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Mikel & Eric in Stare Mesto Square with the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn in the background	St Nicholas Church	Steve walking down street from Stare Mesto square
Charles Bridge Old Town Bridge tower	Eric & Steve on the Charles Bridge in Prague	Freakishly cute local jazz singers on the Charles Bridge
Mikel & Eric on the other end of the Charles Bridge	Steve on the Charles Bridge giving Mikel an odd look	Steve & Eric on the Charles Bridge both giving Mikel odd looks
At the top of the Royal Way (the road to the castle above Prague)	The Main Gate with the battling titan statues	The fountain in the second courtyard of the Prague castle
Mikel in St. Vitus Cathedral (in the castle)	The Chapel of St. Wenceslas at St. Vitus	Cool stained glass window by Mucha (the famous Bohemian artist) in St. Vitus
The castle guards at the side entrance to Prague castle	Mikel kneeling before the White Tower in the Royal Garden of the Prague castle	View of Prague from Mala Strana at the foot of the castle
View #2 of Prague from Mala Strana	Night time view of the Prague castle from the river	Steve in front of one of the cool trams in Prague
Steve wondering why Mikel was taking pictures on the escalator down to the subway	Mikel in the Namesti Miru subway station	Steve getting onto the subway
Mikel in front of St. Wenceslas Square in front of the National Musem	Steve in front of the St. Wenceslas statue, looking back towards the National Museum	Cool buildings on St. Wenceslas Square
Cool statues on a cool building in St. Wenceslas Square	Neat spires by Charles University	Interior of Our Lady Before Tyn cathedral

Mikel in front of the The Old Town Hall	Steve in front of the Jan Hus statue	Inside St. Nicholas Church
Astronomical Clock	More of the Old Town Hall	Dum U minuty (Franz Kafka lived here as a child)
View from the Vltava River of the National Theatre	Mikel lounging while Steve paddles her around the Vltava River	Steve's turn to lounge
More lounging...	Going under Legii Most (a bridge to the island in the middle of the river)	Cool statue on the Vltava River
Steve in front of one of the watch towers on the Vltava River	A really dark picture.  We think it is back up towards the castle from the river.	Eric & Steve at night in Prague talking about the wonders of SmallTalk
The Bone Ossuary in Sedlec.  This is a chalice made of human bones of plague victims by an insane monk	A shield/symbol in more human bones	Steve under the bone chandelier made from at least one of each bone in the human body.
Schwarzenberg coat of arms and a pyramid of human skulls (can you see the raven eating the eye of the Turk in the coat of arms?)	Another pyramid of skulls and bones (there were 4 total)	Chapel in the Italian Court in Kutna Hora (near Sedlec)
Stained glass window in the Italian Court	Inside the chapel of the Italian Court	St. Barbara cathedral in Kutna Hora
Steve next to statues on the road to St. Barbara in Kutna Hora	Statue on the road to St. Barbara	Mikel on a side street in Kutna Hora
The Sedlec train station	Steve in Namesti Republiky subway station	Sadova Colonnade in Karlovy Vary (a spa town with sulfur hot springs with "healthful" properties)

Steve in the interior of the Mill Colonnade, yet another colonnade with foul waters	Looking at the front of the Mill Colonnade.  Statues on top for each month you'll have the runs after drinking here.	Mikel in front of the church of Mary Magdalene
Steve in Karlovy Vary (just before he gets food poisoning)	Hotel Grand Pupp (where we stayed over night)	View from our balcony back towards the town
Steve feeling sick on the trails in the hills above Karlovy Vary	Mikel at the funicular station above Karlovy Vary	Mikel at the hot spring geyser in the Hot Spring Colonnade with her silly spa cup and oplatky crackers.
Park in Karlovy Vary	Plus an inquisitive local	Mikel in front of the Loreta in Prague
Mikel's favorite flowering tree in Prague	Eric laughing at Steve's illness while he eats lunch with Mikel in front of the Cernin Palace in Prague	Silly Mikel in front of the Church of the Assumption of our Lady
An illuminated manuscript in the Strahov monastery library	Another one	Inside the Strahov monastery library
More books inside the library	The exterior of the Strahov monastery library	Tower of books in the Prague public library
Mikel in front of the tower of books	The birthplace of Franz Kafka	A gaming store that Mikel thought was interesting in Prague
The view out Eric's window in Prague	Another view out Eric's window in Prague	Inside the National Museum in Prague
Mikel in front of the central courtyard in the National Museum	Hebrew clock in the Josefov Jewish quarter of Prague	Mikel on the street in the Josefov quarter

The Ceremonial Hall in Josefov (where the Burial Society prepared the dead)	Maisel Synagogue	Mikel in Josefov quarter
Spanish Synagogue in Josefov	Closeup of St. George slaying the Dragon on the side of a building	Broader shot of the building and statue
Steve under a statue that Mikel found amusing in the Parizka Trida	Steve buying tickets for the subway/trams	A fast moving subway train!!!
The map of the subway system on the train	Commuters.  Real Prague-ans!!!	Mikel in front of the Czech Tourist Authority building in Stare Mesto
Closeup of cool architectural details	Side street looking towards the Powder Tower in Prague	LONDON: Tea at the Ritz.  You must try it!
Mikel and Steve consuming mass quantities of tea and tasty goodness at the Ritz	Palm Court at the Ritz	Queen Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace
Mikel at the gates in front of Buckingham Palace	Buckingham Palace	Buckingham Palace with a guard!
Fountain at the Queen Victoria Memorial	Statue of Queen Victoria	View down the Mall near Buckingham Palace
Mikel in front of the fountain at Queen Victoria Memorial	First of multiple pictures of tourists watching guards parade around Buckingham Palace	Another picture of guards at Buckingham
Guards and heads of tourists	More guards and heads	Gates and heads

More gates and heads	This supposedly has something to do with the changing of the guard at Buckingham.  We never really saw that part	We left after an hour and a half of waiting for guards and watching heads
This is a sly picture of the ceremony while crossing an open patch of ground under the baleful eyes of the horse guards	Westminster Abbey	More Westminster (we found the crypt of John Milton in the Abbey with a bunch of other famous dudes)
Close up of statues at Westminster (we also saw the crypt of Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin there)	Big Ben.  The clock tower thingy in the center	Decaying statuary on the outside of a building near Westminster Abbey
Parliament Building	Mikel in front of the Oliver Cromwell statue at the Parliament Building	Mikel above Trafalgar Square
Steve in front of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square	The Admiralty Arches near Trafalgar Square	Mikel under the statue of Lord Nelson at Trafalgar Square
The neat fountain at Trafalgar	St. Martin in the Fields cathedral	Tower of London (more of a castle than a tower BTW)
The Bloody Tower where the young princes wer murdered by Richard III	Steve in front of the White Tower	Mikel shrinking from the massive Ravens at the White Tower
Blurry picture of a knight on horse back	Blurry picture of Mikel pointing at King Henry VIII's armored cod-piece.	Cool Samurai armor that was gifted to one King or another.
Steve holding the menu up to prove he was at the Ye Ol Chessire Cheese restaurant that Dickens liked to eat at	St. Pauls Cathedral	The view from the top of St. Pauls Cathedral (620 steps up from the main halls)
More views from St. Pauls.  This on towards London Tower which you can't see	Steve relaxing in the hotel lobby bar at the Park Lane Sheraton	Mikel lounging
Steve in Hyde Park