Pictures of Europe! Can I have them? (How was your day today?)

**Imisnew2** · 03-12-09, 01:40 PM

What's a good town to google earth? I need like a stereotype town from Europe. Also pictures of the inside of European houses would be cool

. also, so this thread isnt a complete waste of me just asking for help...

How was your day today?

PS. Nuckle, if you have any more dog pictures, let me see them! Cute little buggers

**IronStomach** · 03-12-09, 03:34 PM

I'm not sure how much coverage Google has for street view, but in terms of places I've been to... Prague, Salzburg, and Heidelburg are pretty scenic. I'd also hit up the usual touristy spots like Paris, Rome, Vienna... Yeah.

**Panic** · 03-12-09, 07:44 PM

well, my family is from zomergem, belgium which is a little flemish town

or ghent, belgium for a city

thats the house, about 400 years old

**MotoZ** · 03-12-09, 09:48 PM

Downtown Nuremberg, Germany is pretty. It is a walled city and most of the wall is still intact. Look for street names that end in -mauer. Those are the ones that run along the border wall, or mauer in German.

**Imisnew2** · 03-13-09, 02:33 PM

Thanks everyone :9

**BruceBloodMaster** · 03-14-09, 08:53 AM

Panic Belgium is beautiful !! I was in Waterloo and Bastogne back in 2001 ! My uncle fought in the Battle of the Bulge and my ex and I travelled in his footsteps from Normandy to Bastogne. For all of you who have never been to Europe .......... you should all make the trip to Normandy. We spent a week there and it was Very enlightening......... you have no idea from history books Exactly how big of an area Normandy encompassed. The Beachheads were about 250 Km from end to end and most everything is still intact Bunkers and pillboxes even barbed wire and trenches are still there. The Omaha Beach Memorial is simply Amazing and when you're there there are just No Words to describe the Feelings and Emotions that it will stir in you !

**MaBell37** · 03-14-09, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by Imisnew2

What's a good town to google earth? I need like a stereotype town from Europe. Also pictures of the inside of European houses would be cool

. also, so this thread isnt a complete waste of me just asking for help...

How was your day today?

PS. Nuckle, if you have any more dog pictures, let me see them! Cute little buggers

Do you want STEREOTYPICAL or TYPICAL towns? The ones that everyone has given you thus far are all the tourist traps. If you want to close up on TYPICAL German towns, you need to stray from the tourist traps to the out of the way places, where real German culture can be more readily found. Not where modernization has taken over. The cities they told you are pretty, yeah, scenic, yeah. But to see what's REALLY quaint about Germany, you need to get off the beaten track.

**jason_jinx** · 03-14-09, 09:30 AM

I will post pics one day from Amsterdam you can bet on that.

Hey Mabell maybe you can come with me and catch a green thumb.

**Panic** · 03-14-09, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by MaBell37

The ones that everyone has given you thus far are all the tourist traps.

As a Belgian citizen I can safely say that the town I posted pictures of, my family's town, probably sees 20 tourists a year, and they are just driving through. Its all farmland, not a hotel in sight, I've never seen a tourist there. I've traveled pretty extensively through Germany and Switzerland, look for towns around the Black Forest and the Alps, where the Germans/Swiss go to wind down, as opposed to the Americans. Never seen an American when I traveled through the small towns with beautiful views in Germany, Switzerland, Austria. I'll see if I can scrounge up some pictures from the trips and scan them in.