I like the way Europe often makes you grope blindly and in vain for adjectives that will convey even some small degree of the wonder and beauty you're experiencing.  All that comes to hand are cliches, and pictures unfailingly fail to suffice.  Nonetheless, a few:


Interior dome of St. Stephens, Budapest.


Looking up in the main entry hall of the Vienna Kunsthistorisches museum (main fine arts museum). It's like being inside a Faberge egg that is inside another Faberge egg. A definite highlight of the trip. favorite holdings: Breughel's Tower of Babel and Hunters in the Snow.


The statues in front of the (unusually for Vienna) Greek-neoclassical Parliament building. Pallas Athena (not shown), surrounded below by personifications of various Austrian rivers. Inn and the Danube in the front (left & right respectively) struck me as particularly beautiful -- the friendliness in their body language and the strong sense of movement. I know the torsion is showoffy but I was sold :)

My favorite architectural feature in Vienna (and maybe of the trip): the Gloriette at Schonbrunn:



The interior of the Grand Cafe Orient at the cubism museum, Prague. Apparently of some importance historically. I just liked the pretty buttercup lamps.


Penguins coming up out of the Vlatva and into the modern art museum, Prague. (facing east)