Some Unimpressive Czech Food

Since we’ve spent two days in Prague without trying any “Czech specialty dishes,” we set out today to explore more of Old Town and find a Czech restaurant to eat at.  Unfortunately, our decision to randomly trya place called Restaurace U Golema turned out to be a bad one, and our first experience of Czech food was deeply disappointing.  Hopefully it can only go up from here…

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Prague Day 1 – The Castle & Don Giovanni Marionette Show

After a brutally long 7 hour train ride in one of the old school style trains where you sit in compartments containing 6 seats/compartment, we arrived in the much anticipated city of Prague yesterday.  We spent some time at the mall next to our hotel and then crashed early, catching up on some sleep.  Today, we headed out to begin exploring Prague, starting at the huge castle and finishing with a marionette version of Mozart’s Don Giovanni opera.  So far, Prague is not quite living up to the hype everyone gives it…

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A Note About The Dates Of Blog Posts

So, if you’re reading this because you’re a faithful reader who has stuck with me no matter how far behind I’ve fallen (4 months now!), or if you’ve just stumbled upon this blog from some internet search for information or whatever, I think it’s time I address the fact that I’ve fallen ridiculously behind on this blog and have to do something to catch up!  Paul and I are still on the road (in Poland now), and a combination of friends meeting up to travel with us, not having Internet consistently, procrastination, and being too busy out and about sightseeing and stuff has put me 4 months and 6 countries behind in my writing!  (more…)

Old Farm, Moreton-In-Marsh

When planning the UK segment of our trip, we used Rick Steves’ website to compile a list of places to visit based on his recommended itinerary.  Visiting a town in the Cotswolds, a range of hills in west-central England, was fairly high on his priority list, so we decided to spend two nights in Moreton-In-Marsh, the only town in the Cotswolds which has a train station. I’m happy to report that, although it’s small, Moreton-In-Marsh may turn out to be one of my favorite places in England… (more…)

4 Days In Cardiff

This past Sunday we caught a very crowded train to Cardiff, Wales, where we’ve spent the last 4 nights.  Once again, I’m summarizing several days into one blog because our time here hasn’t been that exciting.  Cardiff is Europe’s youngest capital city and is growing quickly, but when there isn’t a major rugby match happening at Millennium Stadium, there isn’t a whole lot of excitement in the city…  (more…)

Bath In A Nutshell

In an effort to catch up on my blog articles, I’m condensing the remaining three of our four days in Bath into one blog entry because, frankly, our time in Bath wasn’t all that interesting!  It’s a nice little town and, after our first day of crappy food, we managed to find a few decent places to eat, but two days here would have been enough, and four days was total overkill.  Bath might be a good spot to holiday if I lived nearby and needed a relaxing getaway, but as a backpacker, it’s just overpriced without much to see or do… (more…)

You Call This Spaghetti?!?!

Well, it’s been a little while since my blog entries have focused solely on the food we’ve been eating (at the beginning they did more often), but today is a day where all I have to write about is the food really – except this isn’t about how good the food was, it’s about how unbelievably bad it was!  I’m starting to see why the UK has a rep for bad food… (more…)

The Princess Di Memorial

Today, our last day in London, we headed out to explore Hyde Park and find the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain.  We had asked a couple of police officers about how to find it on our first day in London with Calvin, but it was quite far from Buckingham Palace, where we were, and they told us it wasn’t worth going to, which we thought was an odd thing to say.  As we wandered around Hyde Park asking people for directions everyone we talked to said the same thing, and when we finally found the fountain we, unfortunately, couldn’t help but agree… (more…)

A Day Of Art & Shakespeare

With only a few days left in London, we headed out today to cram in a few art galleries before catching the evening production of Romeo & Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, which we had purchased tickets for online last week when we stopped by the Globe and realized that pretty much all shows sell out in advance. After today, I think we can both say we’ve had enough art and theatre for the next little while… (more…)

A Wicked Day In London

Today was the best possible Saturday I could ask for – we managed to get front row tickets to Wicked, a musical about “the untold story of the wicked witch of the west,” and then we stumbled upon the Queen’s birthday celebration and saw the whole Royal Family at Buckingham Palace!  I am so thankful we happened to be at the right place at the right time… (more…)