Cantillon Brewery 01
One of the last remaining open-air breweries in the world (no yeast or sugar...
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Cantillon Brewery 02
The real 'champagne of beers'
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Cantillon Brewery 04
The Brewmaster himself
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Cantillon Brewery 05
tiny bubbles, in my beer...
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Cantillon Brewery 06
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Cantillon Brewery 07
Japanese news crew getting a shot of the storage area - it takes 3 years to...
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Cantillon Brewery 08
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Cantillon Brewery 09
Barley and hops
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Cantillon Brewery 10
The huge open tank where they let the beer cool overnight so natural...
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Cantillon Brewery 11
Brewmaster and stirring tank thing.
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Cantillon Brewery 12
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Cantillon Brewery 13
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Cantillon Brewery 14
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Cantillon Brewery 15
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Cantillon Brewery 16
Bottling
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Orientation 001
The Atom, Brussels' giant metallic representation of an atom of...
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Orientation 002
The CIEE crew
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Orientation 003
My first lunch at the VUB caff - fried potatoes, pasta, and a lil' waffle
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Orientation 004
The 'Mannequin Piss' - a fountain of a naked baby peeing into...
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Bruxelles 002
My humble abode
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Bruxelles 003
Immature picture of the day
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Bruxelles 005
Porte de Hal - A 14th-ish century gate to the city - had walls around...
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Bruxelles 008
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Bruxelles 012
The town hall for Saint-Gilles. That is, the TOWN HALL for a square mile...
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Bruxelles 013
The first example of my inability to take a decent picture.
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Bruxelles 014
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Bruxelles 015
Sadly, this is one of the better pictures. The gaps in picture number...
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Bruxelles 016
The inside, just as lavish as the outside
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Bruxelles 019
A giant painting of Napoleon taking Brussels. Or some other European city.
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Bruxelles 020
The town hall itself, the equivalent of our Community Board in NYC....
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Bruxelles 021
The painted ceiling of this town hall.
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Bruxelles 023
I suck.
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Bruxelles 027
Church steps by Porte de Namur. Basillica in Simone seen in far distance.
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Bruxelles 028
Church from previous picture, taken atop the Instrument Museum
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Bruxelles 029
The Atom, far in the distance.
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Bruxelles 030
12th Century wall, next to a bowling alley.
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Bruxelles 031
Court of Justice - it's really, really big so that you feel like the peon...
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 005
Voie de la Liberté (The Road to Freedom). The road marks the...
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 006
Allied guns of World War II - from top to bottom: M1 Garand 1903...
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 007
M1 Garand
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 009
German Paratrooper knife, spring loaded
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 011
Minature Germans loading a real artillery piece.
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 012
M10 Tank Destroyer
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 013
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 015
M4 Sherman Tank
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 018
Battle of the Bulge memorial - huge, with all 50 states and every division...
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 019
Plaque in center of star that reads "The people of Belgium remember their...
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 020
The 35th, division of Mr R. Warfield Smith, my grandfather.
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View from the top, towards the southeast.
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South
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 024
View south, towards Bastogne.
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 025
Inside the star
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 026
To the north, where the 101st was, towards Foy
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 028
New York, New York
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 031
The CIEE crew, at the western side of the star.
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 033
Three altars are dedicated respectively to the catholic, protestant...
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 035
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 037
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 038
Crypt and Memorial above it.
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 039
The forest outside Foy where 101st (Easy company, specifically) were...
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 040
Foxholes! Relatively untouched since their creation.
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 042
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 043
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 044
Giddy idiot.
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 045
New memorial at the temporary gravesite for 2,701 Americans during the...
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 047
German cemetary for the battle. In typical German effeciency, there...
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 048
Some older officers with an unknown soldier.
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Three 18 year olds. Helmut, the second one, was an SS officer.
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Panzer III tank
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 054
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 055
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Bastogne - Battle of the Bulge 056
Unexploded 1000 pound bomb.
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Grand Place 001
The Grand Place, the Times Square of Brussels. As touristy as it is,...
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Grand Place 002
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Grand Place 003
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Grand Place 004
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Grand Place 005
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Grand Place 006
Buildings date from the late 17th century. Most of them used to be...
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Grand Place 007
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Grand Place 008
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Grand Place 009
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Grand Place 011
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Ghent 001
Really cool art noveau-sih building in Ghent - it now houses the unemployment...
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Ghent 002
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Ghent 005
Saint Bavo's cathedral, or in Flemmish, St-Baafskathedraal
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Ghent 006
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Ghent 008
Cathedreals were designed to draw your eye upward towards you-know-who
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Ghent 011
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Ghent 014
The pulpit
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Ghent 019
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Ghent 020
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Ghent 021
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Ghent 022
St. Bavo, from the rear.
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Ghent 024
The plaza in front of Bavo and the 13th century belfry.
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Ghent 025
Belfry with St. Nicholas cathedral behind.
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Ghent 026
Cool municipal building.
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Ghent 027
The rear of cathedral Saint-Nicholas, built in a romanesque style, opposed to...
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Ghent 029
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Ghent 030
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Ghent 031
Nice postcard shot.
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Ghent 032
Reminds me of that Disneyland castle.
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Ghent 033
Some Flemmish architecture.
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Ghent 034
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Ghent 035
Probably the best picture I've ever taken.
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Ghent 038
Canals run through the city.
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Ghent 040
The Castle of the Counts, or Gravensteen, mostly rebuilt in the 20th century.
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Ghent 042
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Ghent 043
I think this is the Bourse, or stock exchange
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Ghent 046
The blue one is famous or something.
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Binche - Mardi Gras 002
Binche, where thousands gather to be hit with oranges thrown by the...
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Binche - Mardi Gras 005
The typical outfit is a hat of peacock feathers, clogs, bells,a basket of...
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Binche - Mardi Gras 008
Fat man.
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Binche - Mardi Gras 012
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Binche - Mardi Gras 015
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Binche - Mardi Gras 016
Even the kiddos get dressed up.
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Binche - Mardi Gras 020
Phil Hartman?
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Binche - Mardi Gras 022
Note lil chubso on the right is about to launch one
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Binche - Mardi Gras 023
Taken standing on a pole, being held steady by two people.
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Paris 001
The Seine
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Paris 003
Cathedral of Notre Dame.
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Paris 005
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Paris 006
The camera can never quite capture the insides of these things, it's much...
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Paris 008
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Paris 009
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Paris 011
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Paris 013
Court of Justice, you can barely make out the Liberté Egalité...
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Paris 014
Paris metro stop.
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Paris 015
The Post Office.
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Paris 016
Bazar de Hotel de Ville, with a really cool 'Sale' sign.
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Paris 017
Chez H'annah, some of the best falafel in the world. On rue de rosiers.
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Paris 018
The Pompidou Center for modern art. All of what is normally on the...
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Paris 020
Front of Pompidou and mime in the foreground.
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Paris 021
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Paris 025
Going up the escalator.
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Paris 026
The 'original' Donkey in Boat.
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Paris 027
Rainy day in Paris.
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Paris 030
The Louvre, I didn't go inside but walked around the park outside it.
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Paris 031
Man against God.
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Paris 034
Obelisk
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Paris 036
Champs-Elysées
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Paris 040
The Arche de Triumph is really, really big.
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Paris 042
Our hero.
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Paris 044
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Paris 046
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Paris 047
Grave of Jim Morrison. He was born on my birthday.
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Paris 048
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Paris 049
Sacre Coeur
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Paris 054
Monument (fountain) to Parisians that died resisting the Germans.
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Paris 055
"In 1944, from the 19th to 25th of August after 50 months of German...
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Paris 056
"To the memory of the soldiers from the French forces of the...
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Paris 060
Tomb of Napoleon - his ashes, not the body itself.
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Paris 062
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Paris 063
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Deflt 003
Delft Cathedral
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Deflt 004
Compass that was apparently in 'Girl with a pearl earring'
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Deflt 005
Delft Town Hall Note the dutch woman on a bike.
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Deflt 006
Inside the cathedral. It was used by many artists as a model for perfecting...
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Deflt 008
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Deflt 009
The Leaning tower of Delft. They wanted to extend the church out to make the...
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Salamanca 001
Plaza Mayor in Salamanca, Spain. One of the most beautiful plazas in Spain.
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Salamanca 003
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Salamanca 004
Unlike most plazas, the square contains no statue, although portraits...
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Salamanca 005
Bridge built by Romans back in the day. Still in use as a footbridge.
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Salamanca 007
DHirsch, Trager, and said hero.
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Salamanca 012
Inside of smaller cathedral - notice the arches are a bit more plain...
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Salamanca 025
Inside the main cathedral.
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Salamanca 031
Vaulted ceilings
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Salamanca 033
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Salamanca 034
Enlarge to see some great detail work.
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Salamanca 036
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Salamanca 037
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Luxembourg 004
European Court of Justice
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Luxembourg 006
The original city was a castle on this huge hill, very well defended.
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Luxembourg 007
Cathedral Notre Dame
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Luxembourg 010
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Luxembourg 011
Our local guide, Rene.
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Luxembourg 012
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Luxembourg 013
Same Cathedral as before.
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Luxembourg 015
Royal Palace
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Luxembourg 016
Luxembourg does have an army.
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Luxembourg 018
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Luxembourg 021
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Luxembourg 022
Medival Castle in the hills of Luxembourg
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Luxembourg 023
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Luxembourg 024
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London 001
Cezanne's Still life with water jug, unfinished.
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London 005
Deuchamp's "Sculpture"
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London 010
The Tate!
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London 016.2
Our Hero strikes again.
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London 017
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London 019
The Thames, and the goofy ferris wheel.
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London 021
British Imperial war museum.
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London 022
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London 023
Well behaved British schoolchildren
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London 025
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London 026
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Bruges 003
Bruges has canals instead of walls.
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Bruges 004
A women's commune/nunnery with some spring flowers.
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Bruges 005
Swans - there is a cheezy legend about some knight or curse about swans in...
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Bruges 006
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Bruges 008
Madonna and child - one of the few Michaelangelo's few pieces outside of...
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Bruges 010
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Bruges 012
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Bruges 013
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Bruges 016
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Bruges 017
CIEE crew.
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Bruges 020
Main town square.
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Bruges 021
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Bruges 022
Windmills!
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Bruges 023
Bike tour to Damme, a small town that has these huge canals built by Napoleon.
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Bruges 026
Casey, taken with one hand going full speed.
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Bruges 028
Flemish countryside.
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Bruges 031
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Bruges 032
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Bruges 036
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Bruges 037
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Bruges 039
If you pop the full size, you can see a tiny Bruges 5k away.
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Bruges 042
Opposite side of things, in Bruges looking at Damme.
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Moscow 002
McDonalds, Russia style.
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Moscow 006
Red Square - Lenin's Mausoleum is accross from one of the most decadent...
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Moscow 007
Lenin's Mausoleum, closed to the public, I think...I wasn't...
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Moscow 009
The people's hero.
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Moscow 014
Previously mentioned shopping mall.
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Moscow 019
Russian subways are hundreds of feet below ground with high speed escalators.
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Moscow 020
Russian Handicap Access. Seriously.
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Moscow 021
Russian Architecture.
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Moscow 022
Russians LOVE ice cream. only vanilla, and no cone - served on construction...
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Moscow 023
One of Stalin's skyscrapers.
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Moscow 028
Home of Pushkin.
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Moscow 029
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Moscow 030
Pushkin and his wife - he died in a duel defending her honor at 30.
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Moscow 031
Pushkin square, with a casino in the background.
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Moscow 032
Benihana!
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Moscow 033
Old russian propaganda.
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Moscow 034
STOP
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Moscow 036
Checkov's statue in Checkov square.
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Moscow 041
My train station, Petrovska Razumovskaya. Sketchy, even for moscow.
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Moscow 042
More train station pics. The trains go 60MPH and arrive every 2 minutes....
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Moscow 045
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Moscow 046
Metro dedicated to V.I. Lenin.
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Moscow 048
Dostoyevsky, in front of the Lenin Library.
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Moscow 050
Inside of the library.
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Moscow 051
The Kremlin!
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Moscow 052
The armory, housing weapons captured in russia's many wars.
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Moscow 053
Government buildings, where Putin works every day.
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Moscow 054
The biggest canon in the world, weighing 40 tons. Never been fired.
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Moscow 055
The biggest bell in the world, weighing 200 tons. The piece that broke off...
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