Czech me out prague

I have never made so many jokes with play on words in my life.

Prague.

Alex Soph and I flew out thurs night easy peasy no problems. Soph went to stay with a friend that is studying there and alex and I went to our hostel, The Emma Hostel.  We stayed in a 5 person room but were the only two there for the first night.  Once we got there we wandered the streets for a little and stopped at a bar to people watch out night away.  Next morning  we woke up and ventured to Bohemian Bagel.  Cinnamon raisin with cream cheese...sooo good and soo necessary.   Then off to see the sites...saw the old town center, the astronomical clock, and the jewish quarter.  The jewish quarter was pretty neat we went into a holocaust museum, and old cemetery, and the old-new synagogue (oldest synagogue in europe).  After that we crossed the charles bridge which has really cool architecture, as does the whole city, felt like i was in batman or the hunchback of notre dame.  Along the bridge are a bunch of vendors and street performers (you cant drive on it).  We headed to the John lennon wall but got lost for quite some time....in the freezing rain.  It was worth it though cause the graffiti is awesome.  It is the only graffiti in all of prague.  The pics of it turned out great too.  We met a family at the wall that lived in san diego but had recently moved to Italy with their fam (delissers?)  After all those adventures we stopped for lunch at a mexican place and got quesadillas. Czech food is not appetizing or up my alley at all so we stayed away from it....beef goulash, sausage, fried cheese, pretzels, dumplings...salt salt salt.  After lunch Alex got her much needed t-shirt that says "czech me out".  The rain started to really pick up so we headed to the hostel for a nap and shower.  That night we had a nice romantic dinner of these huge chicken salads and just sat and talked for like two hours.  After we met soph and her friends at this cave like underground bar.  There were all american students there so it was kinda funny.  The gross thing about prague is that you can smoke anywhere and everywhere, and they do.  We reeked of it from the bar and restaurants, it was awful.  After the bar Alex and I went to an 80s 90s club. It was just too funny, all the music, spice girls . i'm a barbie girl . cotton eyed joe. etc.  We had a good time dancing just the 2 of us.  Then back at the hostel we met out new roomies..2 guys from france and another rando guy.  The french guys were nice and friendly but we weren't too pleased with the other guy who was an extremely loud snorer...I thought alex was gonna chuck a shoe at him in the middle of the night, no va bene.  Saturday morning we trekked to a famous brunch place, Radost.  We got omelets and home fries it was delish, mine was spinach mushroom and cheese.  Then we walked all the way across the city (really only took about 20 m in its a small city) to the prague castle area.  Its up on a hill with a great view of the city.  We saw the castle and the other little castles around it... it was like its on little village up there and a whole different world than the city... we saw a toy museum and were tempted to go in to celebrate barbies 50th birthday but refrained.  We headed back to the center of the city instead and went to the chocolate museum : ) hahaha.  Got a demonstration and free testers as well as a chocolate covered waffle stick yum.  The rest of the day we kinda just walked around and got lost, it was freeezing. We saw the astronomical clock on the hour does this little shindig which is actually really cheesy and stupid. Then back to the hotel nap shower change routine.  Went to italian food for dinner...pest gnocchi my fave...picked the place out of nowhere but must have been good because it was soo packed.  After we went to a pub crawl...ran into some people from our london program there that we didnt even know were in prague for the weekend..legit small world.  But the crawl was fun we started at a bar and went to three different clubs.  Sunday morning we woke up and went to the bagel place again...everything bagel with veggie cream cheese this time : )  Then to the airport and home .

All in all prague was very different from the other cities i have seen, but a good weekend.  Traditional food was not good but the architecture was amazing.  The whole gothic creepy feeling was really neat at night.  It was also nice to just travel with one person and not have to deal with a bunch of peoples wants and needs..it was leisurely paced and we got everything done.  The people in the city did not like to speak english..they just weren't very happy people all in all.  Oh and the currency is actually insane.  One pound in 29 crowns...One dollar is 18 crowns....So a sandwich is like 170 crowns. Took a while to get used to that.

Well one more city i can czech off my list.  hahahah I am just tooooo funny.