Blogs from Czech Republic, Europe - page 237

呢日開始布拉格o既行程啦。首先搭一陣車上城堡山,然後一路行古城區。上面好靚呀!佢以前係捷克皇宮所在地,望落山下面o既風景十分靚。一眼望去都係橙紅色頂o既小屋。我好鍾意歐洲o既建築物呀!全部都好靚。導遊話日落時d橙色屋頂會被映照到一片金色,呢個畫面就係叫「金色的布拉格」啦。金色的布拉格就睇唔到啦,postcard就買到o既。 之後經查理士四世橋去到古城區食lunch同埋free time 4個鐘。 之後遊布拉格船河,遊覽伏爾塔雅河畔。o個一刻真係好正。風景靚,心情好。好relax呀!哈哈,真正o既享受人生!望到咁好o既景色,煩惱盡消。... read more

In exactly 6 months I will be 21, which means I can legally drink in the US. Today was another day in Olomouc. We had to check out of the dorms by 9:30. We went to an awesome cafe by a lot of the school buildings in town for breakfast. They had real orange juice, basically orange juice that is not extremely watered-down, so I was pretty excited about that. We met up for class after breakfast. The Vice Rector guy who gave us the tour yesterday lectured about the break-up of communism, which was really interesting. I had never really learned too much about communism before, I mean I knew the basics (communism = bad) but it is very interesting to learn about it in a place and with people who actually experienced it. After ... read more

We woke early in hopes to catch a minibus tour through Kutna Hora which included the famous bone church. At first, the bus was full, then due to technical delays, some people dropped out and we were able to come along. About an hour out of the Prague we arrived at the Kostnice Ossuary. The area used to be a burial ground, then became a mass grave for plague victims which then expanded to casualties of war. Finally the area was downsized and a church was built on the grounds...So one of the priests decided to use the bones of plenty to decorate the inside of this tiny church. It truly was creepy to have all of the hollow eyes looking in your direction from every which way. The chandelier in the center contained every human ... read more

These are just a few simple pictures from the early days in Turkey... Just wait till I return and show you the rest! My photography skills improve by the week. Thanks for stoppin by J... read more

(the pics are mostly more from vienna, now that everyone's are on facebook-- the last one is from tonight) today we started our second class--our two profs are marketa and malvina. they are super nice, and we're looking forward to traveling with them tomorrow. they've told us they're pretty flexible about what we'll be doing-- we'll be required to write a few 300 word papers, but that's pretty much it lol. they say if we have any suggestions of what we'd prefer to do (based on what the schedule says). so today we first we listened to marketa talk about what exactly central europe means, and then malvina discussed the year 1989 and what kind of revolutions it brought about in various countries. i enjoyed listening to marketa better because she didn't have a powerpoint presentation ... read more