I decided to put together a quick photo display of each city I visited. Seeing as over the entire year I took over 6,000 photos, choosing one to represent the culture or beauty of each place I visited was quite challenging. Hope you enjoy!
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| Torun, Poland Inside a house at the Ethnography museum, typical of this region in Poland |
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| Wroclaw, Poland Known throughout Poland for beautiful landscape, canals, and architecture...taken off one of the famous bridges |
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| Prague, Czech Republic First snow of the year...walking down the another famous bridge! |
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| Katowice, Poland My first time visiting distant relatives fell on a Polish Independence Day |
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| Zamosc, Poland A Renaissance square named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site |
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| Lublin, Poland One of the few Jewish tombstones left in Lublin after the German and Soviet occupations. |
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| Vilnius, Lithuania Christmas with my family, learning how to count in Lithuanian by playing Battleship |
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| Budapest, Hungary A rough night in Budapest, NYE brought out all the sidewalk champagne vendors |
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| Bratislava, Slovakia The main city square in Bratislava as dusk falls on the city |
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| Vienna, Austria The Danube river in Vienna is filled with fantastic graffiti...a young man at work |
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| Paris, France The Eiffel Tower from the Bells of Notre Dame...GARGOYLES! |
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| Marrakesh, Morocco Inside a four star Moroccan restaurant, I'm obsessed with the lights. |
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| Atlas Mountain Pass, Morocco If you look closely, you can see the Bedouin's iPod cord hanging out of his ear |
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| London, England A unique view of the London Eye |
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| Oxford, England One of the many prestigious colleges at Oxford |
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| Canterbury, England The interior of the Canterbury Cathedral was under construction...sign is funny because God is overhead too. |
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| Dover, England A really long detour from Canterbury to Oxford took us to the Cliffs of Dover |
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| Lisbon, Portugal Ash Wednesday, the remnants of Fat Tuesday partying in the streets |
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| Fatima, Portugal The main, old cathedral in Fatima, where the Blessed Mother appeared to three children |
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| Nazare, Portugal Two friends and I spent a lovely Valentine's Day lunch in this oceanside town |
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| Amsterdam, Netherlands Holland is well known for its tulips! |
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| Antwerp, Belgium The view from a gigantic ferris wheel in the city center |
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| Brussels, Belgium Belgian waffles became a serious obsession of mine! |
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| Bruges, Belgium Took a boat ride through the canals in Bruges, there really is not a bad photo in the city! |
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| Westerplatte, Poland Westerplatte is where the Nazis first attacked Poland. The Poles defended their country honorably and ferociously. |
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| Lodz, Poland When Poles moved from farms to apartment complexes, they set aside garden areas where people grow all sorts of delicious things...from apple and cherry trees to blueberry bushes to carrots and onions. |
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| Krakow, Poland A tiny church on the outskirts of Krakow built in the 15th century. The walls have original paintings on them. |
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| Alesund, Norway The sunset at 11:30 pm in Norway was incredibly beautiful...and really late at night. |
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| Zakopane, Poland Morskie Oko, perhaps the most famous lake in the Tatra mountains, in the middle of a giant rain storm |
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| Dunajec River, Poland A traditional Polish rafting trip down the Dunajec River, my cell phone thought I was in Slovakia |
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| Stutthoff, Poland The gate house for Stutthoff, a concentration camp near Gdansk |
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| Barcelona, Spain The main market in Barcelona was decorated for the festival of St. Joan |
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| Gdansk, Poland A glimpse of the Motlawa River and the old town of my home for a year! |
Great travel blog...:)
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