Having meant to read my phrasebook for 3 weeks and try and learn at least some Czech words I arrived in Prague knowing absolutely none. It made things a bit harder but thankfully plenty of people speak English in Prague. If not i may never have got out of the airport.
I met three German girls at the hostel on the first night and they showed me around the town (the pubs at least). They must have apologised for they're english 100 times throughout the night despite the fact that a)they spoke better english than half the people i've played footy with over the years and b) my German was limited to yah, nein, gutentag, ich haber einer grosslanger (i have a large snake. tried that out) and heil hitler (didn't try that one).
The second day when i was lookin for somewhere to watch the cricket (the hardest thing about travelling so far) and i met the expected group of pommies on a boozing and whoring weekend. I helped em out with the boozing. Not so much with the whoring.
Prague itself is a really beautiful town and even though there were plenty of tourists it wasn't too hard to get away from them and check out parts of town away from the main square.
Went to Plzen to chekc out the Pilsener Urquell brewery whic was awesome. Its my favourite beer and it was only made better by having it from the barrel without being pasteurised. Absolutely beautiful.
Managed to leave on a saturday not remembering that public transport doesn't run as often on the weekend and so missed my bus connection (the last one) to Cesky Krumlov. Luckily there was a train that left 2 hrs later so i wasn't stuck in the middle of nowhere. It was the slowest train ever though. I don't think it got goin fater than about 40km/h the whole trip. So it was pretty late before i got to Krumlov.
