Destruktivní: My Social Proclivities: Look What I Found

I have made it to Prague. Two and half weeks later and I have a new addiction to cappucino and espresso, I have learned to enjoy beers for dinner or don't eat, have accepted looking wrinkled and bloodied from wind-dried clothes, and have a new appreciation for cushioned soles as I have recently purchased the black New Balance "standing" shoes that barbers historically wear. If I travel to the grocery store it turns into a marathon. The order and structure in the United States resulted in the New York City street grid, but no such luck here.

I am about to start taking some Czech language lessons and have figured out banking, the grocery store, the metro, and some drinking and eating customs. I have made it out with the locals, consisting mostly of local Czech or Slovak women and British guys. My first night out I thought I was holding my ground with talking and drinking until the conversation swung to the England housing market and the life and works of Franz Kafka......and then a bigger kick to the huevos once the tequila and Zambuca shots started coming. When we made it to a club I think Radka wanted to dance and talk to me, but I was comatosed and was taxied home.

I went to Zagreb, Croatia last week and got a taste of a less expatriate influenced culture. It is very similar to Italy. There were so many people outside, lining the streets drinking eating and talking (and this was a Monday night). I went to a restaurant with no menus, but ordered my fish from the ice tray. I just picked the one with the largest body. I drank Croatian wine and drank walnut grappa. Fantastic! I'll be going back to Croatia this week, also travelling to the coast (Adriatic Sea) and will take pictures (of the women).

Next Monday, I'm driving to Vienna, Austria. Should be like driving from Midland Park to Wyckoff. God help me. Uncle Sal, you have as much pressure on you for this drive as I do. 4th gear comes after 3rd??

Here are some pictures of Prague.

Entranceway to Old Town Prague

The Town Hall Clock; on the hour the 12 Apostles do a little dance after the skeleton pulls on the rope. It was built in the 1400's.

Church of Our Lady before Tyn

Church of St. Nicholas

Distant view of Prague Castle, on the other side of the Vltava River; you can spend days up there looking at art from the 15th century, chapels, convents, and trying to make the guards at the gate laugh....fart noises don't work like they used to.