Outdoor Travel Geek

Month: February 2013

  • prague food & drink

    On the night I landed in Prague Jack and I decided to go to the restaurant in the hotel’s ground floor. They had stopped serving food, but they were still serving drinks, so we decided to grab a beer. As soon as we had gotten our beers, a friendly local Czech guy asked if we…

  • stolen cycle

    I didn’t notice until this morning when I was about to leave for work that my bike was missing. (There are usually two bikes on this rack.) I looked around the house and found that the side door was open. I never use that door, it’s always locked. And the sliding door in my sunroom…

  • people in prague

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    So it’s been a while since I’ve posted… This is more or less a weekly blog, in that I more or less try to write something every week. For those few people who actually check this blog regularly, or for those who are subscribed to the feed, it might have seemed like something was wrong,…

  • magical market meal

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    On the last day before flying back home, I spent half a day at the Naschmarkt, a big market in Vienna not unlike the famous Pike’s Place market in Seattle. On Saturdays apparently there’s also a flea market that gets setup right next to the Naschmarkt. The flea market was incredibly crowded. The variety of…

  • vienna by day

    I have two days in Vienna before I fly back early in the morning on Sunday. To make the most of those days, I decided to purchase a Vienna card. It’s different from the Prague card in that it doesn’t get you into any attractions for free, it just gives you a small discount on…

  • vienna at night

    I arrived in Vienna late in the afternoon. I had booked a couple of nights in an apartment I had found on AirBNB. The apartment didn’t look all that inviting from the front door… But the room itself was pretty nice, it was large and comfortable. I had picked the place mostly because it was…

  • brno backpacking & bargains

    One thing I’ve always wanted to do is backpack through Europe. I regret not doing it when I was younger, although I suppose it’s never too late to do that kind of stuff. So anyways, after I split up with Jack (he flew back to the states), I continued on my own by train. I…

  • snowy swan song

    For the last full day in Prague our plan was actually to spend it outside of Prague. I had wanted to go to a concentration camp called Terezin, which was about an hour bus ride outside of Prague. But when I woke up and looked outside the window and saw that it was snowing pretty…

  • the prague card

    After our whirlwind walking tour of Prague, we knew what most of the major attractions were in Prague. We decided to buy a Prague Card, which would get us into most of the attractions for free. We went to a few museums. One of the museum exhibits had this lithograph of Prague in the 1500’s.…

  • whirlwind walkthrough of prague

    I had made it to the hotel that Jack was staying at without a problem. The place he’s staying at was quite nice, and it served a pretty good breakfast. Along with typical breakfast foods like bacon and eggs they had a wide variety of pastries. And they had panna cotta. I found that panna…

  • passage to prague

    I am venturing outside of the country for the first time in a dozen years. It’s mostly stupidity on my part that has kept me from traveling outside of the United States for so long. Up until about six years ago I was a citizen of South Korea, with an expired passport. I didn’t bother…