Saturday, October 31, 2015

River Cruise-Budapest to Prague to celebrate our 50th anniversary 2015

Buda castle district

Church in Pest

Memorial to Ronald Reagan for telling Gorbachev--"Tear down these walls".

Memorial to Jews killed during WWII

Names of 430,000 Jewish victims on each silver leaf--half the population of Budapest exterminated

Jewish handmade memorial protesting the permanent memorial to WWII

Liberty Square in Budapest


Rathaus--Budapest

Bronze shoes memorializing those shot on the banks of the Danube--but keeping their precious shoes



Travant car--plastic--had to wait 5 years to get one. Made in Eastern Europe

Inside church rotunda

University in Budapest Liberty Square

Museum in Vienna
Town square in Vienna

Beautiful flowers, produce and fruits

Inside Baroque church

Parliament building Vienna

Monument depicting gratitude for being spared war, fire and plague

Inside beautiful church in Vienna

Vienna--Paris of the East

Where the Priest gives his sermon


Town Hall Vienna

Part of the Residence--Hapsburg reign

This church had about 30 stain glass windows in it.

Statue inside the residence courtyard


Duernstein on the Danube

Beautiful fall leaves along the Danube

Graveyard in Duernstein

View from Duernstein castle ruins overlooking Danube valley

Church in Duernstein


Inside Melk Abbey courtyard

Inside the Abbey chapel

Replica of the Melk Abbey

Peter's group in Melk Courtyard

Bob and Ron Whetman resting in gardens at Melk Abbey (note 2 old crows on the branch above )


People enjoying Saturday along the Danube in Linz

Linz Town Square
Church in Linz with all stain glass windows

Town Hall Linz
Traveling along the Wachau Valley in Austria


Cesky Krumlov-a resort town in Czech Republic

One of 3 bears kept in the former moat surrounding the castle in CK

Memorials and Old buildings

Castle gardens

River running around the town of CK

Inside the castle courtyard in CK

Wenceslaus Square in Prague

Arch at end of bridge separating old and new town Prague

Astronomical Clock Prague old town

Charles Bridge looking toward New Old Town

Prague square--city of 1000 spires

Church facing square Prague

Inside the Gothic church by the Prague castle

Church in Castle courtyard

Side view of church

Large boulevard in Prague
Our GCT boat--128 passengers--good food, comfortable room, wonderful tours.  A great memory


1 comment:

Midge Nielsen said...

Congratulations on your golden anniversary! Looks like a great trip. The pictures are amazing.