Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Adventures?

Prauge was an interesting place, not at all what I thought it was going to be. The hostel we stayed in was an adventure in itself. There was no real check in place, we had to go in a restraunt where they kept the keys inside a hiden cabinet, then to get to the hostel we had to go up four flights of stairs and the lights would go off everytime before we could make it to the top, and then to top it all off when we got to our room it was TRASHED so we had to go switch. Also, there was no heating so it was FREEZING so we slept in our clothes, boots, and coats. It definately made me appreciate my home a lot more.
On Saturday we explored the city. Prauge is full of beautiful buildings, towers, cathedrals, and castles. My favorite building was the "dancing building". It was built after Fred Astaire and it looked like two people actually dancing. I danced all throughout highschool and have always heard about Fred Astaire so it was really cool seeing a building after him.
Lunch was probably my favorite part of prauge. We ate U Flecku, local cz food which tasted wonderful. The atmosphere was wonderful they people who came around table to table singing and playing instruments. As soon as we walked in the waiter sat beers in front of us and then two seconds later another waiter came around with a tray full of shots. This seemed so crazy to me, since it was only noon. In my home town, Rowlett people would look at you like you were crazy if you took a shot at resraunt in the middle of the afternoon.
Since it was so cold in our hostel we decided to go out saturday night and then catch the 3:30 am train back to berlin. We went to an Irish pub, where we met an England Band called the paperboys who were on a tour in Europe. It was alot of fun. The pub closed at 1 but they let us stay til about 2:30 then we headed to catch our train. We get to the train station and they don't open their doors til 3 am so we had to hang out outside in the cold, then finally at 3 we head inside only to find out our 3:30 a.m. train is delyed for 70 minutes. We finally get on the train and there were absolutley no seats on the train so we had to sit in the hallway. It was an adventure. I am glad I got to see Prauge but I was definately happy to be back in Berlin.

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