Feel free to talk to me today

because starting tomorrow I'll be gone for a week.

Prague, here I come!!! :bounce:

Are you going there for the defenestration festival?

to enjoy the city. Not strange festivals :)

Life's nor fair...






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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

and will force you later on to look at them ... :)

I've never been to Prague but my partner has been trying to make me go for along while now.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

You really should go. It is such a beautiful city. Maybe my pitures will convince you.

If I have to choose between vacation in a city and vacation in the country where you hardly ever see a car - or a human - I'll choose nature every day. Maybe after we have moved and I'm surrounded by trees all the time I'll be better able to make a city trip :)

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

If I have to choose between vacation in a city and vacation in the country where you hardly ever see a car - or a human - I'll choose nature every day. Maybe after we have moved and I'm surrounded by trees all the time I'll be better able to make a city trip :)

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

but Prague is worth to break with that habit :)

but i love buildings with pointy tops.

Can we get one of the window from which the dude was thrown at the beginning of the war of 30 years?

:hide:

;-)

Have fun!!!!
:)

that you all know where I am going and that you can envy me :D

whether you're taking a trip to Prague or not.

:blush:

For living in Europe at all?

And that you're 30 and an intelligent,attractive woman.

:blush:

;-)

Have fun on your trip. It's waaaaay late here. Bedtime.....

And I will have fun, believe me :)

What a wonderful place to visit! I hope you take a lot of pics to share with us! :loveya:

bought me 5 rolls of film the other day. That should be enough for a week, what do you think?

I will flood the Lounge with pics from Prague :)

(especially the infamous defenestration.)
but I have the feeling it would just be another monstrous city to me, and I am not a big fan of monstrous cities. Although Frankfurt was kinda cool for a half hour stop.
The Czech republic annoys me anyway because the capitol of Norway used to be in the middle of their country and now it's not. Plus I prefer union to separation. Is the Czech republic part of EU? Is Slovakia?

they became part of the EU the same time as Poland. Even though they don't have the Euro yet.

And I wouldn't say Prague is a monstrous city. Berlin is or NYC, but not Prague :P

is monstrous.
Prague has about 1.5 million, perhaps more than Kansas City
According to Wikipedia:
"Prague is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Nicknames for Prague have included "city of a hundred spires", "the golden city", "the Left Bank of the Nineties", the "mother of cities", and "the heart of Europe"."

Czechia and Slovakia are both part of the EU, Czechia having joined on 1 May 2004. (I did some reading on Wiki which is where I learned of the name Czechia.)

I had a blast at Radost FX and Uzi.


Radost FX: Bělehradská 120, Prague 2
Uzi: Legerova 44, Prague 2

If that is your kind of thing..

but I go with my mom and her bf. We are more the culture people. :)

My itinerary was slightly different then yours. Aaron and I thought it would be cool to get kicked out of a country. A dumb idea for sure, picking the Czech Republic was also a dumb idea. We didn't go to jail, I'm just not sure we could ever return without some serious problems.

now why would you want to do that????

I needed at least one good story to tell.

to spend $3000???

I wish I could see Europe. :cry:





With a friend to guide me. :pals:

:)

:loveya:

You guys are waaaaaaaaaaaayyyy over there.

*points*




Oops.

*points other direction*

:blush:

if you lived on the East Coast :D

if I lived in, say, Verdun. :D

would you want to live in Verdun????

I guess. :blush:

... just saying

And please don't ask me to explain that. :blush:

but now you made me curious.

Well, certain parts of history seem "alive" to me.

Often, I feel I was present during them. :blush:

maybe we lived before and the person you were before is still with you.

Either that, or I just have a very vivid imagination.

But it would explain why I feel so connected to things from the '30s and '40s.

:woohoo:

I thought it were a city, not 2 dimensional and most the size of a computer screen.

tomorrow afternoon :)

and stay safe:)

and I will stay safe. I wanna come back to DU afer all :)

I was there about 10 years ago and it is one of my favorite places in the world.

The food was the worst, but the people were the best. And the beer was excellent, abundant, and cheap. (Just make sure Pilsner Urqell is the real stuff, not the one they import from Germany-- the German one is perfectly good, of course, but just not the real thing.) And DO NOT let anyone in a bar buy you a shot of the local plum brandy. Trust me on that.

It's one of the great walking cities, with a thousand years of history and something interesting around every corner. (Don't be conned by all the Kafka folderol-- Kafka hated the place.)

Pay particular attention to the Opera House. The "new" Russian one, not the old one. It jumps out at you and is arguably the ugliest building on the planet-- a splendid example of the finest Soviet architecture and worth the shock of seeing it for the first time. That and the train station just added to the charm of the place for me, that the city could survive such esthetic assault on top of everything else it took.

I imagine the place has changed a lot since I was there, and must cost a fortune now, but it can't have changed much for the worse. The food couldn't possibly be any worse.

years ago when I was a child. Don't remember much from back then just that it is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

you'll have a fantastic week exploring the place. The Astrological Clock alone is worth the trip.

I did my Christmas shopping in the porcelain and crystal shops, but I doubt the bargains are as good as they were. And even back then they had some Chinese stuff snuck in there.

Aside from the Czech "cuisine" which seems to consist entirely of greasy chicken or greasier pork, the only down note on my trip was the train ride back. I got a dirt cheap flight to Frankfurt, and took the train to Nurnberg and spent the night before catching the first AM train to Prague. Nurnberg is a nice place, and it was an easy trip down. On the way back, I took a train directly to Frankfurt and it was TEN HOURS on that train.

Never again 10 hours on a Czech train. Ever.

but I know what you mean with the trains. I remember the trains back in East Germany. Thank you, I can do without them.

Regarding the Czech or Bohemian cuisine. Well I have to admit I like it. Esp. the Knedleki (dumplings). But then my grandparents came from Bohemia (but they are German) and I have 1/8 of Czech blood in me :)

didn't see much of that when I was there, though. Mostly unindentifiable bits of pork with a carrot and two string beans if I was lucky. Somehow, it seems any real Bohemian food got lost somewhere on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain. One of the guidebooks I had said that to a Czech food is simply something they stuff in their mouths to ward off starvation between drinking bouts.

Anyway, with all the travel there, the boom in restaurants should have really taken off by now, and good eats should be available, traditional or otherwise.

FWIW, Scotland is another of my favorite places, and the food there...

I was in Glasgow for 6 weeks during an internship. I love the people and the language. It is such a melodic English. Once I understood what they were saying that is :rofl:
Now you can't really call it food what they have there. The British just have no good dishes. Except the cheese that is. And the whiskey :D

there's good food to be had in Scotland, but it takes some work.

Once, I asked some Scots in Edinburgh where would be a good place to eat. They told me about Pizza Hut, a local Chinese place...

"No! I didn't cross an ocean for Pizza Hut. Where's some good Scots food?"

"Ach, we doona eat that shit. We go to Pizza Hut."

I found a few decent restaurants, though, and actually had some good meals. Just stay away from haggis, mutton, and those meat pies in the bars.

(And they are perfectly capable of talking the Queen's English when they want you to understand them.)

the Brits would have a very boring kitchen.

Oh they didn't speak Gaelic, the spoke their Scotish English. After a week or two I understood them with almost no problems. And they are very nice as long as you aren't English English ... LOL

Though we will miss you. :hug:

I weill think of you when I am there :hug:

:hug: Have a great time! Gosh, all of the people I talk to in the AM are going on vacation! Whatever shall I do? :ih:

Isn't billyskank supposed to be back next week? And tj?? And I promise after that week I'll be here till I come to the States in September.

:hug:

:hi:

You are one of the most talented individuals I've ever known with photography. I had no idea until I looked at your journal, which I put on my blogroll for easy access. One of my favorite pictures is the one you took of the rocks, water and jellyfish.

:hi:

:blush:

I feel kind of pressured now to take the most excellent pics in Prague :rofl: But the objects alone will be so fantastic that I will get a couple of good pics :)

:hi:

You've inspired me to take better care with my pictures of Paris. I have them in my journal, but I'm taking them out and separating them so they're not so cluttered.

I also enjoy your landscapes. There's one that's a perfect boat and dock. There's another I like of being on the inside of an opera house. I would be really proud of my collection if I were you! When I look at them I feel like I'm in a different place. nnns agrees with me.

:toast: :hi: :yourock:

:mad:

:D

The most vacation days I take in September : 3 weeks :woohoo:

It'll be the day after my birthday. Our vacation accumulates at about 7 hours per month, so 10 days accumulated throughout the year.

:mad:

:D

I'd have to live near you.
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:hide:

:spank:

I'm going on a cruise ship with my parents(!), and we'll be seeing St. Petersburg, Russia, Amsterdam :smoke: and maybe even Germany.

:D

for how long?

I don't see a problem to go on vacation with your parents. I go with my mom to Prague.

It's just that I haven't gone on vacation with my parents for awhile. :D

and two weeks is a good time. Just try not to see too much.

I don't really care about the rest. :evilgrin:

Make sure to check out the Bernstein room

;)

:beer:

:smoke:

Gotta go to sleep now, but have fun on your vacation! :mad: :hi:

See you Tuesday in a week :hi:

I hope you have a wonderful time! :bounce:

:bounce:

ON MY DESK by noon. The title? What else ... "What I did on my vacation." You may go now.

:loveya: :hug:

how many pages?

:loveya:

:rofl: I want to know every detail. :D

:loveya: :hug:

It's quite interesting.

:blush:

I rather go to the Jewish cemetary I would say.

She is quite fond of visiting tombs and cemetaries.

Either way, in her opinion, they are both worth checking out.

:P

I'm jealous! And I have to go to work now. x(

29 days.

But next week begins my sojourn into the 15th Century--Renaissance Festival time! :woohoo:

cool. So you gonna wear tight tights again :evilgrin:

they do get rather warm in the spring weather.

brings me to



:blush:

:evilgrin:

How long is the vacation and how much time will you be in Prague?

:rofl:


We will be a week in Prague

sounds like a blast! :woohoo:

Are you driving or riding the train?

my mom's bf found a cheap flight.

learned something new. I thought everyone in Europe rode the train for cross-border travel.

And bring home many pictures! :hi:

thanks :hi:

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: Listen to some music on the bridge for me, would ya? ;) What do you haev planned while you're there?

Going to the Hradschin for sure. Other than that we will see. Since we are 3 persons so they will decide from day to day.

*yawn* coffee isn't ready yet

:hi:

Be gentle with me this morning. Okay?

:hug:

I know I can count on you to never get snarky with me. Now that the hotel coffee is in my hand, I'll read your PM. :hug: :pals:

I am leaving now.

Have a Happy Eastern and we talk again when I am back

:hug:

:loveya:

I'm waiting on the results of my uncle's surgery today.

:hug:

My parents are there right now.

I don't think it will be a positive outcome. Last I heard, he had 90% blockage.