So, tonight is our 4th and last night in Praha (what the locals call Prague) and we have realized that 3 1/2 days is more than enough time to see most things in the city. Now I am talking touristy things. There is of course much to see in every city, but if you are a tourist, as we are, and you focus on the important or popular things to see you can do them all in about 2 full days.
We've seen the castle, the Jewish museums, and the incredible Jewish cemetery, the ginormous metronom where Stalin's statue used to be and where when MJ visited Prague, he erected I giant statue of himself there for one day. Now I love Michael Jackson to the 'enth degree, but that's a bit creepy. We've walked across Charles Bridge and seen the astronomical clock "in action" amongst dozens of onlookers. Known for being the 2nd most disappointing wonder of the world, the Mona Lisa is the 1st and we've already seen her in all her 24"12" glory, the clock is a giant disappointment to those who are expecting a good show. To make up for its lack of, well, coolness, the city has paid a man to toot a horn at the top of the building playing the same short little ditty four times, because the tower has four sides, and wave to unhappy tourists thus making them happy again to be in Prague. We've eaten goulash and bread dumplings, gone to Bohemia Bagel twice (an awesome bagel chain here) and I've bought my Czech candy to add to my "candy from every country I visit except for Spain cause I forgot" collection. It's too bad the candy turned out to be from Holland.
Running out of things to do we saw Machete at the local English cinema, got a Thai foot massage and went to the Prague Zoo. We were gonna see the torture museum, but decided it wasn't the best thing to visit after the Jewish cemetery. Plus we paid too much to see the Jewish sights and didn't want to spend more money. So for our last night we're going to go on a bar crawl with a friend we met in Paris whom we randomly ran in to at our hostel. More later ...
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