now in .... "Praha" ...aka Prague...

We made it to our final destination..the crazy city of Prague! When last we wrote, we were on the way to Salzburg and Munich. We had such a nice time driving through Austria (thanks dad for the driving tour book) that we didn't get to spend much time in stunning Salzburg. Our days in Munich were pretty relaxing and involved lots of beer drinking. Prost! (cheers) was the word of the day and night!! We also did a bike tour and checked out most of the major sites on foot and by car. We learned that the Germans are obessed with nudity. Much to our surprise, old men love to lay out in the sun completely nude (for the ultimate tan I guess) in the most conspicuous of places. Very wierd.

After spending a few days in Munich (in a REALLY nice hotel...more on that later) we decided to drive back to Salzburg, Austria to get a second taste of the city. We got to see the fortress that protected the city for about 1000 years. woah. Pretty amazing stuff. After an authentic Austrian meal (involving lots of pork, beef, sausage, and of course potatoes) we started our journey to the Czech Republic. We spent the night in the beautiful town of Prauss, Germany. We stayed at this super cool hotel called Wilder Mann, which is were the king and queen of Austria (Franz and his wife Sissy) once stayed in the mid-1800s. The room was huge!

After poking around town in the morning, we jumped back in the car and drove on this narrow windy road all through the Bavarian forrest until we reach the Czech entry point. We had a heck of time getting into Prague because we didn't really have a good road map of the city. woops! We learned that Prague is HUGE and there are very few road signs so you don't even know what street you're on most of the time. Fortunately people are pretty friendly so we didn't have any trouble getting directions. The city is amazing. There is so much going on. So much so, that we almost didn't get a hotel room for the night!! We had spent so much time in tranquil, little towns arounds the Alps that it was kind of a shocking to get to such a hectic place. Nonetheless, the hotel we got is in a quiet, historic part of town and very romantic (a nice closing to a special trip).

I don't think the reality of marriage has sunken in for either of us yet. We joke around about it of course. I guess this is what they mean about the honeymoon phase!! Still, we've made so many wonderful memories here that I don't think it will ever be difficult to bring these feelings back.

now in munich....

so we just drove through half of austria...wow- amazing!!!...


we were going to stay in mozarts home (salzbug) but all the rooms were booked because of the weekend... it was at least 50 degrees or cooler so we were kind of cold. we checked online and the hotel availabilitz in munich was much better so we said...we'll just staz in munich...

its onlz about an hours drive from here...and we'll just hop on to the car to go back in a few dazs or something like that...

funniest part about driving here was the signs we kept seeing - ''AUTOSFART''...im thinking..what a big town!...so manz exits....then a few hours later we realized it was the exit sign on each highway exit....

the usual castles and rediculouslz large churches were everywhere...salzsburg was reallz prettz. lots of small beutiful streets with amaying castles flanking each side. It looks like a town someone took out of the 17-1800's and just froze it in place.... prettz cool...

were stazing in hotel in Munich called ''Hotel Adria Münich'' and the phone number is - 089-242117-0 and were in room 301.... call us if you wish... we will be here for at least the next two nights.... (BTW the hotel is ''Ok'' -nice people...and good location...no where near as cute a place as in the hotel in linz.....)


cheers!

driving through austria

The hills are alive...with the sound of celeste and william driving around!! The country side is so beautiful...full of giant rolling hills in every shade of green...with occasional clusters of cute houses speckled throughout. We've also seen giant, super-modern windmills all over the place. <<<
The people are really beutiful .... and cele and i fit in real well - they talk to us constantly in deustch.... we probably didnt spend enough time in Vienna but still had a marvelous time!.... A friend named 'Anna' came and gave us a beutiful tour of the city and took us to several Bier Gardens - which is all the rage!!.... The beer here is definetly better than the states...

As for Lienzs...what a nice quiet town - the young people are warm to americans but the older folks despise us - as i write this thier are three folks looking at us with there negative looks -while thier son helps us with a big old smile.. the name of the hotel ''Swcharzen Bären'' which turned out to be really great hotel. It is a small family hotel with a great location. we enjoyed talking to thier children including Evelyn and Scott (her South African Boyfriend).

We are headed towards Salzburg - should be amazing - the car we rented is reallz nice- far exceeding my expectations. and the drive is actuallz even easier. we onlz have gotten lost a few times but we really just get the hang of by driving around in circles... :)...

Well ´- if anyone wants us to call them - let us know bz emailing us or including a note below..
Not to worrz about pictures - we have so mannz that its getting rediculous!!

Cheers!!!
wp.

Linz!

Yesterdaz we drove from vienna to liny - budget rent a car was a breeze...and the trip even better.

our friend anna gave us a great tour of vienna ...we visted lots of bier gardens and enjoyed the citz...the hotel was great the ''schubertring..'' ...thez did jip us for the staz..but nonetheless it was great...good location too!

ANNA and OTTO...were locals and enjoyed taking us around. we went to this place called sweizsherhous...(bad spelling)... which had 1500 seats for drinking bier!!!....and we had a leg of pork thier for lunch too!!!..

thez then invited us to go to thier house but we decided not to so we could get a head start on the rest of austria ----

Linz has turned out to be a beutiful little citz. we didn't expect this stop to be so nice but once we settled into the ''scharzen bären'' hotel (Familz owned wonderful hotel)...we realized we were in a happening spot - it happended to be thier annual music festival...and thier were a ton of zoung locals hanging with us....we didnät understand a single thing but it sure was cool...we took lots of pictures that we will soon share!....

of note last night was dinner - we had these amaying spam sandwiches...which were the food of choice....at the festival...and of course celeste had to much...and suffered for it!... i didnät though..and loved it.. i say we import the sandwiches..

so were on our waz to salzburg now...should be an hour or so drive...lots of pictures to come...
take care for now..and let us know via these comments or email if zou want us to touchbase with zou!

bz the waz.. these kezboards are verz different..and thus all the y ands zäs mispellled!!!

cheers!
wcp...

vienna is amazing!

not much time to write, but this city is incredible!! ´we are definitely coming back! it is the most beautiful of all the euro cities i have seen. in one day we took over 100 pic! will fill in more later...lots of love!!!

We made it! Though William and I have traveled together before, this trip is different in the same way that living together as a married couple differs from just living together...we can personaly attest to that! So, here we are on day 2 (but to us it's really day 1 b/c we spent most of day 1 asleep in a park--terrible jet lag) of our honeymoon...getting ready to board the hydrofoil boat from Budapest to Vienna. The little bit of Budapest we did get to see yesterday was quite nice. St. Istevan's cathedral was impressive to say the least. It's up there with Notre Dame and any other western euro amazing feat of Catholic construction. After seeing a few of the hit list sites, we were pooped and pretty far from the hotel. We were so tired we couldn't even read the map. So we found a shaddy spot under a tree and fell asleep on the grass for at least 2 hours. We looked like homeless people!! I still think it was pretty romantic (apart from the flea bites I later discovered).

 

Well we're off...

we keep thinking about the great wedding! so for those of you who participated...Thanks!

Cheers...oh and leave comments in the comments link below or send me direct emails!

Celeste and Willy...

 

Still At Work!!

Its Monday Morning and im at work - Bad move - Im stressed!
But soon ill be on my way and with no worries!
Lots to do before then!
Cheers!!