love #1: The national museum (Narodní Muzeum) has this one room full of hundreds and hundreds of crystals, gems and random pieces of rock, all cased away in glass cases. This was possibly the highest energy room I have ever set foot in in my life, and walking around it I kept feeling like my insides were vibrating at their own accord. Some of them were even protected by cardboard covers that you had to open, look at them then close again, obviously ones which are sensitive to light. It's really quite bizarre, like the storage facility of the world's most diehard stamp collector save for rocks instead of stamps. But definitely worth a look, or indeed a blindfolded foot in the threshold just to feel the energy. love #2: One of the towers near to ... read more

Well, I am in Prague, it's pretty early and I'm eating slices of cheese for breakfast. Journey over was good, met some cool people in the departure lounge at Luton, and particularly enjoyed the views over the Czech Republic as we landed, of small industrial towns on the banks of several rivers. Arrived at the hostel and the company in my dorm who I've met so far have comprised a guy from london and three girls from harrogate - extremely strange coincidence when they could be from anywhere in the world. The London guy and I spent yesterday evening drinking Staropramen in the hostel bar (for 25Kc a go, that's LESS THAN A POUND STERLING for a pint ladies and gentlemen, disco shit) while watching the Olympics and lolling forever at the fact that "pistol shooting" ... read more

Well I'm off to czech lands tomorrow afternoon. In my current state I haven't slept for 33 hours and i managed to walk and travel loads today (coming back from a mini-rave near colchester) and stay standing, which is a good sign I will be able to make it through my fluctuatingly chaotic itinerary in central europe without ending up in hospital. I'm only posting this because I want to vaguely try and introduce this thing, but I'm far too tired for that really. sleeeeep.... read more