The best thing about traveling in Europe is that every country is connected to each other one way or another, transportation is so efficient that you can literally visit every single place as long as you have the money. So we took a bus from Vienna, Austria all the way to Prague, Czech Republic.
The bus was equipped with refillable hot beverages like Latte, coffee, hot chocolate, Mocha etcetera. There are televisions with movies and even wireless connection in a moving bus! What’s best is the view – hectares of sunflowers!
We arrived pretty late, just in time for dinner. Checked in the hostel that we booked and we went to one of the local restaurant serving great Czech cuisine.
I had grilled sirloin with cream sauce, raspberry sauce and bread dumplings [picture on top most]. Eelin had some pork pancakes with vegetables, Mike ordered mix grilled that probably would be able to serve an entire football team since every single dish was extremely huge.
I found something interesting, Czech language is pretty similar to Russian language. Alphabets are written in English but when you actually read it out, it sounds the same as Russian. Approximately 50% similar to Russian, even when they converse. However, I tried speaking to them in Russian since this counter lady couldn’t understand English as I approached her wanting to get a 48 hours transport ticket. In the end, I used sign language.
Morning walk to Dvorak Museum, weather was nice so I wore a white shirt with a thin grey-striped cardigan and snap a picture with Mr. Dvorak himself.
We had a Jewish tour around the Old Jewish Cemetery & synagogue, one of the most important historic site in Prague. Mostly history of Jews and artifacts and paintings on burial processes and equipments that tourists were not allowed to take pictures of. There was a street of kiosks and stalls selling hand crafts, Eelin got me a leather bracelet here with the word ‘PRAGUE’ imprinted on it.
Imprints and tombstones are pretty scary and there were Jewish laying their hands murmuring or chanting some prayer as they came across this particular tombstone.
Some other interesting thing that caught my eye, like this public toilet that also functions as a traffic light on top. Innovation.
Antique jewelry that costs more than those in Tiffany & Co. despite the random cheap-looking arrangements like the ones in night markets.
Prague City.
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