Czech urself B4 U wreck urself.

For those of you who dont know where i am then now i will tell you. i am in Brno. How cool. Where is Brno you might ask. It is in Morovia you idiot. We left Berlin and had high hopes for Prague and the Czech Republic. It has been interesting to find what is true and what is false about the city and the country. It is much more livable than i expected. Less dirty, even though it is dirty and poor. It is basically not as extreme as I had expected. And more beautiful. It is still a bit too poor and old than I would like and when we left after 3 days we felt like it had been enough time. Steve and I said goodbye to our travel buddies, lucie and laura, and headed south to Brno. Brno is a little town of 400 thousand on the way to Vienna.

At the train station when trying to buy tickets to get down to Brno the Czech train people didnt make it easy for steve and I. We knew the train we wanted to get on at 7:47am but needed two tickets. This simple thing turned out to be much more troublesome then one would expect. I started by waiting in line for tickets and when I finally got to the front, the woman told me "No English, no credit card". So I walked away and wondered if it was possible at all to pay with credit. I went to the Information to find this out and he informed me that it was only certain windows: 16, 20 and 24. So i headed to 16 cos it was the only one open of those three. Finally upon making it to the front the lady informed me in very broken english that "Only International, no Brno". She told me to go to windows 2, 4, or 6. So I headed back to where steve was sitting because it was around the low numbers. However it was just 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. No even numbers! So I walked back up the station and found 2, 4, 6, etc in another section and lined up. Finally upon getting to the front the woman told me "No English", I said okay but i need a ticket to Brno, she said "International, over there" and pointed. I said that Brno is in Czech Republic. I then wrote it on my hand and showed her. She grunted. Then started speaking czech to me about the times and the amount of money. I said 2 and wrote it on my hand. Somehow we got the correct tickets, cheaper than they'd been quoted the day before. 400 crown to go to Brno, equivalent to 12 euros/AU$23 total, for both tickets. This kind of thing seems to happen more often then it probably should but we're getting very good at charades.

We went to the Capuchin Crypt in Brno today. This is the only crypt in Europe where the bodies of the dead were not embalmed and decomposed naturally. Therefore some of the mummies still have their nails and teeth and reseblance of humanity 250 years after death. It was very freaky. Check out a picture here. There I saw a great quote on the wall: SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI - Thus passes away the glory of the world.

We are leaving Brno today for Vienna. I am excited.