So, these past few weeks have really flown by. I just looked back on the blog and realized how many weeks it's really been. We've got: Prague, London and Stratford, Venice and Florence, and (most recently) Oslo.
Prague was an amazing city. Before this trip I hadn't thought of going there but, once I'd heard people talking about it, I had to go. We went on a tour of the city (it was a little rainy, but that made it more Prague-y) and our guide was just jolly. He told us that Prague is so interesting architecturally because it has historically been much poorer that many other European cities. This forced architects, in redesigning or updating a building, to make small cheap changes, usually to the facade of buildings. That would explain a medieval building with Renaissance stylings. Later on we went on the most amazing "Haunted Prague" tour. It was free because we had gone on the other tour so we decided why not. Our tour guide was so wonderfully unenthusiastic and was so blatant about her lack of desire to be there. We had trouble keeping ourselves together.
On night two we tried to see an opera or a dance, but nothing was playing so we went to the biggest club in Europe. That's right, five stories of skeezy dancing. It was fun, but it was loud and didn't live up to our Haunted tour. No exciting train stories on this trip, just a long long day on a train.
Prague was an amazing city. Before this trip I hadn't thought of going there but, once I'd heard people talking about it, I had to go. We went on a tour of the city (it was a little rainy, but that made it more Prague-y) and our guide was just jolly. He told us that Prague is so interesting architecturally because it has historically been much poorer that many other European cities. This forced architects, in redesigning or updating a building, to make small cheap changes, usually to the facade of buildings. That would explain a medieval building with Renaissance stylings. Later on we went on the most amazing "Haunted Prague" tour. It was free because we had gone on the other tour so we decided why not. Our tour guide was so wonderfully unenthusiastic and was so blatant about her lack of desire to be there. We had trouble keeping ourselves together.
On night two we tried to see an opera or a dance, but nothing was playing so we went to the biggest club in Europe. That's right, five stories of skeezy dancing. It was fun, but it was loud and didn't live up to our Haunted tour. No exciting train stories on this trip, just a long long day on a train.
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