Hey every1. Visited a country outside of Germany for the first time last weekend. It took just under an hour to get from Dusseldorf to Prague which is a bit different to air travel in Australia. I have to say that the Czech Republic was absolutely amazing! Like nothing I've ever seen before but I'm a rookie when it comes to traveling so I suppose that's to be expected. It was a bizarre mix of east and west Europe. The old town is full of quasi Mediterranean style architecture and the new town is all mother Russia. There's statues pretty much everywhere and HUGE cathedrals.
I didn't really check any of that out the first day though. Went to a hostel to meet up with Julian and Danielle and had a few beers with Gunny while we were waiting. We ended up having so much fun just drinking and talking s#!t with other travelers that we stayed there all day. I passed out at about 7, woke up at 9 and kept drinking. Absinth is not for the faint hearted. Budweiser is excellent (original Budweiser before the Americans bastardised it) and beer is cheap there. 20 Czech whatevers for a half litre beer which equates to about 1 aussie dollar.
The picture there is Saint Nicks Cathedral which was much bigger than it looks. I don't have a fisheye on the canon powershot 400 though. The pic on the right is the view from the open air bar at the top of the hill. Needless to say, we spent a fair bit of time up there just takin in the view and the beer. There was a palace type thing pretty close to this bar too which was fairly impressive. There were little men clothed in blue out the front which Julian and I both thought were just cheap plastic statues until 2 hours later when they did the changing of the guards!

Again, more statues here. They all seemed to have a theme of killing which is a bit disconcerting. Even in the cathedrals there were statues of biblical characters skewering demons and that sort of thing.
















Here's a pic of julian savouring a real beer (VB is not real beer)

















I make it look easy though













They had a big screen up in the old town square for the soccer so we all gathered on the cobble stones to watch Australia v. Brazil. For some reason I thought that because we beat Japan so convincingly that Brazil shouldnt be too hard. I was in the middle of chanting "Ronaldinho needs braces!" when they scored their first goal. Damn. Had a few beers, (suprise suprise) and soaked up the atmosphere while trying to ignore the fact that we were going to lose. Those of you who are wondering where my sudden interest in soccer has come from, its a combination of a few things. One, being in germany for any period of time makes you realise how much better australia is, hence u become a little patriotic and 2, soccer is the only sport you can watch in Germany. Most of them have never heard of cricket or AFL and despite my best efforts it seems to be impossible to explain the rules to them.
Just felt like adding this shot in here. Its dusseldorf before summer began and the leaves came out. This little point and shoot camera does a pretty decent job really.
Alright Im tired now but in summary:
I wanna live in prague
Australia rocks nearly as much as Prague and Germany is so la la

Tschus, Bis spaeter
peace out