The ancient splendor and beauty of Prague, a city beyond compare, left an impression on my imagination that will never fade - Richard Wagner
Whenever anyone asks what was so great about it, the answer is truly hard to put into words. There is just something about that city that catches your attention. It has a sort of strangeness to it that I've never felt from a city before and there is some sort of appeal that just makes you want to go back.
April 4th - left for Prague with a group of friends other than my usual American buddies (3 Greeks, 1 English, 1 Dutch, 1 Italian, 1 Mexican, 1 Canadian, and later 3 Scots and 1 Brazilian)
- this city is quite a distance from Austria because trains are so incredibly slow here - so all together about 9 hours travel time
- In Prague we stayed in the Chili hostel and I managed to take one of the old fashioned keys that locked one of the washroom doors! Sorry guys!
- We immediately headed out to do some sight seeing and were hit in the face with the amount of Absinthe sold here
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| Day View |
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| Night View |
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| Group the First night :) |
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| Club we went to the first night |
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| Absinth Galore |
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| Dancing House Building by Frank O Gehry |
April 5th - Day 2
- Unfortunately we had quite a bit of cold rainy weather while in Prague that none of us were so prepared for because the weather leaving Austria was beautiful - so we did miss out on quite a bit of sightseeing in Prague - the late nights probably didn't help much either
- From the sight seeing that we did this day I realized how cool the city is - everywhere you look is a different style of architecture and so much if it seemed like there was a story behind it
- Vague story of the Clock tower: So a man designed and built the clock in the 15th CE and the people loved it so much that they didnt want him to go some where else to build another one. So they blinded him. He then got so mad that they killed himself by throwing himself into the workings of the clock causing to to break down for years and years causing it not to work until rather recently someone was able to fix it - Neat.
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| Told ya, Prague is strange |
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| Old town square |
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| Astronomical Clock |
April 6th - day 3
- we made our second attempt at a waking tour this day so prepare for lots of pictures!
- a lot of the sites we saw (castles, etc.) were things that would have been great to go inside of an take individual tours of but we were such a large group and pressed for time
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| on the Charles Bridge |
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| Charles Bridge |
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| View of Prague from Castle |
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| Old Jewish Quarters - very sad stories here |
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| Prague Castle |
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| interesting streets |
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| Jewish Quarters - there are graves on top of graves on top of graves here |
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| it was Easter time in Prague :) |
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| I forget the name of this cathedral |
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| that is an old dried up arm: a man once tried
to steal jewels off of the Mary statue in this church and she came to
life and grabbed his arm, so instead of the priest cutting off the
statues arm to let him free, they cut off the mans arm! .. and it still
hangs there today to show not to steal. Yeup | |
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| Powder Gate - 11th CE |
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| again |
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| State Opera House |
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| St. Nicholas Church - gorgeous inside |
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| approaching Charles Bridge |
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| leading into Lesser Town - one of the coolest parts of Prague |
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| Lesser Town |
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| At Prague Castle |
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| St. Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle |
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| again - We werent supposed to go in here this day because there was a private procession going on apparently - but im small and they didnt see me go in - nor did i see the guards stopping everyone from going in .. so im walking in this church and it was really empty, im standing in front of the main entrance and all of a sudden the doors open with a ray of light and for some reason i had moved a bit away from the door - THANKFULLY because other wise i would have been standing directly in they way of a procession of about 10 POPE looking like priests. |
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| Pre party in the cellar of our Hostel - last night |
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So, Prague was enchanting and had an amazing night life. I'd go back in an instant.
Ps. Reality check: Pre trip I had the most trouble that I'd had in Graz since I arrived here. I had no access to money! AT ALL. NONE. It was a few days before I needed to leave for Prague and I had never had an issue using my Canadian cards to take Euro's out of the machines here. Well all of a sudden they start denying my cards saying that they are broken or invalid or something! At at this point i was running on low cash. So I immediatly had my lovely mother fedex me a new bank card hoping that that would solve the issue. Nope. Its finally the day before leave to Prague and I need a couple hundred Euros to make this trip! .. After hours and hours on the phone with a TD bank rep - We finally find a bank that should accept my credit card so i can have a cash advance. So all is well in Prague as you could see. And when i arrive back in Graz, I tried my old cards again and this time they decide to work for me without an issue. Whattttt the heck. #Exchangeproblems
