[ Lots of Pictures!! ] ..from my trip to Northern Europe =D

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08-30-2005, 11:27 AM
bluekat

[ *Lots of* Pictures!! ] ..from my trip to Northern Europe =D

For those of you who don't know yet, I left on vacation two weeks ago & came back a few days ago ;) We went to a few countries in Northern Europe, and I had the time of my LIFE. It was seriously the BEST trip I've ever been on! I was really sad to leave..*sighs* I wish I was still there :(

But anyways, I finally have the pics uploaded & resized. We took over 500, but I only uploaded about 100 of them (the best ones hehe). Anyways, hope you enjoy looking at them :D I will post some below, but theres more in the album if you want to see them all. click here
& click on the different albums for each city.

Pictures are coming up in the next few posts...
08-30-2005, 11:30 AM
bluekat

First, we flew to Copenhagen, Denmark. We took a flight to London first, then switched to a Scandanavian place and got to Denmark ;)

Once we got there, we took a tour of the Carlsberg beer company first
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There was a huge glassed area of all the beer bottles of the world..here is a small part of it
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This is me :p Standing beside the building
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a Square (forgot what the name of it was)
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Boat tours around the city..
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More pics from Copenhagen coming..
08-30-2005, 11:35 AM
bluekat

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The statue of HC Anderson (sp?) ..the famous author
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View from our hotel room
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The next day, we went to this place with all these windmills. They're used to generate some of the power for the city
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Very famous statue of the Little Mermaid
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I forgot what this was called, but the woman is a goddess or something, and turned 4 boys into the cattle
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The royal palaces
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a guard..
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Street in downtown
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08-30-2005, 11:38 AM
bluekat

That night, we went aboard a cruise ship to sail overnight to Oslo, Norway.

On the way, we passed through Sweden
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As we got to Norway, we saw ALOT of these houses..very beautiful scenery there
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Arrived at Oslo, & drove by their university
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I think this is where their queen lives..
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Ski jump place
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view from above..
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At a Viking Ships museum
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Then we went to this little village..
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More from Oslo coming..
08-30-2005, 11:40 AM
bluekat

Then we went to this Garden..I forgot the name..but it had all sculptures of humans and their lives
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The most famous one in the garden lol. Its of a baby having a temper tantrum or something
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08-30-2005, 11:44 AM
bluekat

After 2 days in Oslo, we drove over to Stockholm, Sweden.

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We went to their downtown..alot of nice buildings there
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:p
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I think this is in the center of either office buildings or where people live..
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More from Stockholm coming up..
08-30-2005, 11:46 AM
bluekat

Nobel prize..
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Inside the building
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Street in downtown..right outside the restaurant we ate at
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08-30-2005, 11:49 AM
bluekat

The next night, we rode on this to Helsinki, Finland :D
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Inside the ship (it was very beautiful inside!)
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The moon was huge that night hehe
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There was alot of islands along the way
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We got there, and visited this cathedral/church
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This was called the Amanda fountain
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Then the next day, we went on a train to get to St.Petersburg, Russiahttp://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...d/DSC02156.jpg
08-30-2005, 11:50 AM
lvpets2002

Northern Europe

:) Those pictures are just Great & I would love to go to Europe some day.. Thank you for sharing ..
08-30-2005, 11:52 AM
bluekat

;)
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Train station at St.Petersburg
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Inside a GORGEOUS cathedral
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Top (theres a dove at the very top)
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The next day we visited this..called the Summer Palace
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Inside it..
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More coming..
08-30-2005, 11:56 AM
bluekat

Inside the Hermitage (the 4th largest museum in the world)

DaVinci paintings..
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Outside the Hermitage
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There was a little girl who had this pet bear..she brought it out to the place (shown above). & had a jar for people to give money to her..
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That night, we had dinner at an old palace. It was soooo beautiful inside! & the food was delicious!
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And while we were eating, we watched these people perform. They sang and dance for us.
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08-30-2005, 11:59 AM
bluekat

Then the next day, we took a plane over to Moscow, Russia.

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HUGE statue of Peter the Great
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Cathedral
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Red Square
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Inside the mall (all the shops were like designer brands)
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The university
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a bit more coming..
08-30-2005, 12:03 PM
bluekat

They had the most gorgeous subway stations I've ever seen! Each station was different, and all very beautiful.
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That night, we had dinner at this other beautiful restaurant. We ate in here, which used to be the swimming pool a long time ago (when someone used to live there)
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World War 2 museum
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A large park
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This was our hotel for the 2 nights we were there. It was very big and very beautiful inside. The rooms were very nice
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Ceiling
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The pics of the hotel don't look that good. But when you see it in person, its much more beautiful :D
08-30-2005, 12:07 PM
bluekat

Well that's all the pics I'll post ;) I tried not to post so many but it was hard choosing which ones to post lol. But like I said, theres more in the album if you want to see, especially of Russia.

Russia was very very beautiful, & I had alot of fun there. I loved going to Moscow & St. Petersburg the best, followed by Denmark.
Everything there was soo beautiful. Ahh I love Europe! I want to move to one of those countries when I'm older hehe :D

Anyways, hope you enjoyed looking at all the pics! If you want to know what a picture of something is (in the album I didn't put captions or anything) feel free to ask me :)
08-30-2005, 12:17 PM
Killearn Kitties

Your pictures are absolutely fantastic! What a wonderful trip you had. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. No pictures of cats though! Did you not see any? :D
08-30-2005, 12:24 PM
gemini9961

Those pics are wonderful. I love that I can see pics of so many places here on PT. Sounds like you had a great time, I'm jealous.
08-30-2005, 01:29 PM
Kfamr

Wow, what gorgeous place you visited! Thank you for sharing them with us, i'm jealous too!
08-30-2005, 01:41 PM
kittycats_delight

Ok now Finland is on my list to see. Hubby and I am moving to Italy soon. He is from there originally and we are going back. We have plans of of going to Norway, Denmark and Sweden by motorcycle. But now I wanna see Finland too. Also we have to go to St. Petersburg later next year. That has been set up now for almost a year. Russia looks marvelous. I have a feeling once we get to Italy it's gonna be hard to get me to sit still. LOL
08-30-2005, 04:15 PM
Anita Cholaine

Wonderful pics!!!:D What a fantastic trip!!! Seems that you had a great time.... I'd love to go to a place like that, but I think that it's impossible...:(
08-30-2005, 05:20 PM
finn's mom

Amazing, it makes me miss Germany. I hope to go back to Europe again. I loved it. It's so good that you were able to go!
08-30-2005, 05:56 PM
k9krazee

Re: [ *Lots of* Pictures!! ] ..from my trip to Northern Europe =D

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Originally posted by bluekat

and I had the time of my LIFE. It was seriously the BEST trip I've ever been on! I was really sad to leave..*sighs* I wish I was still there :(

That sounds like me!! I spent a month touring Ireland, Scotland and England and I didn't want to come home, I wish I could have accidentally gotten lost. Now I am all out of the digestive biscuits, flakes, Irn Bru and Penguin bars I brought home,:( I think its time for another trip to restock! I really enjoyed seeing all of the pictures, they are really good!!
08-30-2005, 07:28 PM
bluekat

Glad you guys enjoyed the pics :D
k a few replies..hehe

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Your pictures are absolutely fantastic! What a wonderful trip you had. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. No pictures of cats though! Did you not see any?

You mean cats from there?:p No we didn't see any..but there were some dogs in the streets of Russia. They were really dirty, I think they were homeless :( ..

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Ok now Finland is on my list to see. Hubby and I am moving to Italy soon. He is from there originally and we are going back. We have plans of of going to Norway, Denmark and Sweden by motorcycle. But now I wanna see Finland too. Also we have to go to St. Petersburg later next year. That has been set up now for almost a year. Russia looks marvelous. I have a feeling once we get to Italy it's gonna be hard to get me to sit still. LOL

wow that sounds really fun! :D I've always wanted to go to Italy..very beautiful there. Finland was nice, but not really much to see there lol. But still, there were beautiful places. & yea, Russia was soo nice, especially St.Petersburg with all the cathedrals and everything.

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That sounds like me!! I spent a month touring Ireland, Scotland and England and I didn't want to come home, I wish I could have accidentally gotten lost. Now I am all out of the digestive biscuits, flakes, Irn Bru and Penguin bars I brought home, I think its time for another trip to restock! I really enjoyed seeing all of the pictures, they are really good!!

a month? wow you're so lucky! :D For many years I've wanted to go to Britain, all the countries there seem gorgeous. I love Ireland's scenery. lol yea it would've been nice if maybe I could've accidentally lost my passport or something..then we can have an extended stay ;)

We bought these chocolates from Russia. They said they were famous worldwide lol. We got 4 boxes..but only kept one box to ourselves. They're DELICIOUS. Now I want to go back & buy more hahah.
08-30-2005, 07:37 PM
cali

oh wow lucky! I love Finland, but I may be biased as I am half finnish lol and my mom was born in Helsinki, I was there when I was 2 for a family reuniun, but obviously I dont remeber much :( I would love to go there agian sometime, I know my grandparents want to retire there.
08-30-2005, 08:48 PM
anna_66

Those are some of the most beautiful pictures/places I've ever seen. Your so lucky you were able to go, I'd love to be able to do that.
08-30-2005, 09:12 PM
MariaM

Totally spastic pictures! Mhuahaha! I loved them all. You are so lucky. Next time take me with you!
08-31-2005, 10:25 PM
bluekat

Glad you guys enjoyed the pics! ;)

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I would love to go there agian sometime, I know my grandparents want to retire there.

When we were in Denmark, we took a little boat tour around the city, and there were so many house boats! I was thinking as I saw them that when I retire I want to live in a boat and sail around there lol. That would be awesome :D
09-01-2005, 02:59 AM
Barbara

What a great tour! I've never seen most of these places (except Finland) but I hope I'll see them one day, especially St. Petersburg.

[ *Lots of* Pictures!! ] ..from my trip to Northern Europe =D

[ Lots of Pictures!! ] ..from my trip to Northern Europe =D