Hostel Elf Prague

Prague, well what a fantastic city, we were only meant to stay a few days but ended up nearly staying a week. It was just so old and the city night line always took my breathe away. Some of the highlights were the Charles Bridge, the Castle, Opera House and the Jewish Quarter.We stayed in this cool little hostel 'Elf' where we met some really nice people which also added to the experience. Also whilst we were in Czech, we went to this cool little town called Chesky Krumlov, which was the high...

Hi Everyone, So it's been a while since my last update so I have a lot to catch you up on! The past three weeks have been really busy with traveling, visits from family and friends and more traveling! First trip was to Paris. I went to Paris for the weekend of the Nov. 17th through the 19th for a quick visit. We started our journey by taking a bus to Dover ( famous for its white cliffs made of chalk). Then from Dover we took a 2 hour ferry ride to Calais, France. From Calais we then took anot...

So last night Andrew took us (along with some unsuspecting people from the hostel) on a wild goose chance to find a bar we had been to on Friday. It failed. But we stumbled across something else and after a beer and Ashley making some comment about Castro having an artificial anus, the lengthly, useless, around about walk no longer seemed to matter. We trained out to Prague around 10:30am. I have been unable to find Sudafed and have had serious issues without since the start of the trip, but ...

So the anal sex jokes have just continued. Bottoms has become a running joke, as has "I am German!" which is a quote from Yana. (I don't want to explain it in case a certain person has received their surprise yet.) However, for my family, this line has become my new "I was in Waltham." There is also some running joke about Drew shaking like a Mexican spaceship, but I wasn't there for the start of it, so I don't really know. But it does seem to keep coming. One thing I can say is with Drew and...

I started my day off by trying out the hostel shower. Not awful, but its one of the small square ones where the shower head is not well made for anyone over 5'6". There is a button you have to push in where it makes the water go for a few min and then it stops and you need to push the button again. (kind of like some sinks back home in public bathrooms.) Its not nearly as bad as the one I had to deal with at the hostel in Paris back in 2002 where you actually had to hold the button in to get ...

So Prague, like Brussels, has a good amount of hills. We went to a bar last night that was up a serious hill. I have no idea how people drive on this in winter in a stick-shift! We spent the evening hanging out with a few other people from the hostel: Adam, from Andover, MA originally and now living in Orlando, FL, and Cynthia and Veronique from Quebec, Canada. The bar kept claiming that it was playing '70's music, but it sounded a lot more like 80's and early 90's. (I am sure Vanilla Ice is ...

So I had planned to start yesterday by going to the National Gallery, to see the extensive collection of 20th century art. Things didn't quite go as planned. First I confused the National Museum with the National Gallery and ended up walking to the wrong place. Then, I figured out the National Gallery was at the Castle, which was good because I needed to go there after anyway. Well, I clearly didn't do my research well enough, because it turns out that the National Gallery collection is split...

Well, we are all of a sudden in Prague. The last few days have been extremely busy, what with meeting up with Chelsey and Glenn and Dad and keeping the latter two straight. Since Brugge, we travelled to Frankfurt, met Chelsey, slept, were woken up by Glenn and Pops, travelled to Rudesheim, took a Rhine river cruise up to Koblenz, met Chelsey's freinds (really cool), slept, rented a car, drove to Heidelberg, toured it, drove back to Frankfurt, slept in the fanciest hotel I have ever stayed in,...

Prauge

I was still feeling kinda ****** when we got to Prague (physically), but Geoff and I both felt we had a weight lifted off of us. Just the 2 of us worked really well. It was wonderful for food and deciding what we were going to do to be EASY. With 3 it had felt as if we were all pulling in different directions all the time. I feel like a lot of my depression and feelings of being a ****** person had come from feeling like I wasn't social enough for Robin, and feeling overshadowed by her. I fel...