Prague 2.0

Along with the many places my friends I went to was Prague. A few of us had already been there, but we hadn’t gone together, so we decided to make a weekend out of it.

Alas, the Friday came, and we flew there. One of our group didn’t actually live in Cologne anymore, so he met us there. The first night was pretty low-key as we were tired. We just went out for dinner and then had some beers at the hostel.

The next morning, we proceeded walking around the city. One of the first things we ran into was one of my favorite things in the city: an escalator!

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European Vacation with Dad

A couple years after I moved to Germany, my Dad flew out here to visit me, and we traveled around Europe a bit.

The day after my father arrived, we hopped in a plane and went straight to Leipzig. I remember that we disembarked the plane pretty rapidly since it was a small airport, and they just put the stairs up to the plane. After landing, we were within the terminal in no more than a couple minutes. What was surprising was that our baggage was already on the carousel even though we had just landed. Talk about a quick ground crew!

We stayed at a couchsurfer’s house and checked out the city during the day.

We went up the Hochhaus, which is the skyscraper in the middle of the city.

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