Final Vacation Post

So we made it to Prague no problems. Caught the bus that took us to the subway...Checked into our hotel. Suzanne did a good job picking out the hotel. It was about a 5 minute walk from the train station, and was right behind Old Town Square. So we had like a 2 minute walk to a lot of activity!

We dropped off our bags, and went into the Square for some lunch! The menus in Prague were very easy...In about 5 different languages, and the 1st restaurant we went to had pictures of all their entrees! Had a good lunch, with good beer, and good people watching. We then wandered around for a bit, checking out Charles Bridge...And then went into the Torture Museum for a bit...Then headed back to Old Town Square for a drink, followed by more food & more drink. Thursday morning we got up and headed to New Town, in front of the museum to meet up with a tour guide for our 6-hour tour of Prague. It was a little rainy & gloomy in the morning, but the rain stopped for the 1st couple of hours. We walked around New Town, Old Town, Lesser Town, The Jewish Quarters. Saw all the highlights of the city! Then it was time for a river-boat ride. Good time for that, as it started to rain when we were getting on the boat. Had a nice little ride up the river, with some good views, and a good beer! And then we were off for more of the walking tour in the rain this time. We stopped for some lunch (mmmm....food & beer, do you notice a trend here?) And then we hopped on the tram up to The Prague Castle. Went into the cathedral there, and got the history on the castle, and then the tour ended. It was much better than the tour we took in Freiburg. Our tour guide was from Prague, and grew up so he was very well-spoken with the history of the city!

After the tour we headed to a Budvar Restaurant for a drink (or two) and a snack. Our waitresses seemed to be very pissy at something, but the food & beer was very good. Went back to the hotel for a bit, and then headed out to Old Town & went to an Irish Bar for a delicious Burger & once again, some more beer. We were all pretty exhausted from our 6 hour tour of Prague, we called it a night at that point.

Friday morning we took a bust tour to Nymphenburg Castle. Had a pretty bad tour guide. She talked so slow & monotone, I was put to sleep on the ride up to the castle. The only good thing about the castle was the view of it. Everything else kinda stunk about it.

After getting back from that, we wandered over to New Town to Cafe Amsterdam (the Heineken Bar in Prague) got some food & drinks there...Then we headed to an Irish Bar - claimed to be the largest Irish Bar in Prague. And then we were up for one last drink over by our hotel. And we called it a night, and called it one great trip!

Saturday morning Mark & I got up early to catch our cab to the airport. And once again, we had no troubles with flying!! We had a pretty long layover in Paris, but it was much better than being rushed through everything. While we were in line @ Prague, we met a couple who was from Bethesda -- small world.

All in all, it was a great trip!!! Lots of good beer drank, good food ate, and good people to travel with!!!