I was only in Boston for a day before I took off for the Bahamas. The weather in Prague had been pretty nice, but the weather in Nassau was amazing! It was in the high 70's and low 80's the whole time I was there. I was working for a spring break travel company which was a lot of fun except for a few isolated incidents involving high schoolers throwing up on me....but to be living in the Bahamas for free....it was worth it. [View Full Entry]

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After 7 months, I said good bye to Prague for the last time as I made my way back to the States. I was sad to leave especially because the weather has been AMAZING; bright sun and flowers coming out already. It took me about 2 days total to get from Prague to Boston with a stop in London and a stop in New York City. I woke up in Boston this morning and it was snowing....welcome home....haha. Before I left, I got a chance to go on a day trip to Cesky Krumlov, which was amazing, although it was easy [View Full Entry]

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What started as a day-dream at work, became a crazy reality last week. I started my trip with a visit to Dublin with some of my friends from Prague. A girl we met during our teaching course lives there now, so we stayed with her for a couple nights. Then I took my one-way flight to Finland! It seemed like a good idea at the time, but as I was landing in Tampere, I realized that having nothing planned was going to be more stressful than I thought. I knew that I had 6 days to get from Tampere, Finland back [View Full Entry]

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I had a little trouble at the London Airport with my Passport so it looks like going back to the states in March is the right thing to do. The only problem with that, is that I finally have a steady income and I can tell what people are saying ( at least pretend to) when they talk to me. I had expected the weather in January and February to be cold and miserable, but it has been really sunny and yesterday was about 60 degrees F. So I am starting to wish I could stay longer, but I guess we [View Full Entry]

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After living in the Czech Republic for 5 months I was ready for a visit home. I flew from Prague to London on Friday night, got to Gatwick airport at midnight, made it to my friends’ house in Surrey by 1, and was on my way to a job interview in Cambridge the next morning at 7. Apparently it was Australia Day, and apparently that is a popular holiday in London. Then I flew to Detroit, had a 5 hour layover in the airport, which I spent gorging on American food at Chili’s and then took a tiny plane to Elmira. [View Full Entry]

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I finally put all those years of French class to good use this weekend. I took easyJet to Geneva from Praha for the weekend. For only about $60 for the roundtrip ticket, I had to. I spoke a lot of French, drank even more Orangina, and loved every second. I knew Geneva was close to the mountains, but I didn't realize how big they were. On the second day I was there, the clouds cleared up, and I had an awesome view of Mont Blanc and the French Alps to the south, across the lake. I had packed all my winter [View Full Entry]

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On Saturday I went out to a really nice dinner party, which led to a really nice "regular party" which went all night. I got back to my flat at 7AM and was on my way to the ski race at 715AM... I got some sleep on the bus ride, but that was about it! We got to Liberec really easily from Prague and then we had to take another bus up the mountain. The Jizerska 50 is a 50km ski race which is a really big deal in Central Europe. The weather was awesome and it was nice to get [View Full Entry]

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It is finally winter in Praha. We had our first "big" snowstorm on saturday night, and we got about 3 inches at the most. Prague looked amazing with a fresh coat of snow, but since all the sidewalks are made of stone, they dont plow them...or do anything to them actually. So all day Saturday and Monday, people were shuffling and sliding all over the place. Another example of "the Czech way" I guess. Christmas in Prague was really good although, there was no snow, and it wasn't even that cold, so it didn't really feel like Christmas. I went to [View Full Entry]

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I spent a week in London for New Year's. It was my first time in an English speaking country in 4 months...and man did that feel good! I asked 17 people what time it was, just because i could! It was almost exactly 2 years since I went there for the first time, junior year... [View Full Entry]

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Just got back from a weekend trip to Budapest! It was pretty cool there, but it took about 7 hours to get there on the bus because we stopped in Brno, Bratislava and Gyor before getting to Budapest. I went straight to the Szechenyi baths in the city park and definitely got my money's worth! It was 2300HUF to get into the baths but I was there for almost 5 hours, so it was worth it! They had a bunch of hot thermal baths inside and a big sauna. The best part was the huge outdoor thermal pool because the water [View Full Entry]

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