Our flight to Prague was about two hours long and I was again able to sleep almost the whole way. The airport was a bit outside of the city, so we had to take some public transportation into the main city. We took the metro and to get up out of underground we got to ride a really fast and long escalator. About as long as the escalator in the Angel London Tube station, but the escalator moved much faster. We made our way to the Hostel, and we truly thought we were in the wrong place. The hostel was SO nice. It was like a hotel. The reception lobby was mixed with a restaurant and bar and there was a live band playing. We went downstairs to our room, where our beds had a pull away curtain so you had privacy from the rest of the room. The bathrooms were nicer than the bathrooms at the hotel in Barcelona. They had a huge shower head and a detachable one. Everything was just so nice, we couldn’t believe it.
We asked the ho(s)tel’s recommendation for a place for real Czech food and where we could find an ATM. It was hard to do the currency exchange rate here, because it was about 1 US$ was about 18 Czech Crowns. I went to the ATM and received one 2000 czech crown note. Very weird feeling.
We went to a Pilsner pub for dinner where I got Beef Goulash and a Pilsner. We discussed our plans of seeing the city for the next day.
We met Hayden, Stephen, Joe, Matt, Phil, and Randy back at the hostel and we were in time for the special on shots! a shot of rum, vodka, absinthe, or some christmas-tasting one was only 30 crowns. how could you go wrong?? afterwards we went to the 5-story club in Prague each floor had different types of music on, including a floor entitled "black music" which was top 40 grinding tunes, hahaha and one of the other floors was called "dancing music" and it was all 80s and 90s classics, including ice ice baby. It was a BLAST.
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The beds in the ho(s)tel had down pillows and comforters, I was truly so happy. But we did have to get out of bed to see the city. We first went to the castle by walking over Charles Bridge. The bridge had tons of statues all over it depicting different medieval people. There were lots of artists on the bridge selling beautiful pictures, paintings, and jewellery. We walked up lots of steps to get to the castle, but the views (again) were WELL worth it. I couldn’t believe how beautiful Prague was. There was even a hot air balloon in the landscape which was pretty cool. We made it up to the castle just in time to see the changing of the guard. It was much different than any other changing of the guard I have seen. There was a marching-band feel to it, with trumpet players up above all the action of the guards changing. The cathedral that was part of the castle was really beautiful.
On our way back down the hill we passed by a museum that we decided to go into. The museum was within the Lobkowicz Palace. We got an audio guide with the purchase of our ticket, and it was the best audio guide I have ever heard at a museum. It was more like a story about how the Lobkowicz Palace has gone between many different transitions. It also had a whole section on music, which is where they had original scores of Beethoven’s work. It was incredible.
We went out to eat for lunch, and got more of the Czech famous potato dumplings. They were really tasty. We then went to the Old Town Square, where we found out they were having International Chef’s Day. We couldn’t believe we had already ate! We still walked around and got dessert.We met a guy from the US who was traveling alone, and then we found a spider bike outside of one of the bar crawl bars. If you've never seen a spider bike, google it. Its so cool. It has seats and petals for 8 different bike riders all in a circle, with one steering wheel. In the middle of the circle there's a tray with cup holders. Coolest. Thing. Ever.
We decided to just eat dinner at the hostel, it was really cheap plus I got to eat buffalo wings. We went to a bar afterwards, but it wasn't fun so we decided to leave and go back to the 5-story club. On the ice-ice-baby floor...we danced the night away. I think we were a bit of a spectacle, but we were having so much fun.
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We woke up to walk around the old Jewish Ghetto before heading over to the airport. We just wandered the streets for a few hours which was a great ending to break. We were all really ready to head back to London. Traveling was a lot of fun, but really tiring and expensive. It was exciting to know that we would be in the same place for a while (2 weeks until we go to Amsterdam anyway).
We took a British Airways flight home, which was nice. We even got juice and snacks on the plane! You forget what its like to be on a nicer airline. We landed at Heathrow in London, so it was really easy to get back to the flats. We just hoped on the Picadilly line of the Tube, and were able to head only 2 blocks from our flat.
Home sweet home.
Kelly and I wanted to upload pictures right away -- so we went over to where our classrooms are and watched Sleepless in Seattle while uploading pictures to facebook and our computers.
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