Wow Prague

old town square at night

What a Beautiful place with mazes of streets, amazing architecture and fairy tale churches made magical by the heavy snow we had on our first day. We were taken on a tour by Kate an Australian who moved to Prague 22 years ago, just after Czechoslovakia split to become the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

old town square with about 15cm of snow

old town square

monument to Mozart 

old town square

This city has so many churches, but today it has a 60% atheist population. Subsequently, many of the churches and synagogs have been turned into museums, art galleries and even one pub! One Church though, did have a 600 year old embalmed arm hanging inside. So of course we had to see that but couldn't take any pictures :(. The arm belonged to a thief that had tried to steal a neck lace off a statue of Mary where, legend has it, came to life and grabbed his arm. 

Yummy Czech pastry 

John Lennon wall

"Stop looking at me swan!" 

yummy Czech beer

 One night we went on a beer tour and tried a selection of beers the Czechs have on offer. One place we went to had a selection of 30 micro brewery beers on tap! The selection included a raspberry, chocolate and even a pepper beer ( we were not a fan of that one).We also leant some of the 'rules' of czech beer drinking. For example, you must never cheers across someone else's arm or you will have ugly children. We had a great night and met some interesting people, but the mixing of so many different beers proved to be too much for Leah the next day...