We took the morning easy as sleep in since we were tired from our busy day yesterday. After grabbing a quick bite to eat, a chimney cake. We walked up to the top of the castle hill to see the view of the city. It was absolutely stunning! You could see out into the horizon for such a vast distance. Every building had a the same terracotta coloured roof. It was an optical illusion as it seemed that all the buildings interconnected with one another, but since we’ve spent time walking through the city I know that this isn’t true.
We then went inside the castle grounds to see the inside of the Palace and Golden Lane which we didn’t get the chance to see yesterday. In the palace ballroom there was the family crest of all the previous ruling families and high end workers painted on the ceilings throughout. We were also able to see the windows that were used for the many Defenestration essentially throwing someone out of the window.
We then walked down the hill to a courtyard oasis! The gardens were well kept and there was a beautiful fountain with coy fish in it! Security scolded us when we fed th fish our leftover bread, well at least that’s what we think happened since we don’t understand a word of Czech…
After our nice rest in the sunshine, yes we finally got a little after all this cold weather, we went to see the John Lennon Wall. I unfortunately found it rather disappointing. There was nothing more than graffiti in the wall, and all the famous art pieces have been covered up. The interesting thing about the wall is that anyone is legally able to draw on it. I committed my first act of vandalism with an abandoned spray paint bottle. I suppose that the interesting thing about the wall is that it always transforming from everyone’s contribution to it!
Later, we grabbed our bags from the hostel we were staying at and headed over to the other hostel on the other side ion the city were we will be staying for our other two nights in Prague. The predicted forty minute walk ended up taking over two hours since we got rather lost and the sun made carrying all of our gear unbearable! After attempting to ask many people and businesses for directions we were finally able to find this hostel. Lets just say that when we finally found it we didn’t want to leave it and ended up having an early night!