Czech Countryside and sad goodbye to Prague

7/19
Martin took the day off work and wanted to show me some other things of the czech republic other than the city. It finally cooled down (20C) So he drove me about 100km's outside of the city to some geologic park with some pretty cool rock formations in the forest. We took a 5 ot 6 mile hike around there, checking out the rocks, walking through the forest (much wetter forest than colorado, maybe like the mccall area of idaho with mosses and ferns, or even a bit like bellingham, wa), and feasting on all the wild blueberries. After the hike he took me to a small tourist type village where we walked around a bit and then had some beer and traditional czech goulash and soup. Well actually martin just had a non alcoholic beer b/c in czech they legal limit for driving and drinking is 0.0. That's really not a problem though b/c everyone seems to walk and use the trams and metro everywhere. Martin only has a car b/c his sister works for ford and he got a sweet deal and wanted to take weekend trips to places like budapest and munich and such. We then visited a castle and did some more hiking in the forest around the castle.
When we got back to prague, we went and saw a movie (Martin had some free movie tickets and was also feeling a bit tired). Movie was in english, but with czech subtitles. Most young people in the CR can speak english though. After that we met up with his sister to go hit some pubs and hang out.

7/20 Today I am relaxing a bit at martin's flat while he goes to work. Catching up on some things with the email and writing the blog. I'm eventually going to take the metro down to the city center and then meet up with marting and his friends as they are taking me out to get real italian pizza (not that american "junk") on the hill at prague that has the view of the city and then throwing me a goodbye party.

tomorrow i leave around noon for a flight to stockholm where I will be for a night and 2 days before taking the bus up to sundsvall where Kimmy and Clare are picking me up at the station. I also hope to see frida and caroline there as well. I think kim and clare have a computer so i will likely be updating from sundsvall again.