The largest church in Venice has an interior covered with scenes like this, from top to bottom. At first it looks like somewhat crude paintings, but if you look closer you see that it's actually a very detailed mosaic. Sixty kinds of marble of all colors was used to make this church.
Wow, it looks like they copied the Venetian in Las Vegas
Gondola traffic jam
More gondola-y goodness
It is not a good idea to carry food in your hands. The birds will attack
The Grand Canal that splits the city
Fountains like these are everywhere in Italy, sometimes in the middle of nowhere.
One of the infinite number of Venetian side canals
Street musicians playing a duet as the sun goes down in Venice
They try to keep things classical in Vienna
The main pedestrian thoroughfare in Vienna, a nice enough place except there are hardly any places to sit. Look how awkward that sitting guy looks--that ledge is high!
The Vienna vacation palace of the Hapsburgs and a World Heritage site
Europe in a nutshell: old architecture, public transportation, and people smoking
Vienna has a cemetary housing Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Strauss, among others
Vienna also kept Mozart's parrot. They say this is his actual parrot that he had stuffed, and then was passed on from person to person before winding up in a museum.
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