Waiter? Czech please!

So hopefully you got the joke from my last two posts - you didn't actually think I was going to leave you hanging and not knowing what we actually did on our travels!! So anyways, I left off at us leaving to go to Prague after spending a night in the London Gatwick airport - here we goooooo!!

Arriving around 10am, we were a little exhausted - you can imagine how comfortable a row of airport benches can be as a bed. So our immediate task was to meet up with our "hostel" manager and get the keys. I say "hostel" in quotes because it was more like an apartment - that we ended up getting to ourselves... in the middle of downtown.... above a bar... YAY! Hahaha. Needless to say, we were tired, so the first thing we did when we got there was take a huge nap until the middle of the afternoon.

Tram line running past a mall in downtown Prague, Czech Republic

Walking around Prague was interesting because it wasn't like any of the other major cities that we had visited thus far. The streets had fewer people (which was a nice change), and the building had a completely different look to them - the infamous Bohemian style - maybe because it's located in central Bohemia? But you know, just assuming here hahaha.

Planning to do most of our sight seeing on day 2, we spent most of the afternoon shopping (we thought Prague was going to be cheaper than the rest of Europe but we were sadly incorrect). This would be a good time to point out that in the CR they use a different currency than the rest of Europe - they use the Czech Koruna - where about 26Kr is the equivalent of 1€. The fun part about that was spending 105Kr on a drink from Starbucks (you knew we were going to, so stop pretending like we didn't)!

They still had the Christmas cups in March! Merry Christmas!

A quick stop at the grocery store to get some eats, and we were back in the apartment hungry and ready to cook a feast! And by feast, I mean some pasta and veggies - close enough right? Our evening was quiet and relaxing, with some braids, a small workout demonstration by yours truly and Steph, and tales read aloud from "Talk to the Snail: Ten Commandment for Understanding the French" by Stephen Clarke. See?

Commandment #1 - Thou shalt be wrong (if you’re not French)

Yes, we spend our evenings in interesting ways. So, we hit the hay early ready to get going for day numéro deux. This post seems long enough as it is, I will continue at another date.

Just a small note - we have been even more busy lately - planning our trip to Italy (we leave in 2 days) and designing yet another web site for a local business owner here - we'll post the link once it's done. All that in addition to our normal daily activities. I'll try to see what I can do about updating at least until the end of Portugal by the time we leave on Friday! Wish me luck!