Canadia, eh?

Hellloooo from Prague! We've been here for 3 days and had a fantastic time! Before I start on the doings in Prague, we had some fun on our last night in Munich. As with the Berlin tour, E and I decided that we would go on the pub crawl...just for a couple of pubs and not staying out late because we were both tired. It may come as a huge shock to you all when that's not the way things panned out!!! We met some great people, Tom and Tom from Boston who were on the tour with us were there, and with them came their roomates, Dawn from San Diego, Olga from Spain, Irish Tim and Owen and Brian and British James. We all got on really well and had a great time. E and I decided that it was a good thing that we were only travelling the next day as we were both still tired!

Now Prague...we arrived safely after a long and hot and uncomfortable train ride. We finally found our way out of the train station and found that the directions to our hostel made absolutely no sense! We asked a couple of police officers who, as it turs out, sent us in the wrong direction, and after wandering aimlessly for about an hour in the hot weather found where we needed to be. As this isn't a real 'hostel' and there's no reception desk, we had to collect our key from across the street at the pub and let ourselves in. Like I said, it's not a real hostel so much as an apartment with 3 rooms, but we have our own spacious room and free internet, so really, how bad can it be?!?

After a good long sleep, we were ready to look at Prague with fresh eyes. We found out how to get to the main square where the Astronomical Clock is and decided to take a walking tour, as we've done in the previous cities. We found Omar, our guide, and off we went. As it turns out, the 4 other people on the tour were going on a river cruise, so we essentially had a 4 hour private tour, which was awesome! We saw all the main sights, the Charles Bridge, the Prague Castle and St Vitus' Cathedral (beautiful!!) and the Jewish Ghetto. We got on really well with the tour guide, so we made a dinner date for the next evening. E and I stopped at an Irish pub on the way back to the hostel after the tour and alonng came Irish Johnny. He had been travelling to see some friends and was killing time before his train, so we started chatting and hung out for a bit. The random people you meet wandering the streets of Prague! We even got him saying Canadia instead of Canada! We ventured out for our first Czech meal, and really, not so bad....some kind of potato dumpling thing stuffed with some kind of pork and sourkraut. Not my fav, but not terrible.

The next day we went off to see some of the sights from the previous day in more detail. We went to the Museums and Synagogues in the Jewish Quarter....very interesting even though we don't know alot about Judiasm, and went back to the Charles Bridge for some photo ops. We met up with our tour guide for a pint and then dinner....it's fabulous to have a local show you around, you really get off the beaten path and see things you wouldn't as a regualr tourist. A great evening, all in all...Omar had even heard of Tim Hortons!

Today, our last day here, was spent doing some shopping and just getting ourselves lost in this beautiful city. We went back to the Castle, walked up this time instead of taking the tram, so we've definitely had our exercise for the day, which was a good thing because..... yep, today was the day to try out the deepfried cheese on a bun with mayo! Frank said we HAVE to try this while in Prague, so we did. Not the best thing I've ever eaten, but pretty good. Our Prague experience was now complete!!!

We loved this city: the people, the architecture, the culture...we are sad to leave, but we have Budapest to look forward to tomorrow...stop #4 on the tour! I will write again soon.

Ciao from Prague,

Megs