Prague

We just left Prague on a 7 hour train today, but it was absolutely beautiful. The city was never destroyed in the war, so the sculptures and architecture are mostly all original and really neat to look at. The Charles Bridge was my favorite sight. It is full of street performers and carts of handmade jewelry with vendors. There are these sculptures all over the entire thing from back in the day that give it a sort of gothic feel.

We went to Prague Castle and visited the toy museum which featured a Barbie exhibit, which was amazing. There were toys, dolls, teddy bears and tons of Barbies displayed in glass exhibition cases. Many of the toys were from the late 1800s and looked as though they were used by children of the time and then collected for the museum, it was really ecclectic. Afterwards we did as the Praugueites do and saw a concert in one of their beautiful halls. It was a string concert of a lot of famous peices.

We went to see the Jewish cemetery, but it was really expensive to get in so we just peeked over the fence and were able to see the graves. This cemetery was the only place Jews were allowed to be buried in Prague, so because there were so many people and so little space, the Jews were buried standing up to make room...so there were hundreds of tombstones, almost overlapping one another. It was really interesting, and sort of creepy.

We ate a traditional Czech meal which was kind of heavy but not bad, it was pretty much meat dumplings and sauerkraut. We heard that Czech beer is the best in the world, so we went to this bar that brewed its own beer, they had a sampler with beers that were flavored with coffee, or banana...kinda weird, not very good, but interesting. We drank mostly the pilsner urquell, which was pretty good, but we never found the best beer in the world.

We really enjoyed Prague, it was super touristy, but extremely beautiful and clean. We are now in Budapest for the next 3 nights, and will update the blog as soon as we can. We head next to the UK to Edinburg then London and then we come home. We are sad our trip is nearing its end, but are looking forward to seeing our friends and families again.