An early start to today! We may have woke up the eight other people in our hostel by getting ready to hit the town…Once we not so stealthy got out of the hostel we grabbed some fresh fruit from a street vendor and headed down the hill to walk along Charles Bridge. As opposed to when we walked on it last evening en it was competent swarmed with crowds, vendors, beggars, street performers and anything else you could imagine. This morning it was the complete polar opposite, there was merely less than twenty people on the whole bridge. Once crossing the bridge we passed by a market and grabbed some food to make lunch for later. With our food in tow we went to the astronomical clock where we met our walking tour.
JP our tour guide was fantastic and probably the tallest person I have ever seen in my life, I’m guessing be was about 6’7 at the very least! He took us around the whole town and as taught us 2000 years of Czechoslovakian history in less than three hours. Fun fact the term bohemian originated in Prague and the originators of boho chic :) Our tour comprised of a quick overview of the city sites. We also met Shaanan and Kieran who are lovely lads and told us fun stories of their adventures. Let me tell you that Andrea and I had nothing to even compare!
Once the tour was over it left us at the entrance to the bridge that crossed the river to led us to the castle. We sat down on a bench with a view if the Ives and all the boats sailing through and ate our lunch and rested for a bit. Walking up to the entrance of the castle we were only able to do a few sites before it closed, so we saw St Vitus Catherdral as well as St George’s Basillica and will see the rest if the sites tomorrow. What is funny is that a tour guide passed by us and we overheard her talking about the new portion of the castle which was built in the 1500’s. I just smiled to myself as the oldest building back in Vancouver is the Sun tower build in 1912….
Once the exhibitions at the castle closed we went out for dinner and a Czech restaurant. To be completely honest I have no idea what our meals exactly were but it mainly consisted of meat, potatoes, gravy, dumplings and lots of salt.
We then went to the Prague Beer Museum Pub Now then title is deceiving as this was not actually museum but a pub! From our tour we learned that the average Czech drinks about a litre and a half of beer each day!!! In sprit and testers we tried to be a proper Czechoslovakian citizen and sampled five of the hundred of options! After this we then went back to our hostel and slept immediately exhausted from our busy day!