Krippen: Germany |
The buffet. Just eggs and meats and cheeses, but the espresso machine was noms. Mum liked to steal the whole buffet so we'd get free lunch. Classy. Dunno what the quote really means, but google translate things it has something to do with "ergo I am therefore I'm human" | |
| The walk to the train station took about fifteen-twenty minutes, and we ended up being terrible at catching trains because no one explained how the times worked. So we spent many an hour just sitting around and watching cargo trains pass while we waited for the right train. We ran a whole three blocks and literally missed one by one minute. That was awesome. |
Kurot Ratham: Germany
May 9, 2014
| We tried to catch the train and ended up stuck in Krippen and Bad Schandau respectively for about an hour since we didn't understand the schedule or German. We waited in the Bad Schandau station and mum spent forty minutes in their little store. She discretely tried to chill a bottle of wine, and ended up just giving it to them to put in the freezer. I got a giant bottle of apple cidre and it was perfect and nommy. |
Dresden: Germany
May 10, 2014
Cesky Krumlov: Czech Republic
May 11-12, 2014
| The drive to Cesky The drive to Cesky Krumlov. Lots and lots of yellow flowers and old buildings. We turned the wrong way onto a construction one way road on accident. Also, we keep seeing fields and fields of highlighter yellow flowers. It's like everyone in Europe is a yellow weed farmer. Our room is cute and modern, run by a couple, just three rooms available. CK Pension. Note: I've hit my head on those slanty ceilings at least four times, I'm going to look like I'm getting in street fights if I keep this up. They have a little area for 24 hour tea and coffee downstairs and we get 15% off at nearly everyplace in town. Breakfast was nom. I never thought to put chocolate mix on oatmeal before. Got some yogurt and bread as well. |
We bought a bottle of Medovina mead: It tastes like a mix of scotch and sherry, I really liked it, of course mom hated it. The gingerbread cost a lot and I dunno how good it would have tasted, so we passed. Didn't know gingerbread was a czech thing though, so now I know. |
We tried this thing called a Trdelnik, and some mulled wine. The mulled wine was perfect, not an overload of cinnamon and not too sweet. The Trdelnik was like a coke can sized hard pastry that was a mix between a croissant and a churro. It was soft and flaky like a biscuit on the inside, and hard and crunchy on the outside. They spatula in toppings inside it, and they cook it on a metal pipe skewer. |
We stopped for lunch after wandering around for a couple of hours and trying the trdelnik thing. (Also found Erin another hair clip. This is going to turn into a trend.) We got a glass of white and some appetizers and used our hotel 15% off coupon and got excited cause they accept credit cards. It was raining, so it was a nice little refuge and the food was good. (Especially given that we;d been living off of cheese, salami, pretzels and cookies for a few days) |
We stopped by a medieval looking restaurant for dinner after wandering around for a while trying to find something open and not gross looking/sounding. I really wanted rabbit or pheasant so we went there. At first we were right by the river, but then it started raining and we moved up higher (was also close to the heat). A cat decided he liked the heat too and he hung out on the terrace with us and some other tourists. He was super sweet, and such a pretty old kitty. Got the soup that came with dandelions in it cause what. And the rabbit turned out to be really good. It was like the dark meat on chicken except it was white, so I loved it. The glasses they served the drinks in were cool looking too. Stopped for a cappucino in an interesting erotic themed coffee shop. Lots of naked or sensual woman pictures with red walls and black votives. Super weird, but I can dig it. |
Sedlec Ossuary - Zemecka
May 13, 2014
Sedlec Ossuary is in Zamecka Czech, and it was right outside of Prague (sorta) and I really wanted to go. Some rich dude had too many bones and too much time so he made all that. Supposedly some blind monk was stacking the original stacks of bones and when he finished he regained his sight. Supposedly lol While I was taking pictures I bumped a guardrail and set off this loud alarm. Whoops |
Prague - Zemecka: Czech Republic
May 13-14, 2014
| When we first got there it was closed and we needed to call them - with our phones that don't work. So my mom trespassed on some ladies property who had mercy on us and called the owner. The hallway in front of the room smelled like wet paint and new house, and the towels in the room were like thin crispy sandpaper wafers. He gave us directions and change for the bus and we went into Prague to check things out. Breakfast the next morning was alright. The scrambled eggs were really good and so were the pastry's but that was all there was and that was okay but then mom's buffet theft was super obvious. Didn't try the coffee, but now I'm regretting it. They had a rodesian ridgeback mix! She was a sweetie. Laid there on the rug while everyone ate and napped. Turns out our GPS doesn't have the Croatia map (YAY) So we had to throw down the money to buy it, and it's only 60% coverage. I'm gonna see what I can do about fixing that while I'm waiting for it to back up to the computer and upgrade. I wish there was an option to pick and choose what country you get coverage for, and not have to but all of Europe when he already have it, but balls. |
- Prague -
Found an interesting wafer cracker thing with chocolate in the middle that Prague seems to be known for. At least to the tourists. These are something called "Original Czech Spa Wafers" Whatever that means. It was a really light, flaky consistency, with a paper thin layer of chocolate on the inside. It was pretty noms, we bought a box to see if we could salvage them home. Got some more mulled wine, this one was obviously more citrusy. I like tasting the difference between different cities and restaurants.
Found these locks all over a wrought iron bridge and I think they're like the locks in France in the movie Now You See Me. They weren't put there for the movie, it's a real bridge, and it has something to do with locking your wish there and it'll come true. I think.
We walked through the gardens of the palace from the metro and then wandered to the cathedral and found out everything was closed at five and it was five-thirty. But oh well, the outside is prettier anyways. Saw lots of soldiers, and a pretty storm front that actually didn't rain on us until later that night. They had a thing with this area just full of swans, big angry birds that they are. These were fairly well behaved, for a swan, so I got some good wing ref and then we got dinner. Dinner was stew and smoke pork with dumplings. Their version of dumplings are actually slices of thick dough-like potato bread, I believe. They taste really good with stew sauce. Got sourcrout with roasted garlic on top and the garlic actually made me enjoy it. Afterwards, we walked over the bridge and saw a few vendors still left selling art and hair clips and such, then we watched the sunset, then found a restaurant to sit in while it rained. |
HOTEL
Night of the 14th
| We didn't plan ahead for this hotel, we just stopped at a bar at around eleven and got directions to a nearby HOTEL, barely had a name. It was full of kids and they were all singing, so I'm assuming some kind of choir group. The breakfast buffet was deceivingly good for a hotel with year-round christmas lights and hospital green hallways. The cheese was good and they had unrefined sugar. yumm |
Plitvice Lakes National Park: Croatia
May 16, 2014
This flower totally looks like Yzma | The first place we tried to stay at in Croatia sucked. They didn't have the things we promised, so we picked up our stuff and left. We found a place about a minute down the road with people that spoke english, a nice hotel etc. The Winnetou. We went down for dinner after we were settled and ordered some peasant food and I drew their badass bar. While I was drawing they were watching and I ended up drawing their bar again but full page with a portrait of the owner and the waiter. They felt bad they weren't paying me and they kept giving me stuff. Over that hour, I got a pack of gum, a glass of wine, and a tiny horseshoe good luck charm. |
Plitvice Lakes National Park - Entrance 1
Skocjan Caves, Slovenia
May 17, 2014
We're lucky we found it in time for the tour (one of only three), there was no real postal code that worked in our GPS. But yes, sadly, no photography, for whatever reason, flash or no flash, so the pictures below are from the website. It was a long walk, and the cave really was massive. It felt like being in a dwarven cavern, and shockingly, the water in the canyon was almost crystal clear. Apparently in flood season the entire cave fills up, then the pressure unclogs the tiny ten meter exit and the water escapes. That's why it's not such a pretty cave; everything is covered in clay and sediment. |
Mestre/Venice, Italy
May 17, 2014
Slovenia was kind of a sad dump, but the scenery was nice. It was a long-ish drive to our hotel, Aurora. Kinda dumpy, located in Mestre, but the service was great and everyone was friendly. Was super hot so we had the window open, but it was the loudest street ever. Loud kids coming back from bars, rolling bottles, dump trucks, smokers, laughing people; you get it, we slept terribly. |
We ate at a place called Impronta Cafe'. After an hour and a half of being lost, even with a gps and two maps, we finally found the damn place. We missed our reservation, but they were nice enough to let us have a table anyways. It was cute, the table was nice, and the food was amazing, even if my mom didn't think so. I had roast rabbit and my mom had gnocchi with a duck and pesto sauce. | The walk to the buses wasn't nearly so hard. I just took out a compass on my phone and followed it northwest. Then the bus art was difficult. The bus we needed was literally so packed people were hanging out the doors. So we took bus 2, and en route we realized it didn't announce the stops, the only way to know where you were and what stop you were going to was by magic. Which is ridiculous. So after talking to some people we rode it to the end of the line, got out and wandered until I recognized a zumba billboard and a roundabout and some dumpsters. |
Intschi, Switzerland
May 18, 2014
On the drive to Switzerland we ended up stopped in heavy traffic in front of some tunnels, so it seems they only let a certain number of cars into a tunnel at a time, I suppose to prevent accidents and traffic? Because the tunnel was quite long, about a ten min drive. The radio signal in the alps sucks btw. At least I managed to level some pokemon.
I managed to find my way even though the gps gave up two towns before. horray! There was a super friendly maine coon with a cat door into the hallways that we saw following the owners children later that day. Super cute. She earned many pets from me.
I managed to find my way even though the gps gave up two towns before. horray! There was a super friendly maine coon with a cat door into the hallways that we saw following the owners children later that day. Super cute. She earned many pets from me.
Gästehaus Schäfli
The food here was amazing, but there were so many flies. You don't even know. We were literally taking bites and waving our hand at the same time. So it was sort of miserable, but the food was good enough to stay. The one on the left tasted like breakfast; a skillet with what tasted like hash browns with ham in a sea of cheese sauce. The thing on top is a tomato, which I didn't eat. My mom got chicken in a nice parsley green onion sauce with fries. |
Every time I see a picture of Switzerland it looks fake, and yeah, still looks fake lol
Altdorf
May 19, 2014
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May 19, 2014
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