Praha!

Hello there from Prague!

We leave early tomorrow morning and it's been a lightning-fast two days. The word we probably used most often was beautiful, though it seems rather trite. But truly, I've never seen a more beautiful city, and that's saying a lot because I liked Paris a real lot too. :)

Last night we bought some fruit at the farmer's market (fresh apricots, strawberries, and cherries), some gyros, and went and sat in front of the river by the Jewish quarter, eating and hanging out. As the sun went down a loud voice singing in Hebrew echoed out over the city....it was a very ancient-feeling moment.

Today one of our many stops was a tiny postal museum we'd read about. We went there, and were the only two visitors in the place, which made the workers to visitors ratio 2:1. One elderly docent was so intent on doing his job that he insisted on showing us around personally, speaking in German, I think because I said "Ja" in answering a question. Finally, after plying us with city maps and photos of the museum, he asked where we were from. The look on his face when we told him was something like, "Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that...." It's maybe the first time so far that someone was so openly disappointed to meet Americans.

So those are just a few moments of many....I'll write again from the Danube valley (tomorrow), or Salzburg (next two days after that).

Oh, and also, Czech beer is as good as promised. The average Czech drinks 80 gallons of it a year :) I drank 1 liter, but it took me quite a while....

Ciao,
Erin