So again, shitty iPhone pictures, blame the Germans for serving obviously drunk people, etc etc.

First four are just to show off about half of my wonderful, spacious hotel-room. I spent near no time here.

Pictures five to eleven shows off some classical sights and monuments which I would love to name and give a background history for, but I can't. Should still give a decent impression of what you can encounter walking around the city though.

Picture twelve shows some stone monument which would probably have been banned on sight in the US, but Hungarians are not prunes, so it's all cool.

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First off a warning: This is another "one week in one blog-post"-post so it will be long and at the same time be lacking in detail, but you'll just have to live with that. Eat it up or find something else to do :D

After partying and exhausting myself completely in Prague I went off to Budapest. I might upset some people saying this, but I it didn't really happen much there. Much to my satisfaction I might add. I actually didn't visit a single club while in Budapest. I most definitely needed a rest at this point.

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So this is the extensive list of beers I sampled while in Czech in what I do believe is more or less chronological order:

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First picture here shows the gate to the brewery, which can also be seen on the seal of every bottle of Pilsner Urquell for sale.

Third shows a vending-machine I would very much like to have at home.

Fourth and fifth shows have chess is done the Plzen way. Not very practical, but seeing a few people actually playing a round, it looked amusing indeed.

Next up shows the huge tanks used for making beer these days. Not sure how much beer they can make a day, but the bottling facility handles around 60,000 bottles an hour. That is mighty impressive.

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So I decided to take a short daytrip out to Plzen, the town where Pilsner Urquell is made. Arguably one of the protobeers responsible for the beer revolution we had in Europe and without a doubt something which should be considered historically relevant. Interested in history and the origins of things, nothing could stop me from going here.

When I mentioned this to the cab-driver taking me to the hotel the first day, he offered me to drive there, wait for whatever I did and take me back for 2400 Czk (around 100 euros). He advised against taking the train, since it was slow and unreliable. He said train was about 2 hours, and he could get me there in less than 1.

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These are all crap iPhone pictures so forgive me about the quality. I lost my camera in Munich earlier this summer and my man there still haven't been able to dig it up.

Lots of these pictures are just general pictures conveying the historical feeling you get from the city itself. Lots of old, detailed architecture with graving and what seems a disgust with the simple and plain. Still some comments should be added.

First one shows my most excellent bed at the hotel. These things matters. Second one shows a church nearby my hotel. It is also my only proof for having been up before 10 o'clock on a vacation day, so I though I'd just add it :P

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So I'm back home. From the lack of blog-posts you should probably have figured out that I had a pretty good time since I couldn't bother blogging at all during my two weeks of vacation. That and the fact that I do on principle refuse to pay 20 Euros a day for internet when I should be out doing stuff.

I'm getting bugged left and right about updates, so here's your quick recap of my vacation! While long, try to keep in mind this is about a week condensed into a blogpost :)

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So I came to Prague yesterday, although kinda late, so this is for all means and purposes my first day here. I have to say: Compared to Oslo, it is a rather pimp place. Lots of buildings with historical charm, covered in gold, and all in all, it makes Oslo look kinda like a shithole.

Last night was mostly trying to get acquainted around the hotel, Art Hotel Embassy. Art Hotel Embassy is kinda west off in Prague 1, which is where it seems most (but ofcourse not all) of the interesting things can be found. Sitting down at a local café, I skimmed trough Lonely planet and some other travel guides I had, tried to get an impression about how things were located and what would be the best way to explore the city.

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Some asshole called Ben just took all the geek-cred that comes with a Netbook and kept it to himself. All portable-computers ruined forever.

Just what did he do? Click here and find out.

I'll just admit that, yes: yes I want one.

I've long been a fan of last.fm. They've provided a simple service: making it simple to keep track of all the music you listen to. Based on what you and a million of other users liked it would also create recommendations based on that data.

What separated last.fm from the rest of the sites out there was the radio-feature. You could tune into your "radio station" and actually stream live recommendations, or you could listen to friends' stations. This was awesome.

Too bad that's no longer the case.

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