Prague

[etakyma]

Later today I am off to Prague. I have an overnight flight that will take a total of seven hours to Frankfurt, two hour layover, and another 1 and a bit to Prague. So for my 11 "real" hour trip, because of the time change, "almost seventeen" hours will have elapsed. I land in prague at 9:00am Wednesday morning. I'm exhausted just thinking about it!

I will be offline for much of today and probably tomorrow, but I'll be back online Thursday. At least when I travel for business, getting online is a necessity for work, so while I may respond to things at odd times, I will respond.

Off now to the bank for trvel money, and the drugstore for neccesities. Home to finish packing, and off to the airport this afternoon.

Fun fun.

Comments

[utkari02.livejournal.com]

Wow, hon, that's awesome. I wish I could travel the world!

Be safe, and I hope you have fun!

K

[etakyma.livejournal.com]

Getting here kinda sucked, but now that I am here, the city is really cool. Not a place I would have *picked* to come to, but it is pretty and quaint and European. Everything has such a feeling of *age* - buildings from the last 1200 years or so.

[drvsilla.livejournal.com]

Dude. Prague! You're still gonna be jet-lagged in Death Valley. LOL

Travel safe and hopefully you'll get to see some of the city. Tis beautiful!

*huggles*

[etakyma.livejournal.com]

My co-worker and I went on a driving/walking tour of the historic parts of the city today. It was a tour that was open to anyone, but ended up being just the two of us which was so very cool.

Our tour guide was realy good. He gave years built, kings on the throne, and sizes for palaces, Prague Castle, and a huge number of cathedrals, churches, and synagogues.

He talked a lot about communism and democracy, Czechoslavakia and the Czech Republic. The rule of Stalin, the years of war, the fortification. We saw a marker high on a wall (way way way above the river) where the great flood waters rose to in 2002.

Very cool!

[krissielee.livejournal.com]

Thimble for me? *bats eyelashes* I'm willing to pay you back for it, if you find one.

...At least I collect something cheap and easy to transport, right?

[etakyma.livejournal.com]

If I see some I'll pick one up. Metal or porcelain? Which do you prefer?

[krissielee.livejournal.com]

Either one is perfectly fine with me. I've got metal, porcelain, glass and plastic in my collection, so if you find any at all I'll love you madly.

I hope you're having fun, love! :)

[hiddenhibiscus.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite cities ever! Enjoy yourself!

[etakyma.livejournal.com]

For a city, it is very nice. And little! I wish I could see more of it than my work schedule permits! The Castle is gi-normous! And the cathedrals are gorgeous. Everything is old and crafted beautifully. I love the sculptures absolutely *everywhere.* And the stone work is lovely! I think of the european cities I have seen (admittedly very few... um, maybe 3? 4?) Prague is becoming my favorite. It has less pretention than Paris, and is less counter-culture than Amsterdam.

[conjured-1.livejournal.com]

(Argh, I can't fucking remember my password...gahhhhhhh!)

So PRAGUE! How cool! I've had cool jobs before, but I never got to travel outside of the U.S. I want a new travelly type job now.

Enjoy Prague and lucky for you, I don't snore, so you can catch some zzzzzz's.

[etakyma.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, the job I'm in it is unlikely I will see a *huge* amount. I was lucky enough this afternoon to go on a three-hour driving/walking tour of the city. We saw a little of everything, and there are definitely places I'd like to return to and take more time with, but it's unlikely I'll be able to.

I start working tomorrow and don't stop until the night before I go home (on the 24).

The city is very pretty. And very old. Our guide pointed out a little bitty round chapel that was built in the early part of the 900's. That was probably the talllest thing besides trees when it was first built, and now sits dwarfed by buildings built hundreds of years later. Most of the city was built in the 1300-1600, and it is all beautiful stone work and sculpture everywhere, gilded and spired and roco-coed to death.

And on Tuesday we have an event at the Zofin Palace, which is on an island in the river.