Kezize

We didn't make it out last night for several reasons. Firstly, Kez has come down with a bit of a sickness and she feels pretty crap, secondly Ize has blisters on his feet from all the walking we have been doing, and thirdly we did actually make the effort and go out last night but only got as far as the Tram stop because we didn't have enough change to buy tickets from the machine (you can't buy them onboard) and no where was open to change our $1000Kc notes..so..we were bit buggered there. Instead, we are making another effort tonight.

Today we went to Prague Castle. We walked down to the tram, and the shop was open to change the money for us (we finally got a bit sick of walking everywhere and broke). The castle was awesome. The outside was so detailed, with lots of pointy bits and a real gothic look and feel. The inside was even more impressive, with an insanely tall ceiling, and huge archways. The walls had these massive stained glass windows at leased 5m high. You could also go up an almost neverending spiral staircase to one of the top towers. The view was amazing as you were able to see a 360 degree view of the city.

We are now back in the same internet cafe, after Kez bought a cool amber charm on the way back from the castle. We are about to head back to the hostel for a break before we go out. Kez is under the impression she can kill her cold/flu with alcohol...its an anticeptic right??

We will be thinking of you all in Oz, NZ, and London as we chill out for our last night in Prague with a cold one/s in our hands.

Cheers

Here are some pics from today:

1. Walking to the Castle - you can see Charles Bridge and the Castle off to the left.

2. Prague Castle

3. Inside the Castle....tall....it actually looks cloudy up there

4. Ize dwarfed in comparison to the ceiling, and he is wearing a cool star wars T-Shirt.

5. View from the top tower - Prague in all her glory. Charles Bridge is below.

6. Fearsome Castle gate guard

7. One of many big cool windows inside.

Afternoon All!

Prague is the best place we have been yet. Everyone is friendly and speak just enough english to help us out. Nothing opens before 10am or shuts before 7pm. It gets dark about 9pm-ish. Drinks are cheap as anything, like 1-2 aussie dollars for a half a litre of beer. Get that into ya! Plus happy hour is 2 for 1 at most places. Every third shop is a Bar, and every supermarket, corner store, most fast food outlets, and even laudromats serve booze. Our hostel is great too. We have a private room with 3 beds...even though we booked a room with a double bed. Breakfast is free and served until 1pm..consisiting of toast, bread rolls, cheese, meat spread, cerial, boiled eggs, juice and coffee/tea. Of course being free, we stuff ourselves so much that we don't need lunch until 3pm. The city is very relaxed, happy and clean. Its also very quiet when you manage to get away from the tourist crowds, with little traffic and few people.

The day we got here we hardly did anything, just went down stairs and sampled the bar. Yesterday we did a fair bit of tripping around. We wanderered around Stare Mesto (Old Town), had lunch at an awesome restaurant/bar (where we ate traditional Prague-ish food - pig meat and meat filled english-style dumplings), and walked over the cool Charles Bridge (apparently one of the best things to see here). There seems to be two main sorts of shops here - cheap souvenir shops, and amber shops. Away from Old Town seems to be normal 'mall' type shops where the locals hang out..but in Old Town there seems to be throngs of tourists buying crappy things, and no locals at all. It's a bit strange.

We are yet to see Prague Castle and the Charles Bridge at night (which is meant to be great) so we are doing that tomorrow. Tonight we are going to do a bit of a pub crawl and see what the night life here is like. We reckon Dan would love it here because the live music scene is thriving. Our hostel pub has a live band most nights, and even today during the day there was a band in Old Town Square pumping out beats for the shoppers.

Today we wandered down to the suburbs and had a poke around some op-shops, and then caught the Tram into the city where we had lunch at a great pizza place (the pizza chef is out in the open and you can watch him spin the dough and make it all from scratch). We have just been window shopping all day, and we are about to head back to the hostel for a rest before our night out tonight.

Here are some pics so far:

1. Us a bit pickled after our first visit to our hostel bar for much needed drinks after Rome.