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charles bridge
the astronomical clock in old town square
the view from outside prague castle
frank gehry's dancing house
a traditional czech trdelnik which is a hot tube of breaddy pastry covered in cinnamon and sugar
inside st. vitus cathedral within prague castle
we stumbled across a bridge with a whole bunch of padlocks on it. i know that there's a famous one in rome and people do this to symbolise their love and they throw the key into the river, so i assume that this was a prague version.
we went to prague's new jewish cemetery to find franz kafka's grave
kafka statue that some d-bag spraypainted & the lennon wall
good things:
- getting a compartment all to ourselves on the train ride to prague from munich
- large amounts of very cheap czech confectionary
- cheap food & drink in general (though not so cheap everything else)
- free walking tour with background info on the monuments and the history of prague & the czech republic
- bohemia bagel!!! this amazing bagel place with burgers and cakes as well. if you go to prague definitely go there!
- the new jewish cemetery & kafka's grave (though difficult to find when google lies to you..) is really pretty
not so good things:
- getting majorly ripped off at the currency exchange
- vastly unimpressive astronomical clock display (similar to the one in munich)
- prague 'castle' is more of a castle complex with no actual castle (in the typical sense of the word) to speak of. a really pretty area but not really worth buying a ticket to go into the buildings, tbh.
- being woken up by drunken jerks checking in to the hostel at 4am and who must have (WRONGLY) assumed that there was no one else staying there and so they could be as loud as they goddamn well wanted.
overall it was a really lovely city and one day when i have more money i'd love to come back and spend some more time there. it's just difficult when you're only there for a short amount of time and you're not sure how much money to convert because if you convert too much you'll just lose money converting it back again, and if you don't convert enough you're stuck on a tight budget the whole time. and when you don't know how much anything costs you don't know how much to exchange, so it can be pretty tricky. we're in stockholm right now the money problems are the same and it's FUCKING FREEZING. i'm still loving this holiday but i can't wait to get home to summer!