Blogs from Bílá Hora, Prague, Czech Republic, Europe
February 8th 2010
My first four weeks back in the Czech Republic have definitely been blog-worthy despite the fact that no travelling has really occured, it's been such a different and in many ways, heavy experience. Coming from an absolutely skewiff London which I ended up leaving a day later than I was supposed to because 3 inches of snowfall had closed Gatwick Airport for a day, to Prague riddled with at least 4 times this, and temperatures averaging around freezing by day and -5 by night, but then dropping as low as -20 on the nights when the clouds finally subside. The area I live in is somewhere between the airport, civilisation and hyper-civilisation. To the north is the sleepy, traumatised district Ruzyně, which gives its name to the airport and appears to have once been a tranquil, ... read more
Exploring Prague- Vyehrad and First Encounter with Czech Hospital.
Published: November 14th 2009Europe » Czech Republic » Prague » Bílá Hora
November 7th 2009
So, this is my first weekend of not traveling in a whole month. I can definitely say that it is relieving to be in Prague with a sense of permanence. However, there were not many others in the dorm this weekend. In my suite it was just three of us! But we decided that we would do something fun this weekend. On Thursday night, we went to Cross Club. Its a really cool bar with weird industrial artwork and fixtures everywhere. Every night they invite an artist or a DJ. Thursday, it was a Reggae DJ. It was really cool. It was a nice laid back night with just three girls and four guys. Friday night we went to a cool indie place where they have indie movie showings and bands. We bought tickets to see ... read more
August 9th 2009
Fully rested and bright and chippy from not drinking for the first time in perhaps 7 days, i woke up relatively early and went to get breakfast (something i would not usually do anyway) with Enda. In a surprise shock, Conor slept in. After Breakfast we did some research for getting out of Prague (those first few encounters had us hankering for Austria ((which by the way i can now say we were right to do)) which of course was the next step of our journey). Enda got talking to an annoying little fu#ker from Austria (most Austrians are lovely, but this guy was terrible) but i managed to avoid the little......guy.....for now. We went back up to Conor and got him out of bed before heading out to get our culure on. We took a ... read more
August 8th 2009
Upon getting up at five due to Mr. Snore, i went for a quick two hour walk around Munich to watch the sun come up. That is in fact the second time i got to do that in this holiday, although this time it was for a different reason to Conor ´needing the room´ :-) Anyway, i got one last stroll around Munich in before heading back to the hostel for a sit down and to say goodbye to some of the people we had met the daynight before. I nearly threw up as they ate due to a combination of hungoveredness and fatigue. Avoiding the faux pas of actually throwing up in front of themon them, i went upstairs to wake the lads so we could catch our rediculously early train to PraguePraha. This was ... read more
