Prague going going...

almost gone.

We'll be getting on a night traing to Venice at about 5pm today. It's a 15 hour trip, but we have couchettes so we should be able to get a fair amount of sleep in. We'll be getting in to Venice at about 8am.

The day before yesterday we went to Jewish-town and toured all of the synagogues there. It was really really interesting. The only bad part was getting literally yelled at by the old lady selling the tickets. We didn't have exact change and apparently she didn't have enough change so therefore we deserved to be berated. It was pretty upsetting. But after that, got to see and learn a lot about Jewish stuff. We also visited the old Jewish cemetary. It's basically tombstone upon tombstone all in a very small area and all very old. They needed more space so they just brought in more dirt, buried more people (in layers), and moved all the tombstones up. Pretty interesting.

That night, after dinner, we sat out in the old town square and had drinks and people watched. It was nice, even if the desserts we ordered were horrible tourist fare. The strawberry pie was made with jello and the chocolate cake could not have been baked by someone with any skill. It's ok though. We were paying just to be able to sit and be part of the action.

Yesterday we had an easy day. We actually decided to go check out a Czech mall. Basically, it was Westfield Shopping Center Prague... Most all American brands or brands trying to be American. I was actually trying to find any shirts or anything that had Czech writing on them, but there was NOTHING. It was kind of sad. We didn't end up really buying anything, but it was cool to be around everyday Prague-ers(?).

Last night we went to another club and had lots of fun dancing with people, most of whom really did not speak any english. Still fun.

And finally today.... we walked around to another shopping district, a really cool and modern street, very much in contrast to the old town where we've been staying. We went to H&M and I may have picked up an item or two of clothing :)

So yeah Prague has been great. It's a really beautiful city, probably the most picturesque that we've been to so far. A last note about Prague. The beer was quite good and was definitely cheaper than water. It's literally cheaper to get a 0.5 liter beer than it is to buy bottled water. We had lots of Pilsner Urquell which is the local beer of choice here in Prague it seems. It was not the best, but not the worst. We also had some Budweiser (not the American crap), which was also so so. I did however have some really excellent beer. I can't remember the name off the top of my head right now though, but I do have the bottle caps and some pictures too! Hopefully I can find it in BevMo :P

Ok that's a long enough post for now.

Ciao!