Arriving into our next city after a six hour train ride has brought us into one of the oldest cities in Europe dating back to the Paleolitic age (10,000 BC). Located on the Vltava river, Prague is the home to many historical buildings, bridges, cobberstone roads and one large vast castle sitting on a hill overlooking the city.The first couple hours in Prague was nuts because we could not find our hostel and ended up walking 2 KM away with our heavy bags and quick developing nasty attitudes toward each other as the time progressed. After talking some locals about directions and using the Metro train station maps (we did not have one ourselves), we found our hostel and also lost 20 pounds in the process.
We have spent a few days here with the biggest high-light having a personalized 3 people (Andrew, Scotty and the guide) tour with a young fellow named Peter who was studying at the University for a master degree in International tourism. He was pretty cool guy and always was making jokes and giving us the "off the beaten path" tour and history that is normally not part of the bigger day to day commerialized city walking tours.
Some the historical landmarks such as the bridges and castles were pleasant to see and we did indeed took lots of photographs. Part of our walking tour, we visited the local policitical statement wall which shows a 3-D face of John Lennon as the locals worshipped him for his contribution for "World Peace" when he was alive. It was an amazing display of work and art and certainly a place for "freedom of speech". Note that GWB had many lines written about him.
Leaving Prague has brought lots of friction between Andrew and myself as we missed the morning train departing to Hungary. We were suspose to be at a different station in which the train has left however the night train was still available and ended up being very bitter and crazy towards each other until the departure time. Thank god we made this train time.
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