Blogs from Prague, Czech Republic, Europe - page 170

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

So the unthinkable has happened. The Kaunas Lituanica baseball team, fresh from Lithuania, has made it into the semifinals of the european baseball championships. We beat the Czech team on Thursday, 10-1. This evening will be the semifinals, against Holland. Their team has many players who played in the minor leagues, and a few from the World Baseball Classic. They are very good, everybody says they will win the tournament. It is hard to believe that Lithuania is now one of the top teams in Europe!! I had planned to include some pictures in this entry, but the computer does not have the 'hardware' to do so (and the guy running the cafe gets angry any time you ask him a question). Next entry will have photos, I promise! ... 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

I never thought I would do this, but here it is. I am entering the world of blogging, ever so reluctantly. I am writing from Prague, where I am currently representing the Kaunas Lituanica baseball team in the European Cupwinners' Cup Baseball competition. Basically, it is one of two European Baseball Championships held every summer. I came here with the Lithuanian team, along with two other Americans, on a bus crammed full with 30 people, a twenty-four hour ride from Kaunas, Lithuania, to Prague, Czech Republic. The story of this Lithuanian team at this tournament is the classic story of David and Goliath. In Lithuania they don't have enough baseballs to have a real practice, they don't even have a field with a fence or a proper baseball diamond, they practice on an old Soviet-area soccer ... read more

Hey Everyone, So I know its taken me forever to get this out, but this is the first time since Kelly and I have split off from her family (sooo sad) that I have had a chance to get to a computer for more than 10 minutes haha. In a nut shell the trip has been amazing so far. Getting to Milan in the beginning was a bit of a challenge as we missed our last leg of the flight in, buuuut we managed to connect with Kelly's parents before they took off without us. Our first stop was Bellagio Italy, near Lake Como and it was gorgeous, picture perfect little streets and friendly locals. Kelly's mom kept an eye out for George Clooney but apparently we just missed him, as he came in the day ... read more