Alright to catch you up on my whirlwind trip, firstly all the pictures from my last update were from Budapest. I don´t have a USB access so you currently cannot see any more pictures.
After i played in the Vienna symphony, i was so good that i immediatly retired as i realized i will never best that performance. So i am sorry to all of you who were interested in seeing my triangular skills... you should have come traveling!! After that the next day Cindy and i only had a half day before we shot off to Munich, so we went and tried to see the training of the Lipenzon (that is the pheonetic spelling) Stallions, I was kind of disappointed cause there was a lot of walking horses in a circle and not a whole heck of alot of lunging or jumping or stadning on thier back legs.... but i think Cindy was happy with it! We did more chocolate and sat in a nice bakery that allowed us to watch them prepare everything. After that there was only enough time to run back to the hotel grab our stuff and head off toPrague.
We arrived late, and I convinced Cindy to stay in a hostel, we were in the apartment suite though which wasnt bad, no air conditioning much to our chagrin but big window tha opened and let in lots of air and lots of HUGE Daddy Long Legs...i sqealed and stayed on the bed and had mild panic attacks while cindy played spider hunter under the bed! Prauge is BEAUTIFUL!!!! We were supposed to meet up with a friend i had made in Rotterdam, but i could never get a hold of him so we did our own walking tour the first day doing the classic meander. We found lots of great s tuff though and tried some Czek beer which we had both heard lots about. We drank Pilsner Urquell, niether of us was a big fan. The next day were tried Budvar the original budwiesier. It was better, but i would still rather have a Kokanee, or even better a german beer! We took some walking tours while we were there, and it is a beautiful city with lots of history. Really croweded in a lot of the high touristy areas. We were typically walking about 12 - 13 hours a day so it made for long days that for the most part flew by.
Cindy reawoke my appetite so she got to deal with me going on sugar highs and lows, and my grumpiness when i got too hungry. At some points i think i was a bit desperate for food and was ready to steal things out of peoples hands as they walked by. See what happens when you remind me how yummy food is!
After our adventures in Prauge we caught a train to Munich. We only had a half day there so i tried to remember as much as i could about the tour i went on, i took Cindy on an impromptu tour, telling her what little i could recall and not mix up with all of the other cities.
We were hungry (imagine that) so went to Cafe Glockenspiel which is on the 5th floor of a building directly across from the Glockenspiel, so we got to watch it do its spiely thing at 5pm while we had dinner. It was another whirlwind day, running around town to check out the marienplatz and englisher garten, rezidens, and talking about Hitler and the golden line and everything else. We stopped for a beer before heading home for bed and got a Becks, it was disgusting. Best to go back to Hofbroug, what we had at dinner, a real Bavarian beer.
Bright and early the next day we caught a train to Paris. I think i was officially beat by this part of the trip. I slept almost the whole way on the train. Cindy and I awoke at the beginning of the trip, we HAD to sit in first class as there were no seats left in second class (darn!) and when we woke the food fairy had brought us a little treat. Chocolate crossiants were good, but the yogurt which was surprise sour grapefruit and the raw salmon and eggs were all yucky! When we got to Paris we were officially stuck in the Paris Airport Station for i would say an hour. They make all of these tricky little signs so you cant escape. And when you ask for help on information desk says go upstairs, and then when you can´t find the thing you want upstairs, they say you have to go downstairs. The french are sneaky! I was hungry again so was ready to rip some heads off, but Cindy stayed cool and we finally escaped.
We went to the Arc de Truimph since i missed it before, Cindy fed me a few times, and then we went to bed.
Cindy left the next morning back to Arizona, I had to go down to Marsiells as i could not find a train our of France to get into Spain for 5 more days. I thought i would try my luck closer to the border!
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