BTW where is spring? Exactly a year ago this is what Prague looked like.

Saturday morning early we started out in Prague. 5 people in a car and 4 on the train. The destination was the city of Dresden in Germany.

With Christmas fast approaching a trip was organized (Thanks to Sarah and Michael etc.) to check out the city and its legendary Christmas Market. The Christmas market in Dresden has existed since 1434 so its one of the oldest around. On every corner throughout the city booths offers Christmas decorations and other knick knack but more importantly glühwein and all sorts of delicious foods.

After the Christmas market we continued on through the city. First through the Altstadt which is dominated by the newly restored Frauenkirche. The church was bombed during World War II and wasnt resurrected until 2005.Very beautiful both inside and out.

Later in the day we went to Neustadt on the other side of the River Elbe where a whole different revitalization is taking place. What used to be a run down area is now a busteling neighbourhood with loads of kneipen (pubs), cafes and cozy shops. A really cool place with a nice atmosphere, interesting people and buildings and businesses. Here is a picture from the Kunsthof Passage which is 5 backyards connected filled with shops and creative architecture. Have a look at these pictures to see what Im talking about. Here we are at a glühwein booth at one of the backyards under the stars and red laterns:

Neustadt was also where our hostel was so we checked out the shopping, dinning and a drinking here before calling it a day. We had a really nice dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant. Here is the whole table (sans me).

The next day we walked some more in the town, did some Christmas shopping, saw the church from inside and headed back to Prague.

Thanks guys for a nice weekend!

After I went home from London, we moved into a new apartment in Zizkov. Nice new apartment, closer to town and an interesting neighbourhood. I will have to make a full post later about Zizkov the neigbourhood. Zizkov is a lot of things but one thing you cant get away from is the ugly, yet fascinating TV tower from doom that is visible from everywhere in Prague.

Soon after I moved in Mulle, a friend from bording school who I ran into on Facebook earlier this year, came to Prague. Him and a friend had decided to drive down here for a weekend to party. I decided to go back to Denmark with them. It had been quite a while and my grandfarther is not doing so well.

Back in Denmark I covered a good amount of ground. Went to see my grand parents who are in good spirit but old bodies.

With my dad I went to the German border where hundreds of thousands of starlings gather for a couple of weeks to feast before their long migration to North Africa. At dusk they all gather and make wonderful patterns before they settle in for the night.See more of my dads pictures.

The phenomenon is called Black Sun and there is a couple of nice videos on youtube.

After that I went up to visit Majbrit, Magnus and Mogens – sis and family in Odder, visited my mother who was on vacation, and hung out in Ã…rhus with Christian, Rasmus and my cousin Rikke.

From Ã…rhus I took the train to Berlin. I had never been there before so decided to make a day stop over to see the place. Cool city I must say – will return some day

Soon after Ann came to Prague Its nice having her closer this year – although it is hard to classify London as close. She stayed for four days where we went to IAESTE Day 2008 at the universities where we did a presentation on what we have gained from IAESTE. We also went out with my uncle Geert and Elin and her daughters Elisabeth and Majbrit and their husbands who was on vacation in Prague.

Ok that was it for now. I hope it wont be another month before the next post

The day after I arrived, Ann came from Malta Yay! We spend a nice day with Dennis and Jenny and had a really nice sea food dinner on the boat Seute Deern in the picture above.

The next day we headed east towards Prague. The first leg was with a mitfahrer to Dresden and then a train along the Moldau/Vltava to Prague. The next week I had Ann in Prague

Inden jeg tog afsted fra Ann Arbor fik jeg sagt farvel med en omgang øl og chips på taget af kollektivet. Det var godt at samle de folk der var tilbage herover og få mulighed for at sige ordentlig farvel og få en sidste øl, og en snak om gamle dage.

Tyskland spiller i aften så folk er på gaden og synger og fester, som jeg aldrig har set tyskere før – det var en god oplevelse og jeg ville ønske jeg kunne blive her og se kampen, men det må blive en anden gang for nu går mit fly snart.

Julia er en af AIESECerne fra Michigan, som vi har festet med og jeg vidste hun var i Frankfurt for et praktikophold, så jeg fik koordineret at mødes med hende inde i byen til en kop kaffe med en par af de internationale venner hun havde herfra. De påstod at de ikke havde farvekoordineret, men hvis man placerede de tre piger ved siden af hinanden var de i de helt rigtige farver til dagen.