045 - wed 14 jun - teplice

we got up really early to check out prague's famous charles bridge. during the day it is completely packed with tourists (do you see a pattern emerging in prague?) who themselves are perhaps outnumbered by people hawking gimmicky tourist items. it was basically dawn and it was cool to be out and about at that time. a bunch of drunkards on the bridge, returning home no doubt after a big prague-style boozefest, must have overheard our accents because they started yelling random things like 'glenn mcgrath' at us. actually they were just yelling 'glenn mcgrath'. it was random.

we caught the train to our next destination, teplice. actually there are two teplices, and the one we went to was the 'other' teplice, home to rock formations and hills and small villages. we checked in to our lodgings, and had a big group lunch at a bistro in the small town. the owners of the bistro had seen it wise to seat our group kind of around the corner of the large l-shaped room that made up their establishment, and then used large boards to partition us off in our own makeshift space. we weren't sure if this was to make us feel special, or to hide the pesky foreigners from the locals.

we then embarked on a hike, wherein we saw snow, climbed rocks to see views, and there were also rock formations. fun was had. afterwards we returned to our hotel where we had a big group barbeque out in the back yard. it was the night that rodrigo was crowned the tongmaster.

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