Hi, I’m Nate. This is the end of my second year of living in Prague. It’s been another very fun year of adventures!
In September I celebrated my birthday with my friends from school.
Cake, friends, presents…what can be better?
In October we went for a week to Slovenia. That’s part of the old Yugoslavia. It’s next to Austria, Hungary, Croatia, and Italy.
This is the view from the castle on the cliffs above Lake Bled.
See the little island near the end of the lake with the church spire?
Dad rowed us to the island.
We rang the church bell!
Another day Dad drove us through the Julian Alps.
Look at THAT! Pretty cool place for a picnic!
We climbed around a five hundred year old castle built into a cliff. Read about the robber baron who got shot by a cannonball while sitting on the toilet:
https://globalnomadfamily.com/2013/06/08/slovenia-one-of-our-all-time-favorite-european-countries/
Doesn’t it look like a place from Lord of the Rings?
In December we celebrated Christmas TWICE!! Once in California and once in Milwaukee!
At my Auntie Robin’s house on a sunny California Christmas morning!
In Milwaukee I got to see my sister, grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins. I got to meet my new twin cousins!
I got to hang out with my big sister, Sam.
In February we visited our Turkish friends. We had a blast! We ate tons of great home cooked food. We went to a cafe on the Bosphorus.
See the cat behind us?
We went on a cruise on the Bosphorus with friends from Prague. It was a VERY rainy day!
Later that day we tried dessert with chicken in it!!
The red one is the Turkish flag.
After Istanbul we went to visit our other Turkish friends in Ankara. It was so fun!
Istanbul is cool!
In April we went to Seville, Spain for our Easter Break. Our friend Ana Maria and her family showed us the Semana Santa (Holy Week) processions.
Mom says this tradition is hundreds of years old!
You can read about our adventures in Seville here:
https://globalnomadfamily.com/2013/04/07/celebrating-semana-santa-in-seville/
This is the procession in front of the float.
Next, we went to Granada at the end of March into the first week of April.
The Alhambra!
Mom and Dad slept late every day. They let me watch lots of Spanish cartoons on TV. I love Cosmic Cat! You can see more photos of Granada here:
https://globalnomadfamily.com/2013/05/11/the-alhambra-a-photo-essay/
It was fun exploring the Alhambra, but we got drenched at the end!
One day we went for a day trip to Cordoba to see the Mezquita.
It is a mosque built in the 900’s on the ruins of a Visigothic church from the 600’s.
See, it looks like a mosque, right?
But there’s a big cathedral that pops out of the middle of the mosque!
The cathedral was built in the 1200’s after the Spanish kicked out the Moors.
You can read about more Spain adventures here:
https://globalnomadfamily.com/2013/05/19/renting-a-car-in-europe-six-lessons-learned/
In May we went to Herrnhut, Germany for a weekend retreat with our friends from church.
The view from the prayer tower.
Just being silly!
June was a CRAZY month! Prague got flooded and my school was shut down. I went to school in a hotel for a week! Then we had visitors from India. Next, Sydney and her family come to stay with us and we took them to the Summer Fayre. It was a blast!
I got launched in the air!
Walking home with Sydney after Summer Fayre.
Sydney and her family are traveling around the world for two years! You can read about their adventures here:
It’s been a really fun school year. I’m excited for summer vacation. On Monday we leave on a road trip to Germany, Italy and France. Then we’ll come home for five days, and after that we’ll go to Israel. It’s going to be fun!
, by C. Gortner. It was a historical novel about Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand. It made the Alhambra, Granada, and Seville come alive for me. Gortner’s second book, The 
, was about Isabella and Ferdinand’s daughter, known as Juana the Mad, was also excellent.
is a great book about Katherine’s(born Catalina) life, including her early years spent in the Alhambra, after the conquest.
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