Hostel City Center Prague

... from the art deco era with vibrant, rich colors. As we left, there was a classical group playing chamber music with the view of the city beneath us.

The history of this country is hard to grasp in such a short outing. There have been reformations, occupations, and communist oppression to name a few.

In old town, we watched the astronomical clock from the 15th century which keeps multiple styles of time ...

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... seeing type of tour of Europe and had some good drinking stories. We got to Prague and after getting some Kronus (first time all trip we've had to get a new currency) we took a metro to our hostel. After checking in we went to a restaurant at the recommendation of the hostel owner. It was a great little place a few minutes from our hostel, good food and cheap too. We had these fried potato pancakes filled with meat ...

... gave us a calculator with recommended tip and then harassed us when we did not give the entire tip. Apparently the czech population is very straightforward when it comes to things like this, however our waiter the following day was much nicer.

After the meal we headed back to our hostel outside of town and checked in and hit the bar for the night. Everything at this hostel is done electronically and you have to put money on the card in order to pay ...

This place is beautiful. We finally had a beautiful blue sky which was perfect for such a beautiful city. Cobbled streets, horse drawn carrigages around the main city square, easter markets in full swing and people just generally happy that the sun is out. We enjoyed a lunch time canal cruise which was really awesome (sorry, hanging out with Americans ...

Well it has rained all day in Prague. It is nice here though. I spent pretty much all day in the Prague castle with Maria. We had lunch in a restaurant and ordered still water, ie not sparkling. And then they brought us sparkling. So we called the waiter and then asked for still. He basically swore at us in Czech. Was quite rude we thought. Oh well. Other than that we have had a great day. The views from the castle were great. So a short one today. Hope all is well at home. Katharine xxx

... again and went to our first stop, The Communist Museum. Pretty cool stuff in their like actual propaganda posters and a movie that was playing that was about the Czech Republic after WW2. I had no idea how violent and pretty much **** it was there, i its come so far too. We then went to the castle, which was cool, it had a massive cathedral in it. Big stained glass windows and statues and things. we also climbed up a huge tower within the cathedral ...

... city with relative ease. It was definitely different in a lot of ways. I remember long and fruitless searches for internet cafes a couple years ago, but we saw them on every corner this time. There were also many many more crowds of people than before. Prague also lacked the energy that only a soviet city in the winter can possess...it still was amazing though. We went to bohemia bagel, and ...

... to deal with the sound. Maybe that was just these teenage girls for you - they didn't seem to relax the whole way. Arriving at Prague's main station we looked for an ATM which took a while and then figured out the metro to take us to the Holiday Inn - I was able to use some of my old hotel points so we would be staying in style. Prague was very interesting. We walked around town, the castle and the park and had quite a few Czech beers. The top place was where we met ...

... and the outskirts to the front. We were somewhere between Baroque and a hard place. Fortunately the rain died down and so we were able to get around to seeing parts of Prague we missed on our last visit more than 5 years ago and also to see the best bits again... walking over Charles Bridge, looking at the fairytale towers of Tyn Cathedral, basically just walking around and going aaaahhhhhhh at the lovely buildings. Riko, one of ...