I'm over Prague already, the place smells and it's dirty. Not much information in English on the metro, the ticket machines are tricky. Getting around without getting lost takes a bit of doing. But, the beer and the food is good, and cheaper than elsewhere. The hostel is a dump, the shower head is falling off the wall, it's none too clean, and impossible to sleep because a door was slamming all night. I wedged it open as soon as I got up, like derrrr, how hard was that to work out FFS! To put it mildly, I can't wait for [View Full Entry]

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This morning ladies and gentlemen, I passed my driving theory exam and then, rather unexpectedly, also completed my driving test due to my lack of knowledge of the Czech language. The day began very early, at about 0530, and I moved from my room to the living room to have a read through and understand more traffic situations especially the diamond shaped sign with a yellow square which still had the power to bewilder me. My study had been half hearted but I had remembered stuff from the translation and I reasoned that a lot of stuff was simple common sense. [View Full Entry]

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Hello all, greetings from Prague. Not long arrived and still have to find the hotel, apparently it is about 15-20 minutes from here. Not many speak English hich is a bit of a drama, and the tube is no fun at all, very confusing. We have our tickets to Berlin, got those about half an hour ago, we leave on Sunday morning at 10-36am, another four and a half hour epic train trip to get there, better be a buffet car this time! Sorry everyone, no pics today, I don't have the time right now, and it will have to wait [View Full Entry]

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I arrived in prague pretty early in the morning, about half past nine and was met promptly by yusuf at the station. the flight over was uneventful really. i slept for most of it, i reckon. easyjet flies tiny planes and you can hear, smell and see everyone sat around you. i began to read, 'a storm from the east,' a book about the monghul empire. i read up to the point where genghis khan was called temuchin and had fled his tribal home following his fathers death by poisioning. i think it was the tanguts who killed him but i [View Full Entry]

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We spent the day looking around prague. it really is hot here, probably averaging about mid thirties and has little to no wind. the air is very heavy and moist and im finding my hay fever is terrible. we managed to see quite a lot. Saw the national museum, the woodrow wilson station, the astronomical clock, charles bridge over the vltava river, the presedential building and the impressive st vitus cathedral. im hoping to get some pictures up. anyway, i cant talk long as we are hoping to book hostels today and are awaiting arrival of our tickets inshallah! hopefully we [View Full Entry]

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Thursday 3rd July: Today it rained for the best part of the day so just boring housekeeping duties. Sent a box home from the postoffice which cost me 1,500 Kn ($100 AUD)! Did a load of washing and then sat in a cafe watching people getting drenched in the sudden downpours in the main shopping precinct. Tomorrow should be a fine day for sightseeing in many forms! [View Full Entry]

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So the grill never came for Canada day but that didn't stop us from celebrating and having a great time. The count of people from Vancouver continues to rise, we are up to 13 and kids now who know each other from high school and played on soccer teams together, it is really creepy, but they are all pretty darn cool. The hostel is nothing short of amazing and we have kind of formed a fairly tight group of friends. Almost all of us have extended our stays here by at least a couple of days. I really haven't been in [View Full Entry]

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this is our last night in hradec, inshallah. yusuf has his theory test at 0730 tomorrow morning (czechs start early) and we are hoping to be out of the city by 11am-ish. he is currently revising elsewhere in the faculty. the current problem we have is that our inter rail tickets have not arrived yet. they were supposed to arrive today or tomorrow morning; by secure delivery and obviously without them we cannot start the trip. therefore we have decided to figure an alternative route through poland and germany if we cannot get the tickets in time. however ideally, we want [View Full Entry]

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You might be wondering where im blogging from at the moment, so i'll tell you. im in fair sized computer room of the campus at the medical faculty. there is a bust of Purkinje, the man behind the eponymous Purkinje fibres of the heart. he was czech apparently yusuf informs. currently behind me there are 2, perhaps 1st or 2nd year indian students who should be reading their anatomy books which are open in front of them, but both are watching bollywood films from use of their headphones. there is thunder and lightning outside. we dont have far to walk but [View Full Entry]

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