Blogs from Czech Republic, Europe - page 243

Our first day was spent doing the "Ultimate Tour" which was a whopping six hours of mainly walking. This included: * Astrological Clock - Apparently they blinded the clock-maker after he finished this clock to stop him making another like it. He managed to sabotage it though, and it took them more than 100 years to get it working again. * a Riverboat tour (where we sat across with 2 girls from Perth who gave us some 50% off coupons... Score!) * walked through the Jewish Quarter, where the cemetery is apparently 12 layers of dead deep. * Prague Castle - the guards in their baby blue full-length uniforms looked like they were about to topple over in the sweltering 33 degree heat. That night, I took Bronson to his first classical concert in the Municipal ... read more

so here we are in prague just finishing up our first day... After our taxi drama, settling at the hostel, and all of that, we headed out toward the old town square and then toward the charles bridge. tired and gross we,just thought we'd do some wandering before dinner. we eventually chose a little cafe where i had myself a pilsner and some roast pork with cabbage and dumplings. since this is clearly a food journal i've attached a picture of both. :-) back in the square, there was a big jumbotron up for the germany-italy game but we just headed back toward the hostel. there we ended up talking with these two vegan girls from florida for a couple of hours about all kinds of things from social justice to feminism. we hit the sack ... read more

i realized that i have used the words "beautiful" "gorgeous" "Amazing" and "incredible" more times in the past few weeks than i have my whole life. but it's true, some of the things we've seen have been so heartstopping you just have to let your jaw drop open and stare. example: today we went on a horseback ride. it was alot of fun, i haven't riden a horse in years, but i remembered why i took lessons for so long, getting on a horse and then riding into the forest, is so peaceful, it gives you a chance to think and silently meditate on everything you forget about when you're too busy doing other things. we went up the most beautiful hills, and saw the whole town layed out below us. it was definitly one of ... read more

Well prague is still awsome went and saw the crazy old castle and shit. Got some really good pics of outside the walls and in. So last night me and oleary went to get some herb and some gypsy sold us some shitty hash whitch turned out to be road tar so we both snapped went back there to find the fucker and get my money back. I told oleary to tie his shoes tight cuz i knew somethin was goin down, so what kind of idiot sticks around after sellin bad shit what an idiot so i book it at him he takes off jumps this big hedge cliffe wipes out and im right behind him, i get a hold of his shirt rip it right off him and he keeps goin towards the ... read more

We're in Prague just for the day. Got here at 7:00 this morning after taking the overnight train from Krakow. Really enjoyed Krakow until we were ready to leave town. The hostel was clean, we had a huge room in a historic building and the hostel owners were so nice. Our room wasn't clean when we got there, and we had a double bed instead of twin beds; their cleaning lady had gotten into a car accident and broke her leg!! Everything was fixed though, and they kept appologizing profusely. Even gave us a box of chocolate!! We also had the best breakfast in any hostel we've stayed in. We took the bus tour to Auschwitz/Birkenau..our guide was fabulous; it was the first time I've been with that many young people who were stunned into silence..they ... read more