Written by Ed

I'd like to point out that I'm posting this blog from a train, while it's moving, like, a brazillion km/h. Well, we're not actually going that fast right now, but we will...

three hundred and fifteen MILLION kilometers per hour

I love VIA Rail as much as anyone, but VIA, can we go faster? Can we please have a dining car like this one?

Next on the Discovery Channel: NASA has started printing Spacebucks (pounds in spaaaaace):

how much is that tribble in the window?

Trivia: did you know that in Northern Ireland, the banks print their own money (like the Northern Bank above)? How scary is that..."I'm sorry sir, your bank has folded...your money is no good anymore". Horror. And that when you leave Northern Ireland, and go back to London, everyone looks at you like some sort of inept counterfeiter when you try to pay for things? "Cute! He's trying to pay with space money".

Musical instrument Museum, Prague. Très cool. From a piano that Mozart played on to 1950's Russian synthesizer technology, from a quarter-tone piano to more sackbuts than will slide in a sack (oh, I'm good...), from a modern audio-visual installation to multiple calliopes and automated one-man band machines, this place is not to be missed.

Yuri, can you hear me now?

oooonce...ooonce...ooonce...

I'd love to program some sequences with a hammer...i'm good with a hammer

Things that go well with beer. 

'nuff said.

Things for bands to do together:

• Go for a paddle boat ride on the Vltava river.

Suba pushed us all off the boat right afterwards...

•Go to Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris.

• Stand on the odd cliff.

Me feet tingle just looking at this pic...

• Herd some sheep

run sheep...RUN!

These things will make a happy band.

awwww....

Hot Water: Not as easy to come by as you might think. I am going to make my hot water heater a nice dinner when I get home.

please...be hot...

And finally...henceforth, the following photo replaces our backstage rider completely. Just do it like this. This was nice. Thanks to Borek and the Respect Music crew at Palác Akropolis in Prague.

yes....YEEEESSS!!!