right on bro!

Don’t groan - you knew that was coming.

So, I was originally going to say that Prague is one of the most beautiful cities I’ve ever seen, but I’ll revise it some: The Stare Mesto (old town) area of Prague is one of the most beautiful areas of a city I’ve ever seen, and I would highly recommend it as one of the places that everyone needs to visit in their lifetime.

Accomodations: I didn’t book any hostels prior to coming here, and everything was taken up all week in the city centre, so I ended up booking another hotel a bit out of the city. This is probably the weirdest hotel I’ve ever been in. When I first took the train out here, I was like “oh shit” - this area is your stereotypical depressing Eastern European high-rise suburb (Jon, remember the Soviet Bloc apartment building we looked at?) However, everyone’s trying very hard here to make it seem like a four-star hotel, and, apart from the actual hotel looking like a Travelodge, it’s actually pretty okay. I’m cool with it as a place to stay though.

As far as Prague goes….I’ve pretty much given up on museums for the rest of my trip. Yesterday I went to the Museum of Communism (which was pretty rad), and today I went to the Jewish Quarter (peeking through a hole in the wall to see the cemetery where they buried people 12 layers deep), but that’s about it. I have little desire to see Czech art, so I spent the past two days just walking around the city, and stopping to drink coffee or beer. Here are my notes:

• Beer in restaurants cost as much as soda. And it’s good stuff, too - Pilsner Urquell or Budweiser (the OG Budweiser, not the American version). Like, $2 for a big glass.
• Czech food is pretty good, but I think I’ve eaten enough sausages and dumplings to last a lifetime.
• There are casinos here. Lots of them. And they’re all really small. Like, they’ll have a dozen slot machines, a roulette table, and three blackjack tables. I didn’t gamble at all.
• The Metro (subway) stations here are rad. Each one is decorated differently, some with reflective bulbs, and some with a simulated wood look.
• The fish sandwich at McDonald’s is called the Fish Mac here.

That’s about it. Tomorrow I’m going back to Paris to catch my flight back home. I don’t think I’ll update this blog until I get home. So this is pretty much the end of my adventures. Hope you enjoyed reading about ‘em.