Rezidence Emmy Karlovy Vary

... the city's skyline. There were guards out the front who looked pretty scary but Matt insisted on having a photo with one of them - I refused to go near them. There were a number of tour groups going around, all with a guide holding a coloured umbrella or flag at the front. Matt and I preferred to take ourselves around the place. Within the ...

... at B&B U Zeleneho Vence (a.k.a. "The Green Garland"). The people there were really nice and helpful. We had a cosy room which featured charming wooden beams, wood flooring, a en-suite bathroom (with a radiator that doubled as a towel-warmer - I so want one), and TV with cable service (including English-language CNN international, the only channel we could understand). Although ...

... tower was also very impressive looking. It had two massive clocks that measured astronomy stuff or CD sales or whatever. Oh yeah, (if you don't like funny things DO NOT read on) funny thing to tell you; Heaps of tourists gather out the front of this clock to watch "the skeleton", as it was described to us, which "comes out" on the hour. Literally hundreds of people were there so we were thinking "Well this must be good" (NB: within the quotation ...

Prague is located right in the heart of Europe and I'm not sure if it can be classified as Eastern Europe. Prague might have been cheap place to visit in the past, but that's not the case now. Beer is an exception though. Pint of beer can be had at the pub for less than a dollar and it's quite good. I'm starting to notice that American beer really sucks and it's no wonder why everyone ...

... really held my attention. After walking to the end of the town, I ended up at this huge hotel that looked really familiar to me. It took me a while but I finally realized where I knew the hotel from. It was in the latest James Bond film Casino Royale. It was pretty cool to see it and to be able to recognize it. I checked the internet when I got home and sure enough some of the film was shot at the Grand Pupp hotel in ...

... me the story as to why he was staying in that night. He simply had no money and it would be Monday before he could have the bank wire him some. He then told me how on Friday night he had gone out drinking with a friend. This friend evidently ran into an old girlfriend and went off with her. So he ventured on, met up with some girls and eventually ending up in a music club "off the beaten path" around three in the morning. These girls meet up with ...

... time I have left, not thinking about it!) and there are plenty of funny things I've noticed. So I'll list them here, to give you some feeling for the place, from a naive Aussie who struggles to remember the word for 'thankyou' in Czech. So probably I am missing plenty of the local character and vibe! What I like: *They like lighting the city up at night. It looks cool. *They like ...

... We took advantage of cheaper accommodations to catch our breath a bit before changing destinations. Plus, there was still much of Prague we hadn't seen yet. But as quickly as we planned the day, Chad began to feel sick. We had a late breakfast and came right back to the apartment for a day full of intermittent naps, computer work, and whatever English TV we could find (mostly CNN, Animal Planet, National Geographic, and of course, MTV). These were the hangover, rainy Sundays we ...

... least today - for the show it puts on hourly from nine until nine. Every hour, the steeple bell chimes the time, and two windows open up, from which a procession of figures of the twelve apostles can be seen. Below the windows, four animated figures move: a skeleton rings a bell and nods his head, beckoning the other three figures toward the grave, while the representations of vanity, greed and delight in earthly pleasures shake their heads, refusing to follow the skeleton. After ...

... this month? Well, for starters, I kept a running list of adjectives that I felt described my trek at different given moments: exciting, nerve-wracking, fun, absurd, surprising, challenging, redeeming, wacky, lonely, educational, reflective, satisfying, social, and ending at randomly awesome and unforgettable. I definitely remember the people I met and experiences we shared much more than the places I saw; I reaffirmed that, while more of a ...