We’ll Need To Come Back To Prague: Too Much To See In 3 Days!

Prague is too big and has too much to offer to do it justice in 3 days.  Last time Luelle mentioned that the first thing we do in a new place is figure out the money.   How many of these for how many of those.  It is complicated a little bit by needing to have 3 currencies, Czech Crowns,  Euros, & US Dollars.   Haven’t used any Euros and Dollars only for tips.

The Czech Republic seems very proud of their culture and history and wants to use their own money, even after joining EU a few years ago. The next thing we do is figure out the transportation. In the big cities that means the “Metro” or “Tube” or “Underground” … Different cities have different names for it, but it’s basically the Subway.   The Prague Metro is very good and easy enough to understand for a first timer.    We also found a fair amount of English being understood, especially if they are selling something.   But for common speaking it is 100% Czech.

One “must see” in Prague is a walk across the Charles Bridge. It has about two dozen statues along each side of the bridge.   Mostly saints and warriors and Jesus and Mary.    We’re finding that there has been a lot of killing and intrigue in Bohemia over the centuries,  and a lot of it was over which way you believed in Jesus and Mary!

The river has a weir across it,  I think to keep the water level up.   There is a small channel going around the dam that the small boats use to go up and downstream.   see photo.

So far our favorite things to eat have been the ghoulasch and some gnochi that we had while exploring today.

We like tours to get a good flavor of a new area but we didn’t get around to it this time.   No doubt we missed some things by striking out on our own, but we also encountered some things that we would have missed if we had been on a tour.   Either way you choose to go, Prague can keep you busy for a week.

This Bohemian Knight was guarding the bridge. So we felt very safe!

We couldn't stay for the concert, but thought the blue jeans were and interesting touch of "Westernization" and relaxing of European propriety.