Post Prague/ Budapest Bound

Needless to say, we had a good time in Prague because well, we always have a good time. There's no shortage of sites to see between the statues, baroque sculptures and architecture, and historical landmarks. It is one of the few places in Europe that remained relatively unscathed by the violence of the 20th century and it shows. The people were their own kind of friendly which is to say they were nice, but they did not want to appear nice. We dubbed it: "The Mean-Mug capital of the world". Otherwise, lovely, lovely city whose character and charm was rather mismatched by her inhabitants. Fortunately, there are loads of visitors who share the same enthusiasm and joie de vivre. 

GA is now in Budapest, having arrived yesterday and already love it. Pics and updates to follow. For now: a last little taste of Praha-

 Old and New Town, shot from Little Town

 The Dancing House building. Very cool set against the more classic structures surrounding it. About 500 meters away from the Charles Bridge.

 Fellers at a fountain inside the Praga Castle

 A moment. In picture

 Praha sunset over the Vtlava

 Our first cooked meal: Beef Cutlets w/peppers, green onion, garlic, broccoli; Asparagus sauteed in olive oil; and gnocchi in a chili and pepper pesto with accompanying Malbec

 Off the side of the Vysrhad Cathedral Hill

 ...where a vineyard was growing( the grapes were not ripe)

 Inside the Havana Club, possibly the cleanest place in the city

My cocktail: The Revolution Fizz. When I ordered, the waitress gave a very sincere nod of approval. She was right.
No Pops, there was no decent Mexican restaurant. Because there was no Mexican restaurants.
On to the next one. Stay Awesome

Praha; Nonstop

This city is such a paradox. There's an severe overabundance of beer but the locals don't smile. Unless they're drinking. And drinks are cheap, beer and wine especially. You can buy Pilsner Urquell for 50-75 cents. I bought a bottle of Malbec for a dollar (it was delicious Pops). There are so many beautiful buildings that you feel like you've seen the same one a block back or miss it entirely. But it's incredibly interactive. You can go to almost any of the historical sites and touch. And feel. It's amazing. Especially when I consider how many times I've been mere feet from a place or object only able to look.

We made friends with some aussies and brits and one canadien yesterday and went out on the town and wound up at an american/harley davidson themed bar (reason being that we had wandered for too long looking for a bar that we had to drink, right then). It looked like the harley davidson gift shop exploded and everything stuck to the walls. We managed a couple of beers there before we rallied to the next bar, The Prague Beer Museum. I don't think it was actually a museum. Pretty forgettable. There was a drunk Italian kid who wandered into the group and stole his way into a few pictures and when he asked where we were all from we responded with Spain. And he bought it. Go figure. Not too long after we made it to the all night rave party. It was fun to let loose and dance, especially after the last few days (don't tell G but we managed to march around for 40 plus miles in a 2 and a half day span) and we really let loose. After awhile (4 hours) house trance music gets old. It made me miss Mccoy. Don't tell him I said that.

Today: I'm at a coffee shop (you know, the on that is everywhere) trying to download a movie so we can relax in the room a little and take it easy (Diz has a bum knee and G partied hard last night). But it's taking forever. Sidenote: DO NOT complain about interweb or cable or technology in general back in the states, we as Americans have it gooder than everybody else. So, I might just call it and head back. I forget my iphone so I can't post the pictures of the last few days, we made our first real dinner yesterday after days of sammiches. Pretty proud. Will post pics. Enjoy Captain America. And smile. That shit rules.

*Nonstop = when a Praha establishment does not close. ex. BAR NONSTOP or
GET AWESOME NONSTOP

Then til now or how I stopped sleeping and learned to love my rucksack

 If the send-off was an indicator as to how awesome the trip would be...

 .... then it was going to be epically A

 By our powers combined.....

 Well, after long hours and hours and hours and hours etc. of planes trains, automobiles...

 We made it (minus a day of rest) we got out to enjoy some of the nightlife culture Prague has to offer

 Including shots of correlajo repo (gotta represent) and Pilsner Urquell straight for the mother's teet

This bar was called X club (cross club) and you ever seen Aliens like how the walls start getting covered in that exoskeleton after being exposed to the aliens for so long? Well that's how this place was. It was really impressive, like a labor of love. They had taken parts from cars and bikes and power converters and rebar(tons) and transformed this place into a topdown metalworks masterpiece. Cheers to them

 The next day we changed hostels. This pic was of the sidewalk, some workers were patching up a section and they were basically pounding rocks into sand. No noticeable mortar. Pretty cool. Detrimental to skaters

 random 100+ y/oclock tower just popped up. next to the erotic shop. of course

 I wish this were the actual crossing signal, and instead of beeping or whistling (or clicking, as they do in Prague) when it was red, you'd hear the caterwauling of small children crying out

After deciding to walk from hostel to hostel (hey, what's 6.9km between friends) we found this super cute and quiet hostel (it's down at the bottom of the hill). That walk probably wound up being 11km by the way. 

Either way, We're good. Went to the market and got food and beer, now we're off to check out the Prague Castle....after we wake up a very sleepy G

Rough Start...We like it rough

So to update: the get awesome adventure has been off to a rough start. Luckily, we like it rough( as I strike up a match off my chin and light my cigarette). To start, it escaped our attention that we had an 18 hour layover in Iceland, and we landed at 1130 at night( it was still light out). Iceland looks like an interesting place where you could have a great time, especially if you’re into the outdoors. But, after spending what felt like a week in the airport  and endlessly watching infomercials on how awesome Iceland thinks Iceland is we’ll need some recovery time from The home of Reyjikkavikjstull(!?!) mountain…and puffins. They have puffins. After making it into Holland and then Amsterdam(!) we ran into another snafu(sheet I suck again!), this time of the monetary variety (if you’re thinking of traveling over here you may want to look into getting a bank card with a smart chip in it). After much deliberation we decided we’d leave Amsterdam and return when we were more financially viable, G did fall in love 35 or so times in the Red Light district. After meeting White Widow(energy cheeb!) and hanging out with her all night, we boarded for Hannover, Germany….which has no easily accessible Hostels. So we’re off to Prague! Be great to sleep in a bed, which we haven’t done in 5 or so days, and not be in a airport/train station.  We’ll see you in the next chapter. Happy B-day Bones

GA

By our powers combined, we are Get Awesome!

Much love and big ups to all our friends who came from AZ and B-More to NYC to see us off proper and have an amazing time, we're jetting off. Awesome and updates to come from Iceland.
G A

Get Awesome Ambassadors set to take on the World

It all ends. And begins. As great as Tucson, and the U.S. and all her amazing denizens, have been, and will be it's time to see what we have to offer the rest of the world and what she has to offer us.