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New York City is a shithole. It's dirty, noisy and full of nasty people. But it has two jewels as far as I'm concerned: the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I could spend a week in either one with a tour guide that knows his history and not be bored.
This here is Hatshepsut. I don't suppose she needs an introduction.
No words are needed, or really adequate, to explain this place which possibly represents the lowest humanity has ever gone.
This barrack is just a small corner, a small piece of the untold misery that permeates the very ground. In here women were warehoused until enough of them were available to completely fill one of the gas chambers. The NAZIs in their efficiency didn't want to waste Zyklon B by killing only a few at a time. While here they were given no food or water. For why would one feed a dead person, even if she's still alive?
I've been reading about the Danube all my life, most recently as the Great Mother River in Jean Auel's Earth's Children saga. I was very happy to have seen it in person. Such a river is a perfect background for a city like Budapest, perhaps the most picturesque place I visited in Eastern Europe. The complex in this picture (called Castle Hill) includes Fisherman's Bastion, Buda Castle, Matyas Temple, the National Archives of Hungary, the Prime Minister's residence and the Museum of Military History among other gems.
But this is just a small part of Budapest. Near my hotel in the centric Vaci Utca was the market hall and it deserves it's own visit just to peruse among the stalls and see everything from hanging meats, to confectionaries to toys. The House of Terror on Andassy Utca is a must for anyone interested in the darker days of Hungarian history under the Arrow Cross regime first and the communists later. St Stephen's Basilica makes you wonder how so much beauty can be packed into a relatively small building.
Who needs Paris (and the French) when you can have Budapest?
Of my Eastern European sojourn Poland was the big eye opener. That country is almost never thought of as a tourist destination but it should be. Its cities are full of history (and though it's mostly sad it's also a testament to the resilience of the Polish people) and beautiful architecture. Poles are unfailingly polite and the women feminine, elegant and beautiful. And, it doesn't hurt, it's an incredible bargain to visit this country. What's not to like?!
My meager photo skills and/or my camera don't do justice to the beauty of Prague. The most prominent building in this frame is the St Vitus Cathedral and besides the Metz Cathedral it's perhaps the most beautiful religious building I've ever seen. Probably only St Peter's Basilica will surpass it.
Prague is a tourist city - many British men making nuisance of themselves going about drunk at all hours - but it's also a city of culture. In very few places can you take in a concert in the same hall where W.A.Mozart once played.
But - visitor beware - the cops here are as stupid as anywhere else and will give a tourist that drove down the wrong street a ticket with no sympathy for his not being able to read the signs or having left a small fortune in Prague. This is not how you treat visitors.
The Main Market Square in Wroclaw, also known as the Old Town Hall Square, is the center of social life, at least for tourists like me. I was lucky that I visited in the low season so the beautiful buildings weren't masked by the outdoor awnings of the various restaurants in the square. But, word of caution, Wroclaw amenities, museums and the like, are closed on Mondays so choose another day to visit!
Poland is a very catholic country, if for no other reason than the proliferation of churches. This one was just a stone's throw away from the Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross and St. Bartholomew. Don't think that the other one is a little church either, no, it's in itself a magnificent building which unfortunately was being renovated so I couldn't go in.
When this picture was taken I wasn't the only one shooting. There were a few people looking at the unusual cloud formation and wondering if there was an alien mothership hiding behind it, a la Independence Day.
An amateur photographer just trying to get better
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New York City is a shithole. It's dirty, noisy and full of nasty people. But it has two jewels as far as I'm concerned: the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I could spend a week in either one with a tour guide that knows his history and not be bored.
This here is Hatshepsut. I don't suppose she needs an introduction.
Downtown Miami and Bayside Marketplace.
I went flying with my mom today, she was happy as a clam, she loves planes. Not a bad view is it?
No words are needed, or really adequate, to explain this place which possibly represents the lowest humanity has ever gone.
This barrack is just a small corner, a small piece of the untold misery that permeates the very ground. In here women were warehoused until enough of them were available to completely fill one of the gas chambers. The NAZIs in their efficiency didn't want to waste Zyklon B by killing only a few at a time. While here they were given no food or water. For why would one feed a dead person, even if she's still alive?
I've been reading about the Danube all my life, most recently as the Great Mother River in Jean Auel's Earth's Children saga. I was very happy to have seen it in person. Such a river is a perfect background for a city like Budapest, perhaps the most picturesque place I visited in Eastern Europe. The complex in this picture (called Castle Hill) includes Fisherman's Bastion, Buda Castle, Matyas Temple, the National Archives of Hungary, the Prime Minister's residence and the Museum of Military History among other gems.
But this is just a small part of Budapest. Near my hotel in the centric Vaci Utca was the market hall and it deserves it's own visit just to peruse among the stalls and see everything from hanging meats, to confectionaries to toys. The House of Terror on Andassy Utca is a must for anyone interested in the darker days of Hungarian history under the Arrow Cross regime first and the communists later. St Stephen's Basilica makes you wonder how so much beauty can be packed into a relatively small building.
Who needs Paris (and the French) when you can have Budapest?
Of my Eastern European sojourn Poland was the big eye opener. That country is almost never thought of as a tourist destination but it should be. Its cities are full of history (and though it's mostly sad it's also a testament to the resilience of the Polish people) and beautiful architecture. Poles are unfailingly polite and the women feminine, elegant and beautiful. And, it doesn't hurt, it's an incredible bargain to visit this country. What's not to like?!
My meager photo skills and/or my camera don't do justice to the beauty of Prague. The most prominent building in this frame is the St Vitus Cathedral and besides the Metz Cathedral it's perhaps the most beautiful religious building I've ever seen. Probably only St Peter's Basilica will surpass it.
Prague is a tourist city - many British men making nuisance of themselves going about drunk at all hours - but it's also a city of culture. In very few places can you take in a concert in the same hall where W.A.Mozart once played.
But - visitor beware - the cops here are as stupid as anywhere else and will give a tourist that drove down the wrong street a ticket with no sympathy for his not being able to read the signs or having left a small fortune in Prague. This is not how you treat visitors.
The Main Market Square in Wroclaw, also known as the Old Town Hall Square, is the center of social life, at least for tourists like me. I was lucky that I visited in the low season so the beautiful buildings weren't masked by the outdoor awnings of the various restaurants in the square. But, word of caution, Wroclaw amenities, museums and the like, are closed on Mondays so choose another day to visit!
Poland is a very catholic country, if for no other reason than the proliferation of churches. This one was just a stone's throw away from the Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross and St. Bartholomew. Don't think that the other one is a little church either, no, it's in itself a magnificent building which unfortunately was being renovated so I couldn't go in.
When this picture was taken I wasn't the only one shooting. There were a few people looking at the unusual cloud formation and wondering if there was an alien mothership hiding behind it, a la Independence Day.