Prague

So after our delish lunch at the swanky restaurant with the view of the bridge, during which I ate caprese and pork fillet (a Czech specialty), we hit the bridge ourselves. We walked across it as the sun came out and the snow disappeared and it was lovely. We took some pictures and enjoyed the view, all the while heading toward the Prague Castle. After walking up nearly two hundred steps, we finally reached the best view of the city and the castle. We went inside the cathedral part of the complex, which was beautiful and then just sat and enjoyed the view.

That night we went out to pizza for dinner, which was surprisingly amazing, and then spent about two hours getting lost looking for a club that had been recommended to us by Eugenie's friend who spent a semester in Prague. After the second hour it was cold and dark and we were exhausted and whiny. After some rude people wouldn't give us directions, we finally stumbled upon it and ended up running into some kids from BC (of course...). However, it had sort of lost its glamour since it took so long to get there so we didnt stay long and soon headed home.

The next morning we had our last wonderful, hot shower and then took a cab to the bagel place that we couldn't find ourselves the day before. It had also been recommended to us and it was the best. I had a huge three decker everything bagel turkey club and about ten coffees. There were tons of Americans inside, which was a great break to simply hear English, and Meg ran into a family friend from home, which was crazy.

After that we headed toward the Jewish quarter of Prague to see the museums there. The first building we went into had the names and birth-death dates of 80,000 Monrovian and Bohemian Jews who had been killed during the Holocaust printed on the wall in red ink. It was insane and intense and draining. The upstairs had a memorial to the students who were killed, complete with drawings and photographs of the adorable kids. It was unlike anything I had ever seen before because there are not usually artifacts presented on behalf of the kids complete with photos of them next to their art. It could have been my kindergarteners in Ireland who had done the pictures...

After that we exited the museum to the graveyard which is also the most photographed place in all of Prague. It was gorgeous. The grave markers were all in Czech and other languages so I couldn't read what was on them, but they were heaped haphazardly all over the lawn, which was basically a hill since graves were made on top of graves since there was no place to put all the bodies. We went into two or three other museums after that, all full of Jewish ceremonial items and religious memorabilia. It was a good morning, and definitely my favorite thing that we did in Prague.

After that we headed to Wensislaus Square, which is much more touristy and very close to our hostel. We ate the recommended street vendor snack of a friend mozzerella sandwich, which was tasted just like what you would imagine, and then headed back to the hostel for some relaxing and warming up. Around nine we went back to the square to find dinner, but everything was either too expensive or didn't look good so we went back toward the hostel and found another pizza place, haha. We just went to bed after dinner since we had been up early and out all day.

The next morning we checked out and headed to the airport, which was sort of far away. Meg headed to her terminal to fly to Rome, and Eugenie and I headed to our gate for Venice.

We landed in Venice around 11:35 that day.