Big Adventures, Little World

Today was another free day and unfortunately I had woken up after about 2 hours and couldn’t get back to sleep because it was cold and wet and the tents weren’t the most comfy at all. So I sat around the campsite until more people surfaced and got some breakfast before sitting around and chatting with everyone for a few hours. Most people were feeling a bit worse for wear after the night before, but most were still up and about and looking forward to heading into town to check out the sights. Me and the Aussie Boys, Gerad, Joel and Tim, headed into town about 1.30PM to go have a look through the castle district and see the Prague Castle and whatever else we could find on the way. It was a long walk to the top of the steps but once there we had some amazing views straight out across the city of Prague. It was really beautiful, some of the old gothic architecture through the city is just stunning. The castle itself is something else again. It is so big and once again I am just amazed at how they managed to make these buildings so long ago and still have them standing. It really is quite astounding. We sat there for a bit being so dwarfed by it, it really is quite unreal. We also walked over the Charles Bridge, which supposedly has 12 gold coins stuck on it throughout it and if you touch all 12 you receive supernatural powers. We found what we thought might be the coins but weren’t totally convinced at all, and didn’t find 12 of them anyway. We decided that because of this, our tour leader, Hottie, must have been making it all up and then started to wonder how much of the other ‘facts’ he had told us were real or not.

We headed back to meet up with the rest of the group who had come into town and headed to a pub where the beers were 39 crowns (which is about $1.70 Australian) for a half litre (or pint). We had a couple of beers and headed off to another seedy little bar for another couple, and then back to the underground club we had been at the night before. As I was running on only 2 hours sleep, I headed back a bit before midnight with Clive and Chloe to try and get a decent night sleep, or at least as decent as possible in the conditions.

Prague is such a cheap city and is really awesome, it just would have been great to be staying somewhere with better facilities than what we had. Also, better weather would have been nice too. Definitely a place I would love to go back to, and I still love the place no matter what it was like when we were there.