First Day and Night in Prague- sightseeing/going out

The three of us- me Fran and Stephanie went into city center and decided to make our trek to the castle. It was such a hot day! We had lunch at a small little café a little outside of the main center which is called Wenceslas Square which is the main shopping district. The café was called Chillilli- weird name but delicious food for really cheap! I had a crepe with hand and cheese, soda, bread, water for only 100 czk which is around $5!

Walked towards the river and the Charles Bridge. Just beautiful to see the castle atop the hill overlooking the whole city! Lots a paddle boats in the water too and tour boats that I’ll have to check out some time. We decided to cross the Charles Bridge and hike up a massive set of stairs to castle. What a tiring journey in the blazing heat!!

What a gorgeous view from the top of the castle! The guards outside of castle were pretty dang cute! We wanted to give them our numbers and see where they hung out afterwards lol- But they are not like the British guards who can’t laugh or move or smile though. That was disappointing! These guys smile and start laughing all the time during the Changing of the Guards… it’s so weird!

There was the main church in the center of the castle wall right inside the main entrance. That is the main part that you see from across the river. It is massive inside and has tons of beautiful stained glass. My pictures just cannot do it justice.





















I particularly liked this one because all of the other stained glass windows were bright purples and reds and this one was soo different- again I can’t really capture the true beauty of this window but it has blues and the greens which you can barely tell that really popped out to the eye.

You have to pay to see some other parts of the castle so we decided to do it another day since we wanted to chop off our feet already from all the walking we had done. There is a tram that runs up from the main center up the hill straight to the castle, so we'll have to do that next time and save our feet!











Headed off through the main garden which leads down towards an exit. Every time we thought we had seen the best view, it really just kept getting better. People were just strolling through the park, playing hackey sack and walking their dogs.. crazy that this is their park! Within a castle wall!



Charles bridge where we walked from- very busy place with lots of random touristy things to buy.






Came back down and started raining out of nowhere—weird soo sunny all day and then crazy storm when we’re finding dinner- had to stop at bar in the center—expensive! But really good.. 500 czk- “old Prague plate” lots of meat— smoked mead.. pork.. soo delicious on potato pancake—too expensive though- never eat there again! Really aimed for tourists but its a cool setup inside with a bear rug hanging over the fireplace. Reminds me of an old English pub.

Went home.. got ready for girls night out! Stephanie had known some girls that lived in the area that one of her friends put her in touch with. These girls were soo nice and Lucie the one that actually was from Czech Republic was one feisty little girl. It was awesome- she didn’t let us get swindled just because we were American. She laid her foot down to the waitress about service charges and splitting up the check and forced a taxi driver to take us a different club.

She really didn’t like Czech guys and gave us a big warning that the good looking guys are either taken or are gay. I didn’t really find too many hot guys around anyways, but since Prague was a very open and liberal city, she said many gay guys flock to it- kind of like San Francisco. So every time I saw a really hot guy, I kept having to second guess myself if he was gay or not! Gosh my Gaydar is all off here!

We had drinks at a bar most of us had mojitos which seems to be really popular here and then Fran had straight whiskey- pretty awesome! Lol We then left cuz it was too expensive and dead inside and out of nowhere right when we finally finish paying another crazy downpour! Raining like cats and dogs and of course I didn’t bring an umbrella! So we decided to grab a taxi just to go around the block to a club called Tekla Mekla. It had a lot of lounge areas and then a really, really small dance floor! It was soo hot and I wasn’t able to get drunk at all because all the drinks seemed soo weak! But we had fun dancing to techno and random American songs mixed together. We decided to leave at 215 right after the other girls left. But we forgot to ask them directions on how to get to the night trams!

So we were trying to find the night trams to get home and I’m dying because I’m wearing knee high bitch boots and a jean skirt. Can’t wait to take my shoes off! We’re wandering and trying to follow the map lost in the middle of the city and out of nowhere—torrential rains! Feet are already dead from the whole day— but now- we’re sopping wet like dogs walking the streets in the middle of the night. Found the tram but the stops were really far and we couldn’t figure out which direction to go, and finally just decided to take a taxi home. The cab driver probably felt pity for us and only charged us 200 czk which is like 10 bucks to get home.. shit—why didn’t we do that earlier?!??!?! As we were walking from where he dropped us off Fran said “I’m going to have a lion tomorrow” And me and Stephanie- soaking wet still- just stopped and looked at her and was like whaaat?? She just kept repeating it, I’m gonna have a lion tomorrow, don’t you know what that is? We said like as in rooarr a lion. Oh my gosh we had the biggest laugh! ****British term**** “ly in” as in- sleeping in. Wow.. didn’t understand that one. Lol!

Uggh we got home at 315, changed into dry clothes, ate some bread to hold over the alcohol and crashed until 1 pm the next day! Crazy night! You really can’t predict the weather in Prague.. always carry an umbrella on you.. the other girls that lived there did, so I will take their advice now!