Overland Journey

The night of my arivale in Prague I slept in a dorm room at a local university with Honza and some friends. The Fellows in the dorm where very excited to be host to a foreigner and where incredibly keen to drink and make marry, running around the city all night long sharing with me the favorite spots to hang out and drink. I myself was just off a 17 hour line of connecting flights from Edmonton to Prague and was relectant to do so but fast gave in to the enthusiasm of my new friends. I was soon stumbling around the midevel castle found on the hill top down town. The next day we had breakfast in the university cafateria. in the afternoon we toured the city again with a stop by the Iranian embassy to collect my visa. To my surprise it was not there. That night we headed to Honzas Village out close to the border of Poland. Three hours on a train and we were home in the village of Zamberk. Zamberk just like all the other tiny villages dotted about the country side here, was like a back in time fairy tale village. It even reminded me of the village Belle lived in in Disneys beauty and the beast. My stay there was fabulous and made so by the hospitality shown to me by Honza his family and the rest of the town.  The week was spent visiting honzas relatives enjoying lunches with his grand parents, Hiking through old War bunkers on the border with Honzas grand father. Playing soccer. Hanging around the house and of course going to the pub. Just like bread, beer is a staple here and great tasting pilsners are guzzled down at all hours of the day by almost every one. At home Honzas Mother cooked great meals and took care of me very well. I enjoyed visits with Honzas older brother who studied for a year in America. All in all my week in the Czech Republic was a fantastic experience with only one regret, that is for all the times I enjoyed with the people of the village The only Two people I could speak to where Honza and his brother as no one els spoke english and I regretably can not speak Czech