how to spend a busy day in czech republic...

8am: get out the door and head down to breakfast

8:30am: leave your hotel for the train station
... miss a tram by 2 minutes, and the metro by 30 seconds, causing you and 7 others to have to RUN a mile and a half to catch a train at 9:25

10am: learn to play a crazy czech card game called "cucumber" while sitting on the train

10:45am: learn that you've just missed the next train that you were supposed to take... wander for an hour in a small czech town

noon: catch next train to crazy old castle in western czech republic

1:30pm: tour crazy old castle with tour guide who doesn't speak english... rely on strangly phrased paper translations to get through

3pm: leave castle and agree with your 8 travelling companions to take on a 10 kilometer hike on one of the czech national hiking trails.

4pm: after confronting the steepest hill on earth and surviving, get drenched in a colossal thunderstorm while still 2km from the nearest building... find that the nearest shelter that you can get into really is your original destination, still another 5km away, continue in the rain

5pm: evetually the rain stops, you're still dripping wet

6pm: arrive in small czech village and gretly enjoy several beers and some good fish and potatoes

7:30pm: discover that the bus your czech friends planned to take you home doesn't come any more on saturdays, and that there is no public transport leaving said village again until tomorrow

8pm: hike 3km more to one of your czech friend's parents' summer cottage...

9pm: now, at the cottage, load up on orange juice, get dry socks, and watch the sunset, get a ride to nearest large town (where we had lunch earlier in the day)

10pm: board train to prague

11pm: still wet and muddy, arrive in prague

11:30pm: tired, but content, arrive back at dorm...

more such fun tomorrow... hilarious pictures in a month. :P