Hotel Kozak 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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... toilets "wee cupboards". Well, what else would WC stand for?

We put on our jumpers and followed the German bikers. The ambient temperature inside is 9C, a good 10 degrees colder than outside. It was like walking into the mouth of a dragon. Needle sharp teeth sprouted from the floor and ceiling. Some meet in the middle to become pillars of rock. We followed the tour through cavern after ...

... built in the Dutch style with a rotating top so the sails can always face the wind.

The old guy serving was friendly and gave me a photostat of information about the windmill, which I was encouraged to read out loud to the children. This I duly did and they sat through it uncomplainingly. On the back was a story marked "Humour" which I can only assume is a true story or some local legend. It had clearly been translated by someone not all that good at English, and I ...

... a bite to eat at Selepka's yet again; the food is good and the beer is cheap, what more can you ask for? However, we managed to run into Milosh the Colonel at the pub yet again and that led to some more good times. We ordered several rounds of Starobrno to the table as well as the Moravian Platter, a slab of wood with a heaping pile of all meats and cheeses imaginable...for less than $10. I said this before and I'll say it ...

... dogs. I CAN"T BELIEVE IT'S BEEN FOUR MONTHS. It feels like just yesterday I was laying down on the bed across from me during that first night. I remember having the thought "what the hell am I doing here!?" Now, 4 months later, I'm on the other side of the room, laying in bed thinking how much this semester has meant to me. But man, I can't wait to see everyone and just hug the **** out of them and start enjoying life back in the states. Get ready.

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 ...

... 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 ...

... as I can keep from saying "a bit" every 5 seconds, I'm happy. But I like Simon, he's a great guy to have a conversation with. He's interesting. Same with Enrique, he's really nice. Oh, so at our soccer game two days ago, it was 4 on 4 and every player was from a different country. The countries were: USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, Finland, Austria, France, and I can't remember the last one unfortunately. It was pretty cool. P.S. Look at the photos from the first couple of days.

... 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 ...