wow, it has been a while!
prague was lovely. cold. 2 degrees at peak, but still nice. the bus even had a tv on it.. granted all the english speaking films were dubbed.. had a movie night with some of artu's friends the first night.. slept a lot.. next day.. bummed around saw james bond again.. oh and got fined. yes! my first european fine and bribe! exciting yes i know. my first and sadly not my last. it was easy peasy anyway.. they don't like taking you to the police staion because it is lots of work.. so i think artur bribed him with 200 crowns.. so like 8 euros.. sweet eh.
next day we went to these aweosme tea rooms, were you dirnk tea or coffee, smoke shisha.. they're dark and the very middle eastern looking. quite groovey. and then this awesome club.. it's just insane. it's hard to describe. it's very underground.. and literally underground.. like h.r giger desgined it on a bad acid trip.. whacked out sculptures.. lights that spin and look like spiders. so crazy. saw a really famous drum and bass gig there. good stuff...
after sleeping for 4 hours.. i wondered around the city and it is lovely.. didn't actually see any of these famous czech gypsies..
went to the castle and palaces and all around the next day i like it over there better.. when you look over the edge and the city is sprawled below.. tiled roofs, and castle tops. it's pretty amazing.
went to see this church... it kutna hora. a little place an hour out of prague. it has over 400 000 sets o fbones that decorate the church.. 4 stacks of bones. it could have been grimmer.. it was still very much the whole point was to try to puch god upon you.. but i met a nice aussie girl and we walked around and ate fried cheese.
alas and then to venice.. more to come.. give me time !
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
steins, clouds, rain, no castles and steam
munich eh
i liked berlin more. but i think when travelling by oneself you do seem to judge places by the people you meet and how much you liked them. so in munich i had a high turn over of people that i spoke too...
at least, the hostel was easy to find, literally across the road from the main station, and surrounded by kebab and schnitzel shops, which i took full advantage of (twice daily) seeing as i didn't eat whilst being in dresden.
hostel was pretty funky, they had this outside garden which was indoors, which hammocks, been bags and stuff like that.. although my room was like the senior citizens room, which makes it really hard to meet people, but i went to the bar and used those social skills i've been perfecting and had a good first night.. did another of those free walking tours the next day after averging a rough 3 hours sleep. was good, they're a really good way of seeing a city, you meet people and see all the main sights, get your bearing so you can explore yourself.
wanted to see the castles the next day but alas raining, so i did nothing, and the next day rain again! so i missed out on seeing the famous fairytale dwellings.. it's not worth going for 30 euros if you are cold, wet and can't see anything, just to say that you went.. i probably should have gone out to dachau but i just really wasn't in the mood for something incredibly heavy. enough of that in berlin.. next time..
did a beer tour, which takes you to the famous beer halls, and you drink loads of beer, was pretty good, met people that i hung out with the next day and night so that's okay.. it's funny how when you travel 85% of people you hang out with are australian.. the other 10% are canadian, and the other 5% is filled with french, spanish, and the occasional cool american kid.
well that was munich.. in prague now... more on that later after i have some actual news.. flying to venice on thursday and hanging out with scott! from home! someone from home! i'm really excited.
i liked berlin more. but i think when travelling by oneself you do seem to judge places by the people you meet and how much you liked them. so in munich i had a high turn over of people that i spoke too...
at least, the hostel was easy to find, literally across the road from the main station, and surrounded by kebab and schnitzel shops, which i took full advantage of (twice daily) seeing as i didn't eat whilst being in dresden.
hostel was pretty funky, they had this outside garden which was indoors, which hammocks, been bags and stuff like that.. although my room was like the senior citizens room, which makes it really hard to meet people, but i went to the bar and used those social skills i've been perfecting and had a good first night.. did another of those free walking tours the next day after averging a rough 3 hours sleep. was good, they're a really good way of seeing a city, you meet people and see all the main sights, get your bearing so you can explore yourself.
wanted to see the castles the next day but alas raining, so i did nothing, and the next day rain again! so i missed out on seeing the famous fairytale dwellings.. it's not worth going for 30 euros if you are cold, wet and can't see anything, just to say that you went.. i probably should have gone out to dachau but i just really wasn't in the mood for something incredibly heavy. enough of that in berlin.. next time..
did a beer tour, which takes you to the famous beer halls, and you drink loads of beer, was pretty good, met people that i hung out with the next day and night so that's okay.. it's funny how when you travel 85% of people you hang out with are australian.. the other 10% are canadian, and the other 5% is filled with french, spanish, and the occasional cool american kid.
well that was munich.. in prague now... more on that later after i have some actual news.. flying to venice on thursday and hanging out with scott! from home! someone from home! i'm really excited.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
dresden
the last time i book a hostel more then ten minute walk away from my hostel i say. phew, 20 minutes with pack and bags.. it's more the bags.. but i wish the weather would make up it's mind, it's cold, but if you put a jacket on and a pack and walk, you do get mighty hot.
so i didn't spend much time in dresden, a quick 'pop in' you could say. nice little hostel though, free bikes, but sorry guys, i'm not quite ready to have a letter sent home telling my parents that i died in a bicycle accident run over by a crazed german.
it's a different city.. the new is separated from the old, and of course, because it was mightily bombed, all the historic buildings that were destroyed, they found old plans, and rebuilt them completely using the same stones. neat eh. but i guess you all knew this. well i didn't!
instead of walking around for a day.. i originally wanted to check out the 2nd hand shops as dresden is reknowned for it's alternative stores and shopping, but well german's back up shop on sundays and don't go outside.. so this columbian guy in my room told me about this place called 'saxon switzerland' which is an hour out.. half way to prague and is like this wonderland type place supposedly.. it's mountains, forests, woods, rivers, and castles.. did a massive hike for an hour, up this mountain, and i tell you, boy was it steep.. and then they charge you to get into the castle! charge! the nerve!
saw james bond that night.. oh yes, for the first time, my total is now 2.. and how many times have you seen it? oh wait.. it is yet to come out in australia. ahhhha.
then off to munich on another massive train ride. sigh.
so i didn't spend much time in dresden, a quick 'pop in' you could say. nice little hostel though, free bikes, but sorry guys, i'm not quite ready to have a letter sent home telling my parents that i died in a bicycle accident run over by a crazed german.
it's a different city.. the new is separated from the old, and of course, because it was mightily bombed, all the historic buildings that were destroyed, they found old plans, and rebuilt them completely using the same stones. neat eh. but i guess you all knew this. well i didn't!
instead of walking around for a day.. i originally wanted to check out the 2nd hand shops as dresden is reknowned for it's alternative stores and shopping, but well german's back up shop on sundays and don't go outside.. so this columbian guy in my room told me about this place called 'saxon switzerland' which is an hour out.. half way to prague and is like this wonderland type place supposedly.. it's mountains, forests, woods, rivers, and castles.. did a massive hike for an hour, up this mountain, and i tell you, boy was it steep.. and then they charge you to get into the castle! charge! the nerve!
saw james bond that night.. oh yes, for the first time, my total is now 2.. and how many times have you seen it? oh wait.. it is yet to come out in australia. ahhhha.
then off to munich on another massive train ride. sigh.
everything that hasn't been said
i'll head back to berlin, because i haven't written in a week or so, busy busy times.
i don't know what it is about berlin, that makes it that good. maybe because it isn't that expenisve, because even if you get a fine for not buying a ticket on public transport (which you never buy) they are so far in debt they can't make you pay, or this little german pub we frequented for quality german food, how you can't smoke in bars, but in rooms adjacent with no windows, or just how it continues to move forward past everything that happened in it. i don't know. but i really did like it.
i particulary liked to jewish memorial.. it's quite new so i don't know if anyone has seen it.. i'll post photos, that's the only way to describe it, is to see it.. quirky fact, the stones are covered in anty grafiti paint, (because every building in berlin is coated in some good, mostly bad street art) and the company that supplied this coating, was the very same company that supplied the gas for the gas chambers that killed or the jews in ww2. hm. strange isn't it.
berlin has these awesome art squats. i wish i had photos to show, but the girl i was with accidently deleted them all.. but they are just abandoned builings, litterally wall to floor to ceiling covered in grafiti, and artists squat, working, selling work, and outside are metal workers, who make the most amazing quirky sculptures. it's amazing just to have seen.
sigh, that's berlin. meeting people and saying good bye to them.
i don't know what it is about berlin, that makes it that good. maybe because it isn't that expenisve, because even if you get a fine for not buying a ticket on public transport (which you never buy) they are so far in debt they can't make you pay, or this little german pub we frequented for quality german food, how you can't smoke in bars, but in rooms adjacent with no windows, or just how it continues to move forward past everything that happened in it. i don't know. but i really did like it.
i particulary liked to jewish memorial.. it's quite new so i don't know if anyone has seen it.. i'll post photos, that's the only way to describe it, is to see it.. quirky fact, the stones are covered in anty grafiti paint, (because every building in berlin is coated in some good, mostly bad street art) and the company that supplied this coating, was the very same company that supplied the gas for the gas chambers that killed or the jews in ww2. hm. strange isn't it.
berlin has these awesome art squats. i wish i had photos to show, but the girl i was with accidently deleted them all.. but they are just abandoned builings, litterally wall to floor to ceiling covered in grafiti, and artists squat, working, selling work, and outside are metal workers, who make the most amazing quirky sculptures. it's amazing just to have seen.
sigh, that's berlin. meeting people and saying good bye to them.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
berlin
berlin in a great city! very different and very strange.. and yes it is illegal to do the one handed salute..
been spending the last days not doing to much. met some great people in the hostel and we went off on various activities.. did the walking tour.. free musuems on a thursday evening, bit of night life and saw a film 'der baader meinhof komplex' quite intense.
not much else to be said, more soon, off to dresden in an hour.
been spending the last days not doing to much. met some great people in the hostel and we went off on various activities.. did the walking tour.. free musuems on a thursday evening, bit of night life and saw a film 'der baader meinhof komplex' quite intense.
not much else to be said, more soon, off to dresden in an hour.
Monday, November 3, 2008
all the rest
so so so
i think i left you on thursday night...
friday was halloween.. not that much happening i didn't dress up.. but the hostel went to awesome lengths to make the place look really cool. decked it out in decorations. that day i wondered a little and went to the rikjsmusuem.. or however it is spelt.. bit of a let down, if i'd gone the next day i would have been able to see the damien hirst exhibition which would have been interesting but alas, when i went, half the gallery was closed...
that night hung out a little bit, was feeling a little lonely, but met a girl from san fransisco, so it's okay okeydokie.
next day i trekked out to den haag and i could have been ANGRIER. i pay 18 euros for a train ticket and i get to the damn musuem.. which i'm really looking forward to because one of, it might even be, my favourite painting "the red tree"and the whole mondriaan collection is closed. CLOSED. and it said nothing of this on the website. so i spent 40 or somehting euros that day. i could afford to go see "girl with a pearl earing"after that. and it was pouring rain so i didn't even really see the city.
BLAH
alrighty moving on, that night, final night, hung out with some more people. yeah yeah yeah.
sunday i got on a train out to hertogenbosch and am now with Maja. Walked around the town.. and hey guys, it feels a lot like stars hollow.. everyone knows everyone. Nice place. Went out to dinner last night, Maja's lovely.
Going to Berlin tomorrow.. scary whole new city.. just as i get used to a place, the boat surges forward..
love you all
i think i left you on thursday night...
friday was halloween.. not that much happening i didn't dress up.. but the hostel went to awesome lengths to make the place look really cool. decked it out in decorations. that day i wondered a little and went to the rikjsmusuem.. or however it is spelt.. bit of a let down, if i'd gone the next day i would have been able to see the damien hirst exhibition which would have been interesting but alas, when i went, half the gallery was closed...
that night hung out a little bit, was feeling a little lonely, but met a girl from san fransisco, so it's okay okeydokie.
next day i trekked out to den haag and i could have been ANGRIER. i pay 18 euros for a train ticket and i get to the damn musuem.. which i'm really looking forward to because one of, it might even be, my favourite painting "the red tree"and the whole mondriaan collection is closed. CLOSED. and it said nothing of this on the website. so i spent 40 or somehting euros that day. i could afford to go see "girl with a pearl earing"after that. and it was pouring rain so i didn't even really see the city.
BLAH
alrighty moving on, that night, final night, hung out with some more people. yeah yeah yeah.
sunday i got on a train out to hertogenbosch and am now with Maja. Walked around the town.. and hey guys, it feels a lot like stars hollow.. everyone knows everyone. Nice place. Went out to dinner last night, Maja's lovely.
Going to Berlin tomorrow.. scary whole new city.. just as i get used to a place, the boat surges forward..
love you all
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