Prague

This is such a beautiful city and is our favourite so far . . . Edging out Berlin! Prague has everything from castles to horse and carriages to cobble stoned streets and lots of history.  This city has made us realise just how “young” New Zealand is in comparison to the rest of the world.

  Narrow streets with tall buildings

DAY ONE

We arrived in Prague late on Monday afternoon and headed down the cobble stoned streets to find our apartment.  That night we dined at a local Prague restaurant eating dumplings and meat.

After Dinner we checked out the shops, 200 stores in  one building – Trace was in heaven!

DAY TWO

Today we headed to the local markets in the morning and brought some local berries which were so yummy, and so expensive – about NZD$16 for a little punnet!!

We joined a free walking tour at 11am (free meaning you only had to tip the guide).

This took us to all the “hot spots” in Prague.

According to all the guides the Czech’s drink more beer per person than any other nation… You can tell!!

One guide said each man, women and child averages over 150L per year!

Once we had finished the tour it was time for some shopping.  Trace brought a dress and hoodie (very cool!) and Mike got a t-shirt and some new shorts.

After shopping it was time for dinner and then we hit the famous Prague Pub Crawl. . . . . . and that’s all we have to say about that!  But just to add for your information, the first hour was all you can drink vodka and cranberry shots, absinthye shots, beer, and wine!

The nights clubs in Prague are a lot like something out of the Flintstones.  They even have a night club which is 5 stories and on each story different music is played.  You can move from dance music and disco balls on one floor up to the slow music and couches on the top floor!

DAY THREE

It was a bit of a slow start to the day today, we headed out the streets of Prague for some more exploring and then joined a Castle tour of the Prague Castle at 2pm.  This is one of the oldest castles in the world!

The view of Prague city from the Castle

One of the many cobble stoned streets we walked down.

 

A Palace

 

The view of Prague from up by the Prague Castle

 

Inside of the castle walls

 

This was our tour guide.  He was very enthusiastically explaining the door to the Cathedral within the castle grounds… He’d had a couple of beers during our 30 minutes break – Czechs!

The outside of the Cathedral

This is St George’s Cathedral… It’s 1100 years old!!

After dinner we headed up to the old kings residence (before Prague castle) which the guide had told us had amazing views of Prague and was his favourite spot in Prague.  This was a 10 minute tram ride to the south end of the city.

The guide was right, the views from here were AMAZING and we timed it just right with the positioning of the sun.

 

The walk way up to the old Prague castle

The view of Prague looking south

 

The view of Prague looking North

 

Trace taking in the view – thinking this is a place she would love to come back to

A view from the dock

 

 

The Prague Castle (background) with the Charles Bridge.

 

As soon as we arrived in Prague Trace spotted (and heard) the horse and carriage.  You can take the farm girl away from the farm but you can’t take the farm… You get the idea.

We enjoyed a romantic tour of the city at night in the horse and carriage (This was Trace’s highlight of Prague)

Our horses which escorted us around Prague

View of Town Square at night

Munich here we come, followed by the overnight train to Venice! (We have only booked a seat for this overnight leg, after advice from all at Aegis, will let you know if we survive at our next blog).