We're still here!

I know, I know, it's been a while. We were in Prague after Berlin for 3 nights at Miss Sophie's hostel in the new town. We had a 5 bed dorm with great roommates - went out one night with two girls from, and another night to the same brewery pub with two girls from Australia. We saw Charles' Bridge, the Castle (which really should be called a Palace), the new town, the old town, took the furnicular up the hill and found an awesome little restaurant built into the rock that used to be a wine cellar. A little note to those of you who are squeemish about eyes on your food: they serve fish whole over here... my trout at lunch had the full shabang with eyes and tail and fins in tact (yes, Erich had to cut the head off for me to even look at it) - but it was really really tasty! While it is a beautiful city, we're still not sure why everyone raves about Prague. It was overcrowded, everybody had english menus (what's the fun of travelling if you don't have to mime for your food?!), and we have seen prettier cities...

For example, Vienna!! We arrived on Thursday (staying at Wombat's the Base) and have explored the Museum Quartier, admiring the architecture and gardens and sculptures (Erich has decided he wants lions incorporated on a massive monument over his grave). Yesterday we walked through the main "downtown" with more pretty buildings, a church with an entirely mosaic roof, and found a bookstore selling english books so we picked up one each (we should have brought books!). That night, we went to see the Wienner Mozart Orchestra (no, it's not sponsered by Oscar Meyer it's pronounced vee-en-er) perform in one of the really nice opera halls in the city. Today we went to the Spanish Riding show in the famous riding hall - cheap standing tickets for 25euro with a view of the full arena (the seats right in front of us were 100!!). It was amazing for Emma, and they did a few moves that impressed Erich too. His favourite is the "three legged dog trot" also known as the canter. They jumped on the spot, stood on their hind legs, and did a bunch of moves that Emma used to be able to do at one point. We followed that by taking the U-Bahn to the palace just outside the city centre. We walked through the gardens and its huge fountains and odd placements of grass-filled areas that you weren't allowed to walk on.

A note on style: The mullet is sadly back in fashion here (Graham, if you ever decide to grow one back, you're only allowed to do it here)... we're talking the people that think they're really cool with their mullets, not just the dirty country people with them.

We will post photos once we find an internet cafe that will let us :). Use your imaginations for now... Tomorrow we are off to Munich, so we will have to take photos so that we remember it all when we stagger out of the Biergartens.