A Little Road Trip to the Coast.....

We visited the North Sea today....very very cool part of the east coast of England in a little town called Southwold...established in the 15th century....had a working light house, a cool pier...and quaint little seaside town.....was a good day...now off to London in the A.M.....for real this time...think we're gonna go to Bath and Stonehenge on Wednesday...Bath has the Roman Baths there... and of course you know what Stonehenge is....maybe we'll see some famous people tomorrow in London...or at least get in on some Olympic festivities.....

 

On the Road Again.......

Well....we are on the move again......On our way to London this morning....very very early......all bright eyed and bushy-tailed....maybe we'll get to be part of the Olympic experience...

We're actually staying just outside of London near Cambridge in Newmarket...which is the home of horseracing..... (just a little side note)

Think we will be touring London either tomorrow or the next......and see if we can experience the Olympics up close and personal.....

It has been kind of rainy and cloudy....but of course we are NOT complaining...after hearing about the temps at home.....

How YOUUUUUU Doin?

We were picking up our luggage that some friends of ours were storing in Amsterdam and can you believe who walked right up to us and started talking to our friend.....

It's Joey.....from Friends......Well he is our Moroccan Joey anyway.....He was dead on his twin....what do you think?

The Jetson's Hotel

Straight from the Jetsons....check out hotel we stayed in last night....we just left Prague and stopping over in Amsterdam to pick up our luggage...then off to London in the morning....so we just stayed at an airport hotel so we didn't have to lug our luggage around everywhere....
We stumbled upon the coolest hotel ever....if you ever see a CitizenM hotel at an airport, you should definitely stay there....They have them in all the major cities in Europe and supposed to have one in New York by end of the year...okay...let me show you some pictures...

 

 

My new motto for taxi cab riding....

Well.......we have been toodling around Prague on our last day trying to soak up all the beauty it has to offer......this is our neighborhood......

THEN......we took the most hell-acious taxi ride I have ever had....we had to get a taxi to take us back to the airport....and I'm telling you I have a new motto..... "Just enjoy the scenery along the way..." because really you have no control over whether or not you are going to crash and die....so you might as well enjoy the scenery.....because really.....I don't want to see it coming....

First our driver was passing trams...yes, passing trams...with oncoming traffic.....then he was telling us about something on YouTube...that we had to check out...then said, "well here...let me show you"....He puts his ipad on his dash....pulls up youtube and proceeds to watch a video (while weaving in and out of traffic) the entire rest of the way....many many near misses....once we almost hit an elderly gentleman stepping off of a curb....I know this doesn't sound overly stressful.....but I'm telling you...I threw up a little bit in my mouth when I got out......but we made it.......hence...my new motto for taxi riding.....Just enjoy the scenery....

Let's Find a Beautiful Place to Get Lost....

It's not too hard to find a place in this beautiful city in which to get lost.....Doesn't this cathedral look like the one at Disney? Or actually the other way around.... 

We were lost in here for HOURS!!! lol.....Our favorite Pub! snuggled back into the end of a courtyard that we just stumbled upon...met some great people....Czech is famous for its beer.....you can even drink out on the streets....imagine that...at its like $1.50 a pint...cheaper than water they claim....we met two brothers from Italy...they were hiding from their parent in a bar....and these are our Swedish friends we just met. Bob is saying goodbye to them...they were some cool kids as well....going back tonight for a cocktail before dinner...

Headed to London in the morning...must say goodbye to another oh-so-beautiful city....defnitely rates up there with my favorite cities of all times...I would definitely recommend a two or three day stop over here on your European trip...you won't be sorry.....Did you see Lynn's blog? She met Rick Steves (the travel guy on TV) at the Amsterdam Cetral Station...on their way to Paris on Tuesday....we were at the central station that morning as well...but we weren't so lucky...but we are going to be on the lookout for famous people in London...with the Olympics going on...bet there are lots there...

Sorry for the book....love ya'll

Absynthe in Prague

Well...we had a new experience today...we tried Absynthe.....there were Absynthe shops everywhere...so we had to try it....Absynthe is an authentic Czech drink. Much like moonshine to me with a twist.....I'm not sure if you can tell in our picture or not...but the spoon of sugar is on fire on top of the glass...they pour a shot of Absynthe in the glass..and drizzle a little on the corner of the sugar cubes on the spoon....then they light the sugar cube and burn the sugar on the spoon in order to caramelize it..which then drips down through the spoon ...the spoon has holes and slits in it.. they light the drink on fire for another couple minutes ....seriously this process took about ten minutes and he broke 2 glasses in the process ... He said happens all the time....about half break he says!!!! Wow! Lol...this process is supposed to make it smoother....there is something in the absynthe that is so strong it is illegal in most countries including the U.S....like I said moonshine with a twist....well the Absynthe in the U.S. is only allowed to have 10% of the ingredient (which I cant remember the name of) that makes this so potent....but we were drinking the Absynthe that was 70% of this stuff...can't remember the name of it now...probably a reason for that I'll do a little research and get back to you... Lol.......but it was definitely an experience.....thought I'd share...the last two pics is what the end product looks like... the dude also gave us a shot of Swiss Absynthe which was much smoother to me it was distilled where the other isnt...not too exciting...just interesting....the last two pics is what the end result looks like after stirring caramelized sugar into it

Well I'm here to say we did not have any hallucinations but Bob got a little droopy and took a power nap back at the room!
We are back out and about now for our last night night here....we will most definitely return!!