Another post already? Yes. Lots of things happen in a short amount of time as a tourist.
I got lost alone in Germany (again). I ended up having to use my rad German speaking skills to ask an old lady how to get back. To my credit, I was getting pretty close by myself. But I was pretty proud of that. I also met a bunch of people who work for Volkswagon (pretty much every car in Germany is a VW, surprised?).
Then yesterday we headed out for our one and two halves days (or two days, if you prefer) in Prague. The trip involved leaving at 5:30 a.m. to drive to the train station, taking two trains, then a long bus ride (which, unfortunately, means I don't get a Czech Republic stamp in my passport). We finally arrived in Praha seven hours later.
Since arrival we have stared up at all of the beautiful buildings, spent time on Charles Bridge, gone through the Franz Kafka Museum, gone to Namesti Republiky (accent marks omitted, sorry), saw the Astronomical Clock, gone up the Astronomical Clock Tower to see all of Prague, hung out by the Vltava River, stumbled upon the Czech parliament building where the senate meets, met some peacocks, watched the changing of the guard, spent a few hours at Prague Castle, saw the house where Franz Kafka wrote The Metamorphosis (now a small shop, quite disappointing), gone through St. Vitus cathedral, gone through two old synagogues, walked through the old Jewish cemetery (featured here: http://www.cracked.com/article_19511_the-7-creepiest-places-earth-part-3_p2.html), eaten dinner in the Dancing Building, walked a myriad kilometers, and taken an insane number of pictures.
Wow Prague is cool.
A couple of weird things though: cheese is served by itself both for breakfast and dessert, pretty much everyone smokes (it's like the '50s here! I'm also pretty sure someone threw a cigarette butt at me...), and you have to pay to use public bathrooms (come on Prague, we know you only like us for our money, but do you have to be that obvious about it? How about a compliment on our hair once in a while or asking us if we've lost weight when you know we haven't?).
Alas, the Prague stop is now almost over. We have half of a day here tomorrow, then we're taking a bus to Munich (which I'm also excited for). Wednesday I'll fly out of Munich and finally arrive in Scotland; my new home for the next four months!
I'll continue to upload ridiculous numbers of pictures so you can feel like you were there too.
Also, If you're interested: http://www.famous2wear-shop.de/
(I'm an advertising major, I can't help myself.)
I got lost alone in Germany (again). I ended up having to use my rad German speaking skills to ask an old lady how to get back. To my credit, I was getting pretty close by myself. But I was pretty proud of that. I also met a bunch of people who work for Volkswagon (pretty much every car in Germany is a VW, surprised?).
Then yesterday we headed out for our one and two halves days (or two days, if you prefer) in Prague. The trip involved leaving at 5:30 a.m. to drive to the train station, taking two trains, then a long bus ride (which, unfortunately, means I don't get a Czech Republic stamp in my passport). We finally arrived in Praha seven hours later.
Since arrival we have stared up at all of the beautiful buildings, spent time on Charles Bridge, gone through the Franz Kafka Museum, gone to Namesti Republiky (accent marks omitted, sorry), saw the Astronomical Clock, gone up the Astronomical Clock Tower to see all of Prague, hung out by the Vltava River, stumbled upon the Czech parliament building where the senate meets, met some peacocks, watched the changing of the guard, spent a few hours at Prague Castle, saw the house where Franz Kafka wrote The Metamorphosis (now a small shop, quite disappointing), gone through St. Vitus cathedral, gone through two old synagogues, walked through the old Jewish cemetery (featured here: http://www.cracked.com/article_19511_the-7-creepiest-places-earth-part-3_p2.html), eaten dinner in the Dancing Building, walked a myriad kilometers, and taken an insane number of pictures.
Wow Prague is cool.
A couple of weird things though: cheese is served by itself both for breakfast and dessert, pretty much everyone smokes (it's like the '50s here! I'm also pretty sure someone threw a cigarette butt at me...), and you have to pay to use public bathrooms (come on Prague, we know you only like us for our money, but do you have to be that obvious about it? How about a compliment on our hair once in a while or asking us if we've lost weight when you know we haven't?).
Alas, the Prague stop is now almost over. We have half of a day here tomorrow, then we're taking a bus to Munich (which I'm also excited for). Wednesday I'll fly out of Munich and finally arrive in Scotland; my new home for the next four months!
I'll continue to upload ridiculous numbers of pictures so you can feel like you were there too.
Also, If you're interested: http://www.famous2wear-shop.de/
(I'm an advertising major, I can't help myself.)