Praha on Heidi's birthday

Praha (Prague) is a beautiful mid-evil city. It is easy to get around by foot, and fairly safe. We didn't see anything notably scary but we talked with a girl that had seen one homeless guy stuff a needle in another guys neck on her way to the train station. Also, a guy we had met in Jerusalem lives in Praha and he was going to meet us but he was mugged so he had to work instead.
Anyways, back to the good stuff. We had a very nice day celebrating Heidi's birthday. We walked around and visited a few pubs. Beer and food is considerably cheap here, which is nice for us because we have a very low budget.

We walked around a garden that was just outside their senate house. (Praha has a crazy political history, and fairly recent. If you are interested in Communism you might want to read on the effects of it on the Czech and Slovakian areas)

Then we walked over Charles Bridge and saw a statue that had a line in front of it. We looked at the brass statue and saw that some particular spots were rubbed off. One spot was a picture of a heretic being thrown off the bridge and the other spot was a dog. We learned very quickly that the Czechs love their heretics more that their political leaders.

To really celebrate Heidi's birthday, we went to a place that specializes in thai massages. We thought it would be really relaxing until they started pulling on our toes, fingers, wrists. Slamming out knees straight. Pulling our arms behind our backs and pulling backwards. Then finally holding onto our arms and wedging their knees into our backs and lifting us up to crack our backs... I didn't really know what to think.
I almost hurt more when I left then when I had arrived. It was an experience like everything else on this trip. We still enjoyed the time anyways.

We then ended the day with some roasted sparrow and some other crazy traditional meets.

Crazy fun all day.

The morning of my b-day we visited a couple gardens in all their Fall glory.


There were peacocks hanging out everywhere here. I pretended to kick one and got totally yelled at by the peacock security guard. He was pissed and I was sad.


We saw these guys preforming on PBS before we left on Samantha Brown´s travel show. They are infront of the Castle every day playing.


Turn your head because I´m not redoing it! This is a huge church called Tye Church right in the heart of the old town.


The bridge behind us is the famous ¨Charles Bridge¨. Apparently teh queen told secrets to this Charles guy and teh king got pissed and threw him over the edge. Now it is lined with street artists and hords of tourists on their way to the castle.


The river cuts through the city. On the right is an island park.