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Monday, September 22, 2014

yopo: PRAGUE

..you only prague once.

i now understand why they call Prague a fairy tale city. between the Charles Bridge, Old Town Square, and Prague Castle you constantly fee like youre stepping out of a scene from Harry Potter.

after a long 14 hour bus ride, we finally arrived in Prague around 11:30am on Friday. we stay at the Czech Inn which is considered one of the best hostels in europe. we ate a delicious breakfast in their basement bar before departing for our walking tour. at this point, we have been on too many walking tours to count. but with our tour guide, Isaac, i would go on this same tour again and again. i cannot begin to describe how hilarious this human being is other then to show you this video. there are countless youtube videos of him so clearly im not the only one. i cannot stress enough how important it is to get this tour guide if you go to Prague. ANYWHO

we went to dinner at U Bulinu and sat in their beer garden. maybe i'm just really sick of pasta but the food in Prague is amazing. the beer is fantasic, you get bread dumplings with pretty much every meal, and the street food is to die. after dinner our tour guides took us on a pub crawl and we ended up in an underground bar.

museum

i forgot to mention: isaac brought us to STARBUCKS. finally got my pumpkin spice latte

museum

old town square

clock tower

the jewish quater prague

old town sqaure

we stopped here after Isaac's tour

dinner

beef sirloin with cream sauce, cranberry sauce and bread dumplings

on saturday, our tour guides took us on another tour. we fed some swans and saw the lennon wall. we had a group lunch complete with soup, beef, apple crumble, and of course beer. after lunch we went on a tour of Prague Castle. we ended the tour with a trip to starbucks of course. we ended the day by crossing the Charles Bridge and exploring Prague. we got food at multiple food stands including cinnamon rolls, sausages, and crepes.

at the John Lennon Wall

i was so excited to see leaves on the ground

soup at lunch

i got the same meal i had the night before because it was so good

Prague Castle

Old Town Square

cinnamon roll

on sunday we got up early and went to Oktoberfest in Munich. we were only there for a couple of ours but we managed to drink beer, eat a giant preztel, sausage and chocolate covered bananas. i think we were pretty accomplished.

the beer garden we went into

this weekend was one for the books and i was terribly sad to see it go. four more weeks until fall break but for now i am happy to be spending the next few weekends at home in florence.

Thursday, September 18, 2014

kebabs

i thought it would be appropriate to have en entire post dedicated to nothing but kebabs. if you are studying abroad in europe and having a serious chipotle withdrawl, i highly suggest you run to the nearest kebab shop near you. coming from the middle east, these babies are packed full with vegetables, meat, french fries, falafels, or whatever kind of humble jumble your prefer. in europe, "doner kebab" refers to sliced meat served in a pita (thanks wikipedia). we prefer ours in wrap form (much healthier, right?!) also, how great is it that they are only 3.50 euro! any who, here are some sub par pictures of these famous kebabs that you should all consider framing.

the goods. always get spicy, people. always spicy.

the meat. usually lamb or beef.

falafels.

shaving the meat

YES

true life: we are addicted to kebabs

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

my taste buds..

want to share with you what a good time they are having. obviously this post is going to have to happen almost weekly. it is very difficult to not take pictures of every meal. i am very sorry to say that i have no pictures of kebabs on here because HOLY COW KEBABS. some of these go back as far as the first week so i will do my best at trying to remember what they were.