Another beautiful day in Prague! I set out to find a brewery at a monastery near Prague Castle today. So I find this brewery, I walk in, sit down at a table, the outside door opens up, and a guy I went to high school with walks in. What I think was even more surprising about someone from my high school walking in was that it was someone I was happy to see! Mike and I worked together on the dramas and musicals throughout our time at Millburn HS (Mike was one year ...

First full day in Prague was a beautiful one!! An absolutely beautiful day (as it seems it was all over), I had a lovely first day finding my way around this old, and truly gorgeous city. A short tram ride brought me near the river and the center of town. Walking along the Vltava, with a view of Prague Castle, it's obvious why people rave about the city. The buildings here have character, especially coming from cities that were bombed during the war. I walked u...

Well today was absolutely fantastic! Two of us from the hostel decided to spend the first part of our day at one of the famous baths in Budapest. So. Worth. It. The pools range in size from a large outdoor pool to small dunk pools indoors. The temperatures range from about 16C to 40C, while the saunas go up to about 75C (about 160F).. My favorite parts of my time at the baths (nearly four hours) were the sauna around 55C that had menthol going into the room (fel...

Well here we are in Hungary! Arrived yesterday after a 7 hour train ride. Found the hostel with few problems (even though the language here is really scary.. supposedly one of the hardest to learn). The hostel, Tiger Tim's, is absolutely fantastic. The best hostel I've been to so far. Tim is an awesome Irish guy who runs and lives in the hostel. The living spaces he shares with us, and the company is great. Took it easy last night (think I finally figured out m...

Well it was another fun filled day in Munich! I decided to take advantage of the tour that was offered through our hostel, it was a fantastic tour with a local guy who's focus is to make people understand what it is to live in Munich. The divide between Bavaria and the rest of Germany is really quite intense.. Munich, in short, is made up of older, conservative, wealthy, single people. Whereas the capital city of Berlin is younger, liberal, working class. Most ...