Sunday, June 27, 2010

Hello from Prague

As the title says, Why hello there, I am indeed in Prague. Django and I are well on our way to Dubrovnik. One country down and Austria and Slovenia to go. We've spent the last 3 days touring Prague and though I have managed to avoid the local food like the plague, I'll have to really work on that to properly complete my project in Dubrovnik. Today we started out in the Jewish Quarter and paid a whopping 15 dollars to visit the Old Jewish Cemetery which was a big as a small Super Walmart. Though the atmosphere was somber, the tombstones beautiful, and the experience an overall good one, it was not worth the price we had to pay. After that we made our way over the Charles Bridge up to St.Vitus' Cathedral only to find it closed. You'll see it in the pictures, it's quite tall and didn't make it all the way into the frame. The building in really beautiful from the outside though. We then mad our way to to a bar for lunch, Django had the collared pork and I stuck with french fries and a Pilsner beer. We bought a beer glass for my dad as a gift and Django got himself one of the huge metal capped beer glasses that are common here. We stopped at a pub for a pizza dinner, walked around Old Town Square for a bit and then made our way home early to deal with my broken cell phone issue (still isn't fixed which makes me more homesick than ever.) Now we're packing for our seven a.m train ride tomorrow to Salzburg. I'm still quite homesick and sad a lot of the time, but Django is being a good sport and we're crossing our fingers that the pulling of my heartstrings goes down a bit over each coming week. Day 3 of six weeks in down. Still got about 40 to go til I'm back in the good ol' U S of A.