So, my first visitors were Marla and Elisa, friends from DC who I met up with in Prague. I hadn't seen them since I'd left DC 8 months ago, so it was great to get the chance to see them. We spent our week and a half hanging out - chilling at cafes, enjoying the occasional lunchtime beer, and the more frequent dinner-time beer, and generally enjoying each others' company. Oh, and I guess we saw some historical stuff too. I'll let the pictures/captions do the explaining. I had too many good pictures from our trip to cull down into a single entry, so you get two entries instead - lucky you!! Part one covers the first 5 days of our trip, which we spent in the Czech Republic.
one night we saw that they were having a concert at a local church, and they were playing my favorite piece of classical music (Vivaldi's Spring). There's something really cool about going to concerts in Europe, where all of that stuff was written in the first place.
while in Prague I tried to track down some distant relatives. My great-great grandparents, the Veverkas, had a hotel/restaurant in Prague. With a google search I found a restaurant named U Veverky. While it ended up not being the same place, it did have delicious Czech food, so I'll still call that a win.
in Kutna Hora, they have a church decorated with human bones - over 40,000 of them! It's crazy! Here's a coat of arms made with human arms. (hah, sorry, couldn't avoid the play on words)
And by fancy cocktails he means ABSINTHE!!!! Wild, wild night! We weren't back to the hotel until...11pm!
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