Prague

From Budapest, we packed up the car again and head to Prague. By the time we reached Prague, I was reaching a point of exhaustion.  After spending a week and half switching cities and beds, it was catching up to me.  So we headed out for dinner and called it a night early.  We started off with a typical Czech meal at a local restaurant.  They claimed the schnitzel was invented in Czech and that Germany stole it. I don't know.. it might be a similar argument to the chicken or the egg.

Either way, it was a delicious meal and some of the best beer for very CHEAP! We did a walkng tour of the city, which was super intereting to hear some of the history of Prague and Czechoslovakia.  It was quite interesting to hear about the onslaught of protests once Czech went from Democracy to Communism.  Czech was the 8th largest economy in the world before they entered the Communist Bloc.  Our guide told stories of what he remembered from Communism.  While our guide told us a one-sided (anti-Communist) view of their history it was interesting to hear how quickly things have changed from progress to regression and back to progress.  

The crew on the Charles Bridge

By rubbing this I am now supposed

to become a millionaire! 

The Church by the Castle

Oh to be a guard!

A beautiful view of the city from the Castle

We walked around the city some more in the days to follow. We went to the Communist Museum, which was a small museum that explained the rise and fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia.  In the US, we are taught so little about what was happening in the COmmunist Bloc, other than they were the bad guys to over-simplify 12 years of history class, so I found it extremely interesting to read about it from a slightly different perspective. An American started the museum in hopes to education later generations on the realities of Communism in Prague.  

Some of the other highlights of Prague were finding a place that sold AMAZING bagels (we took them to Berlin with us), a great pub called the Propaganda Bar (or something like that) which was underground and had a very fun vibe and was filled with Propaganda from many generations, and delicious (and cheap) beer!