On Friday the 6 of us, Liz, Jon, Steve (all British), Leire and Marta (both Spanish) met up in Vienna to catch the bus to Prague. The bus ride wasn't as bad as I thought it might be, each seat had its own little screen and you could watch some shows or movies, plus we had a half hour break in Brno- in all it was 5 hours. We got some crowns (Czech currency) during our short break, it's rather strange currency since their coins are from 1-50 crowns, and their bills are from 100-5000 (or maybe more) crowns.
After we got to Prague and checked into our hostel we went out for dinner and a beer at a nearby restaurant. I had a potato pancake stuffed with ham and sauerkraut, a typical Czech dish. It wasn't the best meal, but it was hot, huge and cheap. The beers were also good, and only cost about a euro or two for a half liter.
On Saturday we got up and wandered around Prague all day long. We saw pretty much all of the old-city, for further details check out my pictures on smugmug (link to the left). I took a ton of pictures of all the gorgeous old buildings, but I don't really know what many of them are! My foot has been feeling a bit sore since my hike in Graz, and by the end of the day wandering Prague I was in quite a lot of pain. Every once and a while it would shoot through my foot and make me moan a loud- completely involuntarily, which has never happened to me before- so I'm thinking I need to find a foot doctor here. Anyway, we stopped at one very typical Czech looking restaurant and had beer and gulasch in bread bowls for lunch. It was very tasty and cheap, but the service was super slow, especially when we wanted to pay and get going again. I wanted to light a fire under our waiters ass- but he was too busy having a smoke break every other minute. For dinner we ate at this classy & expensive looking place right on the river, but it was actually cheap & good Italian food. I had ricotta ravioli with chicken and prosciutto meatballs in a tomato basil and parmesan sauce- it was delicious!
We took our time heading back to the hostel and took som great night shots of the city. My new camera did alright for its first test- sometimes it's a bit annoying, but it's just an adjustment period. I've also discovered that it doesn't have steady-shot, and my hands are always a bit shaky, so anytime I zoom in it takes a few tries to get a steady picture.
On Sunday we didn't really have time to go see anything else- which my foot and I were just fine with! We packed up and came back to Austria, getting back in the dark, and it was colder here than it was in Prague.
Last note: I saw snowflakes this morning! For about two minutes, and then it stopped and just got foggier.
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