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The lobby of the Four Seasons Budapest where we stayed.  A truly gorgeous hotel.  I was fascinated by the floor which was intricately tiled.  It covered a huge amount of surface and was a masterpiece of work.

(Those three blobs with spikes sticking out of them on the right seemed totally unnecessary to me, and I was horrified and shocked and disturbed to see that someone had actually cemented them to the floor, right on top of the tiny tiles that others had spent painstaking hours placing in lovely whorls and patterns.) 

 

The Holocaust Memorial on the grounds of the Dohany synagogue in Budapest.  It was finanaced by the actor, Tony Curtis.

 

A building that had been hit by gunfire during WW2.

A stained glass window from a church in Prague.  Interesting because it's beautiful, but also because it, and many of the other windows in this church, contained ads for the businesses that paid for their installation.

From the Jewish quarter, names upon names upon names - walls filled with them - all the Jews of Prague who died during the Holocaust.

I took lots of pictures of statues. 

I wonder what the Hebrew says?

   

Another statue.

No offense to anyone, but the beanies made me laugh.

 

Pretty Easter cookies.

 

Our guide told us that this type of cobblestone was very old and that locally they are called "cat's heads."

Blue skies.

Spring in Eastern Europe.

Maybe my favorite shot of the trip. She was painting Easter eggs. 

Comments

[Oceanguy]

I Love the photos.... and on the chance your question on what the Hebrew says was not rhetorical... Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh.