Prague!

I’ve been in Prague for a few days now trying to get over a cold, so here’s a post about what I’ve seen since Plzen!

So at the end of the last post I said I was off to do a brewery tour.. Here are some photos from the brewery museum and the Pilsner Urquell brewery.

Take me to the pub!

The brewery gates (which are the logo of the company)

The next day I headed out on the road with Lee, a Korean who is travelling through Europe for a few months. We were in the hostel in Plzen, then rode to Prague and were in the same hostel there for a couple of days too..

The next day I did a free walking tour of Prague.. I’ll try and add the photos at the bottom of this post.

That night I caught up with Pavel, who cycled with a friend of mine in South America last year for a while. It was great to go for a beer with him and his friends to authentic Czech pubs. I had a really good night, and here’s a photo that sums it up! (Pavel’s on the right of the photo)

The whole time I’d been in Prague I was feeling pretty average- I had a really sore throat and just felt like crap.. So I stayed another day to try and get over it. I just kinda hung out at the hostel and ate and drank orange juice trying to get better. I decided that it’s probably best to hang out here and get better when the living is relatively cheap (I paid just 6 euro for my hostel tonight (not sure why it was so cheap)).

Today I went to move on but still wasn’t feeling 100% and still had some things I wanted to see, so decided to stay put.. The first of these was the Charles Bridge, which has a lot of cool statues and things on it like this:

And some “love-locks”:

Everybody rubs part of the statues so they get shiny:

The other thing I wanted to see was the Communist Museum. I’d seen this great poster on the Walking Tour (and you can actually buy these Matryohska dolls!)

It was a really interesting museum, showing the political struggle that’s taken place in these lands in the last 100 years.. It really makes me appreciate how politically stable New Zealand has been, and how recent a lot of the history is in this part of the world.

I’ve also spent today sorting out my route for the weeks ahead- through the Netherlands and down to France.. I’m pretty excited about getting back on the bike, which I’ll be doing tomorrow!

Right, I’m now going to attempt to attach the photo album below of the walking tour- check out the photos, I hope you enjoy them!

[smugmug url=”http://dc-onabike.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=22968621_6SmtZZ&format=rss200″ title=”Prague%20Walking%20Tour” description=”Free%20walking%20tour%20around%20Prague” imagecount=”21″ start=”1″ num=”21″ thumbsize=”Th” link=”smugmug-lightbox” captions=”true” sort=”false” window=”true” smugmug=”true” size=”O”]

View Larger Map