Blogs from Prague, Czech Republic, Europe - page 194

hi, not much time so this will be quick. we have decided to leave early tomorrow morning instead of staying for the day. Prague has lots of tourists and we are looking forward to seeing the castles in Germany. We will be on the train all day tomorrow. Hopefully we will get a room at a hostel, but we made no reservations so it might be an exciting night tomorrow! We are in Germany for two full days and 3 nights and then it's back to Paris. We will stay with Amy's family most of the time so it'll be nice to save on accomadation. Ok well I'm off to go do some sketches of Prague! Love, Courtney... read more

Last summer I had the oppurtunity to go to the most beautiful city ever...Prague. It was nothing like what I was expecting it to be!! I was expecting Prague to be mostly farm lands and very rural. It was anything but. My favorite area of Prague was Old Town Square. The square looked so beautiful when it was lit up at night. I visited Prague July 1-4 2004. The day before the 4th of July, there was a huge soccer tournament. The square was filled with people. There were 2 HUGE tv screens set up in the square, so everyone could watch the soccer tournament (I think it was Greece vs. Czech Rep...but i'm not sure). When night came, mobs of people came to stand and watch the tournament. People were rioting, hanging out of windows, ... read more

Well, I was just about to extol the virtues of the much nicer internet café we found, but the proprietor announced he's closing momentarily so I've got to run. It's not like I believe any of you people are reading anyway. Where are my comments?! ;) Full Praha update later....... read more

Well, it is the last day in Prague. After waking up early and being pleasantly surprised to see brilliant blue sky, I headed out for the quickest picture and shopping hunt I could as I needed to be back at the hotel around 11 to pack and check out. Bethany decided we should go our separate ways this morning as we both wanted to get some shots but of different things. It was strange to walk the main streets and have them nearly empty. The shops weren’t open yet and the mass of tourist must have still been in bed. The bulk of the people at the old town square were the people filming the Coca-Cola commercial. It was nearly 9am and there were only a handful of us crazy tourists waiting around for the clock ... read more

Well, we're getting by OK not speaking the local language, but there sure is a difference (for an English-speaker) between not speaking German in Germany and not speaking Czech in Czechia. No, I couldn't understand a word of spoken German, but at least I could make some sense of signage and the names of stores. In Czech, nothing looks or sounds familiar (I don't remember enough Russian to get into any kind of Slavic groove), so there's no faking it. Even if the workers in all the shops speak excellent English (as is widely claimed in guidebooks), we'd like to figure out which stores to go into first! The practical upshot of this is that we're sticking to tourist paths, where English signage is more common... at least for tonight. No matter how many times I ... read more