A group of students and I traveled to Brno, Czech Republic this weekend so we could see a little more of the country we're staying in. The group included my husband, three students from K-State (two attending CULS, and one attending Czech Tech), a friend I met in class from Germany, and myself.
When we arrived in Brno, it looked like a typical Czech city; the buildings were all tightly packed together, there was graffiti everywhere (I'll post about that later), and the streets were laced with shops, convenient stores, and pubs.
Quite a few of the buildings I've seen are painted bright colors. In fact, all of the buildings on my college campus are color coded. (Red for economics, blue for engineering, yellow for agrobiology, etc.) This is a verrrrrrry bright green house we came along in Brno.
This store was okay!
And here's another one of those pubs. There are beer signs EVERYWHERE.
Here's our group, and in the background you can see more of those tightly packed, brightly colored buildings.
We rode on a bus to Brno, and that was actually a really nice experience excluding the very stinky man that sat behind us. Once we got off at the bus stop, I was pretty impressed how well our group navigated the foreign streets and found the hostel we were staying in. (Yes, parents Hoss and Stelting, we stayed at a hostel. I haven't seen the movie, so I wasn't too afraid. ;)
The hostel turned out to be pretty nice. It was called Fleda, and if you saw the sign from the street you'd have no clue what it was. It boasted free wifi... that we couldn't get in our room, and cheap prices. It cost $60 for two nights, which added up to $15 a night per person. Not too bad.
We had a cute little area with four chairs and a coffee table where we played card games at night.
There were three sets of bunk beds, which worked out perfectly for our group of six. Underneath the beds were two boxes where you could store your belongings safely. If you brought a lock you could even lock the box shut.
The door in the background goes to another room. In the hostel there was also a community kitchen stocked with a vending machine, microwave, hot plates, table, and sink. Just off the kitchen was the community bathroom which had two showers, two sinks, and a toilet.
Who's that, you ask? Only the most handsome husband in the world hanging out in the "living room."
And of course in the Czech Republic, no living quarters would be complete without a bar.
Once we had our living situation arranged, we were ready to go out and brave the city!
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