Fall Break Part 2: Praha

Prague is an amazing city. As you wander the city all you can see are castles everywhere. The cobble stone streets everywhere make the city feel like its one big movie set. We arrived from Budapest on a 5:30am train that took seven hours to get to Prague. If you have ever seen the Movie Eurotrip the train was exactly like that, six seater cars with individual doors on each six person section. Some of you may be asking why we would ever want to take a 5:30am train? Well we didn't; we missed our overnight train originally that was supposed to be a sleeper cabin with 6 beds. We ended up finding out that our tickets were still valid for the next day so we found empty seats and slept in the seats for 7 hours (or more like took 20minute naps for 7 hours).

Prague Castle

Ok now back to talking about Prague. We were only in Prague from Monday morning to Wednesday afternoon but that was plenty of time to explore the city. We walked around and just really roamed the city the first day we were there. We got some pork and potatoes for dinner and found some bars that were suggested from friends that have previously studied there at night.

Lennon Wall

On the second day we spent most of the day sightseeing. We walked over the the Charles Bridge which was really cool and took it over to the Prague castle. The castle was really cool because it is huge. It sits atop the hill across the river and it can be seen from almost everywhere in the city. We didn't pay to go inside of it but instead just walked around the grounds. I was taken back from all the detail work that is put into and how old it is. Its always amazing how in Europe everything is so much older than in the USA.

Later that day we went over to the Lennon Wall. I'm still not completely sure how this wall because famous and why it became a center for Graffiti but there is a large Lennon face on it. From what I learned it was a center from youth rebellion and they used Beatles lyrics to air their grievances and in turn it became known as the Lennon Wall.

Overall I really enjoyed Prague. It is relatively cheap because it is not on the EUR and it feels like a movie set that isn't part of Europe at all. It was certainly a great middle part for Fall break.

Astronomical Clock in Prague

I promise more posts to come soon including Part 3: Amsterdam and Parents Weekend rome edition.