Praha, Ceska Republika

We came to see one of the more developed cities of what is known as Eastern Europe, Prague in the Czech Republic it was very noticalbe the differences between a fully Westernize city and a city that was once part of the Warsaw Pact.  We arrived around the afternoon and quickly found are way to hostel, hostel proved itself to be a very friendly environment for tourist, me personally I really liked the fact that a lot of the hostel attendants were Spanish speakers they had one Colombian, one Spaniard, and one girl who was half Czech and half Cuban, I also met quite a few Brazilians, Australians, and Japanese who were either taken a vacation from work or studying abroad it was a very nice blend of culture.  On the tour of Prague our guide was quite a good historian about history of prague and the Czech Republic from the Celtics tribes that Romans who named the region Bohemia to being a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to communism under the soviet union to finally a free republic Czech Republic has quite the history to tell.  We came into one of the princicple churches that our guide told us a very funny and creepy story about the patron saint of the church I don’t recall the name of the saint.  The story goes the church had many valuable articafts of jewelry and there was a thief who wised to steal them so the thief disguised himself as one of the priest and came into the church he hid unitl everyone left the church and it was dark.  So the thief looks around for something of high value to steal he sees the patron saint statue with beautiful necklace and decides that is the item he is going to take.  As he reaches for the necklace the statue grabs the thief by the arm in vice grip thielf fights to get free but its futile he remained in grip of the statue unitl the priest find him there in the morning.  The priest cut of his harm and cart away the thief to disposed off and they took the arm, mummified it and hanged it from the wall as a reminder to all who try to steal from church will not end well.  He told another few more stories that were both odd and funny to hear but the highlight of the tour was seeing Charles Bridge.  The bridge was on quite the scenic paronoma the sights from the bridge were just beautiful, I even purchased a painting of the bridge it was a little pricy but I thought it was definetly worth it though.  We went to top of the hill in prague where the castle is situated at we saw a small display of corvettes and the changing of the castle guard, quite the spectacle needless to say.  Lastly we finished our exploring of Prague with another sceneic picture area of the castle and souvenir shopping.  Our final part in our little adventure in Prague was guided pup crawl with hostel of Prague brining all of their tourist together to show them a good time, which they didn’t disappoint.  My one complain of Prague are the merchants and taxis everything here is exuberenlty priced to take advantage of the naiveness of the tourist, specially the taxi going back to the hostel over priced and took more money then he should of but what is done is done and we are all now on our way to our home away from home, Bonn.