City of a thousand golden spires

Holy Cow it has been a busy two and a half days! On Saturday night we flew out of Barcelona, arriving in Prague at 1:00 a.m. on Sunday.... we decided not to take the city bus into town to find a hostel, sounded kind of sketchy. So our other option was- stay the night in the airport! Which is what we did! I didn't expect our night at the airport to be the best night of sleep I had I ever gotten, and it certainly wasn't. We lucked out on finding the only couch in the airport, in the middle of a Czech exhibition of radio history.


The couch was seated infront of a big flat screen tv. As soon as we sat down and made ourselves comfortable, two Czech police officers strolled up slowly and asked for our passports and tickets. When we showed that our tickets had "Prague" as our destination, they asked, "you arrive in Prague, you go into town then?". And we said, "yes!.......later". They laughed and dropped the whole intimadation tactic, told us no sleeping in the airport, and left us alone for the rest of the night. Zach and I decided the best thing to do was to sleep in shifts, so I took the first shift and got a good three hours until 4 am or so, and then Zach slept until 7 or so. We cleaned up and hopped on the 8 a.m. bus into Prague on Sunday.




Prague has been very enjoyable! As soon as we checked into our hostel we took the metro into the old town square which was packed with Easter booths (lots of decorated eggs and whips tied with pastel ribbons- strange strange Czech tradition)... we had a great, well deserved, very satisfying breakfast right in front of the Tyn Chapel looking into the square, which kicked off the morning right.
Another highlight of Easter Sunday was going to a nice concert at St. Nicholas Cathedral in Lesser Town. Basically every church or major theater in Prague was offering an Easter concert (there are lots), so it was a hard decision to make. When we found that St. Nicholas was charging entrance fees just to see the interior of the church, we decided it must be a pretty spectacular venue for a concert, we were right! Also, they weren't playing Vivaldi's Spring from the Four Seasons, or Mozart's Night Music, so that was a plus. The church was beautiful, with some of the most resonant accoustics I've heard in a while (not always the best for choir music, but always impressive).... Zach may or may not have been nodding off through the whole concert (understandable- truly).

Today we took it a little easier, we saw the Mucha museum, went to the Franz Kafka cafe where we watched a funny Norwegian family take Absinthe shots together at 2 p.m., and wandered around the Prague Castle grounds. St. Vitus Cathedral was the highlight- and happened to be free today! Awesome. Tomorrow morning we are catching a bus to Olomouc, a little town we don't know a whole lot about yet. Then we will head to Brno- a town where our good friend Joey lived for a year. We will be staying with his friend Olda, and we are looking forward to having hosts again after spending a few nights in a hostel.


Internet access has been surprisingly difficult to get ahold of, but we will update as soon as we can!


Love,
Zach and Amanda

p.s - we tried to add on a bunch of photos, but the internet here is so slow that it is taking FOREVER, so maybe at the next computer we can add more? (and maybe some from barcelona too...)