Prague

So it has been a long time since I was able to post something, I am truly sorry! Anyway, the night train to Prague was sursprisingly comfortable -- probably the best night of sleep than I had previously. Agatha, Sarah and I shared a sleeper cabin and we had a giggling fit that lasted about an hour, I think that we were a bit delirious.

Upon arrival into Prague, I was hurting pretty bad from all of the walking that I had been doing so I elected to rest in the morning which was nice to catch up on sleep too. For the afternoon, we went to Prague Castle which words cannot describe the beauty of these grounds. The stained glass was absolutely phenomenal including a woman artist who did the last two of the panels. Unfortunately, I have limited pictures of my 3 days in Prague due to my camera battery going kaput on me. :( That evening after dinner we went to a very authentic working class pub which turned out a pretty good story. At this pub there was limited seating we had only one choice, to sit with Pawel (a very goofy man but very sweet). I believe that Pawel had already been there for quite some time as he was quite animated when conversing with us. He did fall in love (so he says) with one of my fellow participants, Lauren, which made it so funny to see him try to get her attention. He even left the pub to go and pull some random flower for her -- too funny.

During our free day, we went to the Museum of Communism which made me very appreciative of having a democracy rather than living under a communistic regime. Of course sensitive me, I had tears by the end. Next was the Mucha Museum (showcasing Art Noveau) which had so many designs more than I had ever seen before. By the end of that, we were all pretty tired so we went to the river and sat in the park just relaxing. We did the same for our last day after we went to Konopiste Castle and the television tower.

Unfortunately, I cannot say that we had a pleasant experience on the train ride back to Krakow. Due to lack of air circulating through the train and an unexpected delay of two hours meant we were all awake for the majority of the night.