For the sake of not completely failing to document my travels I need to speed-post some of the adventures that have been missing from this forsaken blog for too long. Thus with no further ado lets recap some interesting events of the past weeks and months.
I recently left you, my dear 5+ readers, in a state of disdain and sadness but fear not because the best days of the beach are ahead of us. After flying to Rome for a half day I took a bus across mainland Italy to Ancona in order to catch a ferry all the way through the Adriatic Sea to the economic disaster of a nation we call Greece.
Despite their current economic woes, their islands and beaches are still quite nice if I do say myself...
Not a bad view from our hostel, the Pink Palace, on the beautiful island of Corfu.
After a few days of shenanigans on the island, including ATVs, beach chillin, a cruise which included some 40-50ft cliff jumping, I was worn out and ready to get back to Praha where my mother would be waiting for me at the airport, 1 day after my Greek island adventure.
Much to the pleasant surprise of my mom, we packed up the next day for an awesome 3 day trip to Budapest, Hungary. Unfortunately I lost my camera on the bus, luckily I got it back but I have no pictures of this adventure...perhaps I can get a few from her (you know my email mom) and then I can give a little update on that. Upon our return to Prague we added to our traveling crew one more family member; Jessie all the way from Chicago! Not to disappoint her by spending all of our days in the lovely Czech Republic, we all took a day trip 2 hours to Dresden, Germany.
Dresden was actually very modern, understandably so because it was obliterated in the Allied offensive nearing the end of WWII, but there are a bunch of magnificently rebuilt monuments which create a nice town that is not too touristy but a great place to live or visit for sure.
Dresden Frauenkirche, nearly completely rebuilt from this:
Also around the town center there are several sick buildings, once again mostly rebuilt. The sense of a city rebuilding itself was prominent almost everywhere in the city as you can see by the cranes in the background of this picture of the courtyard of the palace grounds.
We also ventured about 20-30 minutes outside of Prague, depending on who is navigating the trains, to check out the awesome Karlstejn Castle, built by the man himself Charles IV to house the Crown Jewels. Here's a good one of Jessie tickling during the photo-op, as usual.
And here is the Castle in all its glory, actually one of the coolest castles I've ever been to even if we weren't able to see the awesome chapel inside (this shizz is serious, they only let pre-booked tours in the summer while they closely monitor the humidity etc.).
If you give Jessie or my Mom a ring you can hear all about their Euro-adventure, which truly was an adventure due to the Icelandic volcano activity. I sent them on a few day excursion to Vienna to relax them and give them something to do while I was at school.
The same volcano has actually been grumbling again and has caused some flights from England to Portugal to be canceled recently. I only know this because my poor roommate, David O'boyle, was stuck on that horrible mound of dirt they call 'England' when he actually wanted to be in a beautiful Portuguese paradise...sorry Dave.
So what have I been up to since? Just bumming around Prague, we had a stroke of awesome weather until the recent forecast of rainstorms and finals everyday...blehh. But I do have some more time and travels going on after I finish finals and say Na Shledanou to all my awesome friends here. This weekend should be sweet, graduation on Friday and saying our last goodbyes before I have to return to all you kooks...kidding of course!
Also, I was enjoying a nice day at the Letna beer garden, minding my own business when this hat thief came and rained on my parade:
Luckily I was with some friends, so we corned him and stole his money after we got my hat back...but seriously, we had to nearly pry the thing from this poor little guy. I'm just glad that he's still a nuggets fan after this season...
Anyways I've got to run, I'll shoot some updates about graduation and my post-school travels as I have the time. But in the meantime, enjoy all the chipotle you can for me. Please.
Hezky Den!
