Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Events 10/29-10/31: Prague

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So, Saturday morning, we headed to Prague. The train ride was uneventful. Our Airbnb was a bit out of the city, due to all the holidays around this time (other countries had a long weekend, so we got public transportation passes and took the metro. We had to walk a bit from a metro stop to get "there". When we got to where Google Maps told us to go, which included going down a small dirt path, we couldn't figure out the address. We stopped a guy going down the path to ask for help, and he explained the address we put in had no street number, just a street. He was extremely nice, and called the number for the host that we had. They conversed for a while, and the person on the other end eventually came to get us. She came, explaining that she was a friend of the owner, and the Airbnb was only supposed to be available for a couple months while she was gone. She still offered to let us stay at her parents' house, but we declined and started looking for another place to stay. Everything was booked. One of the other students remembered a place his girlfriend had stayed at and recommended; a "botel" (a motel on a boat permanently attached to a dock). Someone called them up, and they had a room free. So we made plans to stick seven of us in a four-person motel room.

Before we did that, however, we went looking for dinner. It took a while, but we found a great place. I split a half duck (with a bunch of stuff on the side) with someone (as did some other students). The waiter came over and actually showed us how to eat it, which was everything together, not one thing at a time. I'm glad he did. It was delicious.



After dinner, we walked around the city, seeing all kinds of cool stuff. There were lots of cool stuff, but most of it was closed, so I just got lots of pictures of the outsides of things. The Charles Bridge was cool, but I don't think my pictures worked (too low light). We headed back to the botel. I went to bed, but everyone else went on a 45 minute (since the bars close at 11 here) whirlwind tour of the Prague bars.

Sunday morning, we got up, and headed to Prague Castle. There was a huge line for security to get in. We decided to wait for the line to die down, so we went to the Schwarzenberský palác, an art museum. It was quite beautiful.


After the museum, we went up to a medieval monastery, and got lunch nearby. After lunch, we wandered around Petrin Hill, which is full of parks and some medieval stuff, before heading back to the castle complex, which we then entered. The complex is massive, with an entire cathedral inside, lots of cool stuff. It's on a hill, too, so we got a lot of great views.



After that, we headed back, got some dinner, and I went back to the botel to sleep. Everyone else stayed out to enjoy the night life.

Monday morning, we got up super early, and boarded the train back to Budapest.

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