Prague and England

The Beautiful City of Prague-The City of a Thousand Steeples

The Cousins: ME, Nathan the chef, Mark the DJ, Lucy the Director

SO I am now back from Europe. I never found time or a plae to update from in Prague, and England was just one exciting adventure to the next. PRague was beautiful. It had more of a gothic dark beauty than any of the other cities we had visited. I would be really interested in goin gback to Prague in about 20 years, to see if the rest of the city gets re-build like the main downtown part. With the fall of communisum and the rise of the free capitalist economy, a lot of the outskirts of Prague is filled with tiny strip mall type shops. It was liek suddenly everyone could have a business so no one wanted to miss out. A lot of the architecture is right out of the 70's and is very economic and boxy. However, many of the 1930's art deco buildings and old aristorcat mansions remain, but they are in need of great repair and are boarded up. The down town has been cleaned up and restored and it think it will only be a matter of time before the rest of the beautiful buildning are restored, and then Prague will become one of the most beautiful cities. Right up there with Vienna and Paris.

On the day the rest of the choir headed home to America, I said my goodbyes, and boarded a different plane for England. After a quick change in Amsterdam, I landed at Bristol International Airport, in Bristol England which is in the county of Devon in the South East. My cousin Susan picked me up and it was a 2 hour drive through the countryside, back to her house in Biddeford.

It was such an amazing 10 days in England meeting a great deal of my family for the first time. I got to do exactally what I had wanted to do, just slip right into their lives and live the way they live. Each day was an adventure and each cousin a different experience. Between them all I managed to see their favorite parts of their Devon. I explored the British coast and small seaside town of Weymouth with my cousin Lucy her fiance Mark, and my cousin Nathan. And then I saw London with Susan and Peter. And I had many fun night out with my cousin David and we went to the beach and did some skimm boarding with his mates. The atlantic ocean really isn't that cold :D It was just such an amazing trip, and I feel so lucky that I had the chance to take it. So many memories with my choir friends, and then the experiences shared with my newly discovered family.

Yesterday I watched the Sun come up in Prague as I headed to the airport at 4 am and then watched the Sun set over California as I was safely home. With all the craziness happining in the world it is nice to be home, but not for long. Off I go on my next leg of my travels to meet up with my parents and brothers on the beautiful island of Maui.