Pension 15 Prague

... to call. Then realized we&#8217;d have to use a phone from here to call this number. <br><br>13:45 <br><br>A lovely hotel worker has just appeared and seems committed to resolving our problem. She&#8217;s made a phone call to a higher-up. <br><br>13:50<br><br> Her phone just rang, it was an obnoxious ringtone. Nat is now on the phone with the manager of the hotel. We&#8217;re going to our room!

So... Jen here,with my comments on Prague so far, mostly in note form. - the paper products here are no good. Neither are the towels. Wimpy TP and paper towels, the towels are scratchy. - the sidewalks are the coolest we've seen yet. The cobblestones are often in colored patterns, but they are totally uneven and made my feet feel bruised today. - the city is beautiful. everything is old and incredible. even the "new ...

... from that we saw most of the sights including the castle, the astronomical clock, Charles Bridge and climbed a few towers to get good views of the city. One of the things Prague is most famous for is the beer and we definitely did our best to sample one or two over the weekend, along with hot wine - the Praguer's equivalent of mulled wine - definitely recommended for keeping the cold at bay! The other thing about Prague is that it's big into music! There are loads of ...

... in countries which were later occupied by the Nazis; however by 1945 two out of every three of these Jews had been killed. I'd obviously heard about these events though actually visiting one of these camps made this history so much more disturbing and realistic. Prague is the capital of the Czech Republic which previously formed part of the Soviet Republic. It's really pretty by night so if you're visiting this city make sure you manage to join a night walking tour. Majority of the ...

... have such a greater impact when you had been visiting the center of the chaos only hours earlier. The next morning we went on a fantastic walking tour of the city. These are a great way to see a bunch of sites and learn details that guidebooks can't offer. We saw the main square, jewish quarters, charles bridge, a few churches and then the castle grounds. After the tour we went and toured around the castle. It's supposed to be the largest castle complex in the world. We only saw a ...

... we were in the grounds of the castle!! The fantastic views over the city were complemented by a classic band playing; quite surreal but fabulous none the less. We managed to time it really well, and got to see the changing of the guards, which was quite funny actually (in my little warped world anyway!). Time to explore further into the grounds..... we went into the amazing church... pictures speak louder than words on this one I think. I have to mention the ...

... more of a meditative state than I wonder what is on television tonight stream of thinking. I get a different glimpse of the man behind the mask though, when he took a break to adjust his costume, put on makeup and get a drink. We visited Prague Castle and St. Vitus Cathedral on one of our days there, basically look up to the highest point in Prague and you are going to have to walk there. The walk is enjoyable until you get to the part with many stairs, albeit I know I have seen ...

... remaining staff, it was really nice cause all the cooks and that came along as well. But don't worry guys those two nights were the warm up nights for the big end of summer party. Early on Sunday morning we woke up and made the 4 hour bus drive back to Stowmarket where Kids Klub put on a pretty amazing party. It was a very good night, heaps of fun and it was great to see some of the people that i had met at induction week. There were prizes, i was nominated for two ...

... but the conductor was cool and only lectured us on pickpockets in Prague. The conversion from Euros to Crowns is pretty tricky so we decided to go by canadian dollars, which is 20 crowns to one dollar (but we still each bought way too many thousands of crowns anyway). The hostel we were staying at was pretty comfortable. When we walked in the dude at reception was listening to the Edmonton game on the internet. The first thing we did on the first ...

... couches before Sean appeared and shouted over the foyer to the bargirl for 7 beers, one for each of us that had managed to get up. He was only joking, but the bargirls appreciation of the English sense of humour wasn't quite so sophisticated and 7 heinekens promptly arrived in front of us. That pretty much set the tone for the rest of the day which included crunch rugby under one of the famous bridges, a ...