Prague, Czech Republic

We took the train at 9 am and arrived in Prague, Czech Republic (my motherland!!) around 4:30 pm. We got settled in to our hostel and then grabbed a quick Czech dinner of meat and potatoes/rice. I got pork and rice in a mushroom gravy.

That night we met up with another group of us that was in Prague for the night. The 30 of us met up and all went on a big pub crawl together. It was really cool, we went to four bars and then ended up at a 5-story club.

Five-story club

Tuesday morning we got up and headed to the center of the town to head on a tour. The tour was supposed to be three hours long, and me and my friends made it through about the first half hour. Our tour guide just went on random tangents and would stay at a single spot for like a half hour. We realized we weren’t going to see many different places and not learn that much about the actual city, so we decided we would just give ourselves a tour the next day. Unfortunately it was snowing pretty hard that day so we could barely see in front of us because of all the snowflakes shooting into our eyes. We decided to make this day our shopping day. We walked around and saw some of the pretty architecture while stopping in some stores to shop. We shopped in the outdoor flea market and then headed to an indoor mall. It was a really good mall, just none of us had as much money as we would have liked to spend there!

 

Outdoor flea market   

That night we headed to U Medvidku Restaurant and Brewery. I got an authentic Czech meal of “Granny’s larded roast beef in sour cream with white-bread dumplings and cranberries” and a couple of beers from their brewery.

After dinner, me and a couple girls headed to the Charles Bridge to see it and the castle lit up at night.

  

The Astronomical Clock at night

We made Wednesday our self-tour day. We walked around the old town and to the Jewish quarter to the castle on the other side of the Charles Bridge. The castle was really pretty and there was a beautiful church in the middle of it, St. Vitus Cathedral.

 

The astronomical clock

The Jewish Quarter

The White House

St. Vitus Cathedral

In front of the Parliament building

 On the Charles Bridge

The  Charles Bridge

That night we tried to go on a ghost tour of Prague! We’re still not sure what happened, but we showed up to the meeting point and the guide just didn’t show up. So instead we grabbed a gelato sundae and headed to a local Czech bar/pub. It was a really interesting atmosphere. Everyone was really chill and there were piglets there!

Gelato sundae & entrance to the bar

Little piglets! Drinking beer...