Ibis Praha Karlin Prague

Wow! So I am really bad at this! I am much better at keeping in touch with people on facebook than this blog :)<br><br>So the last two weeks have been eventful. No job yet but a couple of interviews lined up. I have been picky with work and have turned down a few jobs, I might come to regret that later&#8230;<br><br>I have started my Czech lessons and can now count ...

... less Americanized cities. Berlin was by far the easiest find your way around in and the most people spoke English and were the most receptive to us, then Krakow was slightly more difficult and in Prague it felt the most foreign. I loved feeling like I was soaking in a new scent of life from the culture around me. It was so different there; I could finally almost feel the distance I had traveled and the space between myself and my familiar home ...

... Old Towne. Gorgeous! It was so strange to see all these Cinderella-like strutures all around, with El Mojito Bar lodged at the base. Everything's all mixed in! I love it! :) We stopped by a small hole-in-the-wall place called the Orange Bar to have a celebratory drink on the occasion of our arrival. Tomorrow we will explore what treasures this city holds! :) Pictures to come :) Dani and Colin

... two had zero beds, and I began to worry. The third had a bed, and they were 5 minutes walk from the train station I was at. (For you fellow travelers, there's more than one station in Prague, so be sure to learn which one you're arriving at. I was at Hlavni Nadrazni) But my instincts told me not to stay so close to the train station. Then I called the Boathouse Hostel, which the brochure described as "located far from the city center, but the hospitality is worth the distance." The ...

... figuring it might be one of my last chances to go shopping with a girl now that I am safely installed with Jess and Matt. After he got in, we started watching the futbol downstairs in the hostel bar, then went to the pizza place next door in day 1 of our attempt to avoid all local foods in Czech. It was a quiet night because he was jet lagged and I was recovering from Munich. The following day, we went on an insane walk. We literally saw all of Prague in about 10 hours as we walked ...

... is about $15 Australian dollars) and this would have to be the cheapest meal i've ever ate! You'd be paying near $40 for that back in Oz. Twas getting late so we wondered the streets a bit to see the city at night before heading home. The city was so pretty, and looked pretty sweet wondering across Charles bridge late at night with the city lights behind and infront of us. The city was build in the 1300's, so no wonder it has a gothic feel to it ...