Small Stops Along the Way

Before I move onto the last leg of my Cyprus experience, I wanted to include a post to include all those little stops along the way, that were not worth putting into individual ones posts, but I still want to include them in here. I am mostly including the pictures because I think they speak for themselves. Otherwise, in these places we mostly focused on seeing the main attraction, exploring the city center, grabbing some food and then moving onto our next stop. The last one on here, Melk Abbey was so beautiful and worth skimming to if none of the others.

 

 

Bratislava, Slovakia

 

 

 

 

 

The city down below on the center-left is Bratislava, to the right is the border of the country. Look at the following 3 images contrast, to the far right is all wind mills and to the far left is smoke stacks. Pretty clear distinction between this country and its neighbor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Strasburg, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Luxembourg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Melk Abbey

Melk Abbey is a Benedictine abbey in Austria, and among the world's most famous monastic sites. It is located above the town of Melk on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Danube river in Lower Austria, adjoining the Wachau valley.

 

 

Château de Versailles

 Versailles - the home of the Parisian Royalty. One of the most beautiful and ornate palaces. It just takes your breath away, it is what Disney tried to capture. From the golden gates to the endless meticulously manicured gardens, just stunning.

The gardens went on forever and even in person were hard to believe and imagine their scope!

Fountains galore - there had to be hundreds of gardens throughout this massiveee complex

Walking around inside, trying to take it all in..

Above is the onsite cathedral 

   

I was a little obsessed with the paintings

The Hall of Mirrors

Look at the stunning chandeliers, gold accents, paintings and perfect symmetry. This is the hallway to the king and queen's bedrooms. Can you imagine?!

This is the king's main bedroom

Another walk down the hall way and you are at the queen's bedroom

Even the staircases are beautiful!

Front solid gold gate to the palace

Roaming the gardens

Here comes the rain, this whole day was off and on epic downpours. 

look at these poor people below hovering behind an umbrella

With that rain storm passed, it's time to stroll through the mazes full of statues, fountains and mystery

Versailles is famous for their fountains, bot only are there hundreds and they are beautiful, but they are choreographed (to music) water shows throughout the entire complex every hour or so

Moving past the main palace grounds, we head towards the outer buildings including Marie Antoinette's private get away that she was so famous for

This whole place was just beyond stunning. This was a sitting room, notice the harp and piano as well as tables for playing cards. Picture Downton, but for a queen

 More rooms for entertainment, but then again it's hard to imagine a time before laptops, tv, radios and everything we entertain ourselves with today.

 Again, all this is just the queen's private get away - in case the gigantic palace got a little cramped