Day 11

Hi all,

Instead of posting two messages I decided to put them both into one, so this contains two messages.

First one:

I woke up at 10:00 and took ik real easy. I'd placed the don't disturb sign on the door the night before, so I was assured of a quiet and peaceful morning. I went to the train station to buy my ticket to Amsterdam, and I had the same gothic girl as yesterday.. oh no!! Please make this fast and painless...

It wasn't that fast and it certainly wasn't painless, when I found out the fare was 130,- euro's. 130 euro!!! I might as well take an airplane!!! But no, I have to pay 130 euro for one way, 13 hours in second class. That's just the way it is, things will never be the same....
So I reluctantly gave the gothic 3900 Czech Crowns and made my way to the city, feeling sorry for my 130,- euro.

In the city one thing first caught my eyes: the amount of commercials here. It's like NYC. Pragu is a beautiful city, but I can only imagine how much more beautiful it would be without all these western influences. No commercials, no rubbish on the street (Streets 17 years ago were actually cleaner, so I have heard). I wonder...

Suddenly I remember some things I wanted to post: In Bratislava I was transported from the station to my hostel by something they called a Novy Autobusy (new bus). This was something that in Holland they would've sent to a museum 50 years ago... and absolutely everything in Bratislava was old. Older than the rest of the former Warsawpact countries. I can only wonder why... but it seemed as if Bratislava was less developed than the rest, even than Zagreb (Not a Warsawpact country, but anyways.)

Whilst I'm talking to my friend Bart on the MSN now, I found out that I can fly from Prague to Amsterdam for 125,- euro, so I'm going out in a rush to cancel my train ticket and book that airplane ticket.

Second one:

Okay, thank god! I won't have to spend 13 hours in the train. Eventually, I ended up paying 10 percent of the train fare to cancel it, so in the end the airplane was cheaper. But time is money, and instead of 13 hours the airplane takes only 2. This doesn't take away my feeling sorry for the 130,- euro's...

So, tomorrow I'll be flying from Prague to Amsterdam at 18:50, which gives me another day in Prague. I was thinking maybe I could visit the 'Bodies' exhibition, somthing that I previously wouldn't go to. Why? It's questionable if the people displays there actually gave permission to have their bodies exhibitioned, they're most likely to be poor Chinese people. I found this rather cruel and when the exhibition was in Amsterdam I didn't go there, but I'm reconsidering. I can always leave if I still get doubts.

For those of you who don't know what this exhibition is: look it up under google. Not for the faint hearted.

I have to get out of this internetcafe now, but you'll hear from me.

Byron