I love Prague. Love it to death. I was just there in March with one of my classes at Stonehill, so I couldn’t wait to get back. And it was just as good the second time around. Our hostel was in an amazing location right by the Astronomical Clock- perfect base for exploring!
On our first night, we grabbed some traditional dumplings and meat for dinner then ventured out to a place I remembered from my last trip- a cozy little underground cocktail bar. Can’t say we didn’t enjoy the prices, which were much more forgiving than those in Copenhagen and pretty much anywhere else we had been.
The next morning, we took the “Yellow Umbrella” tour. My friend Jackie, who studied abroad three years ago, recommended this tour, so we were really excited! It turns out we had the same tour guide that she did. Again, small world. We even got a discount on the tour from our hostel, and a ghost tour later that evening was included in the price. After a busy day running around Prague, we grabbed some sausages for dinner from the town square and sampled the hot wine, which might be my new favorite thing. AH yum. The square at night is so much fun and so so so beautiful. I was in heaven. Before we knew it, it was time to meet for the ghost tour! Although it wasn’t one of the better ghost tours I have been on, it was still a lot of fun and pretty entertaining, as our tour guide had arranged for her son to jump out at us at strategic places throughout the tour.
Hey Prague
Lennon wall!!
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Prague at night!
After the ghost tour, we hit the town. And by “hit the town,” I mean we went to a bar down the street from our hostel with the intention of staying out for maybe an hour. Instead, we made friends with some Czech boys who were so excited to “conversate” with us in English and who were super nice!
The next day, we took a bus to Cesky Krumlov, which has been hailed by travel websites recently as "the new Prague" and a must-see while in the Czech Republic. It's about 3.5 hours away from Prague, but it was well worth the trip. It is seriously a little fairytale village and so so so gorgeous. Definitely not real life. They had bears "guarding" the castle.. and hot wine stands everywhere. Heaven! After exploring the town for the day, we caught the bus back to Prague. As we waited at the bus stop, I saw a shooting star!! The bus ride itself was an experience.. it was quite retro and apparently had no working heat. I questioned whether it would make it up the hills a few times, and picking up about 12 backpackers on the way didn't help. Oh well, we survived!
Back in Prague, we grabbed all the delicious food in the square that we were still dying to try, backed up our things, and got ready for yet another early wake up to catch our train to Austria!
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