Tour 2: Vysehrad, castle and P!nk.
Trip Start
Dec 11, 2006
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Trip End
Dec 14, 2006
Prague,
Czech Republic
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Believe it or not the cemetery was a highlight of the day as some of the tombstones were huge and amazing.
In the afternoon we went to Wenceslas Square and then shopping before doing Stef, Jamie, Laura and Louise's tour of the castle area which included crossing the Charles Bridge.
This evening me and Tim went to a Pink concert so we ate in the hotel before getting the tram and metro to the Sazka Arena (thanks to the brilliant directions of the nice lady on reception at the hotel.) We got the tram to Karlovo Naměstí where we got the metro line B to Českomoravská and the Sazka Arena was directly in front of the metro station
Another view.
. Easy when you know how. Getting the metro itself was fine but in the station is the fastest escalators i've ever seen, made even more terrifying when you're trying to get on them in heels.Getting our tickets at the arena was an experience, after realising we didn't understand Czech this lady told us to buy our tickets from somewhere that sells newspapers....no we didn't understand either. Eventually another lady told us that our tickets weren't valid because we hadn't paid for them 24 hours after purchase despite us being in the UK at the time but we managed to buy exactly the same ones again anyway.
The security at the concert was unbelievable, i felt like i was walking through an airport not an arena, although it didn't work because we still managed to get the camera in. Once in we got talking to an American called Jason. He's from San Francisco and had been living in Prague for a year. We went with him into the concert and got a space right at the front where we met a guy from New Zealand.
The concert started over an hour late but was well worth the wait even if a girl near us did faint. We even got put up on the big screen :-)
Getting home was also an experience. Tim got stopped but a ticket inspector but we didn't know that's what he was so we kept walking which resulted in Tim getting pinned up against the wall. Oops. Then when Tim got his ticket out his pocket all this confetti from the concert when flying down the metro station. How embarrassing.
