Europe: A League of It's Own

I currently find myself in the Czech Republic. Prague to be exact. Beautiful city. Anyways, I feel like I'm losing my mind out here in Europe. My uncle and I are here for a total of 10 days, it's been 6 already, and it appears we're more of a sight seeing bus, than actual tourists. As much as the sights are beautiful and the difference of the city feeling between the United States and all of Europe, I'm slowly beginning to dislike this trip. My uncle makes us travel 20 minutes to get off the train, take like 3 pictures and off we go to our next destination. We're not even really enjoying these places at all. Or at least I'm not.

The beautiful architecture of Budapest. Can I live here?

Secondly, my uncle has us going in circles and getting lost constantly. It was fun and hilarious the first two days, but now I'm seriously beginning to get frustrated. The monuments and historical buildings are all essentially lined up with the parliament and Holocaust memorial being like two blocks off the path in separate directions (so no reason why all the main tourist attractions can't be seen in a single day). In what should have taken us 6 hours maximum, took us three days because we zigzagged the whole thing and ping ponged off of all of the historical locations. The only exceptions to the line of monuments is the painted Berlin wall on the south east side of the city and the Olympic stadium on the northwestern part of the city. One would think that you would save the wall and Olympic stadium for a single day right?, nope. On Saturday morning we went to the Berlin wall and

Checkpoint Charlie (middle of the city), bused it to the painted Berlin wall and walked the whole thing (south east/ 2 mile walk give or take)

and then trained it to the Olympic stadium (north west).

 On Sunday, we decided it was going to be a chill day (since it would be our last in Berlin and going to fly that night to Budapest) and would only visit the Holocaust memorial and some random church in the south side of the city that had been bombed during the war. Well it turned it turned out that the memorial was about 3 blocks from Checkpoint Charlie.

In Budapest and Vienna, we were taking subway trips from one place to the next (getting off on every stop) even though they were all roughly five to ten minutes from each other.

I don't know, but at the end of the day, I feel like I'm stressing myself out because this trip is not going as my own mind had it planned. I'm probably just going to sit back and let this trip plan out its own fate. If the two pictures and moving on continues, well then so be it. I'm still enjoying the sights so why complain.

It's a castle...seriously.

I'm just using this to set my mind free. Maybe this was all an effect from sitting in a train cart at 2 in the morning, filled in a little slot where five other people slept and using my iPod listening to The Number Twelve Looks Like You and Panda. Until next time, have a good day everyone. I should sleep now, it's almost 2:30 am.