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It's the 2nd day of spring and day 15 of my travels and unfortunatley I feel like crap. Despite chowing down on copious amounts of vitamins in an attempt to beat the inevitable overseas illness, I have still managed to succumb to a cold. But I can't really complain - there are worse places to find yourself sick. We are currently in Cesky Krumlov where I can feel sorry for myself in the very beatufilul surroundings of a little medieval town surrounded by a river.
We've come to Cesky Krumlov from Prague where we spent 3 days exploring the city. It's not suprising the city is crawling with tourists, even in winter - it's such a magical place. We went on a walking tour with a local Prgaue woman who filled us in on all its gory heistory, including the many years of Soviet occupation, and she told us some really interesting stories. Like when Russia sent in 1million soldiers (Cezch population at time was only 9mil) so the Cezch people did the only thing they could do - they changed all the street signs so the soldiers were totally confused as to where things were and they attacked to wrong places - very clever I thought.
After wandering the city for a few days, on foot and by tram, Friday night came round and and discovered the international language of Jenga. We had a few drinks at the hostel and played numerous games between a Dutch girl, French boy, 2 Polish girls, Anna (German) and me. We then headed out into town to a pub called Chapeu Rouge (Red Hat) which made for a much more successful night out than our foray into the Russian club scene. In the basement of this 3 level club there was a gypsy/ska typle Czech band playing. It was kind of like downstairs at Tongue and Groove in West End. We had lots of fun dancing around crazy-like in the basement of a Prague pub. And it's comforting to know that no matter where in the world you are, McDonald's always seems like a good idea at 3am.
Saturday we finally made it to the ballet and it was well worth the wait. We got the very last two tickets to a children't performance of Goldilocks (very different to the western fairytale). THe concert hall was a beautiful old theatre like you see in the movies where the fancy ladies hold up the binoculars on sticks (or where the two grumpy old muppets sit and heckle). We were in the perfect position up in a stall which only seated 4 people. The ballet itself was beautiful - as it was for children so was really colourful and lively and just magical.
After the performance we caught the bus to Cesky Krumlov where we are now, getting a bit of R&R before we head on to Vienna for a day or two.
I don't think I'll have time to upload Prague photos but have magaed to get some photos of Russia up so take a look if you're interested.
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