Blogs from Prague, Czech Republic, Europe - page 163

Greetings from Prague. Actually Berlin, but we're backdating this entry. A few caveats. 1. Prague is the most expensive place we have visited so far. We had to pay $15 to have our laundry done. Beer was cheaper than water, which meant that drunk britons spent the early morning hours screaming outside our bedroom window. 2. Our hostel was disgusting. Group showers are gross and group showers that don't drain are even worse. 3. We visited Prague in the height of the summer tourist season, which happed to fall during a European heat wave. Keep these elements in mind when reading our thoughts of this city. We were really looking forward to Prague. Since that early '90s Levis commercial ("In Prague, you can trade them for a car") this city has embodied in our minds the ... 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

We got the best welcome in Prague. Our Aunt has a friend in the city that so kindly let us stay with her. She even picked us up from the the train station, gave us our own room, let us eat her food! It was amazing! It was so nice to be away from hostels and feel like you are in a real home for a few days. Thank you so much again Zdenka, and again if you ever want to come to Vancouver with your family, you are more than welcome to stay with us! We spent this first day wandering the streets and orienting ourselves in the city. There is a lot of entertaining modern art in the city. One consisted of toilets and sinks on long rods of metal, sort of resembling a ... read more

When you turn on a TV travel show, or open a travel book on Europe, Prague is always one of those cities that is singled out as one of the most beautiful and must see cities in Europe. Well it is and it isn't. I (Simon) have been to Prague before, about 17 years ago when it was still a full on Communist country and definately not your average tourist destination. I was fortunate to know some Czech's from Australia who were going to be visiting their families at the same time as I was going to be in Europe, so they invited me to meet up with them and spend a week living with their family in Prague. It was a real highlight of that trip and I loved the place. It had a real ... read more

Today was the last day of our Brand Czech/Brand USA class. So that's 3 credit hours under my belt for this trip :) This morning we had a meeting with the MU study abroad coordinator, our US Brand professor, and the professors for our next class. It was boring and a little pointless, but that's OK. After that, we visited a pretty cool ad agency. We came in at like 11:00 a.m. and they served us beer (I don't do pivo before lunch) and talked about their clients (beer) and some other stuff. Overall, it was pretty cool. We went to lunch with the US students (the Czech students are done) and our professor bought, so that was very nice. Then we went to our professor's son's ad agency for a little bit. He talked about ... read more