Guest House Venus Prague

... It is a beautiful city. Much more so than we expected.

After checking in at our hostel, Shelby took us on a walking tour through narrow cobblestone streets and wide open plazas. We went up into the tower at the 700 year-old town hall and the views of the old city were awesome.

One of the most amazing sites is that all the sidewalks are laid out in mosaic patterns with old, small stone tiles.
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... in size to the Koeln Cathedral. St. Wenceslas was buried there too. Then (also a part of the Prague Castle) we saw the Royal Palace, where the old rulers lived, St. George's Basilica, which is even older than St. Vitus's, and the Daliborka Tower, which was the torture chamber/dungeon from the castle. We walked around the Mala Strana area of town (the "Lesser Quarter") and that's when the rain hit. After a ...

... on towards Prague. Got stuck in a massive traffic jam so the journey took way longer than expected so instead of getting into Prague in the afternoon it was almost dark. We then picked up a local guide for a city tour. Prague looks interesting with some great old buildings. We stopped off at a monastry on top of a hill (Castle Hill?)overlooking the town, for a czech beer. Then off to the Old Town for a walk around and across ...

... We've all heard about the Jews and their obsession with money and it's true; cost to enter one of these tiny Jewish Synagogues is around 300 Czech Crones and includes a souvenir paper kepa for the boys to wear so they can have a particularly Jewish experience. As a comparison our lunch for two at a small deli cafe which consisted of a toasted cheese, tomato and salami baguette roll and a large beer each cost 130 Czech Crones. I just couldn't believe that so many suckers were ...

... tour was going to be for 4 hours. The weather was still extremely windy and cold, but it wasn' t raining, so we couldn' t complain. The tour was great! It was the four of us, and a couple other people for only half the time. We started in Old Town learning all about the Astronomical Clock, the old town hall, and other things there. Then we walked to the Old Jewish Quarter where the Jewish Ghetto was. We saw many synagogues, The ...

... rammed with tour groups. Charles Bridge is actually called Karluv Most, and was full of tourists, and a few guys dressed up as sailors, bizarrely, I had to hide my laughter as I walked past them. Anyways, I headed down the bridge towards Mala Strana, the part of town across the river that houses the castle and other beauties. I got some fantastic views of the castle from the bridge, it looked great. Dodging the dodgy 'artists' on the bridge, I got ...

... ventuellement! Bref, il nous arrête finalement dans un p'tite rue à deux cents mètre du Wenceslas Square(Trop bien). Et nous attendons pendant 10 min le gars de la clef. Difficulté à réussir à entrer dans l'appartement, bad feeling.... Et finalement, damn..... L'appartement est simplement juste trop bien!!!!! 3 grande chambre à coucher, un grand grand salon, une grande salle à manger, 2 salle de bain et une cuisine ...

... cupids and, well, anything else you can think of, I'm sure. Actually, I can't even think on what else there was, just a stack of really odd bits and bobs set out as untouchables. I've been travelling the city with a Japanese girl I met in the youth hostel - and for some reason, the giant statues that cover the famous Charles Bridge scared the **** out of her. Odd. But amusing. Oh - and the bridge - well, the first thing I said ...

So Prague does have some really good beer and it is fairly cheap, about 1US dollar for a half liter. We have done lots of walking and sight seeing, pretty cool city. Last night we went on a pub crawl with about 40 other people that the Aussie guy Chris was running. Kind of ****** bar crawl since we didn't go to too many places, but the bars were pretty cool. Afterwards ...

... I have never been to either of those places and I would love to see the ocean again. When do we leave? Now? E: Maybe 4 o clock, I need to look at something on computer first and call J, D, and N. I exit the computer and go to make myself a fried cheese sandwich while E. looks up stuff on the internet. The next thing I hear the Czech Republic mentioned as an alternative to Italy ... 5 minutes after that the Czech Republic has emerged as the clear dinner ...