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![Smit & Palarczyk > [FRANCE.COTEDAZUR 2728]
'Cime de Baudon.'
From the Cime de Baudon, the highest point on our walk around Gorbio, the view is even more complete. Now the coastline is included, with Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in view, while at the other side the Alps rise high. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Southern-France-Four-Hikes/2728/252941410_KkSfu-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [FRANCE.COTEDAZUR 2728]
'Cime de Baudon.'
From the Cime de Baudon, the highest point on our walk around Gorbio, the view is even more complete. Now the coastline is included, with Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in view, while at the other side the Alps rise high. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [GERMANY.SACHSEN 38]
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants inside can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Germany-Parks-and-Castles-in/38/139248161_o77vX-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [GERMANY.SACHSEN 38]
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants inside can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [GERMANY.BRANDENBURG 14]
'Schloss and Park Sanssouci, Potsdam.'
Fountain at the base of the stairs climbing the terraced vineyard garden towards the baroque Sanssouci palace, french for free of worries. In the evening, when most of the tourists have left, the park seems to dream towards the night, a vision of the world as the Prussian kings imaged it in their romantic fantasies. Sans souci - an illusion that became reality in Potsdam.
The terraced garden is the heart of the much larger, 290 ha Sanssouci Park, that itself is just the centerpiece of a whole chain of parks, gardens and palaces. Friedrich der Große (Frederick the Great) and generations of Prussian kings after him had these parks constructed along the banks of the Havel, a river that widens into an idyllic lake every few kilometers. It has become a UNESCO World Heritage site. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Germany-Parks-and-Castles-in/15/139247759_AYbfE-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [GERMANY.BRANDENBURG 14]
'Schloss and Park Sanssouci, Potsdam.'
Fountain at the base of the stairs climbing the terraced vineyard garden towards the baroque Sanssouci palace, french for free of worries. In the evening, when most of the tourists have left, the park seems to dream towards the night, a vision of the world as the Prussian kings imaged it in their romantic fantasies. Sans souci - an illusion that became reality in Potsdam.
The terraced garden is the heart of the much larger, 290 ha Sanssouci Park, that itself is just the centerpiece of a whole chain of parks, gardens and palaces. Friedrich der Große (Frederick the Great) and generations of Prussian kings after him had these parks constructed along the banks of the Havel, a river that widens into an idyllic lake every few kilometers. It has become a UNESCO World Heritage site. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.WIEN 04270]
'Riesenrad/Giant Ferris Wheel.'
The famous Riesenrad (Giant Ferris Wheel) at Prater in Vienna by evening. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Austria-Along-the-Danube/4270/138806880_E9qS4-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.WIEN 04270]
'Riesenrad/Giant Ferris Wheel.'
The famous Riesenrad (Giant Ferris Wheel) at Prater in Vienna by evening. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.WIEN 04268]
'Riesenrad/Giant Ferris Wheel.'
The famous Riesenrad (Giant Ferris Wheel) at Prater in Vienna by evening. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Austria-Along-the-Danube/4268/138806827_r2NNX-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.WIEN 04268]
'Riesenrad/Giant Ferris Wheel.'
The famous Riesenrad (Giant Ferris Wheel) at Prater in Vienna by evening. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [SLOVAKIA.WEST 03560]
'Art nouveau St. Elisabeth church in Bratislava.'
The tower of the St. Elisabeth church in Bratislava, nicknamed the "blue church", shows an original interpretation of art nouvau. It was built 1909 - 1913. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Austria-Along-the-Danube/3560/138806294_TdaUc-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [SLOVAKIA.WEST 03560]
'Art nouveau St. Elisabeth church in Bratislava.'
The tower of the St. Elisabeth church in Bratislava, nicknamed the \"blue church\", shows an original interpretation of art nouvau. It was built 1909 - 1913. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [SLOVAKIA.WEST 03555]
'Art nouveau St. Elisabeth church in Bratislava.'
The tower of the St. Elisabeth church in Bratislava, nicknamed the "blue church", shows an original interpretation of art nouvau. It was built 1909 - 1913. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Austria-Along-the-Danube/3558/138806261_q8HNF-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [SLOVAKIA.WEST 03555]
'Art nouveau St. Elisabeth church in Bratislava.'
The tower of the St. Elisabeth church in Bratislava, nicknamed the \"blue church\", shows an original interpretation of art nouvau. It was built 1909 - 1913. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [SLOVAKIA.WEST 03555]
'Art nouveau St. Elisabeth church in Bratislava.'
The tower of the St. Elisabeth church in Bratislava, nicknamed the "blue church", shows an original interpretation of art nouvau. It was built 1909 - 1913. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Austria-Along-the-Danube/3555/138806215_nKnk6-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [SLOVAKIA.WEST 03555]
'Art nouveau St. Elisabeth church in Bratislava.'
The tower of the St. Elisabeth church in Bratislava, nicknamed the \"blue church\", shows an original interpretation of art nouvau. It was built 1909 - 1913. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [SWITZER.JURA 6336]
'Female piper.'
Since the seventies women can participate in the Basler Fasnacht, the carnival of Basel. But only in their own Cliques (bands), not in the traditional ones. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Switzerland-Basler-Fasnacht/6336/104931941_rQWmS-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [SWITZER.JURA 6336]
'Female piper.'
Since the seventies women can participate in the Basler Fasnacht, the carnival of Basel. But only in their own Cliques (bands), not in the traditional ones. Photo Paul Smit.")
[FRANCE.COTEDAZUR 2728]
'Cime de Baudon.'
From the Cime de Baudon, the highest point on our walk around Gorbio, the view is even more complete. Now the coastline is included, with Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in view, while at the other side the Alps rise high. Photo Paul Smit.
'Cime de Baudon.'
From the Cime de Baudon, the highest point on our walk around Gorbio, the view is even more complete. Now the coastline is included, with Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in view, while at the other side the Alps rise high. Photo Paul Smit.
![Smit & Palarczyk > [FRANCE.COTEDAZUR 2728]
'Cime de Baudon.'
From the Cime de Baudon, the highest point on our walk around Gorbio, the view is even more complete. Now the coastline is included, with Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in view, while at the other side the Alps rise high. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/Southern-France-Four-Hikes/2728/252941410_KkSfu-S.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [FRANCE.COTEDAZUR 2728]
'Cime de Baudon.'
From the Cime de Baudon, the highest point on our walk around Gorbio, the view is even more complete. Now the coastline is included, with Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in view, while at the other side the Alps rise high. Photo Paul Smit.")
[FRANCE.COTEDAZUR 2728]
'Cime de Baudon.'
From the Cime de Baudon, the highest point on our walk around Gorbio, the view is even more complete. Now the coastline is included, with Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in view, while at the other side the Alps rise high. Photo Paul Smit.
'Cime de Baudon.'
From the Cime de Baudon, the highest point on our walk around Gorbio, the view is even more complete. Now the coastline is included, with Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in view, while at the other side the Alps rise high. Photo Paul Smit.
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