Europe Pics - Siteseeing

Pictures of cool buildings and sites we saw in Amsterdam, Prague, Vienna and Munich (May 25 - June 2)

Amsterdam

In front of the Rijksmuseum



Bike tour group and a windmill that harnesses the amazing power of the wind to draw thousands of tourists towards it each year




Posing with Rembrandt and the windmill




Entering Dam Square from one of the main shopping streets


The Royal Palace (formerly the Old Town Hall)



Matt, Eric and Mike in front of Nieuwe Kirk





Waiting in line with Buck (the bachelor) at the Van Gogh Museum





Canals everywhere!



Prague

Old Town Hall, in the middle of Old Town Square



Church of Our Lady Before Tyn




Hanging out at the top of the Old Town Hall (we don't need no stinkin' elevator) with the Church in the background




Tourists huddled at the base of the Old Town Hall to watch the hourly (and apparently underwhelming)Astronomical Clock show




Old Town Square in the early evening




Charles Bridge





View from the Charles Bridge





Heading up the looooooong set of stairs to Prague Castle





Prague Castle entrance





Badass violent statues guarding the Castle



The buildings inside the Castle are so cramped, you can't get a good full shot of the front of St. Vitus's Cathedral



The rear of the Cathedral. Gothic spires rule!



Ossuary (Bone Church) in Sedlec. (Pictures from inside to come from Eric)



Petrin Tower. More stairs to climb.




Great views of the city from atop Petrin Tower - here you can see all of St. Vitus's Cathedral inside Prague Castle




National Theater

Vienna

Our (useless) tour guide points out a museum. I have no clue if that's the art museum or the natural history museum.




"Hi there, can you get a picture of me and my friends in front of the New Palace? Please make sure we're not centered at all. Oh, and definitely get that lamppost in the shot."




Stephansdom - impressive Gothic cathedral in the middle of the city that's been under construction for the last 800 years.




More Stephansdom




Stephansdom tower - yeah, we climbed that too. But with all the scaffolding and construction, they won't let you go all the way to the top. So we went up 300 stairs and reached...




...the gift shop




Side view of Votivkirche




Rathaus (city hall)




Schloss Schonbrunn, Vienna's version of Versailles



Gloriette building at the top of the hill at Schonbrunn



Cool fountain at Schonbrunn



Scotland vs. Austria friendly



Crowd forms the Austrian flag during player introductions

Munich

Fountain in Karlsplatz




I forget what this statue/memorial is, but I do remember that Munich has lion statues everywhere




Surfers in the river




New Town Hall at Marienplatz




Munich is home to the Deutsches Museum, the world's largest and oldest science and technology museum. This is an old plane engine.




WWII anti-aircraft rocket




The Deutsches museum also had a musical instruments section




Funky-looking trumpet