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Anywhere I go in the world.. my standard breakfast pretty much is yogurt with a banana. Its pretty cheap and keeps me full for a while.

This morning we were heading out to Prague castle. Before heading there, a stop at the pastry shop.

Sign of the shop we went into.

To get to Prague castle, we had to walk across Charles Bridge. The bridge has quite a few Christian symbols.

Our eventual destination

Arch at the start of the bridge

Don’t play in the street hehe.

After crossing Charles Bridge, we crossed another area called Mala Strana. To get to the castle, there is a short-cut path through a series of stairs. Odd enough, there was music playing at this time.

In one of the sewer gutters, somebody put a fake monster with his hand sticking out.

Top of the stairs

We wanted to do a statue pose in the empty crevice in the wall.. but I don’t think it came out as intended…

Guards in front of Prague castle. You can get way closer to them than to the guards in London.

Castle Square

Picture right inside the entrance. We fortunately got student discount to Prague castle. Basically Prague castle is split into 8 major sight seeing attractions your ticket has access to.

St Vitus Cathedral. We would go in later.

Most of the sites didn’t allow camera usage, but this building, Old Palace did allow it.

It had a really long hall

Funky organ

Some painting. As you can tell, the longer this Europe blog goes on, the shorter the descriptions for all historical art hehe.

Another exhibit was an old torture chamber.

We like to smile when we get tortured.

Ok.. some context for this picture. It is basically a statue of a guy with his package out, and everyone was taking a picture of people grabbing it. OF COURSE the guys wanted me to take a picture with it, so I did. Too bad for the guys it came out too dark.

As representative of Prague generally speaking, there were hordes of tourists in the castle.

We had several chance to go outside in the balconies and take a peek.

It really was quite a beautiful view

We would actually go hike to that tower area later

Outdoor view

Next stop was St Vitus’s cathedral.

Just like Notre Dame, some spectacular paintings were inside

Picture of the main hall

While walking around, we saw this ray of sunshine come into the church so we all decided to take pictures with it

I actually got in trouble for wearing my visor right after this pic.

Probably the brightest out of all the pics.

We wanted to do a matrix type picture in the sunlight

Back of the church

It’s easier to describe with a video

Back of the church

Apparently, the church is a popular spot for wedding photo taking.

Top of the church. Unfortunately I think the coolest part of Prague castle was Prague museum. It was really informative, big, but didn’t allow pictures.

Next stop.. lunch. We were going to go to Puffy Palac, a place I researched online which was good, but it was sort of pricy for lunch. Instead we went to some random local restaurant with the mentality “any place the locals go is good.” Boy were we wrong..

The menu. The czech dishes seemed sort of plain generally speaking. Lots of meat + gravy + dumplings.

We asked for water, and he kept giving us bottled water. Each of these freaking glasses was 2 euros! To say at the least, we were quite upset at the cost of the meal. Beer was cheaper than water.

My dish.. a meat cut and dumplings. The difference here is that their dumplings are more like our biscuits.

Rob’s soup.

We next took a hike up Petrin Hill. The park was really nice and green.

We COULD have taken a tram to the top, but instead chose to walk all the way up.

Some weird memorial. What is a little deciving is that you can’t go up the stairs where the statues are

View from the half way point

Some memorial statue thingy.

We took several shortcuts to get to the top

The hike only took about 20-30 mins

On the way up, there were some really weird random caves out of no where

We wanted to do a pretend shot we were seating on a bench without a bench, but instead it looks like we are trying to take a crap.

Croutching tiger, hidden tourist

Ben was trying to play around at the playground, but there were no rings or anything to hold his hand on the chain

Throughout prague.. we generally had problems reading signs. There wasn’t much English in the signs (but for the food menus there were).

So we made it to the top. The highest point in the area. Unfortunately they were charging an arm and a leg to go up the observation tower, so we decided to pass.

An interesting meeting with dogs

We hiked back to our apt to get some rest

One thing we noticed was that every stone had to be laboriously placed in the street. They must have had quite a few peons or slaves to do the work for the king back in the day hehe

Ben wanted to buy his sister a mug which had some Prague signage on it.

For dinner we went to a skewer house

Basically lots of meat on a skewer. Pretty good food, but nothing like awe inspiring.

One of the pictures Rob is smiling and not making a goofy face :)

For our beer choice.. we had Gambrinos. Which is equivalent to our bud light. And who drinks that shit anyways?

At night Ben and Rob went to go play pool while Pete and I went to go check out Old Town Square. Turns out the soccer match was going on.

Even at night.. tons of tourists hehe.

This video was taken earlier in the day

On the way back we saw a car get booted. ouch

We had wireless in our apt, so we shared my phone to get online. I have this cool browser called Skyfire which can view regular webpages on a smartphone

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