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July 23, 2004

Ollamoats, CZ

We hopped a very sweaty bus this morning to Olomouc, pronounced 'Ollamoats', in Moravia... and it seems fantastic. Cheaper, smaller, and now we can find out what it means to be Moravian.

We have also discovered that it takes a good four or five hours to upload and edit all of our pictures. So you can expect that it might be a little while before you see photos of our awesome new hostel and our castle and cave explorations.

We might be off of the Lonely Planet's recommendations, but we're far from freestyling as long as we're following our hostel leaders favorites to the letter. Already today, we have eaten well, played Scrabble, and imbibed in the best, richest hot chocolate. Alec didn't like me photographing these moments and, thus, reducing us to mere tourists from the travellers we fancy ourselves to be...