harrogate, england

Harrogate is a medium sized town, not really a tourist destination but still a really nice place. Mike's cousin Radek from the Czech Republic has been working here for about a year now. We were put in contact with him from his mom, who we met in the CR. His English is quite good, and he's around our age (20) which is cool. He met us at the train station and showed us to his flat, about a 15/20 min walk from the station. After meeting his flatmate Pavel, talking for a bit, and having some dinner we went for a walk through town.

That night we went over to a couple of his friends, Anna and Martina's house, where we had some drinks and showed them how to play the drinking game "kings cup" that we had learned from some people we met travelling. They really liked the game and we must have played like 6 rounds of it! It was pretty funny. One of the rules is "nine's a rhyme", which means if you pick up the nine card you have to say a word, then you go around the circle and everyone has to rhyme with it. If you can't think of a word then you have to drink. Well, this rule was particularly funny because of the fact that they all had Czech accents and weren't %100 fluent in English. Sometimes it was hard for them to think of a word, or they would say a word that if it had been pronounced properly, it wouldn't have rhymed, but it rhymed because of their accents. LOL..Mike and I just let those ones go. We all had a really good time..

Radek normally works really long hours at his work, Pizza Express, and he only had two days off that he would be able to spend with us. For the other two days that we were staying in Harrogate, Mike and I decided to make some daytrips to the nearby cities of York and Liverpool. I'll make seperate entries for those two cities, so see below!