Praha, Česká Republika, Aug. 4th - 9th, 2009 After spending several weeks staying with Dan's wonderful aunt, it was inevitable that we would have to return to the hostel life. When we arrived in Prague and started walking towards the Chili Hostel we quickly realized that Prague is like no other city we have seen so far. Most of our days in Prague were spent exploring this enchanting city. Every street we turned down was like a new fairytale waiting to be discovered. For centuries Prague has been nicknamed as the “city of a hundred spires” and "Zlatá Praha" or [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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We enjoyed a few much needed drinks in Prague last night. It was really good exploring the city at night (while drinking!). We've been exploring today too and really love it here, it's chilled out but also busy, the river is so nice. We have been lucky enough to see the Prague Castle at night and in the daytime aswell as to walk across the Charles Bridge, we got some fantastic photos. We have another day tomorrow so might get a boat out on the river. [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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7 August 2009 Another beautiful day in Saxony, clear blue skies, an expected top of 25 degrees Celsius and very calm. A good day for touring again. The Hotel Berlin Berlin has been a great hotel and we have topped up with another great breakfast ahead of today’s trip south to Dresden and then onto Prague for another two day stop. We are travelling through what was the former “East Germany”, the road systems are fantastic here as well but the area is scarcely populated, apparently since the re-unification the former East Germans have moved out because the regions are [View Full Entry]

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three hours of sleep over two days couldn't hinder my sampling of a true budvar. which by the way is not awesome but is a huge leap from the American version. The biggest shock so far has been being in the presence of people that would be a blast to chat or bullshit with and being unable to communicate. I have probably done more eyebrow accrobatics and goofy-ass smirks in the last two days than Gizmo and E.T. combined. The city itself is great. The lady who owns the hostel I'm staying in has a Cruella Deville look about her and [View Full Entry]

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Another city to travel to and appreciate have to say was glad to leave Budapest and well don’t have anything to write about it was a pretty city but that’s as far as it goes. So from there we ventured to Prague and what a difference it is after a long day on the train we just chilled the first night must be getting old we seem to do a lot of that not a lot of late nights a partying going on well compared to other younger travelers anyway. There looked like a few good things to do in Prague [View Full Entry]

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Prague, Praha. As I mentioned in my Budapest blog, first impressions count and Prague has set out to a great start (although the metro ticketing system is a bit confusing to start with). We made it to our hostel with some much appreciated local help to get us in the right direction and we found it no problems. Our hostel doesn’t have the greatest lay out, our room is a berth of 6 however there is another door off ours that another 6 are in and enter and exit through our main door. We may as well have booked into a [View Full Entry]

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...so here's what they call a Feast in the Czech Republic. -> It's way too hot here at the moment. That is all. Summer isn't over yet though - I might be doing a trip down to Croatia later on in the month, which will include - cheapo train to Ljubljana in Slovenia, spending a night there, then onwards to Novalja to see my family (including the newest addition), then maybe back via Zagreb, Balaton, and/or Vienna to see a few friends.. May also be doing a short excursion to Munich before I leave to see someone too. Until then I've [View Full Entry]

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So, yesterday morning I logged onto the forum of the Tube Challenge community - a clique of Londoners (and, oddly, Scandinavians) who's holy grail is the official Guinness World Record for visiting - that is, arriving to and/or departing from by train - each of the 270 stations on the London Underground network in the shortest time possible. The challenge is a rather hardcore pursuit which I've attempted numerous times a few years back, including a few times for charity. Despite what you might think it does NOT involve just sitting on trains all day [View Full Entry]

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