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First time in Prague
liebchen can just say "stay," and I will stay in Munchen, but she does not, and we remain friends. I book a ticket for the afternoon train to prague, since it will cost the same to go directly to berlin (where the cheap flights to china await). a day in pleasant air walking around munich, and then a train ride to Prag. texan christians in my train …
Woo Czech me out!!
... come and write tributes to him!!
From here we walked down the famous Charles bridge where there are all the statues either side, and then there's the statue that you touch/rub and it brings you goodluck!
We then walked into old town square where we watched the astronomical clock strike over the hour.. and little skeletons start dancing and pulling the cord to the bells..supposedly in a way saying "it's time to die" (how creepy) and then theres little men ...
Prague!
... in and can take us as far as the petrol station just over the border. Result. From there surely a matter of minutes before we are driven the rest of the way. This is what people need to understand about hitchhikers. We don't necessarily have to be taken right to the door, just edge us ever closer. We've more chance of getting a ride to our ultimate destination at a rest stop in the Czech Republic than we do on a roadside South of Dresden. Just because ...
WE MADE IT!
... and got to see a lot of the city. The Vltava River runs through Prague and the city is still set up based on the construction of the Middle Ages so the drive wound us around quite a bit.
Our apartment is GREAT! It's so much bigger than we expected it to be and essentially the only people in this building are people from our program which is super nice. I took quite a few ...
Many Czecks are still atheists
... and everyone who was queuing got a few. She took them home and enjoyed them with her small boys. She said the one good thing was that in that time, women were encouraged to stay home with their children through a small allowance. She loved the time she spent playing, skating, reading and being with her children and hoped that her sons pass on similar values to their children.
She shared this information when we ...