One last european post

Sniff Sniff, we are leaving today, sniff, and coming back to america, sniff, the land of wal-marts and apple pie. We hope our driver will be at the airport to pick us up! Danny and I have seen more and had more experiences then we ever can imagine. Though we are ready to come home and go eat where people understand what we are ordering. And where there are hot showers and non- funky toilets. But we will miss it here so much! Bye, see you in America!

Berlin

In Berlin, which is cold wet and dreary. We overslept and missed the bike tour (damn daylight savings!) So we are just wandering around today. Headed for Amsterdam sometime tommorow. Thats it for now..Grubb Gott!

Headed to Berlin

We are leaving Prague today and headed for Berlin. We'll only be there for a day and a half, which kinda sucks. We are doing a bike tour of the city tommorow which I'm extremley excited for. Prague has been awesome and I would recommend it to everyone. Danny and I are finally starting to get a little tired of traveling and almost ready to come home, (ALMOST!). But one more city left to conquer for this trip!

good thing were not in Paris

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Overcharge!

Prague is awesome! Yesterday Danny and I just walked all over the city. We took in the shops and the arcitcture. This city is has so much personality. We bought ourselves a few souviners since we havn't bought much this whole trip. The prices here are reasonably cheap and its nice not to be blowing a ton of money. Last night we went out and tried the Pilsner beer. Its rather good, nothing like US beer, but German beer is still the best. Prague restraunts like to overcharge customers or short them their change. At one bar what should have cost 270 Crowns cost us 450. I was pissed but didn't feel like fighting it so I just didn't tip instead. It is just agravating, cause apparently they did a recent survey and said that almost 60 percent of bars and restraunts do this. So when in Prague watch the check and your change. Today Danny and I sat around and went for a nice meal. I got pork tenderloin with plum in the middle, so good! They say Chekz food isn't good but I like it. The only thing I havn't liked is the traditional sasuage/hot dog. It was crunchy on the outside and just rather nasty. We are getting sad that our time here is almost up but We've still got one more city left, Berlin, which we leave for on sat. night. AHOJ!

yesterday was amazing! We started out the day drinking great coffee again (I just missed it so much) and then went out to explore. We went to the Communist Museum which was really informative. There was a guy here in 1969 that burned himself to death at the new town square to protest communist. Only problem he didn't die for three more days. It also talked about the Velvet Revoloution that happened here that wasn't as peaceful as people made it out to be (its when in 1989 the Chekz people protested the communist and the government became theirs.) Anywho, we then took a walk around old town and to the Jewish Ghetto which were going back to another day to really explore. Then we went of St Charles Bridge to get a good look at it cause on the walking tour we pratically ran across it. There is a perfect view of the castle its so piturecsuse. Then as we were on the bridge we were trying to Rember if that was the bridge they used at the end of XXX with Vin Disel. But if it was he wouldn't have made it there because there is a little waterfall that the submarine would not have made it down. Anywho, doesn't matter cause Vin Disel still managed to save the world and we all can live in peace.(yes I am joking I know it was a movie) Then we went to a Midevil Torture Museum! OWH there was some PAINFUL THINGS. Between the Water Torture to putting people in caskets with spikes that didn't hit vital organs so they would live in there like a week before they died it was painful. Danny loved this museum, its just his cup of tea. Me, well the whole time in there I Just kept imagining that they would lock the doors and not let us out. Then it was torture time. I kept backing up to make sure the doors were still open. I couldn't wait to get away from all that painful stuff. Ug. Later that night we went on a ghost tour, which had a bunch of rowdy high schoolers that ruined the whole thing. But what really made me mad is that the bars here close at 11 and 12 pm!!! Clubs stay open all night but bars no! We were supposed to be dropped off at a bar after the tour but couldn't because it was closed by the time we got there! HOW STUPID! But we found a place near the hostel there and had some good Chezk Beer! MMMM! I probley won't drink beer for a year when I get home cause I have consumed so much over here. Thats it for now. Mej Se!

Praha day two

Prague is called Praha here, I like how we name cities and countries with our own names. Danny and I have had quite a day today. We started out with some good coffee. That was nice, I who once drank coffee by the pots have barley had any in three weeks. So I was booming this morning when i had coffee. They drink Turkish coffee here which is strong with grains left in the bottom. I like it. After that we went on a walking tour for over four hours. We saw alot of Prague, including the Jewish Ghetto, a astronomical coo-coo clock, St. George's Bridge, and Prague Castle. Wow, the tour was not as good as in Munich (that and the one in Munich was free!) St. George's bridge was awesome though, we are going back tommorow to really get a good luck. Danny and I rubbed a statue that garuentees we come back to Prague and get a wish that will come true. We really like it here, it is kind of like New Orleans with even more personaility. Then we went and ate at a midevil resturant. We couldn't read the menu so we told the waiter to bring us something good. We got some excellent beer and the traditional Czech dinner which is meat and potatoes. But its alot of meat and potatoes. He brought out a plate of four diffrent kinds of Potatoe pancakes, good but dry, french fry type potatoes, then it had ham, chicken brest, ribs, duck (first time eating that, not to bad), saurerkraut and peas. This plate was massive, but we did good and ate alomst half. It was teh first time this trip that danny and i have been stuffed to our gills for 20 bucks. I love Czech. Thats about it for today. Měj se!
by the way if you want to see our hostel go to
www.elf.prague-hostels.cz

Prague at Midnight

So a big tip to others is don't get to a forign city, have no place to stay, and have none of their currency in your pocket...not much fun. We got to Prague around 11pm last night. It was not bad, minus the drunk homeless man that speaking chekz who wouldn't leave danny alone (actually danny has that southern hospitality thing where he won't just walk away with out trying to say excuse me I need to go now but it was nice talking to you. None of which the man understood) Then we walked for awhile with a few places to stay in mind but no idea how to get to them. That and the metro stops running at 12 (which we couldn't get on because we have no cash on us) In Prague they use the Crowns or something like that. Finally around 1 we found a home in Prague, they even let us stay the night and we without paying up front. I was kinda scared I think Danny was too though he will deny it all day. But its just intimidating being in a whole new city in a forgin country late at night with no idea which way is left and which is right. Though Venice was scarier cause when we arrived all we saw was water and we had no idea how to get around there at all. Anywho, we are going on a walking tour today and then just taking in Prague. So far it seems pretty minus the whole last night being scared thing. When we rode in we saw the Prague Castle all lit up on the top of the mountian. If I was a civilan from long ago it woiuld have been intimidating. Anyways I've written enough for now, but this hostel has free internet so I'll try to be more up to date..Grubb Gott (i'm looking up how to say bye here for the next post.

going to prague

leaving tonight for prague. We have gone from really warm weather to the heart of cold. We loved munich. Last night Sebastian took us to a bar with some of his friends then we went to this HUGE club. It was awesome, the kind of place Heather will love when she comes here. We also went to Dashu yesterday, it was rather depressing but it really gave perspective to what a concentration camp was like. On the front of the gate as you walk in there is a german sign that says work brings freedom. It was just somber. We have loved munich its so pretty and clean. When we go to Berlin in a little it is supposdly very diffrent. They are really excited about the World Cup coming here but none of the locals can get tickets. Anyways about to go eat some more baviarian food with sebastian before we leave( I love the sasuages!). Grubb Gott.

going to prague

leaving tonight for prague. We have gone from really warm weather to the heart of cold. We loved munich. Last night Sebastian took us to a bar with some of his friends then we went to this HUGE club. It was awesome, the kind of place Heather will love when she comes here. We also went to Dashu yesterday, it was rather depressing but it really gave perspective to what a concentration camp was like. On the front of the gate as you walk in there is a german sign that says work brings freedom. It was just somber. We have loved munich its so pretty and clean. When we go to Berlin in a little it is supposdly very diffrent. They are really excited about the World Cup coming here but none of the locals can get tickets. Anyways about to go eat some more baviarian food with sebastian before we leave( I love the sasuages!). Grubb Gott.

lloove munich

having fun in munich..sorry if my typing is bad but its reallz hard to write on a german keyboard. we are having a great time..tomorow we are going to dascund the concentration camp to see that..it will be depressing...today we met a bunch of kick ass england lads at the hobrahous, then we found sebastian.which is awesome we had a good time drinking together last night.the beer here will reallz knock your socks off..is good but so strong..other then that love munich and sad we have to leave it so fast..
amz

munich daz two

Todaz dannz and I had a busz daz..we saw the glockenspiel..which was lame lame lame..its a big coo coo clock. but its lame we went to Viktualienmarkt.which is a market..it wasnt that exciting but the things we did see were the monkez tower, which has a great storz about ludwig getting taken bz a monkez to the top of the tower. we also went to the hofbrähaus..which is a famous beer hall with goood beer.. we did some other sightseeing all over the place..munich is wonderful. and mm the beer is good too..mm beer we definatlz love the beer..thats about it for todaz. Grüb Gott

Munich

We are in Munich!! its beautiful here..and on the way here we passed through the alps and danny was astounded by how big thez were and the snow. By the waz the z,s and the y,s are backwards here so sorrz in advance. Anzwho Venice was great and beautiful minus my 80 dollar meal which pissed me off. Tip donät eat the fish! because as the punez little waiter told me after the check..ahh here in venice we charge for fish by the 100 gram..grrr..the train ride todaz was looong it was 7 hours. We canät wait to explore munich more tommorow..it is cold here though..brr..but hez i canät moan to much..iäm cold in germanz...okaz this whole kezboard is so messed up..sorrz if its confusing. Iäm off to drink mz bear now...Ciao

money money money

How to drop 62 euro on one meal (around 80 dollars)
Get a house wine
bottle of water
one pizza
and one peice of stupid fish that is supposed to cost 7 euro but since you get charged by the gram it is 35 euro...
other then that were in venice which is georgous..leaving for munich tommorow...i fed pigions in st. marks sq while danny laughed as i got crapped on

dont have any time left..will write more when in munich..

Greece

Greece is GEORGOUS! We are staying on the little island of Corfu and it is so wonderful. Our hotel looks out onto the ocean which is a perfect shade of green. Sorry its taken me so long to blog. The internet here is extremley slow so it gets agravating trying to check my mail and blog. My apologies. Anyways we got here on tuesday and went walking to the beach. Then after we were done with that we ended up just resting most of the day since the trip over here was so tumoloutous. To get to Corfu we had to take a 5 hour train to Bari Italy from Roma which was not bad except it was a compartment train with six people in it. No body talked. So Danny and I spent 5 hours in complete silence. After that we had to figure out where the port was to get to Greece. Found that with relative ease then we got our tickets. Since we have Eurorail tickets we got free boat tickets which was cool. Only problem is they were deck seats so when we got on the boat we were shoved into lounge chairs one level above the bar. Around 10 we were trying to go to sleep when it happened. The lights dimmed and the music started blarring. We were on top of the discotech! arg needless to say we didn't sleep. At 5 in the morning we had to get off the boat at Ignosomthing Greece and get a ferry to Corfu. Not bad except everything was closed so we couldn't find out where the ferry was at. After an hour of walking in the rain we found it! And got here. But it was so worth it. Yesterday (Wensday) we rented four-wheelers with some americans from wisconsin (who love us since we went to Brett Farves college) which are street legal here and rode around for 7 hours. All the greeks would wave and smile at us.This place really is a little spot of heven. Oh and we get free greek food for supper every night which is SO delicous. The olives here are awesome and I didn't even like olives before this trip. Anywho thats about it for now. sorry about the delay.

P.S. In rome one night we sat down at a restraunt and started talking and these two women next to us asked where we were from, turns out they were also from Mississippi from Resovoir, which is in the Jackson area. They were here traveling around Rome for a week. Just thinking its a small small world.

I don't know how to say bye in greek yet so ciao.

next up greece.

In Roma, We have been to Vatican City and saw the old pope. Then off to Trevi fountian, and Spanish steps and a hundred other things. Been eating alot of pizza and having a good time. Tommorow we leave for greece. We will be staying at the pink palace in corfu. You can look it up at www.thepinkpalace.com. Ciao

Collosuem

In Roma..its really nice though dirty. Yesterday Danny and I walked and walked and walked..we went to the Collisuem which took us three hours to find. Man are they trying hard to keep that think in one peice. Its like a bad school project with cement in spots, asphalt and other misc. things holding it together. After that we spent a few hours in the Roman Forum and Palantine Hill. That was actually quite beautiful. Today we are off to Vatican City to go say hi to the pope. Ciao

Roma

After a quick train road, walk, 19 hour boat ride and another 1 hour train ride we are in Roma. Eating a nice pasta supper tonight but we have to change hostels tommorow oh well. The landscape as the boat was leaving barcalona was magnificint. The boat was a miny cruise and since there were not many people on it we had free run of the place. Thats about it for now.

P.s. Christie we love you very much and wish we were with you right now. Keep in touch, please.

ta ta barcelona

Barcelona has been fun but tonight we are going on a ferry boat across the Meditrean Sea to Rome. We´ll arrive in Rome tommorow around 3ish. Not much else going on here. Just walking and taking in the sites. We went on another bar crawl last night and met alot of new people. We also saw some Gaudi buildings and walked along the coast. The streets here are real narrow and you feel like your in the middle ages walking down them. Georgous town. Adios