Prague, Czech Republic

I spend a couple of days in Prague, taking in the sights and ended up meeting a friend where we connected with some of the local energy centres :-)

This is quite a beautiful city, not like anything I've ever experienced. Everywhere you look there are all kinds of interesting even quirky old architecture. A few pics…

The astrological clock...wow!

Charles bridge

A procession of corvettes and harley davidsons. Why anyone would think the general public
wants to be forced into watching them driving their car is beyond me?

Another huge church :-)

Outside St Vitus cathedral

Overall Prague is a bit posh, but well worth a visit if you are in the area. While I was here I suspect there were a bunch of chemtrails being sprayed. Not cool.

Chemtrails?

Anyway, next stop is Bali. Last minute flight changes have turned this an epic 2 day transit extravaganza with a stopover in Dubai and a night in Kuala Lumpur.

Germany

I spent just a few days in Germany visiting a friend in Bochum. Here I spent much time sleeping, eating, checking out the local area, and also managed a visit to Cologne.

The area around Bochum contains the remnants of a lot of industry, mostly mining. Some of which have been converted into parkland which makes for some quirky artwork such as this lightshow we visited...

Unfortunately my tiny camera flash couldn't capture much else :-(

Cologne is also a beautiful city surrounding a huge gothic cathedral with many, many tourists.

Another huge church! :-)

Hopefully all the stairs to the rooftop of the cathedral helped to work off all the cake, gelati, beer, chips and chocolate consumed throughout the day ;-)

Things that are awesome about Germany…

• The trains. The standard trains have two levels, are generally on time, and the high speed trains can get up to 300km/hr…nice. I caught one of these on my way to Prague :-)
• The beer. Enough said
• The cake. Europeans seriously know how to make cake, and black forest cake, in Germany, made me very happy :-)
• Knoppers - kind of like German tim tams :-) --thanks for the link Markus ;-)
• Laughing at random funny German stuff, such as this.

And no doubt many other things I have missed.

It is probably a good thing that I was only here a few days, as I could leave while my clothes still fit…just ;-)

Into the heart of the earth

After heading back to the UK I spent a week or so in the woods of West Sussex for some much needed R&R. The English woods incredibly beautiful, not like anything I've seen in Australia. They have a certain magical, fairytale-like quality, almost as though a gnome or fairy could emerge at any moment to say hello :-)

Here I participated in a week long course encompassing shamanic journeying, various energy practices (chi gong etc), exploring natural movement, bush survival skills and so on.

This was a lot of fun. During the course we built a natural survival shelter from sticks and leaves and each spent a night sleeping inside.

Hello! :-)

We also spent some time wearing blindfolds around the woods, practicing expanded awareness. One night we sat in the woods until nightfall, and made our way back to camp in the dark. I was surprised at how much fear came up initially but gave into it, relaxed and really enjoyed myself. There was a lesson learned here in letting go of the need to know where I'm going ;-)

Anyway, it was a great week, lots of fun and decided to chill out for a while afterwards and visit some sacred sites in the area. On the way back from Glastonbury we stumbled across this crop circle…

Crop circle, not the greatest picture I know

For those of you who may not know about crop circles, they appear in this part of the UK every summer, often around 60 or so each year. They have been known to appear inside of 20 minutes and the crops are not killed in the process, rather the stalks are bent. Very interesting. This is a good site for more info :-)