Praha, Czech Republic

Finally, a place where I have some time to relax. I made it here at 11pm and planned on having a beer and going to sleep to recuperate after the last night's events. Haha, at 11:08 there was a glass of Absinthe in front of me courtesy of a nice Brazillian girl. As you may or may not know, CZ is the last nation to allow authentic Absinthe. Midnight brought me out to U Sudu and the Akropolis. U Sudu was a great bar situated in an underground bombshelter-catacombe type place. The Akropolis is where a lot of Absinthe was consumed and I met a very hot Czech girl who din't speak english. We began to dance and she ...Censored...
So Kahti's friend was hooking up with some other Czech kid Michal. Michal and I walked them home around 7am and then proceded to the nearest non-stop (24-hour pub) and drank a few more pints. We walked around and he told me about the history of Praha and then we made it back to the Czech Inn hostel around 1pm where, since it was Friday, people were on the patio already drinking. I knew Pearl Jam was playing in Praha tonight so I was hoping someone had details as to how I could acquire a ticket. Luckily they were still on sale for a mere 40euros, or 990Crowns. I finally had some sleep from three until six pm and then woke up and began pregaming for the Pearl Jam Concert at Szaka Arena. We took the metro to the arena with a group of about a dozen people from the hostel. The show was amazing, 2 encores and 3.5 hours of total concert and who knew Eddie Vedder can speak Czech. After the show wasn't too exciting since I was split from everyone in the show, so I just turned in for some much needed sleep.

The next day consisted of a walk up to Prague Castle and then a bike tour all over the city. A nice big Czech dinner for a total of eight dollars followed the tour and then the night began. We ventured to Cross Club about fifteen deep this time. Now Cross Club isn't your ordinary club, it looks like someone opened up a diesel engine and threw it all over the walls and ceiling. It was straight out of Star Wars or the Matrix, all of the machines on the walls were moving and had lights all over them. After the club, at about 5am, we went back to Czech Inn and I neglected to sleep in my bed again, however, I did sleep...

The next day is Sunday, when the post office doesn't deliver. Now I don't think I said it before, but I've been waiting for a replacement camera from the U.S. that has been shipped to Prague. This has been a huge dilemma during my travels, but it didn't get bad until now since it is holding me up. As a result, Sunday was a day to relax and do laundry (1st time in 2 weeks). After laundry Shaun (Michigan, whom will be mentioned more), Sam (L.A.) and Steve (Canada) went down to the Jewish Quarter and the Old Town Main Square. The Jewish Quarter is one of the most preserved in Europe since the Nazis were planning on making Praha the jewel of their eastern empire. The Jewish Quarter itself was going to be a living relic of an extinct race, or so the German's planned...think about that when you visit it. The German's weren't planning on losing the war and had big plans for the future. Its a good thing it didn't go their way. After that we walked down to Charles Bridge and took some night shots of the Voltava River and the Bridge itself. This bridge was the original 14th century gateway to the city and also passageway from east to west europe centuries ago. After our tour, back to the Czech Inn we went when sitting on the patio drinking two slammin' girls in Traditional Bavarian dresses pulled up in a cab. Now, I haven't yet been to Bavaria so I've never seen dress like this. Regardless, they were two Australian (Sydney) girls who just arrived from Oktoberfest. Of course we asked them to join us that night. Out at the club there were about ten guys and the girls in Bavarian wear. So, Shaun and I had to think quick. Four day veterans of the city we offered them a night tour of some of the sites. Shaun and I left the club with Kat and Tanya in tow and showed them around showing off our newfound knowledge of Praha. Needless to say they were impressed and the rest is definitely needless to say.

Monday morning I planned to wake up early go to the post-office, grab my package, and head to Munich. Five hours of headache, and four trips to the post-office later I had no luck and decided to give up. Lucky for me Lenka, the "mummi" from the Czech Inn went with me the last time to translate for me. Even with her with me, the Czech post-office couldn't find my package. So I decided to leave the package, whenever it may arrive, and hopefully they return to sender. Shaun and I were all packed up and ready to go to Munich when we relaized it was too late. We made it as far as the tram stop a block away and turned around to check back in to the Czech Inn. But, its not so bad, I love Praha.

That night we brought some people back to the Cross Club and then we went to Roxy, a huge hard house club, where we drank absinthe and Becherovska (a Czech Jager and Cinnamon liquor) and danced until the early morning.

The next morning we finally left Prague for Munich. We couldn't wait to get out of Prague, but little did we know the unreliability of the Czech Train system.