Hotel Astoria 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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... son into the abyss. Caught on a branch, he survived to tell the tale. Macocha, in fear of retribution, jumped into the abyss herself and was killed. Seriously, no-one could survive that drop. This is where the gorge gets its name.

We re-entered the tunnels and descended to the River Punkva. Flat boats picked us up and transported us through the labyrinth of underground tunnels. We ...

... windmill, complete with hanging goat, for 10 CzK. For some reason, I took a raincheck on that.

The museum itself is not all that exciting. The top floor did have some excellent posters and photos about potholing expeditions and some clear diagrams of how the cave systems underground interconnect.

I had a coffee at the cafe and the kids fussed Muura the kitten, then spent some time jumping from millstone to millstone, several of which lay in the windmill's garden.

... a little bit and saw the slightly fancier "old town" we really liked it. One major benefit of going to a less touristy area is that its much cheaper, not that Prague was very expensive to begin with.

Our first day in Brno I came down with some sort of cold/flu thing that has been kind of a drag, but as long as its not swine flu I should be ok. On the bright side, this is one of the few times ...

... at. It seems that the cemetery around this little chapel was taking up to much space back in the 15th century so the monks decided to exhume a hole heap of graves to make more space for the towns folk. The bones were then piled up around the chapel until one monk decided they would be better inside. He then thought it would be nice to make things out of the bones, of course....... Inside were 4 pyramids a chandelier and the ...

Prekybos centras, pasirodo, dirba visą parą, taigi atsidarymo nereikia laukti, nes jis visada atidarytas. Antras atradimas toli grazu ne toks malonus - nuleista galinė desinioji padanga. O pridėjus ausį girdimas intensyvus oro bėgimas is padangos. Keliamas aliarmas ir visi, kas dar sugebėjo uzmigt, kyla ...

... cake and tea at a local café. It was a great encounter, she was funny :) Later on, I simply went back home and cooked myself some improvised meal with the only few little things I could by for myself at the local Tesco with the few Czech Crowns I had. Then relaxed with more tea and we watched few movies with Zuzana's flatmate: Coffee and Cigarette (that was pretty good!) and Life of Brian (yeahh Monty Python!). Then I simply felt ...

... to cultural differences and girls. We shared photos, mine from Ostrava, Prague and Terezin last weekend, and his from the Netherlands. I think he is the only person I have met here who calls himself a Catholic and actually goes to church. I learned a lot about the Church's role throughout history with the people of Europe and how it was perceived. That's not really something a textbook can reveal as well. Anyway, we are going to meet again on Wednesday and I might ...

... I was going to go to the pool with the people I went with last time but I decided to do this and play soccer instead. I had an awesome time last time so I'm looking forward to it again. I should probably write something about the pool experience cuz it was not like home. Once you walk in the locker room, about 5 or 6 different hallways appear, leading in every different direction. After walking down a hallway, it isn't immediately clear where the heck it's ...

... in the water, and float down the river, go down a rapid, go under a bridge - and at the second rapid the tube gets stuck. I'm fighting for air, the tube is stuck in the current, and my first priority is to figure out which way is up. I manage to extract myself from the tube while quite thoroughly scratching myself on the only sharp, pointy metal part of the tube. I try to swim away from the rapids but I discover that the river is in fact quite shallow and has pointy rocks at the ...