How's it hanging ?
Just a short message on yer blog to let ya know I'm having an absolute blast in Prague and it just seems to be getting better and better !
Man, I'm not even gone yet and I already miss this city.
And I sure do love the Czech beer, lighter than the Belgian beer so I can just keep going on the stuff. Haven't needed a shandy since I arrived here, haha.
May was wicked football-wise : Sparta Prague messed up completely in the end so Slavia needed just 1 point in their final game to win the league. Luck would have it their new Eden stadium (wich will also be used for international games) had just been officially inaugarated and they got special permission to use it for the decisive last league game (oh those Czechs : on matchday there were still guys working on some outer sections, cables and wires were hanging around, ...). I queued for almost 2 hours the day sales started but got me tickets and boy, was it worth it ! The game was crap but Slavia got the draw they needed (2-2) and I joined the celebrations in style after the final whistle : on the pitch ! Wicked :-)
Actually, June has been pretty mad football-wise as well : watched tons of Euro08 games with mates from all over the globe on the big screens in the big beer garden in the park a 5 minute walk from my place. Telling ya, was almost living there at certain points, had I brought me tent, they'd 've charged me rent :-)
But what can ya expect : hot weather and lovely cold beer at roughly a Euro a pint !
Not sure if you saw a lot of Euro08 but it's been pretty ok. Turkey became known as the comeback kids : scoring 3 times in 15 minutes when being 2-0 down against the Czechs (the last 2 goals in the final 5 mins) and kicking out Croatia with penalties (the Croats scored in the 119th minute but the Turks equalized in the 121st !).
Holland impressed but were surprisingly halted by new Russian stars Arshavin and Zhirkov (commonly referred to in the beer garden as Arse Shavin' and Jerk Off).
As for the final : Lineker once famously said something like 'football is a game of 90 mins and then the Germans win'. I had a sinking feeling I'd have to say : football is a game you watch in the beer garden for 2 weeks and then the Germans win. But nope, Spain finally pulled it off.
Oh, by the way, a little fait-divers : that Burj tower in Dubai ? It's being constructed by the same company that's building my flat in Brussels ! How cool is that, huh ?
Right, matey, I'm off for now.
You keep enjoying your trip, yeah, and keep the posts coming (backpacked in some of the places you're going as well, so some of yer posts bring back memories).
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