Prague

After arriving in Prague around 5:30pm we checked in and went for a wander around, we were immeadiately drawn towards the Prague castle as we'd been told that it was a spectacular landmark, after getting a little bit lost in the streets of Prague, and stumbling across the usual array of churches and historical land marks we found the river. We had emerged from the city at the wrong bridge, but no matter, we could see the Charles bridge from where we were and we could also see the castle. We were in fact closer to the entrance to the Castle than we would have been if we had crossed the Charles bridge as originally planned, so we climbed up to the castle to have a good look around.

The Church in the middle of the Castle(or maybe it's the original city?) is amazing, it's scale is hard to fathom and the ornate features that adorne it aren't really captured by the photo's we took. We spent a good hour walking around the church (or maybe it's a cathedral given it's size), we also tried to take some photos of the gargoyles that were placed along the back of the church, but by this time the light was fading so they really didn't work out well.

On the way back to the hotel we managed to get lost in the streets of Prague again, so Prague has turned out to be the hardest city to navigate, for us at least. Once we'd worked out where we were and found our way back to the hotel, we called it a night.

Out of bed a bit late on day 2, all of this holiday stuff is tiring, I'll be going back to work for a break! We wandered off to find the Astrological clock in the old town square, which we'd walked past on our way home last night without realising. Found the clock and arrived when an Irish tour guide was giving a very theatrical description of the clock and some of it's history (which may or may not be true).

After the astrological clock, we headed towards one of the many national museums located around Prague, only to find that it' was closed on Mondays, so we headed for the Charles bridge, the bridge is pedestrian traffic only and as such it's littered with various buskers, artists etc, which gives it quite a nice atmosphere, from there we headed along the edge of the river in the general direction of the technological and agriculture museums. On our way we discovered the "weeing" fountain that you'll see some photos of, as well as the Frank(or Franz) Kafka museum, we spent a good hour and a half in the Frank Kafka museum, it was really quite well done and interesting.

We sat down for lunch after the Kafka museum, consumed the "small" 500ml of beer and continued on our way to the technilogical museum, unfortunately when we got there we discovered that Mondays is obviously the day that all of the government run museums are closed.

We headed back into town and as we'd walked quite a few miles today, we parked ourselves in a cafe and watched the world go by, quite a nice way to finish the day of in Prague really ;-)

For dinner we headed for a nice looking restaurant, only to find out afterwards that the restaurant is on the Michelin guide as one of the best restaurants in Prague and that the Chef is a celebrity Chef with his own television show. The food was very nice and the service was exceptional, although I must say that the apple strudel that I had at the beer garden in Salzburg was better than his (in my opinion anyway).

Off to Berlin tomorrow, looking forward to some of the sights there.

Prague - Day 1 Pics - The Prague Castle

Prague - Day 2 Pics