Just after Christmas i had to wrap my stuff and fly to the Czech Republic. Nobody wanted to acompany me so i went alone there to meet some friends from my Londonstay in 2007. I was quite afraid at the beginning ‘cos i didn‘t know if they would really come and pick me up. Ofcause everything was plannend from the beginning but i mean we haven‘t seen for over a year… But lucky me, Tom and Lili were already waiting for me at the airport when i arrived. It was strange in the beginning seeing them after that long again, but after a while it was like in the good old days in London. First place they‘ve showed me was Tom‘s scary hostel, where I was supposed to live the last 3 days in the czech republic. Because for the next 4 days we went with Tom‘s parents to his hometown České Budějovice after Tom and Lili showed me the Prague Castle. On the way to Tom‘s hometown he told me everybody in his family could speak english except his father who speaks a little german. That didn‘t sound bad i thought… but actually the only person who spoke to me was Tom and his Parents just told him what he should tell me… Tom‘s brother spoke english to me but he went to Poland just on the next day, but at least i got his bedroom after that … In the evening we met also Vit and they showed me czech beer, which they were always swarming about when we were in England.

On my second day we went to České Krumlov, where Tom has asked a friend of him living there to show us the town and specially the castle which is there. Our „guide“ was a cool guy and he had many ideas what he could show me… but during the Winterseason most of the places were closed… Ok we had fun but that was pretty annoying … But not as annoying as the ****ing cold weather. Tom told me that it was quite warm before I arrived there… what a crap.

Vit and Tom wanted me to show a restaurant which every tourist of České Budějovice had to eat… Otherwise he wasn‘t really there… The restaurant was a little bit high class but quite cheap compared with switzerland.. A whole meal with drinks costs as much as a meal in a Mc Donalds in Switzerland… Later we visited the Budweiser brewery wasn‘t only that we wanted to we had to . After our virtual tour in the Budweiser brewery Vit and Tom gave me a present a 1 litre beer glass. I want to thank you two here again for that great present .. Later Vit had to leave us ‘cos he went somewhere else for New Year‘s Eve… In the evening we went to another castle which looked great at night ‘cos of the lighting set.

After a longer discussion with Katherina i could convince her to come visit us in České Budějovice. But i couldn‘t persuade her to come to Prague for New year, neither her boyfriend nor her… She told me she had to learn… So i had no other choice than accept it. But at least she had for along time a voice in her head telling her she should come to Praha (Insider)

On Wednesday we went back to Prague. Where we first stored our baggage in Tom‘s wonderful hostel , which‘s definitly not the newest but at least very cheap! I payed 120 crowns for 3 nights, what‘s about 8 Swiss Francs. I think i was the first foreign person in the hostel, because the lady on the reception was quite confused about my Identity card she couldn‘t read any of the five languages on it… She had to ask Tom which on the card‘s my name In the evening we met Lili on the Muzeum Square, where a new year‘s concert occured. We ate some sushi in a restaurant and when we came back at 11 o‘clock many people already set off some fireworks of which most exploded on the ground instead of the sky. The czech people didn‘t seem to care about ‘cos they also shot some trams and cars.. And they don‘t care if the firework exploeds next to hundreds of people… and lucky us had to cross the street on such a great place… I don‘t know how the other felt.. but i was scared…

They made a bigger and nicer firework on the first of january ‘cos of the EU or something actually i don‘t know…

On Friday i had to stay in bed the whole day lond ‘cos i was ill… All because the weather grrr… But anyway in the evening we went to a discotheke and not just any one we went to one of the biggest in central europe called Karlovy lázně. It looks like a very old and scruffy building from the outside but inside it was cool. There were five floors with a diffrent musicgenre in each floor, so you could just change the floor if you fed up with the sound. It was also cool that they have a chillout zone in every floor.

On Saturday i flew back to switzerland after Lili and Tom had acompanied me to the airport…

Tags: Prag 2008