On my last day in Prague, I decided to go see the Bone Chapel in Kutna Hora.  Since I really only spent like $10 a day here, including beer, I decided to splurge on a tour of the chapel.  We also got to see St. Barbora’s Cathedral, which was unbelievably beautiful.

After the tour, a group of us decided to go out to this beer garden (Letenské sady) overlooking the entire city.  It was so beautiful.  We sat down with two other backpackers and ended up spending the rest of the night with them.  It was awesome!  We talked about absolutely everything:  our travels, our lives, our bread…  It was perfect hahaha

I loved Prague.  Please enjoy my pictures:

On Monday, I rolled into Prague around 1:30pm my time.  I hadn’t anticipated having extra time to do stuff, so I sat around my hostel pretty disappointed that not a lot of people seemed to speak English.  So, I pulled out my little netbook and dinked around because there is no Wifi here.  A really nice guy from California, who DID speak English, asked me about my netbook and we started talking.  I ended up hanging out with him and his friend all day running around kind of the armpit of Prague, but that wasn’t a big deal because they were really interesting.

My friend Stuart whom I met in Berlin was also in Prague on Monday, so after I left my two new friends, I waited around in Old Town Square for Stuart.  While I was waiting for him, I chatted it up with some really funny guys from Mexico and pretended not to understand Spanish so I could eavesdrop when they thought I couldn’t understand them haha.

When Stuart finally showed up, my Mexican friends left me and Stuart and I grabbed some beers and sat down in the middle of Old Town Square to watch the Spain football match.  I love how much Europeans are into football.  Football seems to form really strong community ties within every country other than the United States.

Yesterday I missed the free morning New Europe tour, so I met up with Stuart again and we walked around the Jewish Quarter.  We found a shop that sold authentic handmade Slavic tchotchke (which reminded me a lot of my Grandma’s house), so I went in and bought a hand-carved hair clip and a hand-carved palm mirror.  Then we went on a different tour with Tip Trips up to the Prague Castle.  The tour was all right, but I like the New Europe ones better and plan on going on it today.

Prague is so beautiful.  I love how old everything is.  In old cities, everything has a story.  On the side of the river with Old Town Square, everything seems to be more pragmatic and practical whereas the side with the castle has a history of mysticism and wonderment.  It’s wonderful.

Well, that’s all I have time to write before my tour leaves.  Enjoy 70+ pictures!  (I’ll put captions on them today or tomorrow so you know what you’re looking at)