hokay…i finally finished photoshopping the shit out of my photos, and they’re already up on my flickr. once they were up, i got a bit complacent and never got around to actually posting about my trip. whups…heh. but i wasn’t worried, because i actually had the whole trip logged in my iphone, so there wouldn’t be a need to sift thru the photos to jog my memory, or to make shit up to fill the gaps of memory…whichever the case may have been. but yay for thorough recaps! well, thorough enough anyway. the iphone keyboard blows testicles…i wasn’t keen on typing away on that fucking thing…
elaine flew into nyc early saturday morning at some ungodly hour from phoenix. we hung around my apartment some before heading out for brunch before the flight. the flight itself was fairly uneventful, aside from the dude in the safety instructions video who looked like a cross between ted danson and ivan drago. “i vil brreak you…then vasten your seeet-belt“.
DOBRY DEN PRAHA
we got into prague early morning sunday…like at another ungodly hour. we couldn’t check into the hotel yet, so we dumped our stuff off with the hotel staff and went wandering the early morning streets. our hotel was right off of wenceslas square, so we headed up and down that for a bit, then wandered south into nove mesto, then north thru the stare mesto. we ended up crossing thru the charles bridge into mala strana, then hradcany, and almost all the way to prague castle within an hour. yea…so we had to stop ourselves, otherwise we’d have nothing to do the rest of the trip. we headed back south into mala strana and took a lunch break at a place called luka la. czech (the language) was noticeably absent in that area, and not because of tourists necessarily. maybe it was a big overseas college area or something…loooots of english spoken by the younger-than-me people we saw.
we made our way back to our hotel, the yasmin (the picture above is of the lobby…woot), and checked in. i think we passed out for a bit before heading out again late afternoon. we wandered some more along the vltava river, saw the fred and ginger building (it was just ok), late afternoon/early evening beering at potrerena husa in the smichov neighborhood, then a czech dinner at krusovicka pivnice…i had schnitzel. yum yum.