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At last, photographs!

Katie and I finally got our cameras hooked up to a computer here in Sweden. We discovered that between the two of us we have over 900 pictures from the past two and a half weeks. Needless to say, we won't be posting all of those here... If you want to see them all you'll have to come find one of us when we're safely back in the States. I had to make some painful decisions to figure out which pictures to post right now, but I think it's at least a decent overview of my travels thus far. There is at least one picture per city.

I started out in London, if you recall, visiting Angelica. Here is a picture of us posing with ancient Greek sculptures in the British Museum. I had to beg Angelica for this picture. She did not want to take a touristy picture in "her" town.


After London, I took Carl's brief tour of Cambridge. Here he is with his beloved math department! It looks like something from outer space. (Math nerds are so other-worldly...)


In Seville, Katie let me try on one of her school's flamenco dresses. So cool! Ah! Big skirts!



We weren't really allowed to take pictures in the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid (even though I did take one quick, illicit picture) so instead I took a picture of Katie in their courtyard.


Here's me rowing a boat in the middle of Madrid in December! Not exactly what I was expecting to do, but it was fun.


Ok, and here is Katie getting ready to brush her teeth on the overnight train from Madrid to Paris. Can't you see the excitement radiating from her? Ironically, she had trouble sleeping that night because she was too excited about the prospect of sleeping on a train.


Long arms come in handy when you have only two people! Here we are in front of the Arc de Triomphe all aglow.

Brussels has two important landmarks : the Grand Place (which will be featured in a later post) and Mannekin Pis. This statue's name is self-explanatory, I think... Yes, he is peeing.

Despite the cold, cold weather (or what I thought was cold at the time) I put ice cream on top of my Belgian waffle. You only live once.


So, it turns out that cold in Belgium was nothing compared with cold in Germany. This picture was taken at sunset in Munich, and you can still see the frost on the ground! You can also see the silhouettes of all the major Munich landmarks on the horizon.

Maybe the most important thing that happened in Munich was that I made Katie drink beer. She actually liked one of the ones I made her try, too! (Not this one, though. This one she thought was too bitter.)

In Hamburg, we found a statue of Martin Luther. As it turns out, Hamburg marked our departure from Catholicland and our entry into Lutheranland. This made me a bit too giddy for my own good.


As it turns out, frost in Munich was NOTHING compared to frost in Hamburg. This picture was taken in the middle of the day for the top of St. Michael's church in Hamburg.

Hamburg was as cold as it got though. This is Nyhavn in Copenhagen, right across from where Hans Christian Anderson lived.


During one of our many train rides, Katie was musing about how long it had been since she'd made candy and describing the process to me. Then our first night in Sweden Cecile recruited us to make candies!


It's now Christmas Eve here, which is the big Swedish day of celebration. Merry Christmas!