Football!

A couple weekends ago our friend Jacob came to visit. He is studying in London this year and we are actually going to visit him this weekend :)

One of the things we did when he was here was go to a football game! It was ACF Fiorentina (or Viola as they are commonly called because their color is purple) vs. Chievo Verona. Yes we planned to go to this particular game, but we had to root for Florence. We sat behind the goal with the rest of the crazy fans, it was pretty fun:

The stadium

Part 4 - Lucca

After flying back into Pisa, then taking the train to get into Florence Sunday night, we got up early and took off for Lucca for the Comics and Games Convention! Unfortunately, it was rainy and cold all day, but at least we got seats on the 2 decker train :D

It was really fun, we saw some cool costumes:

Walking into the city from the train station.

Part 3 - Warsaw

We hopped on another train for about a 3 hour ride. This time we didn't get trapped in bunk beds, but we had to stand cause there was no room. That's what you get for taking the cheap train.

Zosia met us at the train station and we had an awesome weekend. It started off with an amazing homemade dinner with her family, then they had a cake a presents for us afterwards for our birthday! It was so nice to celebrate with friends. The next day, Zosia showed us around the city:

The Palace of Culture and Science, the world's second largest clock-tower. There are 3288 rooms on 42 floors, with an overall area of 123,000 m², containing cinemas, theatres, museums, offices, bookshops, a large conference hall, and an accredited university.

Part 2 - Krakow

We took an overnight train from Prague to Krakow, which also uncomfortable. It felt like we stopped every half hour and every time I woke up. Anyways, Krakow was cool, but also cold! It got warmer when the sun came out during the day though. Here are the pics:

We got the top bunks. I guess we were still technically in Prague at this point, but whatever, Prague had enough pictures.

Part 1 - Prague

It's been about 2 weeks since I've been back, and I have been finding time here and there to go through my hundreds of pictures and am finally sitting down to write this. Sorry for such a long break!

First stop on our fall break adventure was Prague! The bus ride Friday evening into Saturday morning was...uncomfortable. We had plenty of stops though and I was glad to just get that done with at the beginning. 

And here we go...

I was not used to seeing trams, but they were everywhere.