So, hi. How's it going; it's been about 10 days of radio silence (or at least intertubes silence) so we reckon we should put up a brief summary of what us Merkins been up to. Today is our third day in Prague, and we are staying in the old town section, which is a huge tourist trap. One third of the population of this area is beautiful women sporting designer clothes and large sunglasses. Between this and the generally douchey tourists spending their time on pubcrawls, it almost feels like home. Except for the fact that Prague is a fucking BEAUTIFUL city; every corner you turn there's a quaint little street with cafes set in old, old medieval buildings, and there are old churches everywhere. The other highlight has been the Czech countryside and a trip to the Pilsner Urquell brewery, which was awesome. Enclosed is a pic of us enjoying some unfiltered, unpasteurized Urkl (as we Merkins call it).
As for the rest of the past 10 days, I believe our last post was from Hamburg. Matgos will follow with Hamburg stories. We have also spent 5 days in Berlin, where we saw the East Side Gallery, Sachensenhausen concentration camp, the Jewish museum (which had an awesome comic book exhibition), the Tiergarten, and various memorials. Berlin was a bit of a bleak city, especially since our hostel was on the east side of the city (all square Soviet architecture). More to come on Berlin as well.
Today we are sitting in a rip-off of a tourist-centered bagel place, and we're taking it a bit easy. The US-England match is tonight, which we will watch in the town square on a huge television; it will be glorious. More pictures and stories to come!
-SB
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