3/28

I made it safely to Prague. I’m staying at the Plus Prague Hostel. It seems a pretty cool place. It’s waaay bigger than any of the hostels I’ve seen before, but the free breakfast kicked ass. I’m not quite sure what I’m doing for the next week. I’m going to try and take a train to Cracow,Poland to see Aushwitz sometime in the next couple of days. Maybe I’ll make a day trip to Vienna. There are tons of tours around Prague and some of the museums I looked up sound pretty neat. They’ve even got a museum of Communism. It seems a really touristy place so far, but we’ll see how it goes.

The Czech language is ridiculous. I have been trying to figure stuff out, but I can barely even pronounce the words they teach you in my phrase book. Also, the Czech Krown is really weird. The smallest bill I’ve seen is 100 krowns. I’ve currently got in my wallet bills ranging from 100 to 5000. I feel rich, but at the same time I don’t know what the hell to do with it. I got a badass chinese meal yesterday for 80 krowns, the equivalent of 3 euro…yeah. I feel rich.

I picked up this travel magazine yesterday called “Packed” and it was probably the best thing that could happen to me so far. It told me a whole bunch of cool events and festivals going on around Europe for the next month. I’m totally going to try and make it to Finland for the Helsinki International Beer festival on the 11th. That would mean only being in Amsterdam for three days, but it sounds worth it. Apparently it’s like the Scandinavian Oktoberfest. Updates to come.