Praha with the Aussie's!!!

Wednesday, July 21, 2010
First day in Prague we decided to start it out with the free walking tour. It was really good and we had a good look at Prague. It was much better to do the tour and then go to whatever interests us again after. We really liked the Jewish neighbourhood and wanted to go back to the museum, memorial and cemetery. It is supposed to be a really good site and we were told both by our guide in Berlin and the Prague one that if we have time to definitely go. After the walking tour, we went over the bridge to see the John Lennon Wall and the Charles Bridge. It was funny because the Charles bridge is a) made with eggs to make the cement more sturdy and b) is lined with statues, one of which is good luck to rub one side but not the other, so we sat there and watched people rub the back luck side. HAHA! It was pretty hilarious! We also found out that the movie Eurotrip (of which we had just watched) was mostly filmed in Prague and saw a bunch of the sites that filming took place. Pretty funny! The building used to film the Louvre was actually an Opera house and not nearly as grand and impressive as the actual Louvre. Later that day we went to the supermarket which we haven’t done in awhile, and got dinner to take back before we got ready for our pub crawl. This was a new pub crawl run by a new company but sponsored by Sandeman’s (company who does the walking tour and pub crawls in the other European cities). It started at 830 and from when you arrived until 11, it was unlimited beer, vodka, rum, shots and to our pleasant surprise, Sangria!!! It was awesome! The night was pretty good, met a few weirdo’s but every crowd has them. We met some Aussie’s who were staying at our hostel who we stuck with so we could share a cab. Our hostel was too far out of city centre to have a tram at night and we were told not to take a cab or we may get robbed. We were supposed to get the tour guides to call us a reputable cab and we were definitely better off with men. So that worked out really well, plus they were a lot of fun too. All in all, a great first day in Prague and looking forward to day 2!