June 14, 2006

So I wasn't trampled to death watching the World Cup match, although part of me wanted to keep the previous entry as the final one in the Prague Blog. Had a good time, even though the US team played like crap and got deservedly smacked around by the Czechs. There was a contingency of USA fans there, and it...  

Deciding to leave the safe confines of a country where I speak the language I headed off to East Midlands Airport near Nottingham and caught a flight to the Czech Republic. Flying into Prague was thrilling except for the load of boisterous British men flying with me for some sort of stag party. I had never...  

I finally got to go inside the infamous Vitkov monument to dead commies and soldiers/proletariat mausoleum. The giant block of concrete communist ugly sits high atop a prominent hill in Zizkov, Prague, and is directly behind the largest equestrian statue in the known universe. The horse and rider statue is...