Blogs from Czech Republic, Europe - page 280

Prague is always full of surprises and almost all of them happy surprises. Today as we walked around high above the city and Vltava River we saw this beautiful collection of red tile roofs.... read more

Dejan is from Serbia and Daily is from Estonia. They met at IBTS and guess what? That's right, they fell in love. Now all they have to do is go to Serbia and have their wedding. And like the royal couple in all fairy tales, may the LIVE HAPPILY EVERAFTER.... read more

The French would never starve here. I have never been anyplace where there are so many snails. These are not just little snails, these fellows and gals grow to be BIG snails. You gotta be careful on the sidewalks here and on the 48 infamous steps leading from the lower campus level to the upper level. If you don't watch suddenly you will hear a nasty crunching noise and there it is, sidewalk snail pizza. Yuck. Messy on the bottoms of your shoes also. However I must admit the snails are much more attractive than the slugs we have at home. ... read more

Today was a summer day, bright sunshine with the temperature in the mid to high 80's. The Internet says it will rain, beginning tomorrow and continuing until the weekend. About mid-afternoon I walked to where Nancy was working and said, "Let's grab a sandwich at Crococillies and then go back to the park with the great view of Prague. We can eat and then walk. The guidebook shows another spot that is supposed to give a good view." Nancy groaned as she was TIRED, but decided maybe it was not really a terrible idea. We closed the library at five. This was our day to close up at the end of the day. After changing our clothes we headed to the Jeneralka bus stop and headed downtown. Crocodilles is a chain of sandwhich shops here in ... read more

As we walked through the Royal Gardens enjoying the plants and spring flowers, occasionally we were greeted with great views, each building on the other until we stumbled onto the best view of the Charles Bridge and Old Town Prague that we have seen. We were walking along when Nancy said, "The only bad thing is there's no place to eat in this part of the park and I am HUNGRY. " Looking ahead I saw a small, but very fancy building. At first I thought it was just that, a fancy building, but then I saw they had a menu board beside some steps. "There," I said, "we can get something there." As we walked up to read the menu ,the scenes in the pictures came into view and drew us like a magnet draws ... read more