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DAY 7: A Goodbye to the City, Departure, and Arrival.
NUMBERS:
Alex’s Total Spill Count (ATSC): 11 (By Drinks Only)
Total Pick Pockets Sighted and Encounters (TPPSE): 5
Total Times We’ve gotten Lost (TTWGL):9 ( By Number of Destinations)
Destinations Visited: -CZECK REPUBLIC: Prague Airport -BRITAIN: London Airport
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DAY 6: The Brother’s Tour, Dinner, and Departure
NUMBERS:
Alex’s Total Spill Count (ATSC): 11 (By Drinks Only)
Total Pick Pockets Sighted and Encounters (TPPSE): 5
Total Times We’ve gotten Lost (TTWGL):9 ( By Number of Destinations)
Destinations Visited: -Ostrava: Steel Mill Olga’s Letter Medieval Village Castle
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DAY 5: Arrival, Brothers, and Olga.
The Corresponding Brother Post
Will typy-type for this blog soon. For now, enjoy this vid. Also: Scott Pilgrim was great.
NUMBERS:
Alex’s Total Spill Count (ATSC): 11 (By Drinks Only)
Total Pick Pockets Sighted and Encounters (TPPSE): 5
Total Times We’ve gotten Lost (TTWGL):9 ( By Number of Destinations)
Destinations Visited: -Ostrava: Cerdony(Beer Street) Family Olga
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DAY 4: Plzen and Its Brewery
In Where the Brothers Visit the Home Town of Their Grandmother.
The Corresponding Brother Post
Our time in Plzen flew by. It was my grand mother’s hometown before life dragged her elsewhere. Many native to the Czech Republic will recognize Plzen for its distinct product: Pilsner Urquell beer. Alex and I toured the brewery and, I don’t find the footage that breathtaking, but maybe some of you beer aficionados might. We also paid visit to one of the largest Jewish temples in the world. The Great Synagogue was so very quiet. I’m realizing that one of the things that makes the Czech Republic unique is its still standing artifacts of Jewish history. Jewish history covers all sorts of land, but there aren’t many buildings left from earlier history to attest for it. Seeing Terezin and the Great Synagogue of Plzen reignited my response to the story of a city’s map. On one side: a brewery dating back to the middle ages. On the other: A temple from the end of the 19th century.
More: More Tour + Even More Tour
NUMBERS:
Alex’s Total Spill Count (ATSC): 11 (By Drinks Only)
Total Pick Pockets Sighted and Encounters (TPPSE): 5
Total Times We’ve gotten Lost (TTWGL):9 ( By Number of Destinations)
Destinations Visited: -Plzen: Plzen Brewery Great Synagogue
I’m home. Leaving for college in a few days. Need to pack and upload and edit and say goodbye to lady the best I can. Prague Blog will be on hold til’ then.
- The Management
At this current rate, THE PRAGUE BLOG won’t be fully produced until we’re home and able to spend some sleepless nights in front of the computer screen, piecing together our journey for you. So, take these smaller posts with a grain of salt, i will post videos and upgrade them and more days when I can. Know that they aren’t the finished products, but more markers of what we’ve done at a certain time up til now, like twitter (But much less idiotic). I am currently stuck in the London Airport with my brother and we are waiting for a driver. Another piece of tranportation lets us down, frankly we are expecting it. On another note… i finished Jimmy Corrigan; The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware before the flight and it was a comic book which i think rivals Watchmen in creativity and character development. I do so kindly reccomend it, forthwit! See you when I can. Keep typing, interwebs. Be home soon.
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P.S. Lady, always too far and always never always.
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DAY 3: Terezin
Where in the Brothers Visit Theresienstadt, A Concentration Camp significant to Their Family Past.
In a perfect world, I would have some video of Terezin for you. But, in the hassle of travel, the footage must have been recorded over. In fact, I may have done it on purpose. A part of me must have felt shame to think it is right to post that kind of footage. Even though they are just pictures. Anyhow, I suggest the soundcast for this day. My thoughts on the trip are this: History seems stupid until you realize you are always connected to it. Not that I thought the Holocaust wasn’t to be taken seriously. It was the visit. It reminded me of how young I was and how much is left to happen in my life.
The Corresponding Brother Post
NUMBERS:
Alex’s Total Spill Count (ATSC): 9 (By Drinks Only)
Total Pick Pockets Sighted and Encounters (TPPSE): 5
Total Times We’ve gotten Lost (TTWGL):8 ( By Number of Destinations)
Destinations Visited: -Terezin: Ghetto Museum, Concentration Camp -New Town/Wenceslaus Square: Chinese Resterant
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DAY 2: Jewish 1/4, Old Town and New Town
In Which the Brothers Frequent Many Synagogues, a Kafka Cafe, The National Theatre, Old Town Hall, and Visit Wenceslas Square.
F or those of you bitching: Yes. It has been almost a year since the historic trip. For each of these posts I will be writing a summary of the feeling of that day, the highlights, and some experiences that may not have been caught on video or sound. The continuity of that day can better be studied by listening to my brother’s soundcasts. I will link the corresponding brother post for each post. Yes. I, too, shall have a wrap up post, in where I get somewhat weepy, remember, and think about what it meant, what it means, and what it may mean one day. And, yes. I do plan to return to my blog, in hopes of using it as a reason to write on a daily basis, and out of the kindness of my own heart. And now we return you to your regularly scheduled PRAGUE BLOG.
The Corresponding Brother Post
In every blog and wiki on Prague, there is a pic of the Astronomical Clock in Old Town. Yeah. It’s pretty. So, for your viewing pleasure, the Prague Blog’s personal venture into the bowels of Old Town Hall.
In the Jewish Quarter of Prague lies a graveyard known as the Old Jewish Cemetery. Some scholars believe the cemetery was founded more than 1400 years ago. The history of this cemetery is extensive, and there are layers upon layers of tombs underneath the visible top layer of stones. Some estimate there are over 100.000 burials in the cemetery. Famous faces are buried here. One, particularly, close to my heart; Rabbi Low. The man rumored to have created the Golem, all those years ago.
-The Day Unrequited-
-First an explanation: The Day Unrequited is my way of presenting a hogdepodge of stories and other things not recorded in Alex’s sound or my video. Basically left over num-nums for you to peruse.
-Got lost on a road named Palleova. Saw some international embassies. I was almost illegally in China at one point.
-Visited the Cafe Kafka. Dedicated to the great native poet and literary mind.
-While in old town, me and Alex played a good game of ding dong ditch at the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn. Huge doors, and so many door bells.
-A pizza shop known simply as “Pizza Quick” was discovered. Just off of the main street, always filled with cheap pizza, it became our back up source of chow. Nearby was a great park where you could eat and observe the grafitti. I became fond of one tag that simply reads “Big Druid”.
-We got to hear the Old Town Hall ring at 5′ o clock.
-We visited Wenceslaus Square for the first time.
-A stranger asked if I was Czech at all, and i said “Yes, indeed i am. In fact, that’s why I’m here.” (Approximately inside the Old Town Hall)
NUMBERS:
Alex’s Total Spill Count (ATSC): 8 (By Drinks Only)
Total Pick Pockets Sighted and Encounters (TPPSE): 4
Total Times We’ve gotten Lost (TTWGL):6 ( By Number of Destinations)
Destinations Visited:-PRAGUE: Pizza Quick -Jewish Quarter: Old-New Synagogue Jewish Cemetery Pinkis Synagogue -Old Town:National Prague Theatre Astranomical Clock/Old Town Hall Cafe Kafka -Outside Of City: Letna Plan Metronom Pelleova St.
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DAY 1: Castle Day
In Where the Brothers Explore The Prague Castle and All That It’s Surroundings Offer.
Since traveling, me and Alex(Corresponding post) have already learned one important thing about the blog: It takes Time. So, where vids can be provided, they are. Otherwise my story reads as you do. I’ll start with a good ole’ quest.
The Quest In Which Alex and David partake in Bojambles, have their flights delayed in NC, get to Britain and Greet Their New Home:
We take a rest until the next day. For those of you interested, we did spend our extra time doing something in the airports: Moving Walkway Chat 1 and Moving Walk Way Chat 2.
We set out our course for our very first sight: The Castle Complex. Following a hotel map, we make a mistake and learn the very first thing about the geography of Prague: The Vtlava river- One Side; Nothing. The other; Everything. This was our first time getting lost,but like many of our mistakes to come, it led to another sight entirely: The Vtlava River.
Eventually we navigated ourselves to our first sight of Prague’s Castle complex; Loreto.
However we never ended up going into Loreto, and instead wandered through the complex, taking in our first view of Prague’s beautiful historical architecture. Being our first day, we still were stuttering with our basic words, but found happily that most people were happy to help us out with the decidedly undecided way to say thank you (naskeladanah). If you are near Loreto , I advise turning around and looking at the government building/Palace. In front you’ll find Jan’s Stone and the building behind it is home to some wierd ass history from the communist age, involving a defenestration (a word that can’t be used enough). We worked our way into the center of the complex, past the gates of Prague Castle, and at this time decided it was time to be silly.
We spent a whole basket of time in the castle complex. There we traveled through the castle itself and many of the surrounding sites including the powder tower, St. Peter’s Basilica, and St. Vitus’ Church. After such intense sightseeing we wandered into a side street of the Castle Complex known as Golden Lane. It was such named because back in its time it was home to many active alchemists. Thus in this site historical for voluntary human poisoning, we ate lunch.
To end the day we walked across the Charles Bridge. We were surrounded by men selling trinkets, performers, and artisans. The bridge has stone saints along its arch, and people push to and fro along it. As we crossed we wriggled down to a small cobbled alley to find or last stop of the night. The National Marionette Theatre. There we witnessed “Don Giovanni”, Mozart’s “Gift to Prague”. One and a half thumbs up.
The Marionette Theatre
NUMBERS:
Alex’s Total Spill Count (ATSC): 6 (By Drinks Only)
Total Pick Pockets Sighted and Encounters (TPPSE): 1
Total Times We’ve gotten Lost (TTWGL):2 ( By Number of Destinations)
Destinations Visited: WPB, FL – USA Charlotte, NC- USA Gatwick, London-Britain Heathrow,London- Britain -PRAGUE: Prague Castle St. Peter’s Basilica Loreto St. Vitus’ Church Vtlava River Golden Lane Powder Tower National Marronette Theatre Charles Bridge
Kosher Blog
Things have been happening while at home and because college is looming the information is flooding the gates.
1. Lady has started her own blog. Feel free to give her some traffic.
2. FGCU’s music dean sent me a letter asking if i want to be part of the Freshman convocation symphony. Cool opportunity cus we open for the Greg Mortenson (Up for Nobel prize and writer of Three Cups of Tea/Required college reading). My first college gig.
3. Day 1 and 2 of Prague will be updated in video and text later on tonight. Check in later for more.
4. Chocolate egg toys won so far:Day 1: Ice Age Clip. Day 2: Random cartoon clip with plastic chain.
