Prague!
Where to start?
Our last day in England was spent doing random last minute things, and then we took the train around 3 to go to the airport. The flight took about an hour and a half.
We arrived at our hostel in Prague around 10-11pm and since it was Dave's bday we though we'd find at least 1 beer. We checked into the hostel- www..hostelelf.com and went to go get a beer when we were stoped by Frazer, a Canadian. He said he wanted to go out so we just tagged along with him. We got to the bar he had friends at and they were leaving...Will and Niko- From Perth, Danny- from Tasmania, Paulo- from Brazil, a guy from Scotland and a guy from LA, and I think that's it...I could be forgetting someone. We wandered around for ages trying to find a bar we wanted to go to and eventyally found one we liked...an Irish bar of course, would you expect anything else is Prague?! So we had a beer there but then they closed so we went hunting for somewhere else. The next bar was almost double the price so we gave up on that. We walked home but got lost haha and took a long way home, got back and hung out for a little before going to bed.
Friday Dave and I slept kind of late before wandering around the city for a while. We went accross the famous Charles Bridge, went to the old Town Square, saw the crazy clock, and a ton of cool architecture. The weather was pretty good, somewhat sunny and kind of warm. We went to the grocery store on the way home to get some food to keep at the hostel and went home. We bought beers from the 24hr place accross the street and hung out in the common room with everyone. Eventually we headed out and went to a couple of different bars with the gang and Abbey- from Arizona but ha lived in Prague before so knew where to go, and 3 girls from Australia- Chelsea and I can't remember the other 2. Oh and Roger came out with us too! He's an older dude also from Tasmania, super interesting- is a famous sculpter, works with the goverment, has traveled to over 100 countries, all kinds of cool stories. We went to Blind Eye which is where we started the night before. It was pretty cool but we only had 1 beer before moving on. I can't remember the name of the next place we went to but it was great! It was a ton of underground rooms with a bar in almost every one. We had a couple of beers there before moving on to a club called 'U Sudu' which was pretty fun, we had a few more beers there before the group kind of split up a bit. Roger and some others went home, then I grabbed a cab with Danny...too cold to walk and drunk enough to not want to navigate, Dave and Abbey stayed a while longer. It was a fun night.
Saturday dave and I slept late and then got up and wandered around again but were too tired and were only out for a couple of hours haha. Its ok though, Prague is one of those cities that you can do that in, plus we still had a lot of days left! We came home and napped for a bit before buying beers and hanging out on the couch again. A bunch of people went out and Dave went with them but I was too tired and hung out at the hostel for the night which was a lot of fun too. Dave and I made plans with Roger to go to Karlstejn Castle early Sunday morning so I got some sleep for that adventure.
Sunday morning we got up at like 9- ouch!! Showered quickly and met with Roger. Dave had bee out until like 5am so she was in a little worse shape than me haha. Roger found it amusing. We took the train about 45mins out of town to the castle. Its known as a fairytale castle and it was pretty on the outside. Its up in some hills in a littlw village so it was great to get out of the city. Especially since the leave have changed colors but haven't fallen yet, for the most part so it was beautiful out there. The price included a tour and our guide was pretty funny, but there was nothing in the castle!! Apparently an Austrian King had stolen it all back in the day so uh yeah it was an empty castle...sweet..someone should include that in the tourist travel books. But we had fun, we were all pretty stupid...Roger had bought a big bag of peanut M&Ms and in the middle of the dudes speech he droped one and it bounced and rolled accross the concrete floor hahah it was pretty funny but you might have had to have been there. We made our way back from the castle, Roger decided to do some more sight seeing but Dave and I thought a nap might be more suitable...I slept for about and hour, Dave slept for about 4! Got up, hung out, grabbed some food for dinner- a bag of crisps, a magnum ice cream, a mars bar, and this wafer thing that I had choked on the day before- I thought I'd give it a second try! Oh ans some beers of course. Sat on the couch and everyone got into a debate about which order I should eat my dinner in, and they concluded that I should have eaten the crisps, then the ice cream, the mars bar and the wafer. This did not happen as I ate the ice cream first so that it wouldn't melt, then the crisps. I didn't eat the mars until way later and shared it with the boys...shockingly generous since Mars' are my fav! Haha. And I didn't get round to eating the wafer- others did.
Monday the boys woke us up and we went to Bohemian Bagel for breakfast/lunch...we sat there for ages staring at maps and planing future trips :) Danny changed his ticket to stay an extra week instead of heading home. We left there and went to the John Lennon Peace wall which, to be quite honest is just a ton of grafitti. There we split from the boys and Dave and I went to Prague Castle. The Cathedral was pretty cool but other than that it wasn't too impressive. Dave and I split up and both wandered around seperately...I didn't really do much and it was raining so I headed back to the hostel. Hung out there for a while, then decided we should probably shower and make an effort, the boys managed to grab showers first and by the time Dave got in there all of the hot water was gone..sweet. I went to a local Czech restaurant w/ Danny and Mark and had an amazing salad ha, it was really great! We headed back and everyone else had already started drinking, I hopped in the shower thinking it would be warm by then but I couldn't have been more wrong! It was absolutey freezing, but I had t shower then b/c we were leaving realy early in the a.m to fly to Sydney. Brrr.
Hung out upstairs for the evening, we'd colectively decided that it would be an Absynth night since it was so many of our last nights there. Gross, Absynth is gross. We had fun though, tons of fun. Went to bed really late, only about an hour of sleep before we got up at 5am! Dave and I somehow made it to the airport, and onto our flight. We flew 2 hours from Prague to Vienna, switched planes, flew 12 hours to Kuala Lumpur, got off the plane, went through security, waited half an hour, got back on the same plane, flew 7 1/2 hours to Sydney. I slept the ENTIRE time, I didn't even watch a movie, I somehow managed to eat all of the meals (free food can't be turned down) but yeah, slept the whole time!! Clearly it pays off to stay up all night before flying 20 hours. So yeah, we left Tues a.m and arrived Wed. Night!
And that's Prague!! Good times, great new friends!! Can't ask for much more than that!!
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