germany_2005 Photo Gallery by roxanneboscobel at pbase.com

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What day is this? Where am I? Our first morning! Stopping for a nummie!	Well this is somewhere I don't remember except that it didn't have the festival going on beause they expected rain....	Great handiwork	After we arrived, R&B took us to a nearby town that had a rained out festival so we visited the church.
This ended up being the only memorial we saw that had photos.	LOADS of beautiful flowers were everywhere!!	Every building had loads of wonderful bright beautiful flowers!	The Alps!
Dinner in the Alps!!	And here's what's for dinner!	Looking at the waterfall nearby!	Still looking at the waterfall; that bridge was a little too bouncy for me!!
The steps back up from the waterfall!	When you get to the fork in the road, take it!	The next day, the rain clouds are gone!! But we're still bleary!	Wasserburg! Get it? Wasser? Burg?
City gate!	Tiny little food hut thing -- Ein Cola?	Garden Doo Dads!	More doo dads and lots of other ceramic things!
Just love the look of the old buildings against the blue sky!	And again, flowers flowers and more flowers	These colors reminded us of Ireland	Spectacular cemetery
Very well tended and with wonderful engravings	The church in Wasserburg	We lighted a very large number of candles on this trip	Just spectacular -- it takes your breath away!
Little effigies you pray to	The front of the Rathhaus	With the pottery stalls out front	The countryside; green and lush!
Don in Austria (on the other side of the river)	Burghausen -- spectacular really long castle	Here we are in Austria looking back at Germany	And the view without our fat heads
Crossing the border!	The main square in Burghausen	On the outside wall of the church	And inside
In the church	There were walls of these intricate amazing things!	LOTS of hills....	And there's the castle
That we walked up to	Here is the tower from down below	We're walking we're walking	And the tower from above!
The water was a strange grey color	Nice garden!	Barbara overlooking Berghausen	Barbara, Joan, and Don enjoying the view
Roger, Stephen, and Joan on the castle	Isn't it a neat castle? Love that blue sky, red tile roof, and white stucco walls.......oh boy can you get stucco hahahahahah	Beautiful, huh!	LOVE the colors!
On a door	There had been a garden display up here about a year ago; interesting to see the plantings as they've matured!	Nice colors!	A private garden in the castle walls
Back down the hill	Stephen and Joan on tour (still wondering what day it was....)	Snackies!!	The sunset over Chiemsee
Magical dusk	And the moon is rising	In the cable car going up Wendelstein	The view back down
The view down the valley	The ride was very smooth; like being in an elevator!	Where the train comes up	The observatory on Wendelstein
Well, first you go down to go up!	Where we came from	The last time we saw Don and Roger hahaha; Barbara and I turned back at this point	and instead, we went to explore this cave!
Sign in the cave	Most of the cave was narrow	And it was FREEZING cold!!!1	See! It says "Freezing Cold Cave go this way down more icy steps than you think possible!"
See Don and Roger at the railing up there?	Then they came down the switchback trail	Lunch!	Not a bad place to have lunch!
And we go back down the mountain	Now we're going up the chairlift at Kufstein! This takes 30 minutes for the whole trip!!!	And the view at the top; most people set off hiking at this point!	Don in the Alps!
Where Heidi lives!	Spectacular plants everywhere!	A little gnome vignette	Yeah!
Hustling back to the chairlift after seeing the thunderstorm coming down the valley	Can't you make this thing go faster???	With lightening crackling in the near distance......we arrive at the bottom!	And then go to the castle in Kufstein!
Walking up the pouring rain, we look back at the city	Ain't it pretty?	In the castle (where we were alone!) they had a very very nice stuffed bird display	The empty courtyard
Very scenic castle	the city across the river -- and the trains	down the valley	Here's what the whole castle looks like
And the old town below the castle	The sun came out just for this shot!	The town square; wonderful!	Next to our hotel was a carnival; the featured big ride was the attractively-named "Polyp"
On the road again................	In the pouring rain at Hellbrunn palace waiting to watch the trick fountains	They herded us into one end so we wouldn't get wet hahahahaha	400-year old mechanical theater
Don and Roger enjoying the ambiance	Gloomy, but very impressive!	The courtyard at Hellbrunn	Going into Salzburg
Interesting what you get when you shoot a picture out of a moving car	Next to where we ate lunch, there was a bookstore and this book was in the window	Strolling through Salzburg	Tiny street
Looking across the Inn River	Romantic, wonderful!	The Platz Platz hahahaha	too bad I didn't write down the name of this church....
Up the hill we go in the funicular	At the fortress	Don and Salzburg	The fortress
Where Roger & Barbara ate before under a tree that was raining ants on their heads....	Beautiful cemetery	See the catacombs in the mountain?	The catacombs and the fortress
This was a tiny chapel on the side of the big church and the chandelier just took your breath away!	Finding our way in Salzburg	The nice shops	Mecca!!!!!!
Mirabella Gardens -- wow!!	Nice hedge	Just wonderful gardens!	Looking back to the fortress
The rose garden	Isn't that just wondeful!!	Tuberous begonias !! WOW!!	Roger & Don take a break
then join us for the vista view!	Shop window	View from the end of Roger's street	At the rest stop on the autobahn
Tunnel!	Stopping in Regensburg	Outside on the wall of the church	There are storks in that nest on top of the Rathaus
Don at the greek restaurant	Ivy!	The town square	German countryside
There was LOTS of construction going on!!	Worker's Paradise	The Theater Platz in Weimar	Where do we go???
Weimar	Joan and Stephen	Weiner Mobile	Touring the city in the rain.....
Don and Weimar in the rain!	Appetizer	Dinner -- Pfifferlings!!	View from our hotel room in Weimar
We visited Buchenwald; this is the beginning of the memorial walkway	The story of the camp; this is the second pillar.	A closeup from the second pillar	Don where they have built a mass grave from remains found when they constructed the memorial; they actually have names!
The statue and memorial bell tower	The view back to the valley from the memorial bell tower	Just inside the main gate	Looking to the right at the reconstructed wire fence
A photo of the living quarters for those in the camp	And what the area looks like now	Joan behind the crematorium; the museum on the grounds is very modern and the volume of info is overwhelming	The countryside is covered with various grains ready to cut!
It was REALLY windy; you'll see photos later where we walked up this outside stairway to the roof of the tower	Spotlight on the knight! Wartburg Castle	Closeup of an incredible mosaic room!	The window well in the Grand Hall
The grand hall; QUITE spectacular!	These are menus -- just WONDERFUL artwork!	Another menu -- fit for the king!	Graffiti - from the 1700s!!
The whole castle was so picturesque	Here we are on top of that really windy tower	Don at Wartburg	The castle from the outside
Large abandoned houses with graffiti were everywhere in the former East Germany	But many more had been restored beautifully	Walking around Erfurt	Old construction of sticks and mud and very old beams
Martin Luther's House	Martin Luther's Mother's Condo across the street	St. George and the Dragon is represented everywhere in the region	The post office!
Spectacular flowers -- especially geraniums -- were everywhere!	Just a neat building	The middle of Erfurt; in that square is a cast iron fountain	Dinner -- with gummy dumplings that were kind of chewy like gummi bears -- but good!
We got about 15 minutes entertainment -- but no money -- from this lone slot machine!	Market Platz in Weimar	A just married couple is sawing a log in half right outside the city hall where they had been married!	Plants in the market place
Looking back towards the city hall	Sedate coloring on a large building	Sweet peas I bought in the marketplace	Where we heard an organ recital and caught a few zzzzzs haha
The resident dog at our hotel	Modern art on the side of a building	The crosswalk button	Looks like Ireland!
Well, no, the sky didn't really look like this!	Naumburg cathedral	Very dark and dusty inside	All the wood was unstained and appeared unfinished
Barbara and Joan	Stained glass from the 1200s	All of these characters along the wall of the cathedral had very old graffiti carved into them	Like this one
Joan enjoying the town	In the market platz -- look at all those windows!	Where Barbara, Don, and Roger heard another organ concert	Memorial in the church
War memorial inside the church	Bomb damage outside the church	Back in the square	Back at the church; the main door
....and a little door next to that	Old doorframe	Great little market area; see the store sign on the left side?	Here's their window -- we bought several brushes here!
McDonalds!!!!!!!!!!! McDrive!!	The countryside -- miles and miles of grain	And windmills were all over in the former East Germany! They look like monsters on the horizon!	Meissen -- very pretty city!
strange painting!	At the Meissen museum -- dozens and dozens of incredible pieces	Many of these are from the 1700s and 1800s	and are very, very intricate!
This is a more modern piece that although simple in design has a LOT of detail!	GREAT frog chess set!	The Meissen museum!	..............where is Roger taking us??
The graffiti is everywhere!!!	Near the top of the hill	And looking down into Meissen	The rooftops are just beautiful
The gate at the top of the hill	Another view down	Now that's a hinge!	Walking back down after dinner!
Here's the house we're going to renovate!!	so we can watch the trucks make this corner across the street!	And now we're in Dresden; they're redoing the train station!	Workersparadiseplatz
You won't get ME out on that balcony!	Stephen and Joan feeling communal	Large, um, parking lot in Dresden	Frauenkirche -- nearly completed!
Mail box	LOADS of construction going on; there's a better photo of the mural later on	View from the top of the Frauenkirche	Schloss and bicyclists
The combinations of plants were VERY pleasing!	Me in the Swinger	On the walk around the Swinger	View back to the cathedral and all that
Cathedral and bicyclists	We took a boatride up and down the river; that's a really old bridge	Roger takes a photo	The bicycle race goes by!! Wow!
And then they came back the other way!!	Looking out from the transportation museum	A Trebbie Parade!	Workers mural (or may have been a mosaic)
Did I mention it was hot and sunny??	Don enjoying Dresden	A neat stairwell in one of the museums	We sat (everyone sigh deeply) and watched a great concert with dancing!
Here's that mural -- made of ceramic tiles from Meissen	Barbara and Don	We're home!	Konigstein -- WOW a city on top of a mountain!!
Don and Stephen in a Red Bull commercial	Ah, just go in thru the gate and walk straight up!	Assembling in the courtyard	And this is the straight up part.......
The view of the subjects in the valley	The ramparts!	Taking photos from the ramparts	A little creepy!
Don guarding the cannon	They really had to work to build the walkway!!	What a view!	Don admiring that view!
Massive buildings in the castle grounds	Isn't that just the neatest??	And there are gardens everywhere inside the walls!	Heading East!
Beautiful little towns	Off into the woods behind the streetcar that runs out into the forest	Yuuuuuuuuuuum !!! Quark!!	Gunnera!
Our view of the Czech Republic	Czech police car	Us right after we got turned around at the border; see that hill in the distance? That's as close as we got.......	NEW tunnels along this part of the autobahn back towards Leipzig
Another tunnel!	They are fascinating because they are so NEW!	More wheat in the countryside	And we finally made it to Leipzig
And got these great hotel rooms with WINDOWS from the bedroom into the shower!	Streetcars in Leipzig	Stephen watching the streetcars	Don and Joan in the streetcar
Street scene	This gentleman struck up a conversation with us after listening to us speak english	He was a german soldier who was a prisoner of war in England when he was 17	The terrakotta warriors -- replicas; they won't let you take photos of the real ones they have but the whole exhibit was GREAT!!
Edelweiss	Joan in possibly the greatest flower shop/nursery I've ever seen!	Begonia	Aren't these interesting????
Hey! Jiffy John!	Stephen drooling on the window of a hobby shop	Thomas Kirche in Leipzig	Lunch!
Look at those windows!!!!!!	The rathhause and all that construction to put the traffic and parking underground	People giving thanks	Ceiling of a different church
Stephen taking a photo	The antique shop where I bought mom's bowl (and various other things)	Street scene	The window is actually below grade....
Abandoned worker's paradise	Barbara, Joan, and Stephen on the streetcar	Don on streetcar	More windmills!!
Rest stop on the autobahn; you go up in an elevator to get to the restaurants (Burger King!!)	Modern in Regensburg	Finding the parking lot in Regensburg	Pretty flowers -- trying to distract us from how blazingly hot it was
Pretty pretty just outside the restaurant	Church in Regensburg	the woodwork was so intricate!	Isn't that neat!?!?!?
On the door of the church	Out in the courtyard	Walking down the street and yes that is a bus coming down that tiny street	and across the platz
Roger and Stephen taking photos	Here we are!	The Dom!	Memorial plaque
On the floor; beautiful writing around the edge	Unexpectedly light and airy	Platz	Geraniums
Skinny streets - Donau River at the end of the street	Those are Roman ruins	Skinny streets	Barbara and Roger taking photos
The city gates	Joan shopping	Two big buses on the bridge	Joan with garden ornaments
Pretty street	Love the juxtiposition of the old building with the flowers and the modern bus.....	The view of the castle where we stopped to use the potty	Every town in the south has one of these poles on which are shown the various trades in the town
Pretty church near Roger's place	Crying grouchy cherubs on the confessional	The inside of the church wow!	Tomb right inside the door
Bruckmuhl where we stayed the most nights near Roger; our hotel is down the street	Another church in Bad Aibling	Barbara, Roger, Stephen, Joan, and Don at dinner across the street from that Church	The city hall in Augsburg
Don and Roger admire the recently completed room	City scape	The streetcars and trucks go down these tiny little streets!	Roger contemplating where we go next
The inside of this church was not restored after the war; they just reinstalled the artwork they had removed for safekeeping	Barbara and Don trying the pews on for size	A doorway niche	This was build a couple of hundred years ago as an old age home; there are gates to the neighborhood that are closed nightly
Gerhardt and Traudl, Stephen's friends	Stephen and Manfred	Don and pesto sauce yummy!	More city views
A canal in Augsburg; there is water in that little bridge across the larger canal	The crew	The brick in the center and the tower to the right are ancient city walls	Interesting doorway
The building is a juvenile jail; the birds are actually the door handle	Buying a hat! Did I mention it was beastly hot??	Roger in church	Beautiful ceiling in chapel off main church
Don taking photos	This vignette yet again	Roman ruins	Admiring the roman ruins
Interesting plaque	Memorial with skull	In the pilgrim's chapel, the walls have been painted over many times	Don in church (he's all sweaty because it was incredibly hot that day)
Box for donations and a sign telling the dogs they can wait outside	Don at the Luther Stairs	Looking at the buildings	The town hall where we saw that gilded ceiling before
Gerhardt, Don, and Joan	Three of the four Tinius kids -- Roger, Stephen, and Kathy	Fruit at the market	Blue fruit at the market
Flowers at the market	Man and Street Sign -- my signature shot out the window	Don taking a photo of a WWII memorial in Bruckmuhl	We actually fit all our bags and our four big bodies in the rental car; off we go!!

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