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Prague: Hockey, man.

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

The rumour was that Prague is horribly overrun with tourists, so I was preparing to be knocking about shoulder to shoulder with idiot Europeans wandering in packs following a guide with a raised umbrella like sheep following, well, another sheep. It´s funny on this trip the impact that expectations have had on my experiences. And I guess that´s something that relates to all aspects of life, not just travelling.

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Czech: Earning a living

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

It had to happen eventually, and I guess it started when we got to Krakow and some friendly person decided I would be better off surviving an Eastern European winter with a shitty windcheater rather than my toasty warm fleece, and kindly swapped them when I wasn’t looking. The amazing luck we’d been blessed with so far on this little trip could not continue, and so, with a lack of connecting trams passing our hostel on Thursday morning, we walked to the bus station and arrived at 8.35am, five minutes after our 8.30am bus left for the Czech border. Bugger.

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Krakow: You Thieven’ Bastards

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
Having left Zakopane early Sunday morning, we arrived in Krakow, a few hours north, around lunch time. After the standard ten or fifteen minutes of trying to work out where we were on our map, we were still struggling to ... [Continue reading this entry]

Oswiecim: Words?

Saturday, October 29th, 2005
Oswiecim is a small place about an hour and a half from Krakow, in the Southwest of Poland. It is quiet, a bit dusty, bathed in yellow leaves falling from trees. Rows of tour buses sit in a parking lot, ... [Continue reading this entry]

Zakopane: Tips

Friday, October 28th, 2005
We were crushed like sardines into a can on our bus from Stary Smokovec to Lysa Polana. It was a delapidated local bus, every seat was taken, and at least twenty people packed the aisles. Lysa Polana was about an ... [Continue reading this entry]

Photos: Vysoke Tatry

Friday, October 21st, 2005
The hike. You know what I'm talking about.... Snow. Wow, hey look, there's some snow. Man, I hope we get to see some more later.view image The Path Ahead. Walking up a valley between two huge mountain ranges. Cool.view image Well, ... [Continue reading this entry]

Vysoke Tatry: Snow at 1700

Friday, October 21st, 2005
I pointed to the three dimensional map; "How long to hike this section?" "5 to 6 hours" the old guy in the mountain hiking information centre replied. "But the snow line is down at 1700 metres. This chalet," he pointed to ... [Continue reading this entry]

Photos: Hungary (and Kosice)

Monday, October 17th, 2005
More pics, and the stories behind these ones might even be fresh in your minds, unlike that batch form Slovenia... Poi Master. Dylan doing poi. In the background is the hostel owner Atilla, doing wakeless wakeboarding. What's that? What's wakeless wakeboarding? ... [Continue reading this entry]

Košice: Ghost Town

Monday, October 17th, 2005
From Eger, Bec and I planned to head north, across the Slovakian border, and to the city of Košice. Unsure whether to get a train or a bus, we sussed out the options for both. We tracked down a train ... [Continue reading this entry]

Photos: Slovenia

Monday, October 17th, 2005
Righto, I've put a couple of sweet photos up on our Flickr website (link on the right somewhere). And for your own entertainment I've put some of the not so sweet ones up here for you to check out. No ... [Continue reading this entry]