Blogs from Malá Strana, Prague, Czech Republic, Europe - page 4

A brilliant long weekend from UK Highly recommend it!... read more

What a trip! Prague is the most beautiful city I have ever seen, in terms of its archetecture. The castles were amazing and the Opera House was unforgetable. We spent three days there and stayed at a pretty affordable ex-Comunist apartment. You had to light the stove with a lighter and the bathroom had an old fashioned water heater, in which you needed to manually turn the gas on. The Turkish cousins proudly said they were used to these conditions. The only thing I was afraid of was the elevator but I just avoided it. The Opera we saw was Tosca and it was fantastic. The opera was small enough so we had a great view. The city itself had many things to offer. The food was good and was famous for the goulash. The beer ... read more

I was about to start this blog with an apology that we haven't blogged all winter (I felt so neglectful) but then it dawned that pretty much no-one had actually commented (or noticed?) the lack of blogs. Or maybe you had noticed, but were still in the denial stage - in which case of course you wouldn't have complained about the lack of blogs because complaining would be acknowledging, which kind of goes against the whole point of a denial stage doesn't it? OK, probs not. Maybe you were just enjoying some blog-respite while getting some sun and watching the cricket... Whatever the reason you haven't commented on the long blogless European winter we've chosen to ignore this and blog-on. And since summer is nearly over in Australia and the mercury is about to start heading ... read more

Happy (belated) Easter everyone. So after way too long in a hotel room we are finally in our house. Like everything else in this country, rent is cheaper than Australia which probably means this is the nicest place we will ever live - a slightly depressing thought. From the bedroom we've got an amazing view of Charles Bridge (Karlov Most in Czech) which is much prettier now it's spring and the trees are green and the sky occasionally blue. However if the trees are bare we get a view of Prague Castle out the lounge room window! What's really cool is often there's fireworks over the bridge and we can sit on our bed and watch it. I should also mention the spare bedroom has the same view, so if you're planning a trip to Europe... ... read more