Prague castle

Thursday, July 22, 2010
Got up this morning and headed straight to the market. It was a huge flea market right by our hostel on our way into town so we stopped to take a peak. We really enjoyed the bartering and looking around but it was much too hot to stay for long. We wanted to go on a castle tour at 2 anyhow so we headed back to the city centre. The day we arrived, we had met a married couple in our room who are from Australia doing a yearlong world tour. They started in Asia, are in Europe, move onto Africa next and finish in North America. Pretty amazing we think!!! Anyhow, we were meeting up with them to all go on the walking tour together. To our surprise, our new Aussie friends from the pub crawl were there too. Good times!! The castle tour was slightly disappointing, the tour did a lot of the same things from the walking tour the day before and stories were definitely repeated. We were also taken to the spots we discovered on our own the day before. The castle was only about 30 mins of a 2 and a half hour “castle” tour. The guide was good as she was Czech and was able to give some personal and historical information that we may not have otherwise gotten. A lot of folklore and interesting tales. When it was over, we were craving sushi and went to a place that Barbora (the guide) heard was good. So off we went with Ari and Andrew (Aussie couple) to Mr. Sushi only to find the most expensive sushi ever. We said forget that, and Heather and I went to a cafe in the square and Ari and Andrew went and got something else. It was a really cute spot for dinner, in a quiet alleyway and was an Italian restaurant. It was our “traditional Czech” dinner. Haha! Afterwards, it was time to head back and plan the next leg of our trip. We booked 3 nights in Wien (Vienna, Austria) followed by 3 nights in Strazburg, Austria and 3 in Budapest, Hungary. It feels pretty good to have the next 9 days all planned out. Our hostel in Budapest was ridiculously cheap and we are pretty excited for that! Then from there we will be heading to Croatia, probably have a little boat ride down to Dubrovnik and from there hopefully get a cheap flight to Greece!! We spent the rest of the night, chatting with Andrew and Ari and Heather skype`d with Caitlin for a bit. Tomorrow we are going to go to the Jewish museum and head on to Austria.