We arrived in the afternoon, checked into our hotel and then had a city tour arranged for us. The lady didn't really talk much about the city in general I thought - just more about the architecture of the buildings...and her tour was like 3 hours long.
A theater by our hotel - pretty huh?
The astronomical clock in one of the main squares
Me in front of a church
The Charles Brigde in the background (it's a stone Gothic bridge that connects the old town with the new town)
After we got back from the tour, the hotel had a dinner prepared for us. The first course was caviar on boiled eggs. Gross. Then the main meal was really good it was chicken and fried dough balls? haha. Then we got fruit and ice cream as dessert. It was just cool that they set that up for us! That night we wanted to go to the largest club in Central Europe, so we did!
The same church in the plaza that I took a pic of before - now just at night. I think it looks really awesome!
The club's side in the middle of the day
The board when you go in telling you what is on each floor!! haha. This was awesome!
The lower level was just rap, the 2nd was techo and crazy lights, the 3rd was 70's and 80's, the 4th was a dance off, and the 5th was a "chill out" floor. Basically 5 clubs in 1. I had a really great time here just dancing!
Us at the club
The next day we had all free to do what we wanted, so we picked to go to Prague Castle. Anna (Caitlin's friend who has lived in Prague for 5 years - but from Austin - told us this was a must! She was back in the states when we came, but is coming now to visit Salzburg and we are going around here, Innsbruck, and Munich). We walked a pretty long way there and it was sprinking the entire time. The bad news was that the ancient section of Prague Castle (which is actually a ton of separate buildings was closed. boo).
But here is the church that is part of it - St. Vitus Cathedral
Here is some of the stained glass that was inside. This part was the best because every one was so detailed and different - they were all along the outside of the church.
Me outside another part of Prague Castle
A kind of crappy view of Prague - weather-wise, but cool nonetheless
We then walked a different way back and went to a bagel place...yumm...then saw the Jewish cemetery in Prague. It was closed because of a holiday, but what our friend Maggie told us was that they just kept burying people on top and on top of each other so the graves kind of come out of the ground.
The old Jewish cemeterySo I really wanted to eat Mexican food and Anna had recommended this one Mexican restaurant because it was supposed to be really great! The only thing is you have to call for reservations and by the time we did, it was already full until 10 - and it was pretty far from our hotel, so that was a bust :( We asked the hotel front desk lady where to go for Mexican food and she told us a place close by. We walked there, definitely no resturants in sight, so we just walked and then food a Chinese food place. That night we then wanted to go to a place that Catherine (Emily's friend studying in Florence) had told us about. We got ready and walked there...
This place probably had about 20 tables with taps right in the middle of the table. Some of the people from our group were already there, so we joined them!
Our table
So they have screens on the wall that tell you how many 1/2 liters you had drank compared to the other tables. We were table 14 - this is ours at the beginning - 12.
Here is the first time we got into 1st place!!! Table 15 and ours kept going back and forth - they were a soccer team from somewhere in Europe.
Here is ours at the end of the night - 87 1/2 liters! I actually think that there might have been another picture, but I left and this is Caitlin's picture.
The next morning, we checked out of our hotel around 8 and left to head back to Salzburg. BUT we had a stop along the way...Cesky Krumlov. It was a somewhat small Czech town that was just really beautiful!! We had a guided tour there as well and then got some free time to grab a bite to eat!
A really cool bridge that we walked across
A view from the top!
A Czech specialty...so good.
Me in the city by the river. We ate right on the bank and it was just a great way to end the trip.
The only thing that I think our program should change is leaving earlier, because we really only got 1 full day in Prague and I think that I would have appreciated it much more if I had more time. It was a cool city, but I needed a couple more days!!
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