Germany - Düsseldorf - Rheinturm
Anyone still there? No? I figured as much. Happy New Year! Haha - only a month and a half late. While I'm at it, happy MLK Jr. Day, happy Groundhog Day, happy Valentine's Day, and happy Presidents Day. I went on trips for all those holidays, and on a few other days, too. So far this year, I've already been to Paris, Vienna, Bratislava, Bucharest, and back to America twice! I think I've been gone more than I've been home so far.
At some point, I hope to get some more pictures posted. I'm still working on them in chronological order, which means I'm still working on pictures from Turkey that I took back in May 2009. I'm setting myself a goal of having some of them posted by the end of this week. But don't hold me to that. ;)
Adam and I are in the lounge at Henri Coandă International Airport in Bucharest, waiting for our flight back to Frankfurt. With all the traveling I've been doing, I've been very thankful to have access to the lounge. It makes having to wait around a little less painful.
We need to board soon, so bye for now. Hopefully I'll have some pictures up by the end of the week.
A quick post, because I'm tired and don't feel like writing much. New pictures! For the first time in... quite a while. These are from back in May (!) when my brother Jeff and his wife and son came to visit. I flew back from the States on a Friday, and the next day we piled into my car and drove up to Düsseldorf to visit one of my sister-in-law's friends who lives there. They showed us around town a bit, and then turned us loose to go into the Rheinturm, which is the big TV tower in the city. Unfortunately the weather was quite lousy that day so the pictures didn't come out that great, but here they are anyway. First a picture of the tower itself, and then several views from it:
Germany - Düsseldorf - Rheinturm
Germany - Düsseldorf - View north from Rheinturm
Germany - Düsseldorf - View northeast from Rheinturm
Germany - Düsseldorf - View west from Rheinturm
We stayed the night in Düsseldorf, and the next morning we went to get some breakfast and check out part of the harbor. There are a couple of interesting buildings down there, including one that has little colored statues climbing all over it.
Germany - Düsseldorf - Harbor buildings
Germany - Düsseldorf - New construction
We got on the road around noon from Düsseldorf, and headed for Köln, just down the Rhein river. We spent a couple hours in Kö, then headed back to my apartment. I left the next day on a work trip, and when I got back, we all went to Turkey for a week. While we were there, I took just over 1600 pictures, a couple of which I posted before. But, I haven't stitched any of the panoramas yet. They're next on my list! Unfortunately, with my holiday travel schedule, I probably won't have the time to stitch them until after the new year. Once I actually get around to it, my new computer should help me to process pictures super fast, so hopefully it won't take too long.
Until next time!