This is the clock in Prague central plaza...pretty speccy hey?
Day 169
Prague, Czech Republic
MONEY: 1 AUD = 17 Republic Czech crown (koruna)
About: Czech Rep is in Central Europe with a heap of borders...ie Poland to the north, Germany northeast and west, Austria to the south, and Slovakia to the east! It joined the European Union in 2004 but is still on probation so uses the Czech crown instead of the euro...bad for us because it means..more moneey to exchange!!!
We arrived here from Krakow yesterday..after a 7 hour train journey which was HORRIBLE!!! Hot, stuffy, long...and just stifling.
When we got here we headed for our prebooked accomodation which is crap. No shower and toilet, dormitory style....and pretty basic. You should see the towel! It looks moer like a t-towel. Barely covers anything!!!!
But..it's cheap - 20 AUD a night sp whose complaining..(me!) OH well, we want to stay travelling for a while! (Today we found out we sold our shares...so we have more money to travel...YAY!)
What have we done so far? What have we seen? What have we learned? Who have we met? Where have we been? What..where..who..why.
What?
We listened to the rain this morning so slept in...and kept listening :-)
From when we first arrived...we've mainly eaten, slept, kept our eyes open...
Ok really. What have we done?
Well, last night..After walking around the the gorgeous river and Prague Old Town, which is beautiful, old, cobblestoned and ornate...we went for dinner at one of the little Czech restaurants and were shocked by all the extra inbuilt costs....
Extra tax, extra for the bread they served, extra for napkins we used plus a price for a tip was included in the bill..then there was a handwritten bit of paper requiring a tip...no go. Not twice. So we complained. Tipping isn't part of our agenda..for now. I guess we'll have to comply in America...!!!!
OK enuff whinging...we were lucky to find this out on the first night. Today...we ASK what's included before we order!
So we've had sandwiches......icecream from the yummy parlour here with the straccialata icecream..dangerous...and fruit from the market.
Culturally..we've been to the Sex Machines Museum!!!!! And the stuff they had there was quite amazing...we took pics..quite hilarious.
They had old machines....that looked more like torture devices. And some were for women..but they definitely would have been designed by men thinking that's what would be a pleasure for women. I won't go into specifics but if you think of sharp points, ridges, glass, steel, leather...you'll be venturing along the right track!
We watched an old black and white movie that was the first porn movie ever taken. It was made for the king of the time (early 1900's) and had maids, butlers and the so called woman and master of the house indulging in all sorts of acts.
Think Reubensian women....hehe
SO FUNNY and so explicit...the eroticism of the day is more graphic than anything we've ever seen!!!! And i'm not going to start explaining here what we've seen..but in Germany...normal tellie has some risque stuff!
TOnight we're going to see some Black Light Theatre which is tradional Czech theatre..so that should counterbalance what we've seen so far! haha
Prague is beautiful...the architecture is classical. And colourful. And arty. The buildings are so pretty! And considering it spans a thousand of years....and has a lot of history attached to it..it's ecclectic..and i guess the name "golden city of spires" would be very suitable because it is.
The clock in centra plaza is so beautiful...and obviously a tourist focal point...because it was quite honestly packed when we went to look at what the people at the hostel were talking about...apparently on the hour..the 12 apostles pop out!
We didn't see them pop out (of the second circle below that you can see in the pic above)..but we will because we're here for a few days and we do tend to spend a fair bit of time in the central market squares of the places we go to..just to get a feel of the place.
Met some interesting people at our accomodation already...young european people have such worldly compassionate views....and we like talking with them..we learn so much from their opinions and their experiences. They travel so much, unlike our young people who do travel, intermittently....they travel all their lives..everywhere being so close of course.
That's what i love about Europe...it IS so close to other countries. I guess historically and politically it's a bit clastophobic and a cause for takeovers but in this peace time..it's great travelling about here!
No doubt we'll see more of Prague and the coutryside..just wanted to let you know where we were..
HOpe all are well!
Love from us xxx
