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Newport Car Museum - Highly Recommended

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On our day trip to Newport, we went to the Newport Car Museum, which I was very excited for, having heard about it for a long time. If you like cars it's a must visit if you're in the area, and even if you don't like cars you might enjoy it. Lorna isn't into cars and she enjoyed it. Also, it's a good size. There are a lot of cars to see, over one hundred I think, but it's not so large that it takes all day to see the museum. $20 well spent. Saw a lot of cars that I've heard about but never seen in person.  

Munich is awesome

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So I think I'm going to try this style, where all the words are just in the figure captions. Real wooden beer kegs still in use in Munchen (the German name for Munich). Here is a daylight view of the new Neues Rathaus (new City Hall). Yes, city hall is Rathaus in German. As with most things in Munich, it is mostly a reconstruction, as Munich was heavily bombed during WWII. At the nice outdoor market a block away from our hotel. I thought this was clever. It's stuff for birds to use in building nests and also housing for ladybugs. A chimera. Glyptothek. An amazing sculpture museum. More pictures below. Königsplatz ( König is German for King and platz is just place). The stonework in the plaza there is amazing. See what I mean? The white ones are marble. One of the treasures of the State Collection of Antiquities Museum (Antikensammlungen Staatliche Antikensammlung) .An amazing late Roman empire cup. On one of the grates over the gate into...