Praha

We spent three nights in Prague exploring the town. Our first day we arrived at the drop off point and got a metro to our hostel which turned out to be right in the center of Prague which was awesome! Our hostel was a converted apartment room. It had been converted into three rooms and a shared bathroom. our room had a single bed downstairs, two sofa chairs, a desk, a table and a large cabinet and then there was a loft with a ladder up to it which is where our bed was. Our first night we had dinner at the pub across the street because you got two free beers for staying at our hostel.

Masses of tourists on Charles bridge

The next day we went to Charles bridge and Prague castle. We then walked around the town a bit and had dinner at an Irish restaurant (the meal cost us more than double what our meal cost the first night).

Us on a different bridge with Charles bridge in the background

Charles bridge was nice but there were about 10,000 tourists on it along with us. The bridge was built in the 15th century and used to be the only way to cross the river so was considered very important. these days there are numerous bridges so the Charles bridge is purely for pedestrian traffic. Lining the sides of the bridge are 30 statues of different things. A couple have been rubbed by so many tourists they are now gold in places. We rubbed them too but not really sure of the significance behind that.
Also lining the bridge during day light are numerous jewelry stands, people selling artwork and people doing caricatures of tourists.

Prague Castle

Next up was Prague castle, after a bit of an unintentional detour (a very long detour... in other words we got very lost) we made it just in time to watch a changing on the guard. We got some photos of the view from the top of the hill over looking all of Prague

Ewen got his photo taken with one of the guards
Me with the castle in the background, it is actually the cathedral you can see though, the castle wasn't all that great, the cathedral was probably the best thing about it
Spot the nun
The outside of the cathedral, this is the only building we went inside in the castle complex, you had to pay to get inside the rest of the buildings and as there were about 20 tour groups wandering around we decided to just look around the outside.
Outside the castle trying to warm up by sitting on the warm concrete
Town of Prague with about one million tourists
We went for a bit more of a walk around the shops and had a look at some more of
the town, we ended up at the Astronomical clock which had a ton of tourists out the front
of it all snapping photos, we couldn't tell what the clock was telling us, what i could tell was
that it had the different star sign around it.

A square in Prague

Our second day in Prague was a bit of a lazy one.

A statue near our hostel
We went out for lunch and had a quick look around the shops then it started raining pretty heavily so we went home to watch some movies. We went out again a few hours later and headed back to the Astronomical clock, this time we climbed the tower to get some views of Prague.

Views from the top of the clock tower
Climbing back down the stairs
Buildings in a square in Prague

Playing "Where's Wally" can you see me?

We went to see Charlies Bridge at night thinking there would be less tourists around, sadly no luck with this, if anything there were probably more tourists around than there was during the day. We wanted to take lots of photos but our camera (or possibly us) is a bit of a spaz and freaks out in difficult lighting no matter what setting you seem to put it on.

We did get this one though, the bridge is on the left hand side and straight ahead is Prague castle

This is meant to be the biggest collection of keys in the world... it didn't seem very big to me

And that was pretty much Prague, we had a fairly relaxing two days with a bit of sightseeing thrown in. From here we are off to Cesky Krumlov