On our way to Victoria station at some ungodly hour.
The first beer of the trip goes down surprisingly easily.
Brussels is in Belgium. Belgium is famous for beer. Cheers!
More beer was deemed necessary.
Beer fueled and enjoying the main square.
Beer is integral to Belgium!
Brussels
We're in the picture somewhere!
The train to Amsterdam. Doug does a little sketching!
Holland. Heineken in a can.
Dana helps Doug with his sketches!
Ajax Arena from the train.
A fascinatingly named restaurant.
How to be cool in Amsterdam.
The Rijksmuseum, I think.
A canal.
Another canal.
A typical monument to Amsterdam's most famous industry.
A cafe near to the station in amsterdam.
Berlin, Tash, a bus and an upside down map.
A big monument in Berlin.
Looking out over the Tiergaarden from the big monument.
I wonder what I found so funny!
The Brandenburg Gate
The 3 pillars of wisdom.
Tash flirts!
The big communications tower in the east part of Berlin.
An interesting pyramid.
The Reikstaad (excuse the speeling please!)
Up the big tower.
Berlin. The guide.
The infamous Berlin Wall!
More of the wall
A little off the wall!
Checkpoint Charlie and a proper Charlie!
The Olympic Stadum, Berlin
The Olympic Stadum still (we are in the picture, honestly!)
The presentation box.
Berlin station, an American and 2 bleary-eyed Englishmen!
A man taking his scaffolding for a walk in Prague.
Small differences in signage have amusing meanings to Nibs.
The astrological clock in Prague.
The main square (Wenceslas?) in Prague.
The gothic cathedral in Prague.
Looking towards the castle in Prague.
Karlos Most.
A fountain in Prague
Caught in the act!
I'm guessing Czech parliment.
Damp Doug.
Castle in Prague...
and still ...
and more of the castle ...
Opera house?
Ah. The place where the Velvet Revolution started.
Finnish friends in U Fleku. All pubs should copy how they serve beer!
A Czech native.
A Skoda.
A lift.
Doug practices for his audition at the circus.
Doug lets rip.
Oh, Vienna.
A palace in Vienna.
More Vienna.
The cathedral?
Mexican fun on the train to Budapest.
Doug practices his aeronautic engneering.
A Hungarian bus.
An Englishman abroad.
Budapest.
More Budapest.
The opera house in Budapest.
Doug helps out a sphinx.
The tour of the opera house, in Spanish.
The ever-useful storage of dresses.
Traffic light t-shirts were all the rage at the fair.
A Skoda police car.
Nibs accidentally steps in a ...
Why am I on my knees?
Sunset over the Danube.
Budapest at dusk.
Nibs and Ronald hit it off immediately.
They could be twins!
The hotel room.
The Danube.
The castle in Budapest.
More of the castle.
The Danube from the castle.
Budapest ...
The fun of writing postcards on holiday.
Waltzing to the Blue Danube.
Inside a church.
A building ...
Another building.
The traditional leg shot when wearing felt shoes.
The Danube forgets its place.
Nibs forgets which way is up.
The Blue Mosque, Istanbul.
The Red Mosque, Istanbul (not sure if that's the right name).
Inside The Blue Mosque
Still inside The Blue Mosque, which I'm sure was the only time the trousers came out of the bag!
It was very hot in Istanbul!
I don't remember if it was cherry or watermelon flavoured, but it was amazingly refreshing!
The Hagia Sophia (I think that's the right name).
Tommy, the soldier who wanted to swap his hat for mine.
The Harem ...
The view out towards Asia.
Doug shows just how big it was!
Asia.
Sheepishly in Asia.
A gateway.
A street.
Very tired.
Exhausted.
The Blue Mosque by night.
McDonalds, Greek-style.
Athens. Ruins and a few more ruins.
Looking down on The Plaka.
Athens, from The Acropolis,
The Acropolis.
The Pathanon
The Temple of Nike, on The Acroplis
What's a Grecian urn? (Doesn't really work written down!)
The Temple of Zeus, I think.
Zeus, from a different angle.
Oh my god! I Moosed the pillar!
Greek Parliment? or was it the museum?
The joys of drinking in The Plaka.
Athens cathedral
Be excellent to each other!
More of The Pathenon. It was the best place for people-watching!
An arch within and arch.
Another arch.
Paying tribute at the Temple of Nike.
Ah, the Pathenon again. We liked it there!
Athens, from The Acropolis.
Another temple. I think it was to a female god, but I'm really struggling here.
Ah, the fun of the overnight boat from Patras to Bari.
Playing chess in the main square of Bari with George the Romanian.
Nibs demonstrates his patented bogey opening move.
Chess proved a popular spectator sport on a hot afternoon.
The overnight train from Bari to Rome.
Putting a brave face on being forced to share a sleeping compartment with us.
Cleopatra's needle, Rome version.
The infamous Spanish Steps. No minis in sight!
The Trevi Fountain.
More of The Trevi Fountain.
One of the thousands of gaggles of Japanese tourists. We invented a new sport of trying to get into as many photos as possible!
Inside the Pantheon. Now famous because of some film with Tom Hanks.
The Pantheon.
The Vittorio Emmanuelle monument.
The Coloseum.
Doomed in The Coloseum.
The Coloseum
Philosophising at Socrates.
The Italian Parliment?
A square in Rome.
I think this is the building next to The Vatican mentioned in Angels & Demons.
Doug being Doug.
The Forum.
Where's Wally at the Spanish Steps? Two of us are in this photo!
St Peter's Basilica, Vatican.
Vatican Square
More of Vatican Square.
Inside St Peters.
Still inside the basilica.
Looking down at Vatican Square from the top of the basilica.
A pyramid in Rome.
I think this couple were English.
Playing Mexican poker (or was it Brazillian poker?) at the youth hostel in Rome.
I have no idea why this picture was taken, or what Doug is eating!
New friends at the hostel in Rome.
Il Duomo, Florence.
Replica of David outside the Ufizzi gallery.
erm ...
Another station, same book. Did he finish LoTR on the trip?
A bridge over a canal, Venice.
St Mark's Basilica.
St Mark's Square, Venice.
Sigh.
A true Moosism.
Punto Rialto, I'm guessing.
Venetian sunset.
Mini-golf in Lausanne
I don't think any caption can quite explain this!
Jet D'Eau, Geneva
A garden and a fountain, Geneva.
An interesting statue.
Friendships blossomed in Geneva.
A wooden thing.
Floral clock. How typically Swiss!
Doug enjoyed the sunshine a little too much!
Nibs and a goat. Spot the difference.
The stream that claimed my beloved cap :(
Skiing by a glacier.
Entering a glacier.
Ice sculpure in a glacier.
Xmas in the middle of summer ... in Switzerland!?!?!?
Grindelwald hostel with some lovely Australian nurses.
Grindelwald.
Grindelwald beer festival.
Watching the greasy-pole climbing at the beer festival.
View from our room at the hostel.
More nice views.
I think this guys name was Gunther. I think he was German.
I'm sure there's some significance to using this bin in Worms.
Worms Cathedral. Famous for its diet.
Beer next to the Rhine.
A tower on a bridge, in Worms.
We were amazed to find that Worms is twinned with St Albans.
I'm sure the translation is innocent!
Erm, I'm sure it was a good idea at the time!
The Irish bar in Worms, with the outstanding waitress Emma. How she made the evening so cheap was a wonder to behold. Certainly glad she hadn't learnt German!
Emma.
Erm, don't remember this one!
More of Emma.
The only thing worth photographing in Nancy. Interesting name. Dull place!
L'Arc de Triumphe, Paris.
The Louvre.
Notre Dame.
L'Hotel de Ville.
Luxembourg Gardens from the Eifel Tower.
Under The Eifel Tower.
Inside The Louvre, I was feelin horny .... Can I get away with that???
The Venus de Milo.
The interesting architecture of Th Pompidou Centre.
Sacre-Cour.
The Moulin Rouge.
I don't remember these girls. I must have been permanently drunk in Paris!
Le Place de la Bastille. No prisoners on show this day.
Most people go to the Pierre-Lechaise cemetary to see Jim Morrison's grave. We went to visit the Bra's.
A monument in Paris.
The interesting water park near to The Pompidou Centre.
