Cesky Krumlov 9-17,18 and Budapest 9-17,21
		Another town that folks said was a must was this tiny place called Cesky Krumlov about 4 hours south of Prague.  I was going to take the train down but cheated a little and took a tour bus down.  After the tour bus left, I stayed in Cezky and had to figure out how to get out of the Czech Republic and into Hungary 8 hours a way, not as easy as it sounds, trust me.
		Cesky is this tiny midevil town with a great castle and the most amazing Baroque theatre that I have ever seen.  I mean they did everything manually, in the dark but could do entire set changes in 8 seconds.  You have to see it to believe it.  I tried to convince the guy that I would sing if he let me takes some shots but no luck. So this is a shot in the low part of town below the castle and theatre above.  See the dark-brown/lighter-brown separation on the side of the house, that's how high the flood waters were just a month ago.  The worst in 1000 years they said, but the town is recovering very fast.			One of my first shots in Budapest looking across the Danube up at the castle. The Chain Bridge is on the right, Franz Joseph's wife spent a lot of time here in the Paris of Central Europe.
					Here is my tourguide for the Jewish part of my trip. She's pointing to the name of her grandfather who was very famous for saving thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.  Austrian Jews suffered badly, at one time there were over 700,000 in Austria, today less than 50,000.  If there is a bright side, it's the stories of all the very brave people that risked themselves to save hundreds, if not thousands of Jews by any means powerful.  Their names are on this memorial as well.
		Budapest has the most moving Jewish sights that I have seen yet.  This is the Synogogue, mostly destroyed during the war but beautifully restored.
					If you watch the CNN ads, you can see a shot of Heroes Square which is a little north of city center.
		This is a metal memorial tree that has the numbers that were marked on each of the Jews that died during the holocaust.  Tony Curtis funded a large part of this.  Behind the tree you can see the remains of the walls that the Nazis built around the ghetto and out of the picture to the right is a Jewish cemetary NEXT to the Synogogue.  Traditionally Jewish Cemetaries are placed far away from places of worship but times were so dire, and the ghetto so cramped that the Jews had no choice but to stack bodies where they could.  Garfunkels grandfather is buried here.
					Here's the Fisherman's Bastion in the Castle area of Buda.  Did you know that Budapest is actually two different formerly separate towns, Buda and Pest? I didnīt.  Everyone stays in Pest but the castle and some famous baths are in Buda
		Budapest has the most grandeoise Parliment building that I have ever seen. When the had the contest for the design, this one won but they also built the second and third place winners right in the same square.  The Crown Jewels are here as well.