No we're headed off for the last few days of our trip: only 3 more cities left believe it or not: Prague, Berlin, and Amsterdam, and then we're heading back to London! It's so crazy to think that 24 days could seem so long, yet when we're nearing the end, it doesn't seem long enough! I'm really excited about heading to Prague, because my parents have been there before and have told us how BEAUTIFUL of a city it is.
However, before we get into Prague, we took a mid-day break in Bratislava which is in Slovakia. We had a really quick stopover, with a short guided tour through the city (mostly the Old Town area). We saw the opera house and theater and walked down St. Michael's street and saw the St Michael's gate as well. We then just grabbed a bite to eat in the city and headed onwards to Prague!
On the bus today, everyone was getting rested up, for our Bar Crawl upon arrival in Prague!!! This was going to be one fun night ahead, I just see it now, based upon my past experiences with Pub Crawls in good ole' Atlanta. Hehe!
First, before we get to the pub crawl, we still had some sight seeing to do, so we get into Prague, check into our hostel, and meet up with a local guide (who ironically enough was from Atlanta), but sad to say I did not want to claim him for my city, because he was an absolutely HORRIBLE tour guide. He was flirting with tour members, reading off index cards as to the history behind famous sights, and was debunking myths that most tour guides play up. (ie- rub the monument, it means you'll return to Prague). Who does that as a tour guide?!?! He gets 10 fingers down from me! (yes, that's how bad he was).
Anyways, enough about our horrible tour guide, although he didn't give us much background behind the sights, we still did have a chance to see all the beautiful and famous sights within Prague. We went to Old Towne Square, We walked across the Charles Bridge and saw all the statues along the way, we saw Wenceslas Square, we also went to the Old Town Hall, and saw the famous astronomical clock, luckily we had reached there right as it was about to go off, so we were able to catch the action of the figurines as they moved and peaked there heads through on the hour. We didn't get to see the Prague Castle and St. Vitus Cathedral today, due to time, but it's on my agenda for tomorrow, during my free day.
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| View off of the Charles Bridge |
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| Old Towne Square |
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| Astronomical Clock |
After our tour, we all met back up with our tour guide to grab a quick bite to eat and then get started with the pub crawl. We met first at a local bar, and got free cranberry vodka shots, beers, wine, and absinthe shots! Let me tell you, with it being 90 proof, you already know that you gotta go slow with those, but the taste of it, makes you want to do that anyways! UGH, it tastes like black licorice. I could only take two or three before I was done, couldn't handle the taste anymore. But it was funny watching those people who aren't normally drinkers taking them down, because it was hitting them HARD, poor little YuLi was drunk and sitting in a corner before we even left the first bar of the night....!!! We moved on after about 1 hour or so to the next bar, and headed off to one more bar before ending at the biggest club in Prague, which was 5 floors. One of the floors had an ice bar, one was playing 80s oldies music, two were playing top 40s music, and one was more hip-hop/reggae like music. By this time, as expected, we had lost some people to drunkness, lost some people who went back to the hostel, and just flat out lost some people who couldn't keep up. LoL! So at this point, the only people that I was with were Diya, and Alissa, and of course our fearless tour leader and bus driver Carly and Phil. Me, Diya, and Alissa had a blast the rest of the night just dancing away and having a good time. At the end of the night, we couldn't find anyone else, so we ended up just taking a cab back to the hostel together, and hit the bed.
Our first night in Prague was awesome, but the only downside to Prague was that we happened to be there in the midst of a HEAT WAVE, and since Prague normally doesn't get such hot weather, our hostel had NO air conditioning, so basically we were sweating it out like crazy, it was ridiculously unbearable to be honest. Think 90-100 degree weather with no AC.
Some of the pics that we took from the Pub Crawl:
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| Me, Martha, Tia, Diya, Asa, and Alissa at the First Bar |
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| Me and my 1st Absinthe shot: YUCK! |
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| A handful of the wonderful people I've spent a month with |
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| Love these folks! |
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| Fun night!!! |
