http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Czech Republic , Prague , Old Town en-us Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:53:46 +0000 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:53:46 +0000 Day One December is Eastern Europe at its most forbidding yet here we are barreling towards Karlovy Vary or Carlsbad as it was formerly called to take the waters at the largest spa town in the Czech Republic. We have put all our trust in Camilla http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-458853.html After at least 7 years dreaming about going to Prag I finally made this dream come true The city is amazingly nice and interesting and the architecture is such a beauty. This city is a jewelWe ate our first lunch a great and delicious piece of smoked ham and then walked a lot through all the little streets.We had lots of latte macchiato hot typical czech punch to warm us up. It was so cold http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-451444.html It was off to Prague bright and early on the bus with Dax. We stopped off on the way at Terrizen Concentration camp for a tour and a look at what really went down in these Nazi run playgrounds. Its hard to believe that humans could actually treat other human beings this way...The cells were tiny and dark and the conditions were undescribable. We even got to see the execution grounds were their w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-449692.html Hello EveryoneThings here have been pretty exciting I've just returned from a week in Dresden Eastern Germany and Prague Czech Republic and a week ago from Malm Sweden. I have a new appreciation for the size of europe pretty much wherever I want to go on the continent or in the UK the plane ride takes approximately an hour. Seriously. To Prague it was an hour. To Dublin its an hour. To http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-448413.html Since i wrote last i have done the whole northern loop. From Paris we went to Bruges. which is a little medievil type town that doesn really have much to do. There is a quote from the movie In Bruges that goes a little soething like this.... Ken I grew up in Dublin. I love Dublin. If I grew up on a farm and was retarded Bruges might impress me but I didn so it doesn .but one thing it does http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-446063.html All right.. so the first month while we were here... we going on trips to other Czech towns exploring the city of Prague and of course Czech intensive class.. Now the real classes have begun. I just finished my third week of classes. Well for me it was the second because I skipped the first week to go to Poland I am very lucky to like all my classes because most of my friends have at leas http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-444984.html Yikes a quick flight 750km north to Prague and I've gone straight from summer to autumn. It was unusual to be in Prague without constant sunshine and hot weather but the three days here have been cold and dull. Beer in the square just isn't the same when it's chilly. On top of this most of the bridge is undergoing renovation ruining any photographic opportunities. Nevertheless it was great to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-443215.html Today was another travel day. I left Cesky Krumlov this morning anticipating another stay at the garagelike station in Cesky Budejovice where I had to make a transfer again. But no need this transfer was at the main station. The main station had such frivolities as multiple tracks an enclosed area food sales and workers actually it was quite normal. What a huge difference.While I was there http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-442089.html So we didn't do much yesterday before the bike tour. Just people watched and showed Gina some of the town. The bike tour Praha Bike started at 530pm. There were only 7 of us. My group of 5 and 2 girls from MinnesotaChicago. They had also came over from Munich so we shared Oktoberfest stories.The tour started out rough. We all got ponchos because it started to drizzle. David our tour gui http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-441453.html Prague Czech RepublicMonday September 21 2009Oh Golden City how you can enchant a simple country boy from North Carolina. I speak of course of Prague the former capitol of Bohemia and current capitol of the Czech Republic. As part of this rest break I decided to break out of my comfort zone countries where I can at least halfway read the signs and know enough language to muddle about http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-438575.html After 'local' projects Belgium I was assigned to an abroad projet againonce the inital phaze passed it was time to go abroad and perform some work on the client side Czech Republic Prague this time...never been there before not even to the country as such.Historically I don't know much about Czech Republic and I did not expected much to my surprise ..Prague has a lot of nice to offer.The http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-438275.html We had a 4 day break in Prague at the end of June. We had a great time. We loved it. We didn't do too much ... except to walk and walk and walk and walk actually we really overdid the walking I estimate 2030 kilometers a day was pretty exhausted at the end crawled back to our hotel every night falling into bed groaning in pain. Even took a bath using those bath salts the hotels alw http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-438165.html We love love love Prag The most beautiful city we have been to sofar It is just amazing We took the metro to Josefov the jewish part of town and walked around admiring the sinagoges. Then we explored the Old Town and watched the play of the Astronomic Clock. The gothic church was beautiful and we loved every little corner there. We walked around and found art nouveau style buildings aswell as http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-436478.html I was awake early this morning after a reasonable sleep. Being in the roof of the hotel means it attracts the heat of the day and it stayed hot until at least 2am. Breakfast in the hotel was passable though the staff were far from friendly. Not that they were nasty it was more that they found if difficult to muster a smile. Having witnessed the crowds of the evening before I decided to head off http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-431853.html I arrive at Berlinrsquos Hauptbahnhof train station the largest crossing station in Europe in plenty of time for my train journey from Berlin to Prague. The trip takes just over four hours and it gives me a chance to write another blog entry.The old portly German gentleman rolled his eyes and his wife smiled as I arrive in the first class carriage of the train. It was obvious to him that ther http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-431763.html Thursday We left early this morning to catch the bus to Prague. We had to drag our bags around the cobbled streets up a steep hill to a bus station and then caught a very nice bus posh leather seats and TVs to Prague. When we got to Prague we were shown to our apartments. I was sharing with four other girls Andrea Gill Grace and Estelle. It was fab as we had our own kitchen and fridge and w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-431169.html Monday 17th AugustA day at Prague CastleIt was a very comfortable night in our bargain accommodation in Beroun.The only adverse feature was a car alarm that went off a couple of times in the night.And given that we had read that car theft is a problem for tourists in the Czech Republic we wondered whether we should go down and check that RR was still there.The receptionist assured us that they had http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-430017.html 7 August 2009Another beautiful day in Saxony clear blue skies an expected top of 25 degrees Celsius and very calm. A good day for touring again.The Hotel Berlin Berlin has been a great hotel and we have topped up with another great breakfast ahead of todayrsquos trip south to Dresden and then onto Prague for another two day stop.We are travelling through what was the former ldquoEast Germany http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-427926.html Another city to travel to and appreciate have to say was glad to leave Budapest and well donrsquot have anything to write about it was a pretty city but thatrsquos as far as it goes. So from there we ventured to Prague and what a difference it is after a long day on the train we just chilled the first night must be getting old we seem to do a lot of that not a lot of late nights a partying goi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-425853.html Today we had a lovely time and we got to meet up with some of Rickyrsquos friends from the Cruise ships Renata and Martin with their little boy Phillip I hope its spelt right thanks for driving all the way it was wicked We meet at about 1030 after we managed to get lost 3 times trying to find the most famous bridge in Prague Yes only us Hahah anyway eventually we got there and meet up http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/Old-Town/blog-421144.html