on Riding Black and Czeching out...

Two days in Prague were excellent. A lot of good times wandering the streets of old city and new, seeing the giant cathedral on the hill, overlooking the city, as well as some modern art. Public transportation is awesome. I was running low on funding, and still had to navigate around the trains. When you just hop on the city subways and trams without a ticket, it's called "riding black." So that's what I did all day. I felt a little like James Bond, keeping an eye out for Jaws, who was prepared to rip my tram and my head in half, demanding the 500 crown fee for being caught. An American couple in front of me got caught and had to cough up the money. It was exciting. Today, we're going to a town called Kutna Hora. I guess back in the days of the plague, this town was more or less wiped out. They burned all the bodies, but there so many that they didn't know what to do with them. A monk took all the bones and built a cathedral and furniture out of them. Sounds creepy, but cool, nonetheless. I've got my next hostel booked in Vienna for the next two nights, so that's where I'm headed. Austria, here I come. Joe, I'm looking for some late season pow pow on the cheap :)