Hello from Prague!

Tonight we leave for Munich. Internet places have been much less frequent here so I've been getting behind. My apologies.

Okay, of course, I should probably leave for the train station now. Prague is beautiful but full of tourists. St.Charles birdge, the old clock tower, Church of Our Lady of Tyn, Communism Museum, will write all about it. . . some day!

Oh and the marionette theater. Funny stuff.

Love you all!!

 
It's so frustrating to have type a big long nice descriptive entry and then lose it because all the computers get shut down. . . so frustrating.

Well I will try to recreate what I had in the little time I have left. . .

St. Stephen's Cathedral: cool, Gothic, mass in German. I was so used to mass in French. Got to see little children in their First Communion garb. So cute.

Freud Museum: also cool. It was a rather large apartment, with one room restored to what it would have looked like when Freud worked there. The rest of the rooms were filled with photographs, published studies and letters. There was also a room filled with televisions showing old family videos. Neat stuff. The special exhibit was about the Jewish community in Vienna.

Leopold Musuem: Cool, had a visiting Tolouse-Lautrec exhibit. Lots of Austrian art like Klimt and Schiele (if I'm spelling that correctly). Also many landscapes that I skipped.

Carnival: BIG ferris wheel north of town. Mini-donuts. Lots of fun.

Vegetarian Thai restautant. Menu in German, didn't really know what to order.

Today---

Schloss Belvedere: old Baroque palace which now houses lots of Austrian art. Beautiful gardens.

Lunch in a little healthfood store. Yum. Good vegan cake with something resmbling cholocate mousse in the middle.

Film Museum: cutting edge film from Europe's advant garde artists. We saw the Anri Sala exhibition. He's an Albanian filmaker living in Paris, doing neat stuff.

Okay, again, out of time. Such a shame. Love you, hope everyone is well.

 
Guten tag from Vienna! I guess the Austrians call it Wein. Whatever, it´s their city.

So we had some trouble actually GETTING here, and then finding the way to our hostel, but we won't talk about that. . . I'm a navagational genius!

In all seriousness, it really was not our fault. Okay, I wasn't going to talk about it. Moving on. . .

Coming back to Austria definitely felt like coming back to the 'west,' for what that's worth. It didn't feel strange going to Hungary. Maybe my slight slight hint of an understanding of German helped? Budapest was a beautiful city filled with friendly people. I feel like a jerk CONSTANTLY asking people if they speak English.

So Vienna! A beautiful old city. Friday night we basically wandered the area close to our hostel. Well, by close I mean an forty five minute walk. Many things closed after 8, but we got a good idea of this part of the city.

Today we went to see the Sigmund Freud Museum--the apartment he lived in for a lot of his professional career. And then the military history museum--to see the car Archduke Fransic Ferdinand was shot in!! And his outfit!! It was creepy. I went to St. Stephen's cathedral for mass, and then the Leopold museum after. Oh shoot out of time, more later.