Wednesday, June 13, 2012

June 4, 2012


Today we met downstairs at 8.15 and took the subway to a different train station than the one we arrived at.  We caught a 9.33 AM train to Prague.  Before we left I had some of the best pastries I have ever had.  I had a schokodonut, which is a chocolate donut, and an italiena which I really don’t know what it was.  We got on the train that we were told was going to be terrible, it was probably nicer than any other train we have been on.  The ride was about 5 hours and we arrived in Prague at about three o clock.  Joel and I walked around looking for a UPS store, we were going to ship some stuff back to lighten our bags… until we saw the prices.  Joel got another phone because he went through two already from talking to his girlfriend.  We were about to head back to the hotel when the sky opened up.  It started pouring and it did so for about twenty minutes.  We chanced it for a while but when Joel almost got swept away by a gutter river; we decided to wait it out a little bit.  We finally made it back to the hotel and we dried off and met the group downstairs at 6.00 PM.  It had stopped raining by this point and we all walked down to a huge road by the museum.  This road reminded me of Las Rambas in Barcelona.  It had one lane on each side of a huge pedestrian walkway.  We walked to the end of the walkway and proceeded to walk to the Charles Bridge.  Apparently during the day there are street vendors all over the place but we were there at night.  We saw old and new town from the bridge and we could also see the Prague Castle from Charles Bridge.  We walked through Jew Town and found an old Jewish cemetery.  This is the most crowded cemetery I have ever seen, it looked like tombstones were piled on top of one another.  We were then released and we walked around and found a pretty busy bar.  We went in for a drink and called it a night shortly afterwards.  That’s all for today and sorry my pictures are a little slack; I have been using my phone as my camera so I have to get used to carrying the camera around now. 

T

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