Rat House Market Weekly market in front of Rathaus |
Old Interesting Wooden Thing 14th century baptismal basin |
Submarine Bay Where else can you see submarines out of the water? |
Water Sculpture Metal boats moving like real toy boats. |
Stockholm Skyline The old city kisses the waterfront. |
Chubby Bunnies Little kids plumped out in winter clothing are just funny by design! |
Giraffes Only the Swedes would camoflauge their cranes as giraffes! |
Ridderholmen Church Bring out yer dead... |
Talinn Old Town UNESCO Historic District |
Fat Margaret You should see her sister. |
KGB Building If you cover the windows, they can't hear you scream. |
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral The unwanted symbol of Estonia. |
Kinkepood Translation "souvenir shop," but "Kinkepood" is more fun to say! |
Alicia & Hermitage Hermitage is ok from outside, but inside, OMG! |
Bus Loo It's takes a creative mind to turn a bus into a public toilet. |
Romanov Grave So they found a bunch of bone fragments in a basement, and now Anastasia is immortalized here. |
Russian Driver A stereotypical Russian. |
Russian Housing Common concrete monoliths to house the masses. |
Hermitage Hallway One of the many extraordinary passages in the Hermitage. |
Hermitage Gallery Opulance unbounded. |
Hermitage Gallery 2 When it's unbounded, it spills out next door. |
Ice on the Baltic It's May and there are floes of ice on the Baltic Sea. And the twilight lasts until past 11pm. |
Alicia at National Theater Backpack and all. |
Bridges & Colorful Buildings nuff said |
City of Bikes In front of modern library. Something like 45% of Copenhageners commute by bicycle. |
Gefion Fountain I love big, powerful fountains! |
Nyhavn Docks Colorful, waterfront area of Copenhagen. |
Alexander Nevski Church Everybody has an Alexander Nevski Church. |
Former palace & gold bricks The gold bricks were a 19th century gift to the royal family. Pretty sturdy. |
Red Star Used to adorn the People's Palace. Left to rot out of the way after the fall of the USSR. |
United Buddy Bears Traveling culture. Currently in Sofia. |
Abandoned Soviet 4 star hotel The Soviets built big and then abandoned. |
St. George Church Hidden in Sofia behind the Sheraton. |
Rila Monastery UNESCO Heritage Site. Beautiful painted monastery. |
Rila Monastery Illustrations Inside the monastery. Wall to wall illustrations. |
Statue of the 4 Kings Monument in Veliko Tarnovo. |
Veliko Turnovo Fortress 13th century hangout. |
Bucharest New Town Lots of big concrete buildings. |
Bucharest Old Town Small but intimate. Fascinating buildings. Lots of sewer work. |
Peles Castle One of the prettiest castles I've ever seen. In Translyvania to boot! |
Brasov Old Town With a large picturesque market square. |
Brasov Town Square Wait a second. This is the market square. |
Bran Dracula Castle Spooky, but Vlad Tepes Dracula did not live here. |
Rasnov Not overly interesting town, but cool old fortress. |
Palace of Culture Soviet gift to Iasi. |
Arc de Triumph In the capital, Chisinau. Smaller than Paris. |
Blair Witch Moment People will surprise you. I was sure this fellow was going to lock us in a cellar. |
Monastery On hill in Orhei Vechi. |
Cave Monasteries Dug out of the rock. Why? |
Milesti Mici 2,000,000 bottles of wine stored in 200km of limestone caverns. |
Trans Dniestrian President Nothing like billboards to name drop. |
JC with Lenin I think this is where all of the Lenin sculptures ended up. |
Tanks In the art parks, at the border, beneath camoflauge. |
Sheriff Soccer They love their soccer! Sheriff everything. |
St. Sophia Square Heart of Kiev. |
St. Andrew's One of many beautiful churches in Kiev. |
St. Michael's Monastery But this is perhap the most stunning! |
Chernobly Museum Amazing how the Chernobyl exclusion zone just misses Kiev by 12 miles! |
Alicia with iPad In café in Lviv. Isn't she pretty! |
Central Lviv Square Locals are known to climb the artwork. |
Contemplative Jesus A different kind of savior. |
Lviv Opera House Happening part of town. |
Alicia inside Wawel Castle The ancestral heart of Poland is in Krakow. |
John Paul II and Wawel Castle Did we mention that John Paul II is popular in Krakow? |
Krakow Cloth Hall Massive central market square. |
Skinhead Parade Seems like you can find ignorance and fear anywhere in the world. |
Salt Mine Wieliczka Salt Mine, 400 feet deep, interesting salt carvings. UNESCO again. |
Auschwitz "Work makes you free." |
Birkanau 100,000 people on less than 1 square KM. |
Gas Chamber Ruins 1.3M people killed from 1943-1945 in these unfortunate buildings. |
Suitcases ... |
Survivors Photos taken shortly after Russians liberated the camp. |
Warsaw Old Town Everybody has an old town. |
Street Art A little bit of local charm in Warsaw. |
Vilnius Capital of Lithuania. |
Cathedral Square Old watchtower, newish cathedral. |
Pilies Street Heart of old town Vilnius. |
Gates of Dawn With miraculous Mary painting. |
Crosses on Hill Central Vilnius park. |
St. Mary's Church Oh, look! Another church! |
University Fresco Fascinating paintings in small nook of the 16th century Vilnius University. |
Uzupio Republic Tongue-in-cheek autonomy. |
Old Town Riga Oh, look! Another old town! |
Canal Park Beautiful ring park. Exquisite landscaping. Beautiful flowers. |
Alicia on Bridge of Locks A quaint tradition where couples put a lock on the bridge to celebrate the bond of their relationship. |
Blackheads You have to be a blackhead before you join the Merchants' Guild! |
Art Nouvea Riga is ground zero for Art Nouveau architecture. |
Art Nouveau Part Deux Over 750 buildings in Riga are adorned. |
Art Nouveau Part Three Some of the buildings have simple decorations. |
Art Nouveau Part Four Others are incredibly elaborate! |