August 6, 2008

We actually almost missed the train to Prague because the train guy didn't tell us about that other train station in Vienna that small little fact he just somehow forgot to tell us. Well when you travel in Europe you have to be on the ball and we were very far from the ball in this case. Found a taxi driver...  

Our visit to Prague or Praha if you're local but I don't know how to pronounce that started off less than promisingly. Arriving at the station we were treated to an underground concrete monstrosity with water dripping from the ceiling hardly any lighting and the worlds least helpful tourist information....  

The Czech political scene has been quite dirty since the 1989 revolution. Not to an extent extraordinary in today’s Europe, but definitely dirtier than what Havel and his fellow political idealists (meant in the positive sense) had hoped for. And, for the past several years, it’s still less clear which...  

 During our hike last weekend we managed to find several clusters of mushrooms. Mostly we found Bitter Boletes already uprooted by early-bird hunters (see above), but we also ran into some slightly old edibles that got added to our basket to take home for soup. Bitter Boletes catch the eye because they...