Little Mother Prague

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Well Prague had some great things to see, and over all it was a very picturesque city.  The saying up above is just something that the locals use to describe the city.  Prague has a very relaxed atmosphere and can remind someone of a more western town, a lot of people say Paris.  All the embassies, except for the USA, have no security out front and endure what is called the Prague spirit (another great one they made up).  Prague spirit being the fact that no one needs to worry about safety since the town is friendly and secure in its own nature.

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Our hostel, although a bit out of town, was filled with a great kitchen and lots of hangout space.  The first day we met a guy named Steven who was an ex-history proffeser from Germany.  He was very opinoinated in his thoughts which made for a very interesting tour with him the next day.  We learnt what he thought we should learn, which was a lot of interesting stories about the town adn not so much just sightseeing which was great.  For the rest of our stay we became good chums and he always had something we should know.  I will try and find a picture of him to throw on here.

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As far as sights around town go, there is not an extremely large amount.  Perhaps though, this is due to the fact we have been travelling for so long and sometimes repitition can be wearysome.  There was a castle on the main hill and it housed a beautiful St. Vitus Cathedral.  We took this up in a matter of minutes and got some amazing sights of the city.  We also saw the infamed clock in the middle of the town square.  The first time we watched it looking out at the crowd since Steven thought this was much more amusing than the actual clock, the second time we saw the clock, and I shall just say that the later of the viewings was the less interesting.

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We took a shot at trying to watch a czech hockey game, but no one at the rink spoke english.  But we ran into some people at the metro station that were heading to some hockey game so we followed them and it ended up being the game we were looking for, but at a different rink!  Needless to say we were very excited and we got some pretty good tickets for around 12 dollars canadian, infact you couldn't get much better then our seats.  We were sitting in the centre of the rink with both fan clubs on either end.  The game turned out to be a high scoring, yet close one and at the end of the game the home team which won, lined up on the blue line saluted their fans and then skated and dove towards them.  Really something you never see, except for the NY Rangers kind of.

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The next day we went to the Bone Church in a town just near where we were in Prague.  It was basically just a churhc which was filled with bones everywhere and they had been arranged in a very elegant manor, if you can do this with bones.  A big reason they did this was becasue they ran out of room in their cemetary when the plague hit, but we all felt we would rather not have this done to us when we die.

In the end we had loads of fun, and really enjoyed our last little bit in the Czech Republic!