Our European Adventure

So today we went to Plzen (Pilsen in English). It's a city about an hour and a half from Prague toward Germany. The town is home to the Pilsen brewery the makers of Pilner Urquell. We did the brewery tour and it was fantastic. We went into all the places where the were actually brewing the beer and got to do a tasting of beer before the final filtartion. It was really tasty. Pilsner Urquell tastes much better here. It's less bitter then it is at home. It's weird becuase the Pilsner at home is imported from the factory we were at. Maybe it doesn't travel well. Anyway we went into the center after that and had some coffee. The town itself is very urban it is much bigger than Kutna Hora. It was a good day. Now our Irish friends from Bratislava have come and we're going out to dinnner with them and Keith a chef from Alaska who is staying in the same room. We will probably stay up all night again because we have to catch the shuttle to the airport at 5:30 in the morning for our 7:30am flight to Amsterdam.

So today Daniela and I hoped on a train about an hour to a small town just southeast of Prague called Kutna Hora. It's on UNESCO's list of world heritage sites. It was a really quaint town with a lot of charm. We walked around for a couple of hours and took in the sights. On our way back to the train station we went to this church that was decorated inside entirely of human bones. It was the remains of 40,000 people. It had everything from bone chandeliers to wall decorations. It was so bizarre and a little distrubing. Tomorrow we're heading out to Pilsen to do some beer tasting... YUM!

So today Daniela and I moved into our new hostel. It is far nicer in terms of ammenities and atomosphere except it was a pain to find. We walked around for an hour today to find it. It's on the outskirts of Prague in a suburb right near the train station. It's a good location for us now becuase we plan on doing day trips out of Prague using the train. It also has free internet which is also a plus. Anyway the weather has been very cold and overcast so we just hung around the hostel. We don't really have any plans for tonight so I guess we'll get to bed early for our trip to Kutna Hora tomorrow. That's where the bone church is. I'm excited to see it.

Yet another day that it was raining. We decided to brave it and go sight seeing anyway. The hostel we booked sucked (no internet, not laundry, no kitchen and no common room) so we booked another one for tomrrow. Our hostel is in the center so it's a good starting point for sight seeing. We went out with one of our roommate a doctor from Chile named Marcos. We went up to Prague Castle and walked around Old town for a bit. It was so touristy even in the rain. There was a sea of umbrellas that we had to dodge everywhere. I did a bit of shopping and got a bit wet, but it was all OK. Prague is the most beautiful city in terms of architecture that we've seen so far. It would be really nice if all the tourists left. I think this is my second favorite city after Bratislava. Tomorrow we're going to our other hostel and then venturing out to either Pilsen (to do the brewery tour) or another small town 50 km away where there is a church made out of human bones... scary!

So we were so exhausted from not having slept we just got to our hostel and passed out today. We just had some dinner and are going back to our hostel to recover. It's been pretty boring. Our hostel is right in the center of the city so we'll do some sight seeing tomorrow.

PS we forgot to pick up real estate fliers in slovakia.