My great Arventure

Hello Italy!!!

Well, not quite yet. We will be in Florence by tmrw morning. For those of u that don't know already, our little 'ourventure' has expanded to include Ankur!!! He met up with us in Prague.

Prague. Hmmm... it was a nice city and we had tons of fun but it was a little more touristy than I thought it would be. I think Prague 7-8yrs ago would have been awesome and was more in line with what I thought it would be. But it was still enjoyable. I think Krakow right now is where Prague was 7-8yrs ago.

After Prague we went to Vienna. Vienna is a very cultured city with plenty of art galleries, museums and operas. I really don't know what I expected in Vienna and to be honest I left there very neutral. I didn't hate it but it wasn't an amazing time. Nonetheless I do intend to go back.

Oh wait there is one cool story. So the three of us (remember Ankur is with us now!!!) walked into a small cafe to have some dessert. At the bar though the hockey game btwn Canada and Czech Republic is on. So, being the passionate and patriotic Canadians that we are we planted our asses, bought some beers and watched the game. To make matters even better our waitress was from... Czech!!! We had fun booing and cheering during play. In the end Canada lost... and we had to pay the bill :P

Munich is where we are right now. This is our third day here. It is a nice city but honestly it is best for the beer gardens. Yesterday we went to the castle Neuschwanstein which is a beautiful castle in rural Bavaria. It is actually the castle that Disney modeled their castle from.

More importantly our goofiness came out yesterday. On the train to the castle we wanted to have the compartment to ourselves. So the best way to acheive this is to make sure people don't want to come into your compartment. How to do this?? Well, imagine you walked on a train are walking down the hall looking for empty spots in a compartment. All of a sudden you walk by a compartment with three brown guys sitting cross legged chanting '' Hare Krishna, Hare Ram! Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare!''. Rohit has his eyes closed, I am moving my head and body around in a circle and Ankur is using his Water bottle as a musical instrument. And of course we are all clapping!!! Needless to say we had a nice secluded ride ;)

Well that's all for now folks. Tomorrow we will be in Florence as the second half of Ourventure kicks off. Talk to you soon :D

posted by Arvind @ 6:49 AM