Thanks Kougar.. glad to see you over here giving Rusty and the gang grief. 
Yep, been to Prague, on a military exchange visit. Prague was in the middle of a major redevelopment and many western stores were buying up shops in the business district at the time.
Most of my time was spent in Germany, Italy, and Belgium, but I did do some traveling. Visited Poland and the many crystal vendors, Budapest, and was in Macedonia for a short while.
French people are pretty nice, but most Europeans smell on warm days. But the beer was always good.
This must be a reflection of the difference in times we were over there, but we found the French to be assholes in general. Prague's revitalization as far as tourism and Western culture is in full swing, but thankfully it still manages to keep its Eastern heritage and landscape intact.
Budapest was sweet; did you get to spend an afternoon in an ancient Roman bathhouse? Glorious, I tell ya. Where all in Italy did you get to?
Oh, and I'm not here to give those guys grief. I'm here because it's a K-State board, and I can never have too much of that. 
Well, the French were pretty nice, but the British hated them. Most of the French people i met were pretty nice, but I hear, now, they are complete assholes. But that's what you get from people who spend hours drinking wine and eating cheese.
No, I didn't go into the Roman Bathhouses, but a lot of people I saw go in. Most of the time, the military liaison just took us from one military ministry to another.
In Italy, I was in Vicenza the most time, but I did go to Naples and Rome. I just ate pasta and drank Grauppa (sp) and laughed with the frisky italian women. One of the restaurant owners tried to get me to marry his daughter. But I was already married. he offered to pay for a trade. Imagine that.
