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Yesterday I spent the day traveling.
I went through Frankfurt, and wow. If you've flown recently back to the US from the Frankfurt airport in Germany, you know what I am talking about. I think I got more action from the security chick than I've had in years. They frisk absolutely everybody. And between the metal detector wand and her hand running where no hand but mine has been lately... I'm just sayin'. Her hand brushing a little more northward and we'd have to get married.
But the travelling thing took all day. I started out at 4:30am local (11:30pm ET) when I checked out of the hotel. And I got back to my house about 4:30pm local (ET) time. Which would have been 9:30pm in Prague. I made a couple of phone calls, ate something and collapsed into bed at 8:30pm. I then woke around 12:30am (about the time I'd been getting up in Prague - 5:30am. I went to the bathroom and went back to bed where I slept on until 7:30 this morning. 11 and a half hours of sleep, and a little something to eat, and I am feeling so much more human.
Impressions:
- cobbled streets and alleys, and stone work absolutely everywhere you look. Not just cobblestone, but *decorative* cobblestone.
- the food - love the game meat you can't find in the US. I had quail, duck, roedeer (a specific type of european deer, that populates like rabbits), venison... all of it delicious. I didn't get a chance to try some of the other meats on the menus I saw, like boar, rabbit and hare. And presented so beautifully.
- the restaurant's there have wonderful portion control. At every meal I cleaned my plate, did not feel overful, did not feel like I was starved, and still had room for dessert, even if I'd had an appetizer.
- looking out the windows and seeing gothic cathedrals, and baroque palaces, and architecture and sculpture from all ages - starting around the year 900. The buildting facades are so spectacular. The city is one of the few that was never bombed during WWII - so all those old buildings are untouched by that sort of damage.
- Walking across the Charles Bridge (Karluv most) and looking at all the vendor's wares.
- Ancient buildings everywhere. I know I just said that, really. But I bears repeating.
- Turning on the TV and getting CSI dubbed in French, CSI:Miami dubbed in Spanish, and South Park dubbed in German (which, as admittedly, I've never watched a whole episode of) and which sounds oddly appriate in German, and the British Discovery channel. All at the same time.
But I have to say, I am so glad to be home!!!
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krissielee, hon, I need your address. Just send it to me (I think you have my email address already?).
I went through Frankfurt, and wow. If you've flown recently back to the US from the Frankfurt airport in Germany, you know what I am talking about. I think I got more action from the security chick than I've had in years. They frisk absolutely everybody. And between the metal detector wand and her hand running where no hand but mine has been lately... I'm just sayin'. Her hand brushing a little more northward and we'd have to get married.
But the travelling thing took all day. I started out at 4:30am local (11:30pm ET) when I checked out of the hotel. And I got back to my house about 4:30pm local (ET) time. Which would have been 9:30pm in Prague. I made a couple of phone calls, ate something and collapsed into bed at 8:30pm. I then woke around 12:30am (about the time I'd been getting up in Prague - 5:30am. I went to the bathroom and went back to bed where I slept on until 7:30 this morning. 11 and a half hours of sleep, and a little something to eat, and I am feeling so much more human.
Impressions:
- cobbled streets and alleys, and stone work absolutely everywhere you look. Not just cobblestone, but *decorative* cobblestone.
- the food - love the game meat you can't find in the US. I had quail, duck, roedeer (a specific type of european deer, that populates like rabbits), venison... all of it delicious. I didn't get a chance to try some of the other meats on the menus I saw, like boar, rabbit and hare. And presented so beautifully.
- the restaurant's there have wonderful portion control. At every meal I cleaned my plate, did not feel overful, did not feel like I was starved, and still had room for dessert, even if I'd had an appetizer.
- looking out the windows and seeing gothic cathedrals, and baroque palaces, and architecture and sculpture from all ages - starting around the year 900. The buildting facades are so spectacular. The city is one of the few that was never bombed during WWII - so all those old buildings are untouched by that sort of damage.
- Walking across the Charles Bridge (Karluv most) and looking at all the vendor's wares.
- Ancient buildings everywhere. I know I just said that, really. But I bears repeating.
- Turning on the TV and getting CSI dubbed in French, CSI:Miami dubbed in Spanish, and South Park dubbed in German (which, as admittedly, I've never watched a whole episode of) and which sounds oddly appriate in German, and the British Discovery channel. All at the same time.
But I have to say, I am so glad to be home!!!
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krissielee, hon, I need your address. Just send it to me (I think you have my email address already?).