Marx and Engel

25: the Holocaust memorial | The book burning

26: Humbolt University | Neue Wache | Hotel Adlon | Unter Den Linden

27: Checkpoint Charlie | Remnants of Berlin Wall | Führerbunker

28: dining in Nickolaiviertel district | Spree River

30: Dresden, Germany | Rembrandt's Art pieces

31: The Zwinger Palace/Museum

33: Dresdner Frauenkirche

35: Tyn Church in Stare Mesto | Prague, Czech Republic | New Royal Palace

36: Night 1 in Prague....making a fool of thy self | Me being foolish while waiting | for # 8 tram that never came

37: St. Vitus Cathedral

39: Bazilika Sv. Jiri | Golden Lane (Zlata Ulicka)

41: The Charles Bridge

42: Powder Tower (Praná brána) | Clementinum (Klementinum)

44: The John Lennon Wall

46: Prague Orloj | Staromestské námestí

47: Vysehrad (Libuse's Bath)

48: Dancing House (Ginger and Fred)

49: Vlatava River

52: Prague Jewish Quarter Josefov

53: Old Jewish Cemetery (Stary zidovsky hrbitov) | Jewish Town Hall (Zidovska radnice)

54: A magnificent look of Prague at night

57: Kutna Hora: Sedlec Ossuary

59: Vienna, Austria | The Bermuda Triangle

60: Maria Therese and her 16 offsprings | SCHWEIZERTOR - SWISS GATE | Museum of Fine Arts

61: Hofburg Palace | Kaiserappartements (Imperial Apartments)

63: Rathaus | The Albertina | The Parliament | Sights around Ringstrasse

64: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Johann Strauss

65: Biking, eating and sight seeing in Vienna | Sachertorte | schintzel

66: struddle

67: Bratislava, Slovakia

68: The Great Market Hall

69: The Heroes Square | The Great Synagogue | The Parliament Building

70: bullet holes

72: Fishermans Bastion, Castle Hill | Castle Hill Area-Buda

73: Inside the Great Market Hall

74: The Széchenyi Baths are one of the largest bathing complexes in all Europe, and the only “old” medicinal baths to be found in the Pest side of the city. The indoor medicinal baths date from 1913 and the outdoor pools from 1927. There is an atmosphere of grandeur about the whole place with the bright, largest pools resembling aspects associated with Roman baths, the smaller bath tubs reminding one of the bathing culture of the Greeks, and the saunas and diving pools borrowed from traditions emanating in northern Europe.

75: The majestic beauty of Budapest at night | The Gellert Hotel and Danube River | Budapest University

76: Buda Castle | The Parliament Building | Chain Bridge

77: The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche