About the Photo Above: It rained off and on for the five days I was in Tallinn. In this photo you can see tourists and locals walking down the streets of the old city with umbrellas. I love the bright red tile roofs and pastel painted walls. The old city[…]
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About the Photo Above: Edinburgh Castle I took this picture from in front of my hostel. I must say that it put a smile on my face every time I walked out the front door to be greeted by a castle hovering overhead and be surrounded by the wonderful Grass[…]
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About the Photo Above: British Parliament & Big Ben You can see two iconic images in this photo: the British Parliament building and the Big Ben tower clock. In London as United Kingdom Leaves the European Union I took the photo above the afternoon they were counting votes for the UK to leave[…]
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About the Photo Above: View Leaving Train Station As you walk out the doors of the central train station, this is the sight that greets you. There is a central bridge crossing the canal pictured and on the left and right you can see stunning buildings, trams and brightly colored[…]
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About the Photo Above: The Dom Know locally simply as the “Dom,” this big cathedral is in the top two or three in Europe and is the main tourist attraction for those visiting Cologne. “Dom” is the German word for “cathedral.” It is famous because “the cathedral is the largest Gothic church[…]
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About the Photo Above: Wandering the Streets of Brussels I love to wander; it is the first thing I do when arriving in a new place. I just grab my camera and armed with a traditional, old-school map, begin wandering around. The map is just for backup and has my[…]
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About the Photo Above: Mona Lisa in the Louvre Surprised? The Mona Lisa painting is really small, not much larger than an old vinyl album cover and its covered by glass and has a 10 foot parameter around it (along with a crowd of people). Lyon versus Paris I visited[…]
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About the Photo Above: Canals of Venice, Italy Visiting Venice for the first time was surreal seeing an entire city build on the water. Not only was it interesting from a engineering and architectural point of view, there was a certain romantic ambiance to the place (which is obviously why Italy,[…]
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About the Photo Above: Bled Island and Bled Castle The word picturesque hardly does justice to the beauty of Bled, Slovenia with its castle on a hill overlooking a reflective lake cradling an island in the middle upon which sits a story-book church. Swans swim the lake and wildlife runs[…]
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About the Photo Above: Not a Real Castle It looks like a real castle right? Turns out Vajdahunyad Castle is actually a replica of another castle and was built in 1896 as part of the Millennial Exhibition which celebrated the 1,000 years of Hungary since the Hungarian Conquest of the Carpathian Basin in[…]
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About the Photo Above: Rainy Days in Bratislava I was only in Bratislava for two nights, enough to see all the historical areas of the city. During the entire time it rained, but I sort of liked the way the light reflected off the stones of the street and seeing[…]
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About the Photo Above: St. Stephen’s Cathedral Big gothic churches are amazing to me; I love all the little jagged things which fill most every inch of the spiky spires and towers. Note the elaborate colored tile roof. This one is St. Stephen’s Cathedral which is in the old city section of[…]
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