Travel Log - Prague

When the river cruise finished in Nuremberg we had a 3 day extension in Prague - hey, we came this far, why not? It took about 4 hours to get there by bus, and I have to say it wasn't a bad trip at all. The countryside is very pretty (also we left really early in the morning so the first part of the trip everyone is taking a nap!) and for part of the drive we were on the German Autobahn - most of the Autobahn doesn't have a speed limit so people are driving super super fast, fortunately the bus couldn't go super super fast so I didn't have to worry about that haha. How fun it would be to drive as fast as you can go and not worry about getting a ticket! We made one stop at a McDonalds - as you can imagine it was very different than our Micky D's, you could get pastries and donuts! Nice. And the sign out front said they had a "relax room" instead of a restroom - I laughed.

Old Town Hall and Astronomical Clock
in Old Town Square. It's a busy place!

Petrin Tower - a mini Eiffel tower on a hill
about 30 minutes walk outside of town 

view from the Charles Bridge

Prague is a beautiful city - have I said any place isn't beautiful on this trip? It's filled with things to do and see, it's safe, and very walkable (still got the cobblestones tho, flat shoes people!). The Old Town Square was close to our hotel so we used that as sort of a base, the roads leading away from the square were filled with shops, cafes, fabulous architecture...limitless! I really can't even list everything we did - I'll just show you lots of pictures - there's the Charles Bridge, the Astronomical Clock, the Old Town Hall which looks like something out of Disneyland, the Prague Castle, the Petrin Tower (which looks like the eiffel tower, I have no idea why they have a mini eiffel tower...), churches churches and churches of course - although our guide said that 80% of czechs claim to be atheists, not that they don't believe but they won't belong to any groups, church, etc. after living with Communism for so long. They don't want to follow anything or be told what to do. Interesting right?

Czech Crowns - the coins
are confusing! It was shocking to
get a bill for 1162,00 but then
realize that's like $40. 

locks on the bridge to symbolize a couple's
love - you put on the lock and throw the key
into the river. The guide goes "look, a couple
have combination locks instead of a key,
that's the Czech way - keep your options open"
HA!

changing of the guards at the castle requires a selfie for sure.

these statues are called "creepy babies". yep, they are.

just a man and his girlfriend. I'm thinking
he lost a bet? I'm hoping he lost a bet...

on the bridge there is a statue, people
line up to rub one side or the other - left side
means you'll return to Prague one day, right
side is for luck - we touched both sides. 

the John Lennon wall - full of ever changing
graffiti and personal statements. pretty cool. 

Keeping up with our vacation eating schedule we pigged out all around Prague! Once again, the food is SO good. I had a couple of my favorite meals here, I'm including a bunch of food pictures for you. Food is inexpensive, wine and beer are great, people are not exactly friendly and outgoing but they are pleasant and all of our servers were nice. I'm going to work on recreating some of the dishes we experienced and if they turn out I'll share them with you in future posts. One I especially want to try is "stroganoff goulash" which was sort of a beef and mushroom gravy over rice, the really interesting thing is it has chopped up pickles in it - weird but so so good.

Trying the Trdelnik - a coiled cinnamon bread thing either filled with ice cream (which none of us liked)...

...or just eat plain, everyone liked it plain best. 

another goulash - this one quite a bit spicier served with crunchy potato pancakes and bread dumplings.
not my favorite thing but it's pretty, and very filling! 

cauliflower pancakes and smashed potatoes. I loved this dish. 

check out  how my chicken and veggie skewer was presented - how great is this presentation?!

one of my most favorite meals - "stroganoff goulash".  This is so so so good,
I will be trying to perfect this recipe for sure.

it's not all about goulash and dumplings - there's fantastic ice cream too!

We hired a driver/guide to take us about an hour out of town to Kutna Hora, there are a couple beautiful churches there and also a small chapel decorated with human bones! Yep that was creepy and I could have done with out, but the guide said "hey, you gotta see it once but you won't go a second time" haha. Look it up if you want to see pics and read about it.

on the sidewalk outside of the bone church -
it's just inlaid stones so not as creepy as the
actual chapel!! 

That's the end of our vacation and my travel log for the river cruise and Prague - hope you enjoyed! I highly recommend this trip if you can make it - if not, at least you've got a feeling of what our days looked like and how beautiful these cities are.

St Barbara Cathedral, and the gang