Once we made it over to the left side of the river it took us about 15 minutes, in the rain, to find the castle entrance. Luckily, about 15 minutes into walking around the gardens the rain stopped and we were able to enjoy the beautiful trees, flowers and landscaping. As you will see when you scroll down to the pictures, Katers had ton of fun with her new camera in the gardens.
Once we made our way through the gardens we headed over to the main castle entrance where we arrived just in time to see the changing of the guards. We both have seen the changing of the gaurds in Washington D.C and were not too thrilled with the overly long procession, so we weren't too sure that we would want to stay and watch this one, but thought that we would give it a shot. It was actually quite cool to see and thankfully it was only about 5 minutes long in total. We got a few good shots of the guards walking together.
After watching the guards we decided to spend some money to go into some of the buildings in the castle. I had heard somewhere or from someone that the Prague Castle was cool and to go check it out. Unfortunately, Katie and I did not agree and were totally bummed that we had spent 20 Euro each, or about 35 dollars each on this place. We went inside the Old Royal Palace which had a few neat things to see such as an old throne, old church and a great view of the Charles River. We also went into a Basilica and a convent. We had the chance to go into the Cathedral but we had an unfortuate problem. For some reason that day the bees were loving me and while we were waiting in line to get into the cathedral I kept having panic attacks while bees were swarming me. I mean, there were so many bees that I even threw my sando on the ground. I wasted my lunch :( Oh yeah and Kate wants me to note that I also threw my purse and that old ladies behind us were laughing at me. After completely embarassing myself because of the swarmping bees we decided that not only was it freezing but that we werent really impressed with the castle and would rather spend the rest of our time in Mala Strana, so that is where we headed.
We wandered Mala Strana a bit, grabbed some delicious breakfast bagels from a cute little bagel shop, then meandered over the Charles Bridge one last time and went back to our hostel to get our bags. It took us a while to get to the airport and then we had to deal with the pain in the ass airlines, who have now decided that they are going to charge an absurd amount for baggage. I swear that these airlines have completely ruined my travel budget... I hate them! Anyways, Katie and I split one last Starbucks, managed to get yelled at my a cafe worker for sitting in the wrong seat and be hasseled by some kiosks that are supposed to be friendly to tourists-all before boarding our plane.
Once we landed in Bergamo we were totally excited to get picked up by the people from our B and B. They had the new Fiat that Katie is obsesses with so she was pretty stoked! Our B and B was SO ADORABLE. We were in the Venice Room which was funny cause we were headed to Venice the next morning. It was the most romatic room, too bad it sisters sharing it. hahaha!!!
All in all, Katie and I loved Prague. It was cute and quiant and adorable to just browse through. We thought that there would be more sights that we would enjoy, but we found ourselves just falling in love with all the neat parks scattered throughout the town. Katie would like to visit it again someday, I on the other hand, enjoyed but would not necessarily go out of my way to plan a trip back. However, we both agree that people should definitely go there...just make sure to brings lots of books to read in the charming little parks.
The pictures below are going to be out of order sorry and I loaded them smaller but you can double click them if you desperatly want to see them big.
Cathedral
Park in Mala Strana
Castle garden
Changing of the guards
When it was raining in the gardens
Katie eating lunch
Cathedral
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