Revenki's photos

King Stephan and Queen Gisela, at the terrace at the end of the palace's main road.

An interesting architectural detail I'd never noticed before -- bronze garlands draped between the statues and urn decorating a gable.

Inside one of the palace churches.

A fixer-upper.

Heroes' Gate

A traditional grave post, in the Koszeg cemetery.

Inside the cathedral

Inside the recently restored and unusually colorful Koszeg Cathedral.

Plague column and the spire of the cathedral

Koszeg Cathedral, seen from Fo Ter (Main Square).

This takes a little explaining... I found the website for this little pension in Koszeg via the town's own website. It looked innocent enough, but there was one little thing about the website which gave me pause: a watermark or background image of a woman's silhouette oddly reminiscent of the "chrome cuties" often seen on the mudflaps of trucks. So, before I left for Europe it was something of a joke as to whether the pension would turn out to be a brothel. I don't know whether the place was a brothel or not...it was a Monday night, so there were hardly any people around. But when I saw this sign in the morning while loading up the car, I had to laugh.

The car I rented the day before in Munich. I was expecting an Opel or a Ford...imagine my surprise when it turned out to be a Mercedes. I think this car had the tightest clutch of any manual I had ever driven. Not a bad car, but absolutely miserable to drive after two weeks -- I could hardly put weight on my left foot, let alone work the clutch.

Looking down from the terrace below the front of the Eagle's Nest. My one glimpse of the surrounding landscape was appropriately ghostly.

Kehlsteinhaus, commonly known as Hitler's "Eagle's Nest", on the Kehlstein Peak above Berchtesgaden. Unfortunately, by the time I got to the peak in the mid-afternoon, the clouds had moved in, blocking what must be a spectacular view of the surrounding mountains. As for the building itself, there's not much to see unless you're a customer in the restaurant inside, which is the only way short of a guided tour to get into the main rooms. The drive to Berchtesgaden was great, but the Eagle's Nest wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

The tunnel leading 400ft into the mountain to the famous brass elevator to the peak.

The entrance to the tunnel, leading to the brass elevator to the top. The Eagle's Nest itself is just visible at the top of the cliff above the tunnel.