Prague - Blogabond

Prague was one of the most gorgeous cities we have come across, being virtually untouched by WW2. We stumbled across the town square at dusk, being in one of our various wandering expeditions (so much easier than trying to navigate to a set destination - esp after a few beers). After being amazed by the laneways and alleys that just Spring from nowhere, we headed to local restaurant for dinner. The food was brilliant, so after stuffing ourselves silly (another theme for this trip) we wandered ourselves home again.

The next morning was a fantastic day - one of the sunniest we've seen so far. Still bloody cold mind you, but at least good for photos! We hiked up the hill to the castle, and had a good sticky beak, and into the cathedral there.

One of the most stellar cathedrals I've ever seen. Just stunning. We continued wandering to the much painted/photographed/stuffed full of tourist bridge, St Andrews bridge. Pretty, but dangerous as the risk of a gawping person would walk straight into you.

inside the cathedral

Staropramen Brewery

Being the entity of tom and Sarah - finding out our hostel was 300m from the Staropramen brewery - irresistable. So we naturally did the brewery tour - and enjoyed the free beer tasting afterwards. Our group was 2 irish, us, and many many norweigans. So the norweigans had a little taste, then buggered off - and us and the irish helped the guide clear the lines - by drinking all the excess beer! The guide was awesome, chatting away to us. Was quite hillarious though, when we were first standing next to the Irish, we thought they non-english (I thought german?) and they thought the same of us! So when we finally worked out we all spoke english (rather poorly) we got along grandly.

Prague has many marionette makers, and one shop as we were walking along had a store person making pinocchio dance to Butterfly - by crazy town. Hillarious!

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no_fosters_thanks on January 24, 2008 from Praha, Czech Republic

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