and in front of the museum ...

thought I bug you with some more pics

Here are some pics of my and 48percenter's trip to Paris two weeks ago.

Enjoy

Eifel tower








Notre Dame






Sacre Coeur


Grave of Edith Piaf


Grave of Georges Bizet (composer of the opera "Carmen")


The Louvre






Mona Lise craze


Michelangelo's "Dying slave"

taken yesterday











if you look closely you see the Alps in the distance


same here




Hello

And the Vasa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_ (ship)

Finally the pictures of the capital of Sweden. If you ever get a chance to visit Stockholm go!!! It is more than worth it.

Visby on the island Gotland

but it still has something, or? What do you think?

Fårö, a small island north of Gotland (also an island) has very interesting stone sculpturing made by the nature.

as you know, 48percenter and I were in Berlin to see Obama and hear him speak.

So here he is at the back entrance from the Hotel Adlon. We got lucky that we were there shortly before he showed up.








We got to the Siegessäule rather early and got a good spot - or so we thought. We had to wait 3 hours till he showed up.

Our view, before he came


holding the camera in the crowd




Security


A nice little detail


Then he finally spoke .... and the stupid telepromter was in front of him ... and the sun behind him. Yes, we were close, but at a bad spot. So sorry, not so many good pics as I had hoped for,









Of course there were still a bunch of bigheads in front of us.


48percenter also took pics, she will post them shortly too I am sure.

It was an amazing day. We were lucky to see him twice. The speech was fantastic. The vibe in the crowd was so positive.

I visited a friend of mine this weekend. She lives near Stuttgart, which is in South Germany. Yesterday we went to the Castle Teck. Here are some pics of it.
I don't really have a pic of the castle, since I took the pics while on the castle.











Enjoying a cold beer


Me and my friend














And me alone again

on a misty day

... at least in Germany. It was such a beautiful day yesterday and I went to a garden here in Frankfurt. They had a spring flower show, so I took some pictures (not only flowers though). "Some" means up to 300 but I deleted about half of it at home. Here are some samples:

field of spring flowers


Snowdrop


crocus


another crocus


tulip


field of tulips


hyazinth bud


hyazinth


some close-ups











Hope you enjoyed it and are feeling the spring

as a German I have to live with the general guilt over what happend in the 1930s and 1940s even though I was only born a lot later.
Now, that man did so many unbelievable and horrible things, I don't think that his name ought to be used in such a way.

My 2 cents. So please, if you wanna say it .... don't say it to me.