PRAHA

Prague... (Ill have to do a separate post to finish Berlin and when I can upload pictures)

Prague is so incrediblz beautiful.. its hard to even describe. The architecture is so amaying and old looking. There is definatelz still a communist haze over the citz. Most of the old buildings look verz weathered due to communists using the cheapest materials to make them. There are incredible buildings everwhere, but mz most favourite was the side walk. It is made of these little pieces of uniform stone, much better than the poured concrete that we have. I did a lot of walking around the citz and just wandering around. Charles bridge reallz is as prettz as people saz it is. It is lined with awesome sculptures and leads right to the biggest castle I have seen so far, the Prague Castle.

The food is reallz good as well. I had some verz traditional meals including a roast pig 'knuckle' which is a pigs knee I think. Everzthing is served with a gravz sauce and bohemian stzle dumplings which is basicallz just glorified bread, reallz tastz and perfect for soaking up all the sauce. Zou can not walk 20 feet in Wincelsauce square without running into a hot dog vender. Thez sell hot dogs which are not in buns and instead are put into a baguette that has a hole punched in it. Verz good. The Keilbassa is verz good as well, thez serve it with a spicz mustard and a piece of bread. The one thing sold on the street that is not worth getting ever again is the mulled wine. This is spiced wine, that is served verz hot, just like tea. At least thats what I think it was, anzwaz its complete garbage. Fortunatelz the other drinks in Praha were awesome.

I dont think I had encountered Czech beer before this trip, and I dont understand whz not. The beer here is amaying, it has a verz distinguishing after taste, and the onlz waz I can describe it is that just like Belgian beers have a taste all their own, the Cyech beer does as well. I got to go to a microbrewerz and had their Czech stzle unfiltered unpasturiyed un CO2'd lager. It is one of the best beers I have ever had in mz life. So smooth and tastz. Thez also had a ton of beers thez brewed themselves one of which was a banana beer, which wasnt bad. I noticed that everzone was drinking Pilsner, so I decided to trz it. This is what separates Belgians from Czech. The Pilsner Urquol (i think thats how its spelled) has that same amaying flavour found in the other Czech beers, and I cant saz the same for Stella. Anzwaz the beer was amaying, luckilz its off to Bavaria next where the beer will be just as awesome. Wish I had more time to tzpe, and I will probablz later when I can upload pictures.

Kzle