There are still so many cities left!
Friday, January 7
Wednesday, January 5
Home Sweet Home
It's funny... touching down in Detroit was just as exciting after two weeks away as it was after three months. Ironically, the first thing on my to do list today was to get a new passport, as they stamped the very last page of my old one in Zurich, and I leave for Peru in only six weeks! (I had intended on just adding pages, but it turns out they charge for that now... grr...)
Till then!
Till then!
Monday, January 3
Prague (Things I Love About This Place)
We're currently on our way back from Prague, where we spent the last four days of our trip. Though it's a gorgeous city, I honestly didn't think it lived up to my expectations. The nightlife was a little lacking, the city is flooded with cheap souvenier shops, and street names change every 2-300 meters. (Look at these directions!)
Things I did like about this city, though, included the following:
• The Czech language and its utter lack of consonants (for example in the word trdlo), plus the fact that everything ends with the letter "y" (republiky, mapy, cigarety, salaty, etc.)
• The people (we stopped to get directions to our hotel at ANOTHER hotel, and the guy at the reception desk went through the effort of actually printing us directions)
• The free tram rides (we've paid for two tickets so far and still haven't validated them, which no one else seems to do, either)
• New Year's Eve (you can buy REAL fireworks here, so the whole city is aglow)
• Being able to buy Absinthe
• The hot chocolate (which is a little bit like a liquid candy bar)
• Our hotel, which had the largest breakfast buffet ever
• How descriptive traditional Czech food is (pork knuckle, pork neck, lamb knee...)
• How well we've eaten here (we could have probably eaten really cheaply, but when you can get wine for $3/glass and entrees for $15, why compromise?)
)
Things I did like about this city, though, included the following:
• The Czech language and its utter lack of consonants (for example in the word trdlo), plus the fact that everything ends with the letter "y" (republiky, mapy, cigarety, salaty, etc.)
• The people (we stopped to get directions to our hotel at ANOTHER hotel, and the guy at the reception desk went through the effort of actually printing us directions)
• The free tram rides (we've paid for two tickets so far and still haven't validated them, which no one else seems to do, either)
• New Year's Eve (you can buy REAL fireworks here, so the whole city is aglow)
• Being able to buy Absinthe
• The hot chocolate (which is a little bit like a liquid candy bar)
• Our hotel, which had the largest breakfast buffet ever
• How descriptive traditional Czech food is (pork knuckle, pork neck, lamb knee...)
• How well we've eaten here (we could have probably eaten really cheaply, but when you can get wine for $3/glass and entrees for $15, why compromise?)
)
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