Prague

May 31st to June 2nd

I met my Brobro in in Prague for three nights and two days.

We were in this amazing hostel (Mosaic House) that really felt like a hotel. However, we were of course sharing the room with two others. They were two Brazilians on vacation and their first destination was Prague. Quel luxe!

On the wall of the hostel

Fun fact!

(which I did not know well enough to win a point in Trivial Pursuit in Dresden...)

Arriving in the Czech Republic after so much time in Germany and France was quite a shock: going from understanding everything (France), then being able to guess mostly everything (Germany), to having no idea (CR)! I am happy I haven’t decided to travel to too many places where I haven’t studied the language because I feel so lost and obnoxious for making people speak English in their own country (except my friends who love to practice English with me).

Sunday, May 31st

The first, most important thing to do when I arrived in Prague in the evening was FOOD. Robert had been in Prague since the morning so he scouted out maps and one was student created with great and cheap restaurant recommendations (but let’s be honest, Prague is cheap no matter the place on average).

Here are our food pictures :

Café-Pub atmosphere

Potato dish and salad dish

05/31

idem

Le Mistral

Full breakfast with rolls, yogurt, fruit, oats, corn flakes, tea and freshly squeezed juice

06/01

Street stand (they are eeeeeverywhere)

Trdelnik (like a tree trunk)

06/02

Lehka hlava

Homemade ginger lemonade

06/02

Lehka havla

Vegetarian restaurant

We took the everything mix platter :D

06/02

The one thing we will retain from Prague is the chilled and delicious meals we had. We often forgot to take a picture of eat before digging in :P

During the night of the 31st we walked across the Charles bridge. Completely packed -___-

Monday, June 1^st

Happy June J Summer has arrived already :D

We woke up relatively early to catch a free tour at 11am but we missed because we took our time with our great breakfast. We walked around and planned to catch the next one at 1pm.

We walked to the Valdstejnska Zahrada home of the Czech Senate

Robert : "Carpe diem" 

We watched this male peacock try real hard to seduce the female on the right.. He aight got enough swag

Albino peacock

As we arrived at the main square, there were numerous tour groups and a sea of people. We had to find a blue umbrella in front of the astrological clock.

As we walked towards the clock, I saw the small white one on the right side and wondered what the heck is special about this thing. Here is a little picture story of what my mind went through:

"What the heck is special about this little thing? People come from all over the world to see THIS?!"

*Looks to the left*

"Ooooooooh that's the special clock. Oops"

I think we found the free tour, but we couldn’t hear anything and the guide seemed rather dull so we decided to take matters into our own hands and rent bikes to do our own tour. Little did we know how unsafe the city was for bikes and that the ride was going to be mostly uphill to reach the castle. All in all, it was still pretty amazing. It was beautiful weather and it felt good to do so real sport :D

Here are a couple things we saw and took the time to photograph (Robert has more pictures on his phone that he will likely post on his blog bobbybrais.blogspot.com later):

Several pictures of the view from the hill

Our bikes

The Metronom

People had fun wasting shoes...Looks like a shoe clothes line actually

See it moves

The view from the Metronom place

We also made to the Palace but the pictures are definitely in Robert's phone

Tuesday, June 2^nd

After a good brunch, we decided to burn it off with a little boat tour... or rather a paddle boat tour. So relaxing 

Charles Bridge wedged between our heads

Dipping his feet

Then we broke off and Robert took care of some school stuff while I went for a Thai massage (which are advertised everywhere around town). I went to a nicer place than the super touristy/trashy ones. I didn’t really know what a Thai massage was but when I heard my neighbour getting massaged and the masseuse asked: “are you alright” and the customer answered: “well, I am still alive,” I feared a little for my life haha. The masseuse was putting all her weight in her knees into my gluteous maximus and digging in pretty hard into my back. She cracked many of my joints and pulled my limbs in many directions but all in all it felt goooooooood haha. Quite the experience. I would do it again. Plus, it was not very expensive as you can imagine.

Robert and I joined each other for one last meal and went to bed relatively early considering I had to be up at 4 to catch a train to Linz at 5:30 and him early enough to meet a friend for breakfast and catch a bus at 10:30.

Once again, sleep is a luxury on vacation....