Sunday, January 19, 2014

The Czech Republic -- Christmas Trip Stop 1

Well as many people know I have a firm belief that if you're going to get what you want for Christmas, you should buy it for yourself.  So with that in mind I decided I would get myself an interrail ticket.  I had 24 days off and a 21 day interrail ticket.  Since there was a night train from Copenhagen to Prague,  I decided that Prague would be the best place to start my trip.

Prague is an amazing city, it has great beer, amazing food, and a beautiful castle.  I stayed in what was one of neatest hostels I've ever stayed in.  With lots of great activities including baking some traditional cookies in the evening, and I love eating free cookies!  I took the usual free walking tour, and then from there went for lunch at a traditional restaurant with some new friends.   After eating the fresh homemade cookies I met another Canadian and we went to go explore Prague at night and wandered up to the castle and back. 

As some of my close friends weren't in town I decided I would keep the Prague visit short and went on to Brno to visit friends there :)

Brno was very foggy, although I did find a great Christmas tradition there! I would like to encourage other places to start the same tradition.  In the Czech Republic you will often find large pools of water set up around Christmas.  In these pools will be tones of large carp because Czech people like to have "fresh" carp soup for Christmas.  The trick is that if you want really fresh soup you should keep the fish in your bathtub and feed it each day!  (I'm serious: http://www.myczechrepublic.com/czech_culture/czech_holidays/christmas.html )

After a great night out I was off to the next country: Hungary!

Some Pictures:
 Cathedral in Prague
 The Opera House
 The Bridge and Castle in Prague
 Another picture of the Cathedral
 A picture from wandering around at night.
 The bridge and castle at night (The amazing castle lights were provided by the Rolling Stones! http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/504571/stones-light-up-prague-castle.jhtml)
Another Cathedral
Me an Katka in Brno

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