An American in Prague

I noticed that for some reason I loaded the second half of my trip pics instead of the first. Things are hectic here and I will sort out this blogging thing. Right now just working hard, biding my time until I go to NY, SF and Barcelona. Almost time to hang out with friends and be totally myself again, not speak in broken English. Dive back into American pop culture, use splenda and shop! Been taking my stab at Czech lessons and its tough, but I’m tougher. Not ready to give up yet but it is definitely a challenge. More to come.

Well its been nearly a month since I got to taste another culture, and boy was I ready for it. Prague is awesome but its Eastern Europe, the rest of Europe is totally different. The rest of Europe is almost like being at home except all the hot people, different food, and funny languages they speak…lol. Copenhagen Denmark, my only experience before was in Danish literally….My dad always had Entenmanns Danish in house growing up. Enough with the jokes, lets talk Denmark.

I book a killer hotel and little did I know it was literally on the main town square, kick ass! Super beautiful city, clean, quaint and fucking friendly like you would not believe. My first 2 experiences had the retailer rounding down the total after he heard me speak English. My next experience was someone letting me in front of them in the Danish pastry line. Those things never happen in America. I think I am going to like these people.

Walked all around the town taking pictures my first afternoon and geared up for a big Saturday of Adventure. Saturday I was going to the big Museum and Rosenborg Palace. The National Museum is well done, clean, organized and has tons of old artifacts from wayyyyyyyyy back. Lots of cool viking stuff that I had never seen. Next up I journeyed to the Rosenborg Castle/Palace where the monarchy lived in the olden days. Pretty cool place. Again clean, organized and quite cool. The pictures will tell the story below.

Sunday would take me to the National Gallery to sample the art of the area. What was cool was that it housed tons of classical paintings plus a hefty modern collection, some even mixed in the classic sections. Also, they had books and information in each area for you to learn about the artists, the time and the paintings. Truly a museum for those who really want to dig into a culture through art. My second part of the day was thwarted by a huge line. So I took it easy on myself and had a nice chill day hanging out and enjoying the scenery.

Needless to say at night I ran around and had some fun, met several hot leather studs and of course had a blast. All and all it was an awesome trip. I did not have to over work myself seeing stuff and I basically touched all the biggies and more for just a 3 day weekend. Not counting the crazy prices in Copenhagen, the most expensive place I have been to date, it was an amazing place I would visit again.

Life has been happening so fast and I have been to so many places, taken so many pictures I often do not slow down enough to take it all in. In short today I will just pick a handful of my favorite pics from the year so far. Well maybe more than a few, plus I need to resize more. Enjoy.

Feeling a bit lonely here this weekend. I have been in Prague for almost 4 weekends in a row without traveling! It was part of my plan. Next weekend is a 3 night trip to Copenhagen, my first. Meeting and making friends is progressing slowly. My first 6 months in San Francisco was much the same. Everything takes time and patience is a virtue. So I have spent the day taking care of my home, my body and my belly. Talking to a few friends on Skype and chatting a bit on the net, watched a couple Meryl Streep movies to cheer me up?? lol.

Things are going good at work and so many exciting things on the way. New travel plans about to be set, Budapest and Israel! So for today we will stroll down memory lane with some of my favorite pics of 2010. I’ve been quite blessed and lucky to have traveled so much. It’s nice to take moment and look back. So here goes!

First Visit to Prague in January

Ok will have to continue this later and use the flash loader!

Keeping up my hectic life is not easy. Basically pour in an ounce of nuts, add in a dash of OCD, throw in a sprinkle of plain crazy and you have me in a nutshell. With some big trips upcoming in June I thought it time to kick my training into a new gear. With that in mind I needed some change. So though I may have been following the top 10 rules of body building, i had been doing them in essentially the same way for 4 years. In training change is good. So I hired me a trainer, but not just any trainer………….Elijah Peters (at least I think its Elijah). The great thing about this is that I have finally met another person who reads all packages and watches everything that goes into his body. The time I am spending with Elijah is like the missing link I needed to see how to really live, be fit and happy in a country who’s focus is not necessarily there. It’s been less than a week, but everything hurts. I know I am on the right track.

I even made him do a Kick Boxing day and that was awesome. He gave some awesome hands on, one on one advice that I could never get in a group setting. I am super happy with everything so far. NY, SF, Barcelona here I come and in tip top shape.

Pick out my trainer from the first pic in the gallery. I am not even sure I know the difference.

Now to my obsessive quest for castles, history and sight seeing. On Sunday I went to the Jewish Quarter of Prague which is quite robust. The old Jewish Cemetery has people buried 12 deep in places and is the oldest Jewish Cemetery in Europe. The Synagogues were amazing. I, of course, have shot some exclusive illegal pics for your please.

So my experience here has been a mixed bag of “wholly shit this is cool” to “I can’t believe they don’t have that here”, but Saturday was more on the wholly shit side. I live near 2 underground stations. So I took the 4 block walk to I.P. Pavlova and took the underground south for 1 exit and poof! I was transported to theChurch/Castle grounds area of Vysehrad nearly 800 plus years old. That’s fucking amazing. This is exactly why I am here. From my earliest moment in life I remember having a passion for history and learning. Now as an adult I am walking through history week in and week out, following a dream. 18 months ago visiting Europe even once was unthinkable and look where I am now!

I get off at the Vysehrad stop and go for a short walk to the castle grounds and from the start its very pretty. I learned on my castle tour of last week that Prague was so big in the olden days that it needed 2 castles to protect it. I saw Prague Castle in January and now I was seeing the other castle. Beautiful castle grounds on a little hillside from the south of the city. Gardens, ancient cemetery, church from the 1200’s, huge iconic stone figures in a garden and more. The decoration of the church was amazing, quite colorful in terms of churchs and of course I took a few illegal pics once inside. I wasn’t going to but then some lady was flagrantly using the flash so I snapped a few shots. Very nice on the inside, colorful with some old relics from the 1200’s. I love this shit. Ok more to come, check out a quick glance of the day.

Its another smoking hot week at BelAmiOnline.com, though the weather outside here has been cold, wet and terrible. At least we have hot content to keep me warm at nights. Not to mention I just began to workout with the Peters Twins and fuck am I sore. But first lets talk about the new content. We debuted the 27 boy circle jerk photo set which I already blogged about but we also had a couple other smoking hot scenes.

A couple days ago it was Sascha Chaykin & Marco Bill (and his huge cock)

And then todays scene with Terry Dixon giving his first BJ on camera with hunky Ariel Vanean HOTTTTTTTT! (I made this pic bigger because I like it alot!!)

I can remember from when I was little child, dreaming of days I would go to a real castle. Don’t laugh, but my first memory of this is from the 3 Stooges and also the witches castle from the Wizard of Oz. Secret passage ways, dark histories, black stone the whole thing just turns me on. I went to the Tower of London which was alright, but not quite the castle I was looking for. So in my quest I went to Karlstejn Castle south of Prague. All in all it was pretty good. The castle looked cool, they would not let you take pics (though I took some), but did not have much in it. I now know i want a more medieval castle with good museum and dark history. I loved hearing the tales of King Charles and Saint Wenceslaus. I was a history buff in my youth and now I am living it out as an adult. Here are some pics from my day journey and then one of my next target, Burg Reichenstein in Germany!

Just launched today is the photo set with all the boys from the 27 boy circle jerk. Its our opportunity to ‘get to know’ the boys before we see them in action for the record breaking scene. Attaching some exclusive photos of the group and some new boys you’ll be seeing more of. Enjoy!

Lots of relaxed randomness today is afoot in my life. Working on getting down the routine of life here in the Czech Republic and with each day I am more like a local and less like a tourist. I actually know my way around a bit (Google and my iphone help alot). So just a normal Saturday of gym, cooking, grocery shopping for the week and maybe, just maybe a bit of fun. Taken a few random i phone photos the last 24 hours to bring you a piece of Prague. All in all, things are good. Keeping healthy and fit, getting ready for some trips and planning even more. Before I came here I made a list of 10 new places I wanted to see and by June 20th I would have hit 3, plus 2 trips to Berlin so far. That is kick ass. Now an unknown 2 day Czech holiday is giving me a surprise week off with only taking 2 work days off. I think I will take my first trip to Israel. It was not even on my list until I realized how much closer I was and that I was probably the only Jew in my world who had never been. Looking to book that soon. Making friends has been more challenging for a whole host of reasons but if I remember correctly I felt the same way my first 4 months in SF. So patience Alan, patience. Ok so now to some randomness in photos. First a very special exclusive illegal pick taken in Paris at the Musee d’Orsay. I wanted to take pictures there so bad but alas it was not allowed. My god it was only a Art Nouveau fireplace but I fucking loved it. I will have something like this in my home somewhere in my life.

Next up the church at night at Namesti Miru by my house

My least favorite underground stop because it looks old and not as artsy as the rest of the stops in the center of town, plus smelled like horse shit for months, why I don’ t know.

Spring’d up Namesti Miru (things keep get more and more beautiful here)

Sunday adventure to Karlstejn Castle just outside of Prague………more pics to come but here is a sneak peak.