>She said one funny thing. She said Czechs are generally in good shape despite the heavy diet and doing no apparent exercise. If you see someone running outside, they're American, she was told. She plans to run anyway. That's my girl.
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>She is wondering how her vegetarianism will fare. UW-Madison does a great job of preparing their students abroad, including meetings with recent alums who have been to the same place. One of hers said there was a vegetarian woman in his group. He said I don't know how she did it. Hmmm.

While my expirience is more than somewhat stale (stemming largely from first part of the nineties after border crossing became easy), cooking in that greater region revovled around MUCH smaller sizes of meat (but that tiny amount well prepared) arranged with large amounts of veggie stuff while also having non-meat dishes on the card at distinctly lower prices (Here in Germany prices for vegetarian meals is sometimes higher, due to industrialzed meat production with antibiotics included and the chique-factor of vegetarian dishes). Was back then a function of overall less meat available over there, more costly and less money to spend in restaurants, but I felt right at home there, esp. as often game was offered as well - while I am no vegetarian, the averaged amount of meat stuffed down compared to bodily work done seems ridicolous. And back then I was burning 4000 kcal per week in sports additionally. Seconding Dragan in dissing industrialized food (which slowly gets more of a foothold in germany each year).