Prague is much more like what I was expecting from Europe - the whole city is just beautiful :) Cobblestone streets and awesome architecture. Today I had a mammoth touristy day :)
I got up early to catch Charles Bridge pre-most of the tourists, and wandered around for a few hours looking for breakfast and an ATM, eventually finding one, and a calling card, in an attempt to stave off my increasingly ridiculous phone bill. I wandered through the grounds of the castle, with about a thousand other tourists, visited the Church of St Nicholas, which was very pretty, and walked 300m up (straight up) Petrin Hill to see the fake Eiffel Tower and the highly disappointing mirror maze. Yes, I chickened out on the first floor of the tower :( Damn heights.
Tomorrow my plan is to take a trip to Kutna Hora and see the Bone Church. It would be much cheaper to go on my own, but there's a(n expensive) tour for 1300 crowns available that I thought I might go on - it would be nice to talk to people again, plus there's a free lunch :P
I bought a painting today of the bridge and the skyline which should look nice on my wall... if I can get it back to Sydney in one piece.
I was scheduled to leave the day after tomorrow and head to Munich to meet up with Selvans from WoW, but it turns out that he can't make it, so I'm debating whether I should still go to Munich or find somewhere else. I hear that Oktoberfest is over, so there should theoretically be less drunk tourists around. Either way, I have three days to kill between leaving Prague and meeting up with Boon in Vienna. Hrm.
Inner Munich is nice - parts of the Residenz is pretty spectacular/stupidly opulent, and you can go see the castles (Linderhof/Neuschwanstein/Hohenschwangau) which is worth it IMO.
ReplyDeleteIf you're in Munich, I've also heard that Neuschwantstein castle nearby is really pretty, though I didn't get there. Apparently it's the fairytale castle Disney modelled their logo on.
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