Like Rain Only Worse

Look how happy cold weather makes me

The weather in Prague continues to be miserable, lots of cold weather and constant rain that is teetering between rain, snow and sleet. I went outside for a little while and tried to do my usual first day wandering around a city but the weather was not cooperating. I went to a museum and it was randomly closed so I decided to go to the store. The grocery store is very cheap. For example 1/3 of a liter of beer is 7 czk which is $.40 each. Other things in Prague are more expensive than in America like electronics, toys and clothes. At least that is true for the store that I went to, I was looking for some new headphones, gloves and a beanie to fit my giant head. Normally when I put a beanie on it doesn’t cover even the top of my ears.

Last night at the dinner table at my hostel we were talking about the states in America and a Canadian and an Australian decided to have a competition to see if they could each name all the states. In a mere 11 minutes the Canadian was able to list all of the states and then the Aussie gave up with 38. I was really impressed, I couldn’t name a single Australian state and I could only come up with 4 Canadian provinces.

Here is a piece of random information; some Aussies say both words pawn and porn exactly the same and have to explain which one they mean when they use it in some sentences like “I need to go to the pawn/porn shop later today”

Today I went to the Prague castle and inside of there is a museum called The Lobkowicz Palace. The museum is in the former Lobkowicz Palace where they display a bunch of their art and artifacts. The collection was taken by the Nazi’s and then again taken by the Communists. The audio tour is spoken by several members of the Lobkowicz family and was really interesting. This is the first time that I’ve seen old paintings of rich people and enjoyed it because of the way it was displayed and the audio tour. I really enjoyed seeing the 18th century engravings of Rome because I actually saw those places while in Rome. I know the ruins in Rome are really old but it reinforced the idea in my mind by seeing old engravings of things that I actually saw.

Below is a video of stop motion graffiti from a guy that I saw in Berlin. It is an amazing video of what an artist can do with spray paint.



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