Monday, October 22, 2007

Innsbruck Pics - Home away from home!

Innsbruck, Austria


View from my window - yes, those are the alps!!!

My new school! UIBK

View of my Studentenheim from the outside...


Altstadt pic...



My two "Gastschwester" and I - Magdalaine & Theresa




The Inn River, following the first snow in the mountaints!!!


Only in Europe...



SNOW!!!!!!!



View from the bridge...


Snow, yet again! Apparently it's about a month earlier this year than it usually is...



Maria Theresian Strasse


Oktoberfest Fotos - YES, I was able to operate a camera - and more...

Oktoberfest!!!


The parade starting off Oktoberfest in Munich

Nothing like a little Blasmusik...


HUGE...FREAKIN...HORSES!


Lebkuchen Hearts... "Mein Schatz!"



Oktoberfest at first glance...




SO...LUCKY to find seats! Charlie, Mad and I - able to have our first Festbier, courtesy of Augustiner Brewery!





Al showing how thoroughly thrilled she was. (Maybe her second Bier?)


Salzburg Etc pics - The Festung

View from inside the Festung...


Proof that I (finally) made it up there! Aaron, the faithful walking buddy took the pic...



Sunset from atop the Festung



BIG LOAVES OF BREAD sold by a vendor along the Salzach River



The DAFII class with our lovely professor, Frau Mueller




Budapest Pics

Budapest!!!
Holy Cow...new language!
(Arrival at the Budapest station)
At the cathedral in Esztergom

Better view of the cathedral


Some of us outside the cathedral



View from the top...NEVER going up stairs like that again (I about had a panic attack), however, it WAS a spectacular view! (Slovakia is across the Danube)




The stairway going down the hill behind the cathedral





Anthony, Charlie and I in Esztergom






An example of the awesome architecture found on campus



Reminder that the campus used to be a Soviet camp until 1992...






More graffiti...


Inside the cathedral in Budapest


Building in Budapest


Bullet holes, from WWII




Jewish temple in Budapest; constructed like a mosque in order to avoid anti-semitism present at the time when it was built


Yum.


The two "Charlies" - one from the states, the other from Hungary




Mad and Al spending as many of our Forints as possible before leaving Hungary


Al, Mad and I's backpacks, whom we lovingly named "Theo, Gregory, and Billy"



Close quarters...the train compartment on the ride back to Salzburg

Wednesday, October 17, 2007