dobry den!
dobry den z praha! (hello from prague)
so i've been in prague for about 40 hours, and i've had some interesting experiences, quite naturally. let's, for the moment, look past the 3 currencies in my wallet at one time (american dollars, british pounds, and czech crowns), the menus in 4 languages (chinese, czech, english and german), and trying to pronounce such ridiculous consonant combinations as "zdr", "vrb", or even "chvr", or words such as "s", "z", or "k". but let's not look past the man who approached me and my roommate kyle and invited us to a strip club, and when we declined, asked us with a heavy accent, "well, are you afraid of the poonany?"
the city is amazingly picturesque - cobblestone streets and intricate medievil architecture. the people are very friendly, but most shockingly - the city is so very quiet. rarely a car horn or siren is heard. even locals speak in moderate volumes - when a foreigner lets out a loud laugh or comment (no, of course not me, never...), people's heads turn to see who caused such a ruckus.
the food is quite tasty, and the beer excellent. last night, kyle and i shared 4 beers for a grand total of 120 crowns, which is just under 5 dollars US.
other notes:
- for those of you who know of them, the guys from american chopper were on my flight from newark to london, as they were apparently doing a show in the UK.
- a special thank you to mark for suggesting bringing toilet paper from the states - while i wouldn't call the toilet paper here abrasive, i also wouldn't call it absorbant.
- after finding an atm (bankomat), i made my way to a store labelled "pizzerea" for my first meal in the c.r. after spending about 10 minutes struggling with the menu written in czech, vainly searching my english-to-czech (one way, not reverse) phrase book for what the hell i could order, the waitress asked if i'd like the menu in english. *cough* and even then, what i received what the item on the menu appearing above what i had wanted.
- we get about 50 channels of television, only 2 of which are in english - cnn and mtv. speaking of which, we have found a new definition of music television - regular tv broadcasts (news, commercials, even women's shotput) with the normal soundtrack removed, and music dubbed in over top. but that's alright, it's not as if we're going to understand what's being said anyways.
- our shower is not a shower, but more so a bath with a detachable hose. pretty hard not to soak the entire bathroom with water when cleaning oneself.
- nothing like having to buy a snickers just so that we have change to pay for the public toilets...
we hope to have internet in our apartment later this week, which is most likely when this will be posted, and email checked. until then...
will post pictures soon too. including the best sign of "your dog can't pee here" - which is just a dog, with one of its hind legs raised, and a circle and a line through it.
ahoj (pronounced ahoy)
so i've been in prague for about 40 hours, and i've had some interesting experiences, quite naturally. let's, for the moment, look past the 3 currencies in my wallet at one time (american dollars, british pounds, and czech crowns), the menus in 4 languages (chinese, czech, english and german), and trying to pronounce such ridiculous consonant combinations as "zdr", "vrb", or even "chvr", or words such as "s", "z", or "k". but let's not look past the man who approached me and my roommate kyle and invited us to a strip club, and when we declined, asked us with a heavy accent, "well, are you afraid of the poonany?"
the city is amazingly picturesque - cobblestone streets and intricate medievil architecture. the people are very friendly, but most shockingly - the city is so very quiet. rarely a car horn or siren is heard. even locals speak in moderate volumes - when a foreigner lets out a loud laugh or comment (no, of course not me, never...), people's heads turn to see who caused such a ruckus.
the food is quite tasty, and the beer excellent. last night, kyle and i shared 4 beers for a grand total of 120 crowns, which is just under 5 dollars US.
other notes:
- for those of you who know of them, the guys from american chopper were on my flight from newark to london, as they were apparently doing a show in the UK.
- a special thank you to mark for suggesting bringing toilet paper from the states - while i wouldn't call the toilet paper here abrasive, i also wouldn't call it absorbant.
- after finding an atm (bankomat), i made my way to a store labelled "pizzerea" for my first meal in the c.r. after spending about 10 minutes struggling with the menu written in czech, vainly searching my english-to-czech (one way, not reverse) phrase book for what the hell i could order, the waitress asked if i'd like the menu in english. *cough* and even then, what i received what the item on the menu appearing above what i had wanted.
- we get about 50 channels of television, only 2 of which are in english - cnn and mtv. speaking of which, we have found a new definition of music television - regular tv broadcasts (news, commercials, even women's shotput) with the normal soundtrack removed, and music dubbed in over top. but that's alright, it's not as if we're going to understand what's being said anyways.
- our shower is not a shower, but more so a bath with a detachable hose. pretty hard not to soak the entire bathroom with water when cleaning oneself.
- nothing like having to buy a snickers just so that we have change to pay for the public toilets...
we hope to have internet in our apartment later this week, which is most likely when this will be posted, and email checked. until then...
will post pictures soon too. including the best sign of "your dog can't pee here" - which is just a dog, with one of its hind legs raised, and a circle and a line through it.
ahoj (pronounced ahoy)
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