Germany

Infamous gate from Dachau. I figured this picture would make a fine thesis motivator. (Concentration camps were not high on my list of tourist attractions I wanted to hit during this trip, but my travel companions had other ideas.)
Another shot from Dachau.
Dachau incinerator. (While prisoners were not usually put to death at Dachau -- it was a "concentration camp" rather than a "death camp" -- this incinerator wound up getting an awful lot of use anyways.)
Dachau memorial to concentration camp victims.
Shot taken on the move during Mike's Bike Tour to Neuschwanstein Castle. This tour was definitely a high point of our trip...highly recommended.
Another Bike Tour shot with Neuschwanstein visible in the distance.
Some very content-looking German cows we biked past during the tour. Alas, you'd need to hear the cows' bells clonking to get the full effect.
An Alpine slide we zipped down while waiting for the Neuschwanstein tour to resume after lunch. (I was actually travelling pretty fast here, but there's enough light that the camera used a very short exposure time.)
Neuschwanstein Castle.
If you're wondering where the previous shot was taken, it was on top of the narrow little bridge above the waterfall seen here. (Conversely, this shot was taken out the window of the castle. Unfortunately no photography of the castle interior is permitted.)
Another shot of Neuschwanstein.
Aviation section of the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
A piece of a cyclotron attached to the ceiling of the Deutsches Museum.
Shot from the life sciences section of the Deutsches.
Another shot from the life sciences section.
A weather tower as viewed from the "sundial garden" at the top of the Deutsches.
From the chronometry section of the Deutsches.
Brad examines a machine in the the textile processing section of the Deutsches.
Art piece in the water processing section of the Deutsches.
The low point of our trip was waking up at midnight to a swarm of unknown, vaguely ticklike bugs in our Heidelberg hotel room. The old woman who ran the hotel could not be roused from her slumber, so we all wound up spending the night sleeping on various hotel staircases. Ouch. Here's Brad collecting a bug off of the wall for confrontation purposes.
The Church of the Holy Ghost in Heidelberg. Brad thought all the booths attached to the bottom made it look like The Church of Free Enterprise. I thought they made it look like The Church That Wears a Tutu.
Interior of Heidelberg's Church of the Holy Ghost.
Stained-glass window in the Holy Ghost Church. Probably the first church window I've seen with a physics equation on it. (6 August 1945 is the day "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima.)
Heidelberg Castle from the outside.
Inside Heidelberg Castle.
Inside Heidelberg Castle.
Inside Heidelberg Castle.
Inside Heidelberg Castle.

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