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Castles & Communism
... we walked down the road to the Museum of Communism. After WWII a Russian-backed Communist party came into power, dropping the country into oppressio. Life under the Communist regime was painted as peachy by distributed propaganda materials, but in reality little food and other goods were available for people under the top social class. The government was focussed on unrealistic production targets, to work overtime for no reward was proof of Communist pride, and it was encouraged ...
First impressions aren't always correct...
So we didn't exactly get off to the best start in Prague. After the most horrendous train journey from berlin,we decided to walk from the train station to our hotel and found ourselves on the wrong side of the tracks (pun intended) in a park. In the space of 30 seconds, we saw men snorting crack off a fountain and another man masturbating. Naturally we were terrified. After a nice ...
Czech Republic
... Krumlov we left and made our way towards Prague detouring via Plzen which is famous for it's beer 'Pilsner Urquell' which was the first bottom fermented draft beer in the world from which all the modern day draft beers were copied. We did a tour around the massive Pilsner Urquell brewery which was fantastic. The tour took us through all the different stages of brewing the beer ending in their huge brand new packaging plant. It was amazing to see the way a modern ...
Vienna,Hungary & Prague-stories, stories, stories!
... 3-story Swarovski shop in downtown Vienna (Swarovski crystals originate in a little town in Austria). There were so many sparkly and shiny things I was beside myself with emotion. In the end though, I was very restrained - I didn't buy anything! Go me! Adam wasn't so restrained, though - he wanted to buy me something to add to my sparkly magpie jewellery collection, and so he bought me a lovely necklace with clear and black Swarovski crystals. Awwww! I ...
One day, €16
... almost 6p, and I was tired. I made my way back to the metro to head to the airport (even though I still had about an hour available to wander). I wasn't sad to get to the airport sit down, relax, and write this. :) Eventually I had some delicious Czech goulash soup at the airport for dinner, then
Overall, I had a great day in Prague. I'd like to visit Prague again in the tourist off season because right now the touristy-ness of the city is maddening!!
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