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First Studio Assignment
... minute ride to a connecting metro. Found out I missed my stop. Got off on the wrong stop. Panicked. Stopped and blankly stared at my huge map while my moment of panic passed. Hopped on a tram. Hopped off the tram. Hopped on another tram. Hopped off that tram. Waited 15 minutes for a bus. Rode the bus for 5 minutes to my starting point in Repy. Whew.
Well, let me tell you ...
Prague
... and the lingering effects of Communism can still be felt. In Copenhagen, when reserving our night train to Prague, we decided to get the 4 bed cabin. We got lucky because no one else booked the other two beds. We spread out, set up the table, played cards and ate dinner in comfort. When we got to Prague, we headed straight toward our hostel on the east end of town. We booked hostels in Prague and Vienna because we are only spending a couple days in each. We had ...
Gypsies, trams and cheese (sorry, Cher)
... One unbelievable display was the Lord's Prayer engraved on a human hair! All of the items required magnification to even be seen, and every one was awe inspiring. One of my favorites was not just a camel but a while caravan, complete with oasis, inside the eye of a needle (talk about irony!). The entire display took all of 20 minutes to view but it was memorable beyond words. We left the museum and wandered about the monastery grounds briefly. There were a couple of ...
St Vitus Cathedral
So much absolutely stunning stained glass, not to mention huge arches and disappearingly tall ceilings. The whole castle was seething with tourists, but the architecture was tall enough to largely stand on its own. Mostly I just struggled ...
Prague
... to grab a sandwich, say 'danka' and step onto my train. The 5-some hour train ride began. I was in and out of sleep the duration of my journey...in between listening to, you guessed it, a group of 8 Americans in their early 20's talking true 'rubbish.' The word fits there. I either needed my ear plugs (didn't have), Ipod (no headphones) or the gall to kindly tell them to close their lips...none of which I was able to do.
I wasn't quick enough to realize we ...