A big group of us went to Prague but my roommate and I went together alongside the group so we stayed at the same place but got there and left at different times. As far as one can win these things, my roommate and I won that trip. There weren't a lot of good options to get to Prague at a good time and for a a good price at the last minute before a three-day weekend. We ended up opting for the overnight train on Thurday night which was scheduled to get to Prague at 4:30 Friday morning. This is, or course, less than ideal, but as you will soon see it worked out for the best. Our better-planning companions went for bus tickets for Friday morning which were for a cheaper and faster trip, or so they thought. Mother Nature was being quite fickle that weekend and decided that the time was ripe for a snow storm. this snow storm resulted in a few things: 1) My roommate and my train was an hour late to the station and ultimately slowed to the point that by the time we got to Prague it was not the absurd 4:30 in the morning but rather the much more reasonable 8:30 in the morning. 2) The Friday morning bus to Prague was cancelled, forcing our friends to take the train anyway to arrive in Friday evening. 3) The road between Budapest and Vienna was closed, leaving a lot of people stranded. This doesn't really factor into the trip but it gives you an idea of how bad it was. Good thing we got out!
My roommate and I also stayed a bit longer than the rest of the group and took the midnight train
Upon arrival, my roommate and I got 3-day metro passes. Much like with Vienna, we never used them.
It turns out that the part of Prague you would want to walk around in is actually super small so we barely even used public transportation anyway.
Prague is a bit like Budapest in that it's beautiful and cheap and you can still feel the touch of communism. Unlike Budapest, Prague is a very touristy place with lots of touristy things and lots of little museums. I liked Prague rather a lot but much more as a tourist than as a place I would like to stay.
DAY 1:
buildings!
Fancy synagogue!
Circle of vegetation! More on this later.
Mysterious tower. With things on it? Since we were just walking around, we went to get a closer look.
A closer view of the tower. It is covered in babies.
This is the view from the tower, because it turns out you can go in:
Here's that circle of vegetation we saw earlier!
Panorama!
Hemisphere chairs!
Babies??!
BABIES.
This was a daycare directly adjacent to a cemetery. Poetic.
Big Lebowski.
Buildings and stuff.
I loves me a river:
River panorama! Yeah!
Swan
The Dancing House. It is a nice building but they actually use it for useful things so you can't really go inside. I'm pretty sure the guy at the front desk pretty much just tells tourists that they can't go in all day. Like that's his job.
This is an excerpt from the guide to Prague that we got from the apartment we were staying in. Seems legit.
DAY 2:
Breakfast at Cafe Savoy:
Qian-Sized hot chocolate!
Even the breakfast joints are in fancy buildings.
This is a statue thing near the Hunger Wall. It is a common misconception that this is the Hunger Wall. It is not. The Hunger Wall is a wall. I learned this on a cafe place mat.
This is a tree zoo. Note the size of their cages. Even in modern cities like Prague, this kind of tree cruelty is common practice. These trees don't deserve this. They deserve to be free. Please, talk to your political representatives about tree cruelty. Let's end this madness. Save the trees.
This is the churchy-cathedraly-whatever place in Prague Castle. It was really gorgeous and the most fantastic stained glass windows I've ever seen.
This is a saint guy who is important and has five stars but I forget his name.
This is the very window of the second defenestration of Prague. The very window! The window that launched the Thirty Years War! This is probably the window with the most blood on its hands of any window!
Crown Jewels [I think]!
Renekton!
Fancy shield!
Bird-man armor!
The metro! So shiny.
The astronomical clock! They say that they blinded the guy who made it so he wouldn't make anything else for other guys I guess. That makes sense and sounds like a 100% reasonable thing to do.
This guy. Apparently it's good luck to touch his junk?
This is from a medieval jail. No thank you.
Some guy busking as a Native American. Seriously offensive shit. But I guess Native Americans are a bit like our version of Gypsies.
The one market square thing place!
A tree playing a violin!
Oh! This is where I met some random guy from Vienna! I was waiting for my friends to go to the top of the clock tower and some guy asked me about the clock. I didn't really know anything about it other than that one story about blinding the guy. But we had a nice conversation and I had the most awful, expensive cup of tea ever at a nearby cafe. It seriously cost me $4 to get a kettle of not-quite-hot-enough water and a tea bag. I'm still bitter.
Day 3: Museums and what-not!
Here I will warn you that this includes a trip to the Sex Machines Museum, photos for which I will place out of chronological order at the end. I'll warn you again when I get to that bit and you may forge ahead at your own risk.
This is from a modern art museum!
Getting fancy with dem photos.
The museuming group
After the art museum, we all went to the Sex Machines Museum (photos later) at which point my roommate and I stayed to go on a tour and our companions left to return to Budapest. After the tour, my roommate and I went to a hilltop monastery brewery for dinner.
This is the drink I got. It was nice.
Random dog was hanging out in the pub.
Afterwards, we wandered around on the hill and some some things:
This is the Prague Eiffel Towel. The top is at the exact same height as the one in Paris, it just starts a lot higher too.
We found a spot with a really excellent and tree-less view of the city. Totally gorge.
And now.... Sex Machine Museum photos!
They're only NSFW as far as pictures of dildos and things are NSFW.
I think my favorite part of the museum was their old-timey porno. It was a silent-film porno with I'm guessing two distinct threesomes though I didn't watch the whole thing. I did watch enough to see the gentleman give his lady friends each a firm handshake when they left, as a gentleman does.
Thigh-high toe socks. omg.
Because God does not approve of touching during sex.
Oh god.
This is a device that will alert one's parents if their child has an erection.
Decorative penis strap. The inventor of this was a true innovator.
These are my favorite.
DILDOS.
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