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Day 8: Prague! Astronomical clocks, goulash and monsoon weather!

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Where we stayed
The Hostel Advantage on Sokolská street. A lovely little colourful hostel in the heart of Prague, a ten minute walk from the main train stations and a 20 min (if you have long legs like me) to the old town of Prague. The room was very comfortable and the staff was nice. Also, good reliable free wifi!!! :D not to be scoffed at, especially when you're only booking your accommodation a few days in advance!! We really enjoyed our two days here! (Past tense as this is a back blog...too many days hit us at once! 🙃)

What we explored

As this has become routine now, another city, another free walking tour! We LOVE these! 
If I have tale wary explained this concept, these tour guides work on a tips only basis, they do this job because the this love their city and have a passion for sharing the stories of its present and history with visitors. It's not there to rip you off, only to inform and it's made so that everybody, regardless of their budget, can enjoy and learn about their city. You tip them as much as you think they deserve/balanced with how much you can afford. We really loved this ethos and try to give as much as we could on our tight budget! We have yet to be disspointed. 

Today our guide was Noah from Wisconsin, a very informed TEFL teacher in a school here in Prague. We arrived early and guess what, we bumped into the three other girls that were staying in our hostel room with us!! We made friends!! Three lovely girls from Germany who were taking a wee break before they started back at uni, one of the, was even about to go study her masters in Aberdeen uni would you believe!! It's a small world! 

Here are a few of the things we saw in Prague (and I'll add links later to add some more info to each of them)

Old town square
 


Aestronomical clock
 

Tyn church

Powder gate
Rudolfinum music theatre.
Kafka sculpture
The old Jewish quarter



Other things we explored ourselves....
Charles bridge
Prague Castle... Thank you to the Rolling Stones !! (They helped fund getting th castle lit up r night!!)
(Camera images to follow!)
We,were planning on exploring s lot more of th city but just as we reached the castLe gardens, the heavens opened, and we got completely soaked!!! Like completely and totally soaked to our skin. I have never been cought in the rain that bad before and hope that I never do ever again! We got ice cream in a cake thing to make us feel better....



Some other points...

Czech money is weird! It took us so long to try and get our heads around this conversion rate.... 1 euro was worth 27 Czech Krona ...doesn't sound that bad until you pay for a £50 meal and it comes up 1,350.91 CZK!!! Ooft.

The Bohemian crystal is awesome! Very gorgeous glasses and vases that I'd have loved to take home! We'll just have to come back! 

What we ate! 

Lokal - as recommended by the tour guide- we ate here with the three German gals San tried some delicious local cuisine. I had deep fire cheese...yes. And claire had some yummy Goulash! 


  

That evening, after we dried out at the hostel for a bit, we headed back into town and had some lovely fish dishes at an Italian restaurant in the old town in the centr of Prague, just off the main old town square. It was absolutely delicious! 


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