27/05/2010 - 21:22 - Day 2 – Prague, Czech Republic
I always find sleeping in a new place for the first time difficult, there after it’s rather easy and it all feels so natural. This was the case last night. Despite being stupidly tired, I still managed to wake up several times in the night to various noises, drunk Czechs in the next room, traffic and Laura’s coughing fits. Unsurprisingly getting up at 8am (7am UK time) was rather painful and I had a pretty bad headache.
Nevertheless after a shower, lots of drink, breakfast and some painkillers I was set for the day. The breakfast was pretty good for a freebie, Czech tea not being a complete disaster being a highlight! It was actually rather good.
We headed out at about 10am for the Old Jewish Quarter, but didn’t go into anything because it was £15 to go into all but one sites. The other cost £5 alone. Unsurprisingly the two we had set our hopes on seeing were in separate categories and we couldn’t justify spending £20 on a cemetery and the oldest synagogue in Prague!
We spent the rest of the morning looking around Old Town, scaling the old town hall in the process. Probably shed a few pounds in the process! Great views from the top! We then came back down, and had some lunch on Náměstí Republiky before looking round some of old town and some of new town in the afternoon – a particular highlight being the St James Catholic Church, which was worth the wait (we went earlier in the day and it was closed!)
We went for tea at about 6pm, slightly later than yesterday, I had the same as the day before, although better sauce – there are those pounds again! I also had a couple of Pilsner Urquells to wash it back too which, conincidentally are cheaper than cokes. You can get a large beer at the place we ate for 31.90 crowns, around £1.25, yet a 20cl coke (less than half the size of the beer) was 44 crowns, £1.50!!
I digress, after the meal we then headed to Vyšehrad for a quick walk up a hill for a nice view over Prague before coming back to the hotel, and here we are now!
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