After skyping with my girlfriend in the morning and researching more cool things to do in Prague, I set out to explore more parts of the historic city, with the main goal for the day to see Prague Castle, which is the largest castle in the world. Getting around Prague is pretty easy with the metro system, but really, everything is pretty much walkable (by my standards at least. Haha I often jog through the city to save time/stay warm/not have to pay for metro/bus tickets).
The ginormous Prague Castle is situated on top of one of the many hills overlooking the city, and dominates the view wherever you are. Everything is very compact in Prague, with all the main sights located very close to the city center. Refusing to look at my map to get up to the castle, I ended up accidentally walking up the back entrance (the exit really) to the castle. Haha Once at the top I had some great views over the city, then began to walk around looking for the ticket area.
It’s hard to accurately describe the castle, but it didn’t really feel like a castle to me (compared to the ones I saw in Germany). It was more like a giant palace with many buildings around it, open squares, and a giant/beautiful church all in one area. I ended up seeing most of the castle grounds before finding the ticket area, and after debating paying the fee to do a tour of the castle, I decided against it to save time (it was pretty late in the day already), to save money, and honestly, from the looks of the postcards it didn’t seem all that glamorous on the inside (the palace of Versailles has ruined me haha Nothing compares to it)
My next destination was the Eiffel tower. “What?! The Eiffel Tower, in Prague???” Yup. Well, a smaller version of it at least. I’m not really sure why, but Prague decided to build its own, much smaller version of the Eiffel Tower on a hill, that you can still go up if you want for a small fee. I tried to take a shortcut to get there (without using a map of course), and ended up getting lost for 30 min., ending up at a university and the huge soccer arena. I finally made it to the tower, took a couple pictures (note: I left my camera cord in prague so I can’t upload any pics right now. Or take many more for that matter. lame.), and made my way down the hill. The tower was kinda cool, but not really. Just something for tourist junkies I think. The park it next to it was beautiful tho.
My final destination for my mini-day trip was the John Lenin Wall. It’s basically a graffiti wall where people would protest against all sorts of things (nothing to do with the beatles actually, but maybe they protested against lennon’s comment about the beatles being bigger than jesus tho), and I think it was mainly against communist/socialist rule. It was cool, I left my own mark on the wall with a sharpie pen, and made my way back home. Oh, and I tried to go in the US Embassy earlier in the day, but they wouldn’t let me because I didn’t have an emergency. Maybe next country…
When I got back to Adam’s flat (it’s so hard to remember what I did more than 3 days ago and blog about it btw. Haha Drinking almost every night probably doesn’t help the remembering process, but my memory is just bad in general. Just ask my girlfriend. Haha). We chilled for a bit then eventually walked to a bar to have a couple beers. Delicious beers. Each pub, on pretty much every street corner in Prague, usually supports one local brewery and only has their beer on tap. Kinda cool. Adam and I had a great chat and I got to know him much better that night.
One of the random funny moments of the night was when Adam asked me to go to the bar and buy him a cigarette, and I literally interpreted as, “buy me one cigarette from the bartender.” A strange concept to me, to just buy one, but this is Europe, so anything is possible. Well, the bartender brought me a pack of cigarettes, and I told him in very broken English “No, I just want ONE cigarette please.” He looked at me confused, talked to another bartender with a puzzled look on his face, then the other bartender just gave me one of his cigarettes to end the confusion. Haha Thanks! Adam thought this was pretty hilarious and ended up just buying a pack moments later himself. Haha My bad.
When we got home, we had a delicious meal (potato pancakes was this night actually, not the night before, I think), and after finishing our meal, I was left in a food coma like none other. I told Adam I was gonna take a quick nap (around 9:00pm) and asked him to wake me up in 20 min. Well, he woke me up, then I fell back to sleep immediately, and didn’t wake up until 2 in the morning. Haha Oops. Oh well, I probably needed the sleep anyway. Definitely set the record on my trip for most sleep in one night and earliest time to bed in Prague.
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