The One Place you Can´t Over Hype

Prague's subway system has this really cool decorating theme with these metal spheres or sphere depressions, with different colors at each stop.
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Ah, Prague!  Of course Stockholm and Copenhagen were beautiful, and Paris was magnificent, but there is nothing I´ve ever seen like Prague.  A city that has not changed much for 700 years.  If you ever need to take some good pictures, come to Prague.  Excelent place, I would imagine, to bring a girl too.  Prague is full of narrow, windy streets, old buildings, and of course an enormous amount of churches.  It also is home to a large Jewish quarter which, like all of them in Europe, was vacated of all its Jewish inhabitants during the Holocaust.  It's home of the oldest operating Synogogue in the world too.

Charles bridge from sunset. Again, I'm kicking myself for not taking just one of the main span of the bridge itself.
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One sad note that I have to relate: here my digital camera got dropped by a friend who had picked it up onto a concrete floor, and then ceased to work.  So from here on out until October 4th or 5th (when my parent´s graciously lent digital camera is supposed to arrive in Spain) there will be very few pictures to share.  Only those I can get second hand.  Jake didn´t have a camera, and we couldn´t find a disposable.

If there´s any one place you should take pictures of, it´s Prague.

My first view in Prague from the train station. I'm including almost every picture I took of the city, since I only had my camera for one day.
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Like any good capital city there is a river running down through it´s center, and is spanned by at least 7 bridges.  One of them is one of the wonders of the world. Charles Bridge, lined with 32 large sculptures and capped on either side with towers, is spectacular.  You have to cross it on the way to Prague´s castle complex (largest in the world), but it´s a pleasure.

I rolled into Prague at 7 in the morning on a train, and spent the day wandering around by myself until I met up with my traveling crew: Val, from Belgium, who sort of just decided to come on a whim and Jake, a buddy from Biola who was doing his first euro trip ever.  We spent 5 long days in Prague, though Val had to leave early to go home after just a couple, but it was awesome.  The Castle itself is not really a castle so much as a walled city on a hill, but it was still beautiful.  We got to see an elaborate changing of the guard (see pictures), and one day when Jake and I came back to go to another museum there was a gorgeous car show.  It has stunning views of the city, and is surrounded by unchanged, steep, narrow streets lined with tourist shops and houses.  All I can really do is show you pictures and say go to Prague, and don´t feel like you have to absolutely stuff your days.  There´s a lot to be said for just wandering around.

The train station again.
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While Prague is beautiful, it doesn´t really have that much of a night life, and what it does have isn´t cheap.  It's probably better to walk along the riverside and see the castle hill lit up at night than do the crazy euro disco thing.

One sad note that I have to relate: here my digital camera got dropped by a friend who had picked it up onto a concrete floor, and then ceased to work.  So from here on out until October 4th or 5th (when my parent´s graciously lent digital camera is supposed to arrive in Spain) there will be very few pictures to share.  Only those I can get second hand.  Jake didn´t have a camera, and we couldn´t find a disposable.

Two of the ugliest things in Prague: the TV tower and this very strange church.
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That´s all for Prague, except for the best day trip ever, which deserves it´s own post...