prague continued....

Alright sooooo next morning... snuck out of the room in hopes of NOT seeing our not so friendly roomie. They served breakfast at the hostel, which was very convenient so naturally we consumed as much free food as we could possibly intake.

After stuffing our faces with bowls, and bowls of cereal we went on a hunt to find Lauren. She had landed early early in the morning and was wandering around the city trying to find us. We finally ran into her hours after the hunt started. Just a little tid bit, there are approximately 4 different clock tower churches in Prague... all on different corners of the city. yessss

Since it was Easter, in the main square there were little stands of food and people selling trinkets all over. There were also decorations for easter, with easter eggs in the trees and little people dressed up as bunnies. Along with food, people were selling KAVA!!!!!!! I was amazed to see signs for kava all over! (remember kava is the polish word for coffee). Thus I was advertised everywhere, and thus felt pretty special of my heritage right then. Another reason why I loved Prague so much. I was constantly reminded of myself everywhere I turned and able to smile every time I saw a sign for coffee.

It was a nice day that day so we decided the best way to see all the sites was a free walking tour. Free is always better too. Our tour guide was pretty hilarious. He had a weird sense of humor and was extremely animated so it made the tour pretty entertaining. We walked around for literally three hours, which was great but sooo sooo long and we were dead afterwards, considering we did not get a lot of sleep the night before because of our roommate situation....

Went back to the lovely hostel and took a quick cat nap before our adventurous pub crawl. I have a friend studying abroad in Prague and she said the best thing to do at night in Prague is go on a pub crawl because then you can experience many places in just one night. Took her advice and it was a complete success. We went to three different pubs and then a club to the end the night off. Yet again met soooo many people from all over. One group of kids were actually study abroad students as well studying in Spain. Other then them, they were mainly young adults in their 20s from Ireland, Australia, Portugal, China.... that is about all I can remember. Mostly people from Australia though. We met a lot of different groups of people from Australia, ironically.

Since we booked our hostel only a couple days before we arrived in Prague, the hotel didn't have room for all four of us to be in the same room each night. We were all placed in different rooms with random people. Of course, the four of us were too scared to sleep by ourselves that we paired up and bunked in each others rooms. I slept with Lauren in one room and Bree and Meg slept in another room. There were no issues that morning, thankfully. When Lauren and I woke up we went into Meg and Bree's hostel room to see the kind of people they were rooming with. Surprise, surprise that there were three boys from Australia and another older lady from Australia. These boys were SOOOO SOO funny. We sat in the hostel room for over two hours talking to these mates. They were telling us hilarious stories about there experiences in Europe and giving us some of the hot songs in Australia. Ironically again we discovered that the boys were just in Prague for the holiday and were currently living in Noting Hill, London.... the town right next to Kensington.... small small world it is. But the holiday they were here for was not the Easter holiday. It was Sports Day in Australia. That was the holiday they were here for. I guess in Australia they have a full day of just constant sporting events. It was their favorite holiday of the whooolllllleeee year. There plan was to go to an Australian pub alll day and night and watch the events. Us girls were not really into watching sporting events all day while we were in Prague so we decided we would meet up with them later that night at the pub to end the holiday off.

Our plan for the day was to do a spider bike tour. We saw advertising for an eight-person bike tour while we were on a  hunt to find Lauren the morning before. It was a beautiful day so we were determined to find this spider vehicle.

The streets in Prague are very very confusing. They were so small, and all intertwined that it made it hard for tourist to get around. Luckily, we had tour guide Meg figured out the maze and led us to our destination.

The bike was SOOO BIZARRE. It was shaped in a circle with eight little mini bikes around the circle. It's hard to describe but all in all we looked soo silly. As we were riding down the streets, people could not stop staring. I felt like a celebrity with all the pictures that were taken of us.... apparently the spider bike is not used that often so people were in awe when we traveled through the city on it.  Our tour guide was pretty excited about it and he appreciated us advertising his bike and tour company.

After the tour, we went to the clock tower church that was right behind out hostel. We climbed to the top to get a panoramic view of the entire city. It was crazy how all the building tops had the same red roofs. At the stoke of every hour, a little man toots a little horn. He plays a little song from the tower top and people crowd around to listen to him do his performance. We happened to be up there on the hour so saw him playing his song.

Dinner time came around pretty fast. We went to the oldest cellar in Prague that was underground. There was a little banjo band playing in the dark cellar as we ate our huge portions of food.  Pretty coool.... then we promised the Australians we would stop by the pub to see how the events were going. It was a pretty small pub and we were so tired from the night before that we were literally planning on stopping in, say hello and peace out to go to bed. This was not the case at all. The boys made us try the Australian drink.. rum and coke before we left. We only had one drink and clearly they had way more cus they kept on buying us more and more and more. haha. I don't know why but they were so entertaining and sooo much fun. The pub was playing Australian music and every time one of their favorite songs came on, they jumped up on either the bar or table to do some sort of dance and sing to the music. Luckily, they had made friends with the owner earlier on in the night, so he was completely fine with three, pretty big boys dancing all over his tables.  Only once out of many many attempts did they manage to drag us up on to the table with them.

Next day, we shopped a little more at the easter square celebration and bought some souvenirs. After that we walked all the way to the river to the famous Charles Bridge to hike up the hill to see the Prague Castle. Yet again we witnessed a wonderful view of the city.... went to bed soon afterand woke up early and flew home back to London.
Last european trip, and it was a great way to end it. Exhausted from traveling, that's for sure.