Location: Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic

Hehe, so as promised, here are the pictures and tales from Karlovy Vary. If anyone has seen "The last Holiday" with Queen Latifa, it was set in this city. So lets get to the pictures. This will be a short post; it was cold and I was just trying to stay warm until we got to get back on the bus.

So in this little town, they have a hot spring. Again, I'm not the best listener when it comes to tours, but I think it was discovered and then they built a building around it (?) haha! It was weird being in that room, it wasn't warm, but it wasn't cold, it was just steamy. They say if you drink the water from the geyser you will cut 10 years off your life. I was also told it tastes like sweaty feet, so I didn't drink it. I don't think I have 10 years to loose, that's more than half my life. Jo drank some though, said it was Salty and Warm. Oh good, so it tastes like hot ocean water. Great. haha!

So then we just walked around the rest of the day, went and got some really good pizza, tried to find the infamous supermarket, then sat in the square and watched as a dog chased pigeons. It was quite fun.

So that was Karlovy Vary, known for the geyser and for the good shopping. Again, Czech is known for their crystal too. I got some :) haha! But that's mainly why people like Karlovy Vary; especially them Germans. It's just a short drive over the border and relatively cheap crystal.

So there's the latest account of my life. I'm planning a trip up to Belgium, maybe next week, we'll see. Then we have Holland, Berlin, Switzerland in November. Can't wait for all that :)

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Location: Prague, Czech Republic

Hehe! So I went to Prague, I went to Prague! No, don't worry, it wasn't that great of a time ;)

We left at about 10 PM on Friday night and drove 7 hours basically non-stop on a bus. We being a friend of mine, Jo, and myself. Haha, he's fun, in the Army, he's leaving soon so we decided we would take a trip together to get out of K-town and have some fun together!

So in the wee early hours on Saturday morning we get to Prague. So tired we both are. But we get out into the COLD, yes, PRAGUE=COLD!, and we head off to Prague. We start at the palace going in the back entrances and working towards the front. *Disclaimer, I didn't have MY camera with me for this trip, so these pictures are not the best quality* So we start at the back, all the sudden there was a cathedral that poked it's speyers out from the trees, I will give 10 dollars to anyone who can tell me which cathedral this one looks like. I've posted pictures of it on here before.

Shoot, gmail started freaking out, so I'm going to blog without pictures then I will post them later so you at least get the story eh? haha!

So this cathedral is cool, but it's like others I've been in. We get into one of the The glass windows done in this country are cool. Wish I had a house that could have big windows like that.

We walk to the backside of the cathedral, it doesn't open until about 9 so we had a little bit of time to burn. On the back we find the cathedral of St. Vincent, I think too many of them, he has an interesting story I will share later. This chapel has two different towers of two different sizes. The bigger one is Adam and the smaller is Eve, how creative huh? Yeah, that's what I said.

Next we went into the cathedral, I wish I had my camera for this, but whatever, you get what you can. There were a lot of really fun things to see, but unfortunately again, not my camera.

So I will only post a few. This first one is part of the gate they put up around the sarcophaguses of the dead saints. Czech is known for it's red Garnet stones, and that is all that is in the middle of the sun with this picture, but holy! That is one expensive gate!

So this next picture is a picture of a painting. The saint of this cathedral listened to the confessions of the queen and apparently it was a deep confession and the king wanted to know. Again, not knowing all names, I didn't really pay attention to the guide. So the king asked the St. and he wouldn't tell. So the king had him tortured and he still wouldn't tell so the king had him thrown off the bridge. His body was found a few days later with 5 stars above his head... so there you go, that's how you too can become a saint ;)

This next statue was on the outside castle gates. I just liked the flag in the background, and the lion being crowned. Totally cool!

The Czech have guards outside their gates. They are supposed to be like the Buckingham Palace guards in the sense that they don't move or anything. I took this one picture of the guards and it's funny cuz as I zoomed into it I see the guard looking at me with his eyes.

Haha, say hello to the smallest Orchaestra in the world. :) That's what they said they were. Czech music is kinda good though :)

A view of the Prague skyline from the castle gardens. The American flag showed us where the American Embassy was, just in case we did something stupid and needed their help.

So we continued on our walk down the hill. We got to really see the city of Prague. Prague is like the city of statues. Madrid was the city of fountains, Prague, the city of statues :)

So we continued further and further into the city.. haha, John Lenon is a big thing in Europe. After he died many people went and protested something, I don't think it was his death, cuz heaven knows you can't protest a death. So here this wall is and they used to white wash it every night, but it kept getting grafitied night after night, so they finally gave up. So if you ever go to Prague, take a sharpee, or some spray paint and you can legally grafiti.

As we walked I found a rather large water mill, I think that's what it's called. It was just spinning ever so slowly, but still cool. Darn, so google again started freaking... On we go without pictures though.

I got a picture of the palace and cathedral from the city square. I'm so mad about the picture I will post soon, stupid construction crane got in the stupid way! GRRR! Ah well, still liking the pictures and clouds. (I found that I took a better picture without the stupid crane in it... YAY for taking lots of pictures!)

This next picture is a shot taken from the bridge that crosses the river in Prague, I don't know which river it is, but hey, still a cool bridge and shot.

So I skipped a lot of pictures, but hey, I'll post them on some other site if you REALLY want to see them. This next shot was taken because Jo kept wanting to take a picture of me with something, like the John Lenon wall. He said it would be the only way people would know that I actually was in Prague. I kept telling him I went on trips to take pictures of buildings and other people. Not to take pictures of me. So I took a picture of my feet in Prague. Ha, look, I'm in PRAGUE!

We climbed to the top of the tower of one of the churches and ha, took pictures of things around, just enjoy them...

The last one is a picture of people waiting in the square to watch the astronomical clock go every hour on the hour. It wasn't that great, but whatever.

We were done for the day, Jo and I were just spent and exhausted. So the next day we went to Karlovy Vary. It's a nice little resort city on the way home towards Germany. But that's my next entry, so until then, Enjoy.

Where in the World is Sara D. Ray? Now you know.