Czech it out - Prague

Recently autumn is turning warmer, like around 10-12degrees in the day, which is good, and sometimes you can feel the increase in temperature, and you tell yourself okay, this is actually a bit de warm, because you have already acclimatised to 4degrees days, and it reminds you of how you're going to just die when you go back to Singapore. Anyway, with this kind of weather, I can wear only 3 layers and still not shiver and can even go without gloves sometimes, which is a very comfortable temperature.


Anyway, I love the title. I stole the phrase from the walking-tour guide, who was quite funny. I'm back from a two-week trip with a one-day break in between, and I figure I should start from the beginning, which is Prague. (I should be rushing my take-home essay now, but I find no motivation or whatsoever to start it AHHH).

First of all, the hostel/hotel we stayed in is the BEST out of all that we've stayed so far, which is around 8-10 places? I would strongly recommend Miss Sophie's if you're going to Prague. The location isn't fantastic like you can walk to the city center, but it's near to the metro, there are many cafes/restaurants nearby, and most of all the place itself is gorgeous, like the design and facilities etc. It has the nicest bed and pillow and shower and everything. Just what you need after a long day of walking.

Anyway, the trip started with us taking a train to Lund because there is no budget flight from Gothenburg to Prague, and WizzAir flies from Malmö, and Malmö is close to Lund, so we stayed one night at Lionel's place. G, JS and L were kind enough to cook dinner for us, which included G's signature sambal fish (nice!), and L's something-went-wrong curry chicken but yummy stir-fried pork with his own recipe and a neighbour's self-baked kanelbulle (cinnamon roll).


Woke up at 4am next morning and braved the cold and walked a long distance to the airport bus bus-stop, it was fortunate that the airport bus actually stops at a bus stop near their place. Boarded the bus thinking to ourselves that this is one of the things that backpackers do (waking up at ungodly hours to catch cheap flights) and that we can only do it while we're young).

The bathroom - looks so modern and like a hotel! It's like a hostel/hotel I think.

At the Prague Castle overlooking the city with a hint of rainbow at the other end

The Golden Lane inside Prague Castle - where marksmen and later craftsmen used to live; doors are much shorter than the modern doors, and now converted to little shops which I would've loved to visit but couldn't 'cos we were on a walking tour

It was around 4 plus 5pm when the tour ended so this is Prague at night.

We had KFC for dinner, which is the first time since forever, and it was oh-so-good despite the not juicy and oily and big enough part.

In between Prague we went to Vienna for a day and a half, and after that we went back to the same hostel that we stayed in, and this time they gave us an apartment which was even nicer! ^^

Hot chocolate during breakfast - it wasn't fantastic, but it was definitely the densest and thickest hot chocolate I've ever drunk

Fried cheese, which was not bad, and I think it's easy to cook! Just cheese and dip it in batter and fry
Never give New Europe Tours a miss in the major cities

The famous astronomical clock - they have 365 name days, which the clock below shows, and everyone in Prague must have a name from these 365 names

In the evening around 4 plus, the old town square was bustling with people

Stalls selling food and souvenirs, like pasar malam - just that the food never repeats, except for the sausage buns

Something like cinnamon rolls, with sugar, vanilla, toffee, almonds etc

Potato croquettes that tasted nicer than usual, because of some herb inside that we couldn't decipher

I liked the market in the old town square, it's like my kind of thing, food stalls and stalls selling nice stuff and atmosphere etc.