unfortunately, we couldn't figure out how to get the pix up here and the worst part about that is that digital camera cartridge has run out of room, so we desparately need to store some of the photos on a disk or ship them off to our own email inboxes. otherwise, it's disposable camera time.

in a few hours we'll be on a train to budapest, hungary, which will be the 7th stop on this european tour. so far we've seen 6 cities in 5 countries in 9 days. about 4 more new cities remain. a final two will be visited during the last week of july; those places are where pablo's parents divide their time. and the trip will be a little shorter than i predicted, i think there are just 8 or 9 days left. i can hardly believe we left london just a week from yesterday. it's both going by slowly and quickly. there's so much to absorb, and we're barely scratching the surface of any of the cities we've visited. i sometimes wonder whether we should have just stuck to a few places -- quality over quantity. it seems like every time i finally get comfortable in a city, it's time to pick and move again. my bags constantly need repacking as i stuff more shit in them. old maps are replaced with new ones. there are new metro systems to understand and new foreign greetings to memorize. i feel like i can never catch up to where i have to be.

our last day in prague consisted of visiting the mozart museum, which didn't really float my boat. the exhibition was poorly organized and seemed more about prague than mozart. we did some shopping for both clothes and gifts and went up to the gorgeous prague castle, which was getting ready to close.

then we headed to the town square and drank our store-bought czech beers out in the open while gazing at the lovely buildings and clouds above. did you know that budweiser is a czech beer? i didn't. it seems some local stole the recipe and brought it to america. the two buds don't taste alike, though. anyhow, i'm still quite enamored with prague and sad to leave it. i can't even find the words to do it justice, but it's been incredible, exceeding all my expectations. i'm hoping budapest will be just as good.