I’m home now. I’ll be making some meaningful posts sometime in the next few days. I’ve got many thoughts to compile and lots of stories to put together with the appropriate pictures to paint a hopefully very entertaining 10 days of my life.
Train Ride to Berlin – Rural Prague and Rural Berlin, Super awesome 6 hour train ride.
First Impressions of Berlin – Confusing as all hell.
After 3 hours of walking around and feeling like shit we get our bearings and proceed to see.
Victory Spire, A ton of Memorials, the Brandenburg Gate, Hotel Adlon, and lots of other stuff I’ll fill in.
Day 2 – Woke up for City Tour AMAZING.
Berlin as a new city. Growth, shrink, Growth.
Pergamon Museum -> Pergamon Alter, Gates of Ishtar (Babylon)
Drinking Tonight
Major Travel Changes.
We are heading to Amsterdam Tomorrow and flying out of there on the 27th around 10:55am hopefully getting into phoenix around 9pm. We shall see how things go.
Lessons we have learned:
Reserve train seats at least 3 days in advance, Don’t fly stand-by, No One-Day Stops to see a new city, You can get a lot for 7000 Crowns in Prague (But I didn’t find out first hand), I get sick when I travel so I should bring good cold meds, German Apothecary’s Rock! Andrew Mecenzie is a bomb Tour Guide of Berlin.
With that we are out to drink. Tomorrow is either visit German Parliament with a behind the scene tour or a tour of Berlin visiting all the 3rd Reich Stops then heading to Amsterdam.
Clubbin was good, hurt a little the next morning. We caught a train to Kutna Hora where we visited Kostince a 12th century church. The church has a whole bunch of columns a, chandelier, cross and some other stuff made after 40,000 people died of the plague. We also visited a magnificent church that had two saint’s preserved bodies from around the 14th Century. St. Felix and (insert name of second saint) were housed in Church of the Assumption of the, Virgin Klosterkirche Maria Himmelfahrt. Needless to say the countryside of rural Prague is anything but breathtaking.
I’m getting hurried here So I’ll post the short topics I’ll fill in.
Hlucna Samota ->New York times as much protein as you could muster.
Sleep then Leave for Berlin
The end of our Dublin trip was with the Guinness factory which was AWESOME. You won’t find a better place to drink in all of Dublin. I’m just going to jot down things to fill in later as I still don’t have much down time. We are very much rocking these cities in as little time as possible.
Guinness Factory – Gravity Bar
Flight on Aer Lingus – Buns Protein in backpack????
Finding Hostel at night in Prague.
Next Morning – Rapeseed oil? WTF?
Prague Castle, Changing of the Guard
Cathedral
Hit the streets to Charles Bridge
Shopping – Resnick in a Crystal Shop and a monkey with a banana
Astronomical Clock.
Free Wifi with beer (Clubbin Tonight)
Check out Neil’s site for his much more consistent updates since he can post from his cell phone.
http://revneil.blogspot.com/
I’m safe having a great time.
I don’t have much time so here are the stories I’ll need to fill you in on.
Stand By – Don’t do it.
GPS – Saves the day to the hostel.
Hostel living.
Sunday… No Pubs… WTF?
Jameson Factory Tour.
Dublin Castle and Walls.
Late Night Hostel with German Death Metal.
Early Am – Business Life?
Hop On, Hop Off – Random Encounter of the 3rd Kind. Joe, Bobby, Nikki, Josh (Maverick), Debbie
St.Pattys Cathedral – Missing buttons?
The Hook up – Buns, Will and Eric
Off to Party tonight…
All is well.
In preparation for my trip to Europe I had the unique experience of having a neighbor, Tara, take me shopping. If found the experience overly comical and slightly expensive. I will have to say the upside to the experience is I now have a half a chance at finding clothing that will A: fit me and B: not look like shit. The best piece I came out with was a sick Jacket from Hugo Boss. I plan on creating any excuse I can to wear this thing out.
The one thing I don’t understand about the experience is Jeans. WTF?!? I mean 230 bones for some denium and stitching that make your balls sore after wearing them all day. Now I will say this is the first pair of non-dress pants that I actually have some ass in but at the cost of my nuts I’m not sure it is worth it. Tara seemed to think it was a pretty big deal so I’m assuming there is some secret female genome that upon the sight of such jeans releases a pheromone that makes them more attractive.
I was taken to a boutique known as “Electric Ladyland” and purchased my Rock and Republic Jeans as I was told they were necessary. While I still remain skeptical as to how “Rockin” they really are I was very surprised to hear from one of the sales people who managed to convince me to spend 84 dollars for a single hand stitched t-shirt that was very light. I later traded it in for 3 other shirts that I found much more my style. The thing that made this interesting was how the guy so quickly sold myself and Tara on this t-shirt which was really nothing special. I mean when I wore the shirt it was so light I felt like I wasn’t wearing a shirt at all and that was pretty sweet but not 84 dollars worth of sweet.
Overall the experience was awesome because I loathe buying clothes on my own. I have no idea what does or doesn’t look good on me so it was nice to have Tara tell me, “You NEED this” that way I could justify the seemingly silly price tag. Though I don’t think this will be something I plan on repeating many times unless I experience some drastic change in lifestyle due to my new threads.
I suppose I should also update everyone on my recent changes in healthy living. I’ve discovered Rock Climbing and Yoga. Both of which have given me a whole new venue to exercise while having lots of fun and meet some really great people. For any of you who are looking for something to get into shape with while not really working out. Try climbing 2-3 times a week. You’ll meet a whole bunch of awesome people and get very tone in a short period of time.
Yoga is great on a whole different level. I’ve taken to doing about 20-30 minutes of yoga a day which really changes my attitude about the world around me and makes a huge difference when I climb. Not only that but it’s slowly correcting my horrible posture.
As most of you know. I’m going to Europe. I leave Saturday May 17th. I’ll be back somewhere around May 31st / June 1st. If you are looking to contact me… You won’t be able to. My phone will remain in the states. Feel free to email me though.
| Date | Travel |
| May 18th | Ireland, Shannon: Everyone has made it to Ireland, met up, and ready to go |
| May 19th | Head to Dublin (2h30m), stay 1 night |
| May 20-22nd | Fly to Prague (3h30m), stay 3 nights, train to Berlin (4hr, 37 min) |
| May 23-24th | Travel to Berlin, stay 2 nights, train to Amsterdam (6hr, 30 min); Resnick to Frankfurt |
| May 25-26th | Travel to Amsterdam, stay 2 nights, train to Brussels (2hr, 49 min) |
| May 27th | Travel to Belgium, stay 1 night, train to Paris (1 hr, 22 min) |
| May 28th | Travel to Paris; regroup with Resnick/Katharina, stay 1 night, train to Frankfurt (3hr, 49 min) |
| May 29-31st | Travel to Frankfurt, stay 3 nights at Katharina’s house (I Leave Frankfurt May 30th ) |