http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/HunterG/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from HunterG en-us Mon, 12 May 2008 08:59:55 BST Mon, 12 May 2008 08:59:55 BST 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 f http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/blog-263079.html 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.Befo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/South/Cesky-Krumlov/blog-257715.html What started as a daydream 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 oneway flight to Finland It seemed like a good idea at the time but as I was landing in Tampere I realized that having nothing planne http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Estonia/Tallinn/blog-253707.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Prague/blog-249914.html 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 friendsrsquo 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 http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/blog-247236.html 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 a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/South-West/Geneva/blog-237995.html 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 itWe 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Prague/blog-235962.html 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 gue http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Prague/blog-234258.html 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 goodI asked 17 people what time it was just because i couldIt was almost exactly 2 years since I went there for the first time junior year... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/London/Surrey-Quays/blog-233705.html Just got back from a weekend trip to BudapestIt 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 worthIt was 2300HUF to get into the baths but I was there for almost 5 hours so it was worth it They had a bunch o http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Budapest/blog-230527.html I have a new favorite vacation spot. It's Barcelona.I left cold rainy Prague on Thursday after work and headed for Brno. I met up with a friend from my TEFL course and some of his teacherfriends and I sampled some of THE BEST Czech beer I've had yet Svejani... i think it was called.I had to wake up pretty early in Brno on Friday to and take the tram to the center and then the bus from the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-227513.html Mom just left this morning after taking Praha by stormI had expected her to come with no plans and I would therefore have to find some places to go. But boy was I wrong. She had bought at Fodor's guide to Prague and apparently she read it cover to cover because we left no restaurant uneatenat.It was nice to have her visit and it felt great to eat something other than pasta. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Prague/blog-225376.html I just finished my fourth week of teaching and my 3rd month of living in Prague.I still haven't gotten a paycheck but all of my employers swear there is money on the way...I wish I could say I'm not in it for the money... but people who say that usually have a little money saved up...Everyone gets paid in Prague monthly but you dont get paid that the end of the month no no no you get paid o http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Prague/blog-223959.html I spent Thanksgiving day teaching English at CSOB Bank...definitely not the same as sleeping in at home watching the parade on TV and going to Grandma's for dinner. I only had one lesson in the morning though which would have been fine except I went to bed at 330 the night before because we tried a new club which turned out to be more fun than we planned...but really who needs more than 3 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Prague/blog-222793.html I finished work on Friday at the airport and decided to go to the bus station on the way home from work. I had thought about going to Budapest but there were no tickets left. There WERE however tickets left for Saturday but the bus only went as far as Bratislava but I bought them anyhow. My roundtrip bus ticket was only 430krowns which is about 22dollars...so what a deal right I can't even http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovakia/Bratislava/blog-222785.html It only took me a couple days to hate my teaching job so I decided to book a trip to Munich. I took the overnight bus from Prague so I got to Munich at about 6AM. I met up with my buddy from Saint Mike's Tom and his friend Dan and we took Munich by storm However we didn't do much sightseeing because it was so cold and rainysnowy. Our first day we decided to go to Haufbrauhaus for lunch. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Munich/blog-222048.html After a couple weeks of the TEFL course I was ready to get out of Prague for a weekend and go somewhere new. One of the guys in my course was all about Vienna so I decided to tag along. It was a lot different travelling with an adult' because we actually got a nice pension and ate at restaurants compared to my typical trip where I sleep on an overnight bus and only eat food from grocery s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-222043.html After spending a month on my TEFL training course and then getting kicked out of my flat I was ready to save some money.So I accepted a teaching position in the small town of Humpolec. I was sent there to teach English at a camp for children on school holiday. I thought it would be a great chance to work on my Czech but turns out all the kids and all the people that work there only spoke Ger http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/South/Znojmo/blog-222041.html After spending a couple days in London it was time to move to PragueWhen I got to Luton airport in London my bags were way too heavy so they told me I would have to pay 300 extra.Of course I told her no way and so I emptied my North Face backpack and started putting on all my sweaters sweatshirts and jackets. Finally the woman at the desk told me to stop and said I could check my luggage http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Prague/blog-222036.html Today I landed at Heathrow airport I hadn't been since I left London in May of 06It was so good to be back even though I was really jetlagged http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/London/Earl--s-Court/blog-222033.html