The town square by the astronomical clock
The most expensive meal of our trip was the lunch yesterday in the town square at Prague. We misjudged it completely and just assumed oh Prague it will be so affordable and were in for a rude shock. We should have known better that dining in the main square came with its share of costs (and food was sub par), but once you go out of main area, suddenly it all becomes very reasonable.
Where do you go?
For today, I leave you with this.
I must have clicked a thousand pictures on the Charles bridge tonight. Spectacular spectacular sunset.
Your heart is made of solid stone if you don’t fall in love with Prague. I mean Jesus fucking Christ we thought we had seen it all by now.
One of our favorite things we have done in eaxh city was to take a random tram and just… go. It’s beyond the touristy areas you start seeing some real city and urban life. Every city has had unique things to see while on a random team ride. If we had more time we would do more of it!
Straight out of a painting, this.
I guess some people have weird fetishes
This place is exactly what you think it is
Oh my my my Prague all my exhaustion has just vanished. A photographers delight you are!
The Klementinum Library has been consistently voted as one of the most beautiful libraries in the entire world and it’s well worth seeing in Prague!
Plans have been made! I am so excited about it already.
The hotel checkin at this so called 5 star hotel in Prague was so horrible I want to move out almost immediately. Before the trip the two families specifically asked for rooms together and upon checkin were told, oh, they are on same floors and we never saw your request. I was like WTF - it was already 11:30 at night after an exhausting day so we’re ok, and then we find that the hotel uses same numbers for different floors (5a, 5b, 5c) which is truly bizarre and our friends are now floors above us.
Next up, in spite of telling them we are a family of three there was no bed or bedding for the kid! After going back to reception about it they were like oh we thought it was there. Then the lone reception guy threw so much attitude at us to bring us some bedding that we only setup coz it was clear they were so inconvenienced. What a nightmare checkin for a supposedly 5 star hotel.
The AC has its own issues too. By the time I slept it was almost 3. I am already ready to fly back lol!
And finally to the last leg of the tour, a new city. We are all exhausted at this point and all of us felt that this was one stop too many maybe and we should have ended at Budapest, but oh well now that we are here we will make the best of it! Don’t disappoint, Prague!
Are you coming or going?
That’s not the entrance to Akshardham, but one of the largest thermal baths in Budapest (Szechenyi). We are glad we didn’t do the thermal baths on a warm sunny day but wow the whole complex and the area around was just spectacular.
It is not as obvious as vienna perhaps but Budapest public transport connectivity within the main areas is actually very impressive with underground subway, trams, trains and bus service all operating in unison, makes getting from one place to another super easy.
The Hungarian opera house looks like a place I don’t want to be stuck at night:
The stunning Hungarian parliament as taken from the boat tour.
The stunning Hungarian parliament as taken from the boat tour.