Eastern European Adventure, Day 12: Prague

We headed out at around 10 a.m. and walked to Prague Castle. We wandered around for a while and then saw the changing of the guard at noon. Hot tip (hat tip to Tom Gillespie): you don't have to pay admission to just walk around the grounds and not enter the buildings, so that's what we did.

Some views of the city from the Castle.

The changing of the guard is happening behind that fence there. You'll have to trust me on this one.

We tried to go to the Deer Moat, but it was closed for "technical reasons," which upon further investigation appeared to be massive construction. We wandered around the gardens north of the castle wall, then we walked north into the neighborhood adjacent neighborhood and ate lunch at an Indian restaurant. Joel was pleased about the buffet, and Molly ordered off the menu and had a good meal.

Then we wandered to a bar and had our normal beer/Aperol spritz combo (this particular bar had a gigantic stack of firewood, and they were unloading even more firewood while we were having a drink.

Then we headed to Stromovka Park, or City Park. In the park, we watched the swans at a little pond and then had a piece of key lime pie at a restaurant.

Then we made our way through an abandoned amusement park on the east end of City Park to the Cross Club, which was not yet open. We didn't know for sure how to kill an hour, but we happened to find a bowling alley, and when we arrived, Joel said, "If you'd told me 15 minutes ago that we'd be having fun right now, I wouldn't have believed you."

We bowled two lines and each had a small beer, and the total bill came to $7 with tip. We went back to the Cross Club and ate all the pizza and drank all the beer.

The Cross Club is real cool.

We watched a guy play some kind-of surf rock tunes for a little while and then we took the #17 tram home, grabbed some groceries, and then watched half of 2001: A Space Odyssey before we went to sleep.

Day 1: Brzeg

Day 2: Brzeg

Day 3: Brzeg

Day 4: Brzeg to Warsaw

Day 5: Warsaw to Krakow

Day 6: Krakow

Day 7: Krakow

Day 8: Krakow to Prague

Day 9: Prague

Day 10: Prague

Day 11: Prague and Kutna Hora

Day 12: Prague

Day 13: Prague

Eastern European Adventure, Day 11: Prague and Kutna Hora

We got up and at them and took a confusing walk to the train station, and then had a pretty hard time figuring out how to get to our destination, Kutna Hora, because it wasn’t listed as an intermediate stop on any of the trains. Eventually figured it out and took a 1-hour train ride to Kutna Hora and a short walk to the Kostnice Ossuary Beinhaus, or Bone Church.

I am assuming that Glenn Danzig has been here.

We walked around the graveyard around the Bone Church, and then walked to the Cathedral down the street, St. Barbara's, which was quite interesting to walk around.

We had lunch at an awesome place in town; I had cream of chicken soup in a breadbowl and Molly had a schnitzel plate, and it’s dollar beer night every night (and all day).

We walked to Kutna Hora Centrum (town proper), and decided maybe there wasn’t enough to do there for a full afternoon, so we took an adorable 10-minute train ride on the smallest little train from the Kutna Hora Metso station to the Kutna Hora hl.n. station.

Photos of old abandoned train eqpt by the Kutna Hora Metso station

After our train trip back to Prague, we took the Metro subway to Holesovice, the hipster neighborhood just north of the Old Town across the Vistula. We went to the biergarten in Letna Park and had a beer while overlooking the Vistula from the bluffs above, then went to Burrito Loco, which is like Chipotle for Chipotle, and no one was mad.

We took the tram (which was very fast) back to our neighborhood, and we settled in for another evening of Netflix.

No jokes here, nope

Day 1: Brzeg

Day 2: Brzeg

Day 3: Brzeg

Day 4: Brzeg to Warsaw

Day 5: Warsaw to Krakow

Day 6: Krakow

Day 7: Krakow

Day 8: Krakow to Prague

Day 9: Prague

Day 10: Prague

Day 11: Prague and Kutna Hora

Day 12: Prague

Day 13: Prague

Eastern European Adventure, Day 10: Prague

We walked across the Charles Bridge and took the funicular up the hill to the Petrin Tower, which is a small version of the Eiffel Tower. It was 300 steps up to the top of the Tower, which was an awesome view but also very crowded.

We got some ice cream when we got to the bottom, and then we wandered down the switchbacks down the hill, which took some time. We wandered south through the neighborhood near the Staropramen brewery and then crossed the Vltava into the Nova Preste neighborhood. We stopped for some excellent kebab, and then wandered along the east bank of the river.

Molly bonks

It was really nice, but really hot, and there was a car show setting up which interfered with some of the normal businesses. We stopped for a refreshing drink at a bar on a boat, and then had another drink at a different bar on a boat while waiting for our 1-hour boat tour to begin. We took the boat tour, which was fine, but didn’t really go that far.

Boatin'

It was nice being on the water. We rode 1 ½ laps and hopped off the tour closer to the hotel than where we started, and then wandered around looking at menus for 20 minutes searching for vegetables. We ended up at sort of a ridiculous café, but there were vegetables. Then we stumbled upon a little grocery store, where got some snacks and Becherovka, and then we headed back to the room and watched Ghostbusters.

This is Day 10. Here's the full list of posts from this trip:

Day 1: Brzeg

Day 2: Brzeg

Day 3: Brzeg

Day 4: Brzeg to Warsaw

Day 5: Warsaw to Krakow

Day 6: Krakow

Day 7: Krakow

Day 8: Krakow to Prague

Day 9: Prague

Day 10: Prague

Day 11: Prague and Kutna Hora

Day 12: Prague

Day 13: Prague