Czeck

Yesterday, from Wien, took a scketzchy train to Praha (Prague). (Yeah, side note: Didnt know it was called praha. Europe tried to trick me)

Anywho, we got in after our train broke down about an hour late, but still had plenty of time to look around the city. Presummary, it was really surprisingly nice.

When we got off of the train, it was hardcore eastern bloc country. Everything was bland, and boring and I was a little dissapointed/scared.

But then we took the train into the center of the city and oh my God, it was incredible. The parisian look of the city really took my breath away and both chris and I agree the overall feel of the city was much cooler, more laid back, more bohemian than any other city we've been to thus far. It really ranks a close 3rd in our city tour thus far (at the end, I'll give you a run down of my favorites and why)

And of course, we saw the touristy stuff. St. Charles bridge (where the pieces of the chess board were based off of in the 13th century), The Hapsburg castle (Did you know that this was the capital of the Austria-Hungary empire? No? Neither did I.) and the astronomical clock.

The clock. Wow.

MOST OVERRATED THING IN EUROPE. According to our mikes bike tour guide it ranks one on the top three most overrated things in europe (we did them all)

1. The damn clock. Its stupid. At the hour there is a rotating bunch of saints or kings or something for 15 seconds. stupid.

2. The glockenspiel. (Munich) Its really just overrated. Two reaaaaly slow wooden horses joust. OOOOOOH.

3. The peeing boy in Brussels. He's a foot tall, naked and peeing. His sister, squatting. AND peeing.
Nice Belgium. Nice.


So yeah were going back to Wien today and then hanging out with STEFAN!!

he actually got back to me in the NICK of time! Go stefan. were going to get tickets to his play and then go out with the cast afterwards. (for chris's sake, lets hope its in english)

Then leave thursday...


PEACE