Alfa Tourist Service Hostel Jednota Prague

... architecture literally took our breath away...<br><br> We were smart this time, and did the 'free tour' offered in many capital cities around Europe. Although we had been told they weren't so good, we've decided as poor backpackers, this is the way to go! They work on a tip basis and given that we started with a group of around 20 people and ended with approx 60, the majority of which tipped, we figure they do pretty well for themselves!<br><br> Our tour guide this time was an Aussie ...

-Woke up in Hostel Elf<br><br>-Went to Old Town and walked around<br> -Went up in the clock tower and had an amazing view of the city!<br><br>-Grabbed lunch at a little shop (our first salad in a long time! we were both craving some healthy food...)<br><br>-Went on free walking tour - had a great guide.<br> -Took us through Old Town, New Town, The Powder Bridge, The Jewish District, The ...

... eachother for a lot longer than I realised. After the museum I headed back to the hostel and then headed out; but I've already covered that. Wednesday was a relatively non-event day. I caught the train down from Berlin, thought about going to a bar near the hostel; found it to be empty so decided against it, and uploaded all my photos so far to photobucket. If you're interested, the quality is low (I only wanted to have backups) and they're out of order and unrotated; but the ...

... in a compartment all by ourselves, but soon three drunk guys joined us and once chastised us in Slovak about having been spread out across the compartment. He mumbled drunkenly to us for a long while before we decided to leave. AFter that it was a constant stream of people in an out of our compartment, so we got little sleep. Luckily we could sleep back in Prague. It's 12h30 now and we just woke up. Before Zilina was Krakow, Poland which ended up being my ...

... We were enjoying the view of the Tyn church, on a nice sunny day, when out of nowhere a big snow flurry arrived. There were huge snowflakes coming down like crazy. It was actually quite beautiful. The snow lasted about 15-20 minutes and then it was gone. We did get some nice pictures of the Tyn church and other building with the snow. The second climb was up the Charles Bridge Tower. There were some nice views ...

... I live in Thailand now. OK, back to Moscow and it was our first visit inside the so called "Iron Curtain" Everything was different since we got to Poland it seemed. No more western cars or trucks, the variety of food was limited as well as the quality it seemed. We were on a low budget trip as we were trying to travel around the world for a year without flying and I only had $6,000 US so, we always were doing a lot of our ...

... and its WAY cheap (less than a euro for half a litre). Czech's are the biggest drinkers in the world (168 litres of beer per person per year as an average of the entire population) - no wonder - it is cheaper than water.<br><br>After walking around Prague a bit more we headed to the supermarket to stock up. We bought some crackers, bread, tomatoes, cheese, salami, olives and red wine for dinner. We also bought food & drink for breakfast, lunch and fruit for tomorrow, and ...

... We got to see a Packer game here on Tuesday (Monday night football there) vs. the Eagles and even though we lost, it was still nice seeing some football action - Mike was REALLY excited about it! Anyway, We are off to Austria next and will update there - couldn't post pictures on the computers here but will try to soon. Love, Kristin and Mike

... thought. The guiness was calling, my friends, calling loudly, and it was an invitation that put all other options to shame. Leprechauns, Pots o' gold, didly dit Potaytas and all that. Ireland here i come. Croatia would have been nice, but potentially a bit too familiar, and Amsterdam just woiuld have been downright destructive. This was exciting stuff. A bold new, direction, so random and unplanned, and intuitively, something was stressing ...

... time it well you can avoid the shoulder-to-shoulder crowds that distract from its beauty. Late night walks and early morning strolls seemed to offer the best in the town. For three people, we found the best value in a two-bedroom apartment near the town center. Each morning we started with a brunch of tea and juice with fried eggs served on toast with salami. Groceries were very affordable and having a large kitchen and a ...