Me in the Old Town Square
We left Munich early on Tuesday morning for Prague, which is in the Czech Republic for those of you who are geographically challenged.
The train ride was super long– 8 hours, I believe. It took us pretty much the whole day to get there, and we arrived after dark. That was fun, trying to find the apartment in the dark and the rain in a city where the streets are designed for you to get lost! (No lie, our tour guide told us that the city was designed so that when Prague was invaded by enemy troops, the people would lock themselves in the buildings and the invaders would get lost in the streets!) (more…)
Cinque Terre. The most relaxing weekend so far if you don’t count jumping off of 20 foot cliffs and hiking for 5 hours along the coast. Cinque Terre is a cluster of 5 towns on the Italian Rivera that are connected by a foot path called the Via dell’Amore. We stared off very early on Saturday morning, around 2 am, getting on a bus for a 5 hour ride to LaSpezia, where we were going to take the train into Riomaggiore, the town on the southern end of Cinque Terre. Now, we all had to sign an agreement beforehand that we would not eat or drink on the bus or, above all, show up drunk. If we did show up drunk, were told, we would not be allowed to board and we would not be refunded our money. Well sure enough, some kids just can’t go a night without hitting up the local bars. It wouldn’t have bothered everyone so much if the motion of the bus had not caused one of them to spew all over himself an hour and a half into the ride. 
