Hotel Amphone Brno

I'm actually typing this between Prague and Brno, but I will change buses a Brno, and head towards Vienna from there...

I love internet on buses, but this one isn't that great, and cuts out pretty often...
I'll bein Vienna around 3:30pm this afternoon

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... of treasures, some lit by fairy lights, some filled with mirror still lakes.

Eventually the cavern opened out into a large chasm-like mouth. We were at the bottom of the Macocha Abyss. A stream flowed through the rare habitat of the ravine floor. We stared upwards at the impossibly high sides, towering above us.

Czech legend tells of Macocha, the evil step-mother, who threw her ...

... to understand it. The gist of the story was:

The area is riddled with holes, which animals can fall down into the cave system. One day a woman walked out to work on her land, but forgot the stake to tie her goat to. So, she tied the goat to the sail of the windmill and walked back to get the stake. The wind blew and the windmill turned and the goat got hung. Not to dwell on tragedy, they ate the goat.

I didn't quite get the joke, but you could buy drawings of ...

We stopped in another city in the Czech Republic for a couple days to get a feel for a non-touristy area. Brno (Czechs really dont waste their time with vowels, do they?) is on first impression a lot more drab than Prague. Our pension (guesthouse) was in the outskirts of town past some rundown houses with broken windows and graffiti, and Jesse was a little disappointed at first. After we got to know ...

... wouldn't connect! But the clothes got washed and we were treated to a good old thunder storm. Dave had read about a little town called Kutna Hora which was not far from Prague, so we thought we would stop in on our way. It is a lovely medieval town with a great cathedral and lots of little ally ways and cobble stone streets. One of the main attractions of this town is the Bone chapel, which we thought we would have a little ...

... okay, a little superficial perhaps, but the architecture here beats the **** out of ours. Every city we go to is amazing. 4. Cheap, good beer- At least in the Czech. It's the best in the world and costs a buck at a restaurant/bar. Sorry, I am a college guy, so this makes the list. there are more to come, but I haven't written them down, so I'll update as I remember, which will most likely happen this weekend, because most come out of frustration during travel!

... to class, so I will spend the rest of the afternoon visiting Brno and meeting with Anna (HC:anizka). She is a cool girl, as I was her first encounter with HC I think she was a bit stress to know what would happen. :D I guess the fact that I was slightly ill and not to keen on turning long around before making a decision made thing easier, after a walk in the city and a stop at the computer class at university, we ended up having ...

... was open and we could have spent more time there and took more pictures. It was a valuable experience, regardless. Well, I am sad to say that I didn't get to visit Joseph and Sebastian Nemecek in Slovakia this time. I couldn't reach them on Sunday. But there's always next time... On the bright side, I did get to meet my friend from the bus, Jaromir last night for dinner. We had a very interesting conversation (in English) on everything from technology and ...

Okay, so here I am finally uploading photos. I brought my laptop to the computer lab at school but it's really, really slow. I have put up ten photos in about a half an hour and have been waiting 5 minutes for a video to upload. I think given the logistics of uploading photos I will only be able to upload a small portion of my photos and videos and stuff, but hey, at least they will be the best of the bunch! So it's another really hot one here but at least it's ...

... my bikini, grab the tube and walk to the starting point. I float around, go down a rapid, go under a bridge, go down a second rapid, and almost miss the end point. If I miss the end point I float on to the next village about an hour away and have to walk back barefoot, which is no good. I make a valiant effort to reach the quay and succeed, just barely, to get back to my starting point to grab my flipflops and towel. But then I think, if once was fun why not go again? So I get ...