euro trip day 10, last day in prague
September 5th, 2008 by shinzu
This was my extremely unhealthy breakfast. Fried chicken strips in a roll.
Our agenda of the day was to go to the museum of communism. On the way was the real wenscelas square. Turns out I navigated to the wrong street the day before.
My favorite store in New York. I was surprised to see it here. Unfortunately their selection sort of sucked.
A cool citibank advertisement.
The museum of communism was sort of in a weird area. You would walk through a lobby where it literally said like ‘casino on the right’, ‘museum of communism on the left’.
Inside the museum
The museum of communism is basically a place where they collected a lot of relics from the communist times. It’s interesting to see the propaganda first hand.
A teddy bear with a rifle. Classic.
I was reading the captioning around the area and it was talking about communist governments really relied on sports to hold their grip on power.
Interesting to see the other side of the media
The caption is ‘an american policeman’
The communist governments even tried to control their people through art. Not sure how successful they were in that endeavor though.
No museum pics are complete without imitations.
I have no idea who this is
Video
In Wensclas square
Afterwards we went to National Gallery where we got student discount to go in. Unfortunately they don’t allow pics in the museum, but it was really quite interesting.
In national gallery there was this weird exhibit where you can run down a long hall and hit a mattress. I think it was something about physics, but Ben and I raced to the end. I got sort of scared of running full speed into the mattress so I slowed down a lil.
Pic looking out of the national gallery.
Outside of the national gallery we saw a bunch of people snapping pictures of this person. We weren’t quite sure what was going on.
Video of the model?
After the model shoot, even more weirdness.
Umm.. monks?
These two ladies were just standing outside and Pete talked to them. Seems like they ’supposedly’ work for an airline but some of us were just guessing that they dressed up like that to get attention.
Dan smash!
I’m trying to make a rainbow motion. Get it? Or not haha..
An interesting civic I haven’t seen in the states before.
Back of the civic
For dinner, we went to go eat across the place we ate the day before (I forgot the name of this restaurant).
A cute waiter in the restaurant.
The food here was pretty reasonably priced and pretty traditionally czech. I’ve noticed the food is heavy on the bread dumplings and some type of goulash dish.
Peter and I got the same dish.
Rob decided to be different and got pork ribs.
I think Ben got the same thing also.
Dinner video
Afterwards we went to a pool hall where Ben played some Czech guy and almost got ripped off. The place was pretty big, but looked slightly ghetto. The place was a little scary because they had to buzz you in order to get out so you just can’t walk out if something happens.
Back at the apt.
Apt overview
Where we got our water in Europe.
thoughts on prague
Overall I thought Prague had waaay too many tourists which made it lose some of its charm and allure. I think 2 days in Prague would be enough to check it out.