Say cheese, Amsterdam

Put on your game face.

The guys

Lining up for their headshots.

I am, I am…

A bit of boasting from the Rijksmuseum.

Keep moving

Blustery in Amsterdam's Leiden Square.

Water, water everywhere

The Golden Bend.

Floater

In Amsterdam there did dwell…

Merry Christmas

And Happy New Year

The good old days

Passport control control control…

Heading out

And highlights we have experienced.

Hole in the wall

Small hole, big consequences.

Hard times

Topographie des Terrors exhibit shows Berlin under the Nazis and communists.

Yes, that wall

Pink Floyd was here.

Government done here

Germany's Bundestag complex along the Spree.

Boating the Tiergarten

Into the woods on the Spree.

The banks of the Spree

A stroll through the city.

Mirror, mirror

Here's lookin' back at ya…

Top of the Reichstag

This dome rocks.

Begin here

A note from the teacher will get you in.

To the Reichstag

Hi ho, hi ho.

Berlin Dom

Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church of Berlin.

Old, sort of

Into the St. Nikolai, once the ancient heart of Berlin.

U-Bahn here, there everywhere

Easy access in the berg.

Prewar

And reasonable.

Quiet in the hood

Pretzlauer takes a nap.

In the Pretzlauer

A little rain must fall.

KulturBrauerie

From beer to ballet. And more.

Pink

Sony Center changes color.

Big top

Let a smile be your umbrella.

Yum

Mighty fine grub.

Foodie heaven

Rustling up some eats at KaDeWe's food court.

Retail writ large

KaDeWe, it's Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus all in one.

Tubular

Potsdamer Platz does pink and purple.

The new Mitte

The Sony Center at the center.

Taking the bahn

Getting around.

Auto history

Tripping down memory lane in your Trabat.

On the S-Bahn

Easy access to Museum island.

More walls

Mshatta Facade, Islamic treasure from Jordan's desert regions.

Market gate

Miletus' wonder, almost like new.

The gate

Ishtar Gate, eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon.

Steps

Just a few thousand years old.

Man on a horse, again

Ride on.

Top of the island

The Bode at the bow.

Upstream

Berlin Dom on the Spree.

scars

After all these years.

That lived in look

No white washing the past.

It's that distressed look

Earned the hard way.

Check it out

The Neues dresses down.

Fixer-upper

Museum with scars.

Some wear and tear

But the Neues Museum has Queen Nefertiti as a resident.

Saddle up

King Frederick lords it up at the Alte Nationalgalerie.