Snow

Sunset in Prague

The bar in Brussels that holds the world’s record for beers was a lot of fun, it’s called Delirium. There was a short beer menu with around 50 beers on it but if you were looking for something else there was also a phone book sized menu as well. There is a picture of this in my pictures below. At the table next to me there were two guys from Belgium who were drinking Budweiser. No disrespect meant to Budweiser but with over 2000 options I didn’t have any Anheuser Busch products.

Once back in my hostel I helped a really drunk guy find his room. It turns out that he had just gotten robbed and lost most of his money. A group of guys approached him, grabbed him and threw him against a wall and then took everything he had. This is a good reminder to not be wasted and alone at night in a city you don’t know. This guy was really drunk, he could hardly talk and he couldn’t find his room, I have no idea how he even found the hostel.

I got a flight to Prague from Brussels on WizzAir, a discount airline, for €24.99 including taxes and €10 for checking my suitcase. As with other discount airlines in Europe they use the name of big cities but the airports they use are actually 45 minutes or more outside the city. To get to the Airport I had to take a metro to a train and finally a bus, which took as long as the actual flight.

As the plane was landing the sun was setting over the clouds and the sky came alive with color. I’m not sure what it is with budget airlines but every time I fly on them there is a terrible body odor smell. I’m not sure if it’s just luck that I have those people around me or if there is something inherent about discount airplanes smelling.

I have rarely seen anyone checking tickets on public transportation. Mostly I only see them check on the longer distance trains that I have taken. Last night I saw a metro employee board the metro train I was on to check tickets. The metro employee approached a well dressed man in his 60’s and asked him for his ticket, which he apparently did not have. The man without a ticket tried all kinds of excuses and then pulled the metro employee close to him and said something quietly into his ear. Whatever he said didn’t work because he was asked to produce his ID and he was given a fine of some kind.

Prague is cold, really cold. The current temperature is 1 and feels like -5 according to Weather.com. When I woke up this morning and looked out the window it was snowing. An Australian girl in my room had never seen snow before and she opened the window so she could touch it and the icy air rushed into the room and she quickly shut the window. I later overheard the same girl asking the front desk if there was some place warm and free in Prague that she could visit. I guess she isn’t all that impressed with the snow.

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