Author Archives: Katja

  There were some locks on that bridge too.

The last city I visited on my eurotrip was Copenhagen. I got one wonderfully sunny July weekend (20-21/7) in the cool of the Scandinavian capitals. It is also the only city that I didn’t get a map of. I didn’t need one, I had a great, full-time guide in Markus. Markus and I were inContinue reading “Day 36: Sightseeing in Copenhagen”

The train was twenty minutes late when we crossed the Czech-German border.  I was worried for a while that I would miss my connection in Büchen. That would have meant a two hour wait for the next train to Copenhagen in Lübeck. Now we’ve passed Berlin and the train is back on schedule.  There’s justContinue reading “Day 35: Report from a train II”

I did a mistake. The train from Prague to Hamburg, which I am on, is overcrowded and I just grabbed the first seat I could find. Then, I checked the reserved list, and realized that my seat is reserved from Dresden to Berlin. When I checked the map, I saw that Dresden is pretty closeContinue reading “Day 35: Report from a train”

The John Lennon Wall is situated on a back street on the west side of the river close to the Charles Bridge. Since the 1980’s, it’s been covered in paintings of Lennon, Beatles lyrics and general political graffiti. The owners have tried to repaint it several times, but it always gets covered with new graffiti.Continue reading “Day 33-34: The John Lennon Wall and other street art of Prague”

One of the places that Marek told me to visit was the Vysehrad. It is a fort on a hill in the southern end of central Prague, probably built in the 10th century. Legend has it that the hill is the location of the first Prague settlement – even though any archaeological findings to proveContinue reading “Day 34: Vysehrad and the Basilica”

On my second day in Prague, I kept clear of the major tourist attractions, and walked around in some other parts of the city instead. In Holesovice, I met up with Marek, a guy that I had sent a couch request to but who couldn’t host me. He wanted to meet up, however, and thoughContinue reading “Day 34: In another part of Prague”

I’m in Prague. My day yesterday was really nice. All the tourists at the castle were kind of over the top, but the Botanic Garden afterwards was incredibly calming, and almost completely empty, and made for a really nice stroll. I have nothing at all against Prague. I’m just – – so fucking exhausted. AndContinue reading “Day 34: Can’t get my ass out of the wagon, as we would say in Sweden”

Of course I had to check out the Prague Botanic Garden too. But things always take longer than you expect, and in the end I didn’t reach the garden until after six. The greenhouses had already closed, but luckily the outside garden was still open, and entrance free of charge. It was a lovely littleContinue reading “Day 33: Prague Botanic Garden”

At the beginning of the Karluv Most (Charles Bridge), there was almost a traffic jam with all the tourists. It’s the most famous historic bridge crossing the Vltava in Prague, more or less connecting the castle hill on the west side of the river with the old town on the east side. The construction ofContinue reading “Day 33: Along the Vltava”