Praha: Day 3

After much musing as to what our plans were for tonight, we decided to stay in Praha. To celebrate our new-found decision making (!), we had a stylish breakfast in one of the cafes along Wenceslas Square. I restrained myself and had a cheese and ham toasted sandwich with coffee, but the girls went all out and had raspberry and chocolate pancakes!

By this stage we'd already missed the 9:30am walking tour, so we spent the rest of the morning wandering around buying clothes. Well the girls did anyway, I just followed them. You see they are heading for La Tomatina in Valencia, Spain, and as such they want really dodgy cheap clothes that can be thrown out straight away. They were definitely successful, buying shoes for 199Kc (~A$14) and tshirts and shorts for 70Kc (~A$5). Admittedly they are pretty awful, but it is La Tomatina. At least they aren't making the same mistake as I did last year at Holi and wear decent clothes.

By that stage it was 1pm and we only had time for a quick fast-food lunch. Thus we headed for Maccas and I finally satisfied my fries w/mayo craving. Mmmm....so good

The walking tour of Praha which followed was fantastic. Our guide looked like Sean (a friend from USyd) and was really knowledgable. He'd lived in Praha his whole life, was studying economics, and loved to travel, so he was able to compare things all the time to places that were maybe more familiar to us, like the UK. We were shown the nice side of Praha, and it completely changed my mind about the city. I know want to spend more time here and go exploring. We went all through the 'New' and 'Old' towns (Nove Mesto and Stara Mesto respectively), the Jewish Quarter (Jovamesto), and up to the Castle and surrounds.

The tour lasted 4 hours, and by the end of it we were buggered, so we hopped on a metro to the Bus station to buy tickets to Vienna for tomorrow. They were super cheap (330Kc, or ~A$23), which is a huge saving on the €40 train tickets. I wouldn't want to take a long bus journey (there are ones direct to London!), but for 4.5hrs it should be fine.

Finally, we went to the Communism Museum, which documents the modern history of Czechoslovakia under Communism. It was fascinating, as they had loads of real posters, propaganda, and the like from the era. God they're funny! I don't think 'ours' (ie. the West) were much better though.

After getting hopelessly lost again and having to hop on the metro we ended up at the restuarant we ate our first meal at for goulash, appel strudel et al. Soo good!