Blogs from Czech Republic, Europe - page 246

Ok ok i know we've had some weird adventures so far but i think we take the topper in this one... well to make a long story short (cause the space bar doesnt work that well) we made the vienna radio! i'm not sure if you heard in the states, but pres. bush was in austria the same day we were there and believe it or not we saw him!!! well a radio reporter came up to another girl on our tour who was from california too and started to ask her questions... well since taryne is from cali too, another girl on the tour dragged her and the reporter interviewed her too! Taryne plus three other americans wound up being on the viennese radio that afternoon! NOT TO MENTION our "lovely" president shut down the ... read more

So I missed my train to Warsaw, Poland because some stupid German train employee gave me wrong directions to the train station so when I arrived at the station in Berlin and realized that a train to Prague left in three minutes, I hopped on this train and made my way to the Czech Republic. It was getting late on the train and I became worried because I didn't have the numbers of the people I planned to stay with in Prague from couchsurfing so I called my mom to look them up and eventually got in touch with two different hosts. While at first I had no place to stay, I managed to then promise two different guys that I'd stay at their place. I decided to worry about it after I safely made it ... read more

There are stories everywhere. The problem is we are often to busy to notice the interesting events that go on around us all the time. Today we had a two and a half to three hour layover in Decin as we returned to Prague from Hrensco. Being a Sunday the bus station was closed, so there was no way to sit in the waiting room or to use the toilets ... water closet in the Czech Republic. But there is a park just across the street from the station and, fortunately, there is a large grocery store beside the park that has free water closets. Last year we sat in this same park for the same amount of time. The bus schedule had not changed. We climbed on the local bus in Hrensko about 10:45 and ... read more

Frankfurt - Prague - 13th June 2006 Talk about security checks! We had so many bag searches leaving Germany it was ridiculous! Especially if you're carrying an excessive amount of carry-on bags! The flight itself only took about an hour. Seems like everything is about an hour from each other in Europe. We arrived in Prague around 8pm. It was pretty quiet when we arrived. Not many people in the airport. We got a transfer to our hotel for 480kc. I think it was only a 20 or so min drive. Our apartment was on Wenceslas Square. Talk about central! Downstairs there were heaps of shops, cafes, restaurants, and pubs! We were actually part of the Marks & Spencer building on the 6th floor. It was a studio layout complete with full kitchen, dishwasher, washing machine, ... read more

在火車上重遇包包，她說這一輛火車很舊，我會說是……「非常東歐」吧。德國與捷克的警員同時在車上進行過關手續。 去了Toy Museum，又到Sparta Praha的主場館看看（似乎比旺角場還要小），回到市中心，只見逢穿上捷克國家隊球衣的，皆神色凝重，我還以為是賽和了加納。 learnt from the lesson in Vienna, we bought 24 hours-tickets soon after arrival, so everything went well, and prague is really better than vienna. in augsburg i came across a roommate originated from hunan, he told me that vienna carried out a programme to promote it's tourism 5 years ago, but maybe doing too much, turning vienna into an artificial sight-seeing scene. i think about the situation in hongkong, so understood immediately. sad but true, today we went to czech, we knew that there's a match between czech and ghana, after the match was over, we returned to the city centre, the people wearing czech jerseys were all looked like depressed, i guessed a draw maybe, it's hard to believe that, they lost 0:2, i didn't know it until sund... read more