Wow, Berlin! Fabulous. Vibrant & vivacious, heaps to see & do. And, thankfully, affordable after Scandinavia & particularly Norway where the only affordable thing was the air we breathed! Stayed in the old East Berlin, by far the funkier part, despite its rather sad history.
Visited a couple of places where the wall is still standing & also the GDR museum. 12,000 guards protected the wall & guards needed to guard the guards! Crazy.
And we went to the Holocaust museum & monument. All very sobering stuff.
On our way to Dresden we had an afternoon in Potsdam, until 1918 the residence of the Prussian Kaisers. OTT Baroque, as was Meissen & Dresden.
Meissen tiles on the Procession of the Princes in Dresden
One of the hunting lodges of Augustus the Strong.
The confluence of the Danube & Inns rivers in Passau, SE Germany
......and the beer & bratwurst
Vienna - a taste of the old....
....and the new
And so to Italy....
.....wonderful, and incredibly frustrating at the same time! So many extremes.
Milan - the duomo & the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele
St Mark removing the lion's tooth, duomo, Bergamo
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| Arona, Lago Maggiore |
.....and that's all folks. Home soon to another summer!
When I've organised all the photos I'll put them on Flickr
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