Europe 2014 - Troyes, Old Hotel Looking In

Living in a country as young as the United States, it's hard to wrap one's mind around the sheer age of many of the structures in European cities.  As can be seen in the upper-right corner above, this hotel was built and has remained in place since the year 1564.  

And in Asia we've entered structures that have been in use for up to a thousand years!  I'm looking around at the people walking by thinking, "Wow, they're just walking by, and not stopping to marvel that this has been here for a thousand years!"  Just as in wealth, age is such a relative thing...