Blogs from Czech Republic, Europe - page 254

Guten Tag!! The last few days since arriving in Prague have been awesome. Prague is such a beatiful city. It has a fairytale feel to it and walking along its streets just makes you all fuzzy inside. So many churches, religion is a big part of the culture here... another big thing here is a wee thing called scamming. Yeh I've been done for the first time on my trip. Then I got done again. The train ride over was awesometude as I covered in last blog! Anyways when I got off the train I should have recieved 2 grand change for a bread roll and only recieved 1 but didnt know till i got home. Not to bad as it translates to about $100 haha. The other time I lost another grand unknowingly and still ... read more

None of us really know the future and though we would like to return here again next year or at some point in the future that is not a certainty. Life can change so quickly, like last October when Bill completely cut his quad muscle when he "dove" off the ladder while pruning the apple trees in our back yard. Having this in mind, Bill decided to go round the campus taking pictures of various buildings and places so we can refresh our memories. We humans forget so much and photographs bring back many memories that would be utterly lost otherwise. The campus is divided into a lower level and an upper level. The older buildings are all on the lower level. These are the buildings that are several hundred years old and have seen many ... read more

Prague is like waking up in a hazy, dreamy fog. Meg and I spent most of yesterday wandering along the winding cobblestones and On the (good) advice of a friend, we caught Vivaldi's Four Seasons in a tiny, lovely little cathedral at the top of the hill. Asya, who I met in Moscow last summer, is one of the great loves of my life. Shes doing a semester in Paris, so we managed to book some time together to catch up and such. She came up with her friend Emma, and the four of us took to the park and tossed through the hours with cheap cartons of wine. We later stumbled upon this fantastic beer garden with great views of the city-scape and chatted up some locals. Ive been thinking about how we create and ... read more

This semester there has been a group of college students here from Christopher Newport University studying European government, culture and economy. Nancy and I have enjoyed becoming friends with many of these young people. Their class work ended early this week and today most of them flew home to the states. From my conversations with these young people they all said it was a good semester. They worked and played and had a great time in this beautiful city. A number said they plan to return to Prague to work on their master degrees after graduating from Christopher Newport. A little travel gives a big education and changes the traveler's views and understanding of the world. Home is home and a wonderful place and most travelers look forward to returning there, but they return a different ... read more

My Czech family took Carrie and me skiing to a place by Poland. It was soo much fun. Though I was definately rusty with the skis, it had been too long. The 7 and 13 year olds were much better then me. It was also really cold at the summit but became much better as we made our way down. The slope was really long and had trails along the way one could choose to go on. So we only went up on the chair lift 4 times though we skied for awhile. The Czech mom was cute and brought lunch and tea and a really yummy desert for us. All the kids are soo well behaved. For the 2 hour car ride they were practically silent, it amazed me how well behaved they are. We ... read more