so we slept late....cuz we were totally tore down....so tired and sore..i slept pretty good tho..all the rain made some good white noise to sleep by....once we got things covered where they were leaking....need to seal the seams of the tent, even good tents can only take so much water...thank goodness for my ponco/tarp We toured the salt mine of Hallein....althought its actually a little bit away in Bad Durrnberg....awesome fun..slide down some wooden slides they made to get from a high shaft to a lower one....fun....kinda cheesy boat ride across one of the man made salt lakes they now use to get out salt out of the rock instead of pick axing it...and got some awesome stuff..at the end of the tour..since our group consisted of 6 people...the tour guide lady gave us some substantial ... read more

ran ourselves to death yesterday.....since we only had the 2 day salzburg card..we wanted to get our moneys worth.....first up: the catacombs.....a nice old graveyard still in use..along the side of the fortress hill ( the big hill mountain? in the center of the city with the fortress on top) they carved catacombs up into the rock.....empty now..and quite small...but it was nice..the walk up all the stairs thou..killer.....grizz was feeling really hungover from the beerhouse the previous night so from there we walked a bit around the city ther...giant church...nice fountains with giant statues......anyway..passed em upto do the river boat tour....really nice...good seats....40 minutes....and at the end..the boat did this little automatic....dancing around deal...really fast spins in the water...set to waltz music..awesome after that...we ran all the way across the city to do ... read more

wandered all around salzberg looking for a camping place that turned out to be kaput...gona..nothing there...very frustrating. but we finally got a place that was closer. i was worried it didnt allow tent camping..but they did..and its nice...camping ina nice soft pitch..pool..but its too cold...bike rental...helpful nice place...mostly older motor home campers. anyway.....got to the hellbrun palace yesterday...the guy who like to play tricks on his guest by spritzing em with water..all over....really nice palace. after that we had our ordeal fnding a place......after that we needed a beer ....so off to the augustiner brew hall/monestary.....just like in the videos..it is awesome...got our beer and lots of good cheap food.... enjoyed the atmosphere....went to the table behind us which had some friendly guys..and struck up a conversation... moved over to them and made ... read more

salzberg: took a train late after standing at the bus stop at the bottom of the konopiste castle....beautiful..and free wifi from the pensione across the street..but a 2 hour wait...then a long train..which had problems adn they had to bus us to another stop...then back ona train...which when that arrived...we missed our connection..another wasnt for 3 hours.....but it was a nice train and direct to salzberg.......electrical plug ins and our own cabin...comfy..good cuz our feet..oh man what a smell.....so glad we had our own cabin...arrived in salzberg at 1 am......got online for free at a mcdonalds right by train station..found the yoho international youth hostle...just a 10 minute walk away....laundry..accepted cards....shower...good breakfast considering its kinda skimpy...but good.....laundry almost dry....and will be packed..trying a new configuration with the backpacks..as on... read more

After getting up yesterday in kutna hora….where some older german travelers didn’t get their shower tokens from john, the guy behind the bar at camping santa Barbara…coming out of the bathroom to be accosted by a naked 80’s something german woman wanting you to talk to her about something..while your trying to talk and look away..while shes trying to get you to look her way and talk is unnerving to say the least….we had 1 token left so we found it and gave that to her…went to kutna hora proper for one more look around and to take a few more pics….we were on our way to the train station to go to konopiste caste..one of the castles for franz Ferdinand….lots of trying to find a bus station…hike to bus station…and wait for hopefully the correct ... read more

more pics? ok heres some of the graveyard by the camping place.... read more

one more day in prague..gotta see strahov abby with its odd natural collections and over 12,000 medieval books on display ..and the jewish quarter....then off to kutna hora... read more

on to kutna hora tomorrow. today it was the astronimical clock..to get a good video of it doing its thing, strahov abby and up the hill on a funicular to the tower...beer tonight! went to the market by the clock for some fruit and chocolate for a nice dinner..cheap! not sure about internet access for a while...so enjoy the pics and vids so far... vids posted at http://www.youtube.com/user/afiragamer so ya for kutna hora! and its bone chapel....looking forward to the train ride there and the relief for our feet for an hour.... read more

well day 1 basically in being able to actually see things and do stuff. nice firm mattresses at eh hostle..we slept like logs....slept from 8pm to 9 am here....finally woak up grizz and got some breakfast..nice selsction..heavy on carbs of course...great cheese tho and oj and nutella to be had....the strawberry dannon yogurt was awesome tasting....i think everything must taste better here cuz i drank a whole mug of dark beer adn loved it at u flecku bar! so its just america where stuff tastes bleh...as i expected. anyway got going about 10am.......walked all over gods green earth i swear! but feel much better and feet dont hurt now only 20 minutes back in our beds as i write this... trams are fun in otehr languages......luckily we ask people and point to where we need to ... read more