Today we (Christina, Megan, The Drake and I) travelled outside Prague for an hour on the sweatiest train ever. We were on a quest to see....THE BONE CHURCH. The history is all there, but basically it's a church that is decorated with the bones of about 40,000 skeletons. It's really really creepy, but it's awesome. We had a great time wandering around looking at chandeliers and pyramids made totally of bones. Totally worth the gross train ride.
Prague has been experiencing a miserable heat wave for the last week. Granted, it's only been in the 80s, but nowhere here has AC because they usually don't need it. We've been choosing between the rock of sweating through our sleep and the hard place of having bugs flying around our heads. Since our only modes of transportation here are public and feet, it's been quite a sweaty few days. Needless to say, the amount of showering and napping that has been going on is just ridiculous.
This evening the world cup began! The city (with huge help from Hyundai) set up a huge tv screen to watch the game, with stands of beer and sausages all around the edges. Some 200 people (at least!) gathered in the city center to cheer France or Uruguay on to glory. Though neither ended up scoring (booooo) it was a lot of fun just to be surrounded by the whole town. Everyone had a Budwar (the Czech version of Budweiser), a big ol' sausage and lots to say to the refs and players hundreds of miles away.
Tomorrow morning at o'dark thirty we're again boarding our bus to travel. We're going to a castle, a few Jewish synagogues and cemeteries then off to the Pilsen brewery. It will hopefully be another fab weekend. Check back in on Sunday!
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Emily
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Correction: Budwar is not the Czech version of Budweiser. It is the original Czech beer that Budweiser stole from. It is sold in the US under the name Czechvar.
ReplyDeleteSounds like great fun.