Amsterdam Airport
Inside Amsterdam Airport
Not-so-luxurious seating...
Much more comfortable IKEA-inspired seating...
Copenhagen Airport
On the streets in Copenhagen
My hotel room, from the hallway looking in.
Desk
Bed and entry door.
Bathroom from outside
Shower
From shower looking back
Copenhagen
More of Copenhagen
Some dude on a horse.
Spires on buildings.
Christian the somethingth on his horse.
Christiansborg Castle
Map of the castle grounds
Ruins of Copenhagen Castle (under Christiansborg Castle)
Well-lit ruins
Dimly-lit ruins
Track-lighted ruins.
Blurry ruins
Model of Copenhagen Castle
Christiansborg Palace
The Royal Reception Rooms
Marble on the outside... no pictures inside.
The back of Christiansborg Palace... another statue.
Down the street
Clock tower... that woke me up every 15 minutes the first night...
Copenhagen Gay Pride festival
Palace Hotel looked cool.
More clock towers
The Wonderful World of Hans Christian Andersen
Dinner. And it was yummy.
Tivoli
Central Station
Inside Tivoli
The Tivoli Music House - with Danish and American flags on it... for some reason?
Strike up the big band on the bandstand.
Not fun.
Really not fun.
Something they stole from Disney...
Mmm... Ketchup
The streets of Copenhagen on a Sunday morning
Some church
Some other church
Nice tower
Street before the shops open
Rocking my Northwest fashion on a rainy day... I think everyone else was envious of my genius.
Two dudes I don't know
Their names inscribed... I couldn't read it though
Tycho Brahe, famous for looking at the stars.
The Round Tower
Called the Round Tower because it's round.
Round we go up the Round Tower
Look out a window, the buildings are angular. They wish they could be round.
Round we go some more.
The Privy
Yes, the privy.
Looking out over the library.
Look at all the buildings.
Spires stick up everywhere.
Top of the Round Tower
Copenhagen from above.
Yawn, another tower
Windmills... the electric kind
Geologisk Museum
Denmark's National Museum of Modern Art
Looks pretty non-modern from the outside.
Oh, wait, definitely modern inside.
Walls of paintings
Whoa abstract...
I liked this one, not sure why.
Less modern, but still art. It's amazing how many paintings they cram onto the walls.
It's pouring down rain, and I'm hiding out under an entry arch to the park across the street.
Still more rain outside the Rosenborg Castle
In the distance, to the right of the man in red, you see the Danish royal guard with his big gun.
Inside the palace
The Throne Room
The Royal Wine Barrels
The entrance to the royal vault.
The Crown Sword, or something.
Ah, the crown jewels!
Crownly! Jewely!
Exit to the Royal Vault
Outside Rosenborg Castle again
Rosenborg Castle
My patented self portrait with the castle in back
Odd fountain in King's Gardens
The boy is strangling the goose. Touching.
Frederiks Church
Amalienborg Square
Royal Guards guarding the palace
Guards pacing back and forth
Amalienborg Museum (no pictures inside, please)
Palace Guard
Royal Danish Opera House in the distance
Opera House
Down scenic Nyhavn street
Looking in the bakery window
Oooh baked goods...
Oasi d'Italia, where I decided to eat lunch
Sitting on the sidewalk cafe.
Copenhagen at night
Tivoli at night
More tivoli
Trying to find the perfect night picture setting on the camera
More camera testing
Not too exciting, but purple and gold so worth a picture
Fountains at Tivoli
More fountains
Fountaintastic!
Lights
Lighted archways
Tivoli lagoon at night
Pagoda
I'm not sure what this is
Tivoli Illuminations
Ooh, water
Breakfast
Towers
On the canal
Building
Vor Frelsens Kirke
Magasin du Nord department store
Nyhavn Canal
Nyhavn
Denmark's Royal Family's Ship
The Little Mermaid, on loan to the Shanghai Expo 2010
The Royal Loading Dock
Frederik's Church dome
Frederik's Church
Spire
Christianhavn Canal
Boats and houses
Bridge over the canal
Watch your head.
No really, watch your head.
Another low bridge
Whew, just made it.
Twisty Spire
Back to the Vor Frelsen's Kirke
Looking up the tower stairs
Narrow Staircase
Church bells
Climbing stairs
Looking out over Copenhagen
Not much further to go up!
Long way down.
Beautiful Copenhagen
Round the spiral staircase
Looking down
One layer from the top!
Nowhere further to go.
Scenic
There's a hole in that building!
Well-organized city block
They should spell things with their buildings.
Bell chiming
Big bells
Bell
Ding dong
Well-named cafe
Bacon Dog!
Copenhagen Central Station
Pigeons wandering around the train station
Where's the crumbs?
My train
It's a long train
Heading to Stockholm
Even longer train if you look towards the other end
On the way to Stockholm
My lunch. Fairly unimpressed by the Swedish cuisine.
My hotel room in Stockholm
Hotel room in Stockholm
I have a chair, how nice.
And an even smaller bed than in Copenhagen.
Very industrial looking
The park across the street from the hotel
Down the streets in Stockholm
Stockholm
Church tower in Stockholm
Department store
Busy shopping streets in Stockholm
Less busy side streets in Stockholm
Festive
Shoppy!
Fountain in Stockholm that looks like something space-like
More fountain
Clock tower
TGI Fridays
Something to look at the price of things
Kings Dramatic Theatre?
Ornate!
Olde
Modern architecture of the public library.
Library
Stockholm T-Bane (Subway)
Festive at night
Looks almost Italian
Very long escalator down to the Kungstradgarden Station
Kungstradgarden Station, way cool
Ancient burial? Or modern recreation?
Subway Station
Still festive.
Nordiska Museet - I think that means Nordic Museum
Which way to the Vasa Museum? Ah, that way...
King Arthur would be proud.
I see a Swedish flag
Vasamuseet!
The Vasa
Well preserved ship
Model of the Vasa
Big cannon. Maybe if there weren't so many of them it wouldn't have sunk?
Rigging
Old tools discovered with the ship
Vasa-tastic!
I see dead people...
Cannon!
Bow of the Vasa, though it kinda looks like a boar's head from this angle.
Yours truly.
Nordiska Museet outside
Interesting angle
Some old kingly dude
The inner hall of the Nordiska Museet
Gamla Stan (Old Town)
Narrow streets in Gamla Stan (Old Town)
It may be quaint, but there's a 7-Eleven and The Body Shop.
Olde town
Changing of the guard at Kungliga Slottet (The Royal Palace)
Guard people
TOO MANY UMBRELLAS!
Guard action shot.
Royal guards marching
Some building that isn't the palace
Guards marching again
Inside the palace courtyard
Palace Courtyard
Obelisk
Something or other near the palace.
Scenic Gamla Stan
The Nobel Museum (no pictures inside, sorry)
A noble Nobel museum
Storkyrkan tower
Storkyrkan (Stockholm Cathedral)
Inside the cathedral (where all the royal weddings take place)
Light Globe
St. George and the Dragon
Art described only as "to be left to the viewers interpretation"
The Silver Altar
GOLD!
The pipe organ
The Post Museum - history of the Swedish Post
Swedish Design at its finest (in the National Museum)
Even IKEA isn't this bad.
Coolest door locking mechanism I've ever seen
Fancy chests
Busts
Very utilitarian display don't you think?
Grand marble stairacase at the National Museum
Locking chest
Now THAT's engineering!
Outside of National Museum
Downtown Stockholm
Subway taken, time to start the next day of adventures
It looks like a pond
Yup, still a pond.
History Museum
Nice displays in the History Museum
One gallery themed like an airport terminal
Boats
Hungarian Embassy
Turkish Embassy
Korean Embassy
Ships at the Maritime Museum
Anchors
Who's a pirate?
One of the oldest original Jolly Roger flags
Sports Museum
Oooh, pingpong paddles
A curling stone
Police Museum
No idea, maybe this is the "before" the police bust in?
The Police Museum Salute to Files
CSI tools
Don't forget the numbers!
Police DNA tools apparently consist of swabs and envelopes.
Technology Museum
Looks like an old national laboratory or something
Cars
In the mines
Dark mine cars
Machines Machines Machines
Didn't Willy Wonka have one of these?
Houston, vi har ett problem.
Space, the final frontier
Teknorama. I just liked the word
An original Cray-1 Supercomputer
Is somebody going to answer that?
TV tower at the end of town
Musikmuseet... that's Music Museum for you non-Swedes
Guitars
An authentic theramin... woooooooOOOOOOoooooo.
Harp
Hammered Dulcimer. I made lots of noise with this one
Also the Theater Museum, here are some marionettes
AHA! So that's who's on the 50 kr. bill!
Ornate Horns... would that make them "hornate"?
A Salute to Recorders
Instrument making tools
It's a whole ensemble of instruments!
And the brass ones
Wouldn't be a music museum in Sweden without a salute to ABBA.
And drums. Lots of drums.
A do-it-yourself music sculpture
The drum pattern I programmed into it.
Kitchen drumming at its finest
Psst... I think you've blown your cover.
Neat stairs
World's Largest IKEA
Oooh, Aaahh.
4 floors of Scandinavian junk
Restaurant! Sausage and potatoes for only 19 kr!? Are you crazy?!
The IKEA restaurant, the most popular part of the store
Cafe 5? Everything 5 kr.? That's insane!
Furnished with IKEA furniture, of course.
Round store so you can never leave.
IKEA tray carts
My dinner. Delicious. And only 40 kr, or about $5.
Kitchen land!
ANOTHER cafe? Seriously?
Some assembly required.
Don't forget the snackbar!
One more fountain walking to the train station in Stockholm
Stockholm Centralstation
Stockholm CentralStation
On the train platform waiting for the train
Here comes the train...
Inside the not-so-glamorous train
Stockholm through a dirty window
On the way to Oslo
Fields through a dirty window
Somewhere between Stockholm and Oslo
Scenic Sweden
Lakes surrounded by trees
Beautiful Sweden
Rolling hills, probably Norway by now
Norway
Random themepark on the outskirts of Oslo
Oslo
Fantastic Norway
Bridge in Oslo through a rainy window
festive
Hotel room in Oslo
Hotel room bathroom
Oslo streets
Fountain in Oslo
Lunch - Norwegian Fish and Chips?
Down the street in Oslo
Rainbows over Oslo
Streets
Street people
Hello kind stret person
Oslo City mall
nam-nam, must be good.
Oslo Cathedral
Inside Oslo Cathedral
The Pulpit
Part of the organ
The rest of the organ
The golden altar
The King's Box
Karl Johan's Gate (shopping street)
Statue
A fountain
Another fountain
Interesting arches under a bridge
Akershus Fortress
Akershus
Guard making his rounds
View from Akershus
Piper statue
Norway likes their trolls
Fountain at Oslo City Hall
Nobel Peace Center
Home of the Peace Prize
IT's ObamaTastic!
But can THEY?
The only building in Oslo with a 10-foot high fence surrounding it.
Must be the US Embassy
The Royal Palace
Queen Maud
Royal Guard
Changing of the palace guards
Rainbow again
Marching guards
Change the guards
Touch the palace (try doing that at the US Embassy...)
Canadian Embassy... see the flag.
Not-so-underground Underground tracks
Oslo somewhere
Sonja Henie at the Vigeland Sculpture Park
Vigeland Sculpture Park
Mr. Vigeland
museet og parken
Statues
Fountain in the sculpture park
Top of the sculpture park
It's made of naked people!
Looking out over the park, flanked by naked people.
Park
Staying out of the rai under the tree-lined walk
Osko Kino Colosseum (I think that's a theatre)
Yup, a theatre. Oooh, Toy Story 3 now playing!
Trumpet man!
It's raining
Now it's REALLY raining
Lunch ala American. And unlike McDonalds, THIS actually looks the same as back home.
People shopping in the square
Norwegian yarn store. Look at all the pretty colors.
Market I stumbled onto
Oooh, produce!
Decorative arts and design museum. Yawn
Ooh, decorative
Oooh, arty
A Norwegian Salute to Aluminum Foil
Stortinget - The Norwegian Parliament Building
Sad looking Pooh on the street
Jolly good man with an axe
Crazy Norway Troll
Time to leave Oslo Station
Norwegian Train Tracks. Can't you tell?
So-long Oslo
More Norway
Goteborg Hotel Room
Quaint
Simple
Out the hotel room window
Out the window
Buildings in Goteborg
Goteborg Streets
Jarntorget in Goteborg
Street pub
Streets of Goteborg
Neat building in Goteborg
A British Pub in Sweden's idea of a Club Sandwich. Uh, yeah...
Goteborg
Sights around Goteborg
Canal in Goteborg
Kungsparken
The Avenue in Goteborg
The Avenue later at night
Goteborg streets
Out the hotel window at sunset.
The Goteborg QA Team
Smile for my pictures, people!
Pretending to work.
Also pretending to work.
Ignoring me
Out the window.
The vacation board.
The break room
Coffee, the most important part of a Swedish office.
Snacking before a late meeting.
The office kitchen.
Big conference room
The front desk
Sunset over the Göta River
Götaborg
Cruise Ship pulling into harbor.
Some square
Looks like he should be promoting rum.
Gustav Adolf Somethingorother
Sock market!
City square
Church
A very international street?
Skansen Kronan in the distance
Mr. Flower Power!
Mr. Flower Power's garden
Stairs up to the Skansen Kronan
Lots of stairs
Even more up
Top of the stairs
Skansen Kronan - Redoubt Crown
Old
View of Gothenburg
Over Gothenburg
Gothenburg from Skansen Kronan
Nice day
The Crown
Crown-ly!
Sweden
Quite a dress in the window
Saluhallen Market - We've got Olives...
And breads, lots of breads...
Come get your processed meats...
Cheese? Yes please!
Sausages, my oh my.
Fruits and nuts, make your own trail mix.
Please refer to our salami quick reference poster
Salami is yumi.
Something healthy? Yes, we've got fruit too!
How about some fresh pasta to go with that?
You want meat? We've got meat!
Rugs that look like the ones my grandma used to make!
