Prague was the second city we visited, and of the five cities we visited was the only one not in a German-speaking country. Prague is an extremely beautiful city. Its a city full of quaint little alleys as well as grand boulevards. Its also a city full of tourists.
1 Starting off at the train station in Dresden.
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7 Welcome to Prague!
8 Lets start off with some views from the old city hall:
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21 can you spot the second church in this picture? hint: its fairly massive.
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23 now for some street level shots - Powder Gate, one of the former gates to the city
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24 under the gate
25 on the way to the main city square
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31 nearing the square...
32 That was the tower we were in taking those pictures from earlier... by the way, please don't mind all the tourists in the upcoming shots. We were everywhere.
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34 at the square, the army was putting on a show!
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41 the GLOCKENSPIEL! THE most overrated tourist attraction in Prague! It was funny seeing the hordes of people that would gather here every hour, armed with their cameras and camcorders, to see some bells chime and a guy blow his trumpet...
42 a fancy shopping street - we'll go down this way later
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45 in a city swamped with chinsy tourist shops all selling the same thing, a legit market:
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52 A tower of the Charles bridge, leading to the west side of the river. We'll get there in a minute - for now, lets stick to the east side.
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57 if only that one guy's head wasn't in the way...
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59 the Powder Gate again (i have no idea why its called that)
60 The street our hotel was on
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62 I don't know what this building is, but it looks important
63 its the end of the first day there, and so time to finish up the west side of the river:
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65 here's that fancy shopping street from earlier:
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67 in Germany, you really have to know where you're going to find these types of buildings. In Prague, they're the norm.
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69 the Old New Synagogue, completed in 1270. On Fancy Shopping Street.
70 By doing a simple google search, I have discovered that Fancy Shopping Street's real name is "Parizska", add a few half smiley-faces over the a's.
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72 Prague has both cool retro trams and cool new trams.
73 end of the first day - this is where we're going in a minute:
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75 the (blurry) National Theater.
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78 on our way back to the hotel, fancy shopping street again
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82 start of day 2: on the Charles Bridge
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87 NOw we're on the west side of the river, on our way to the castle. Something that will turn out to be quite a frivolous task...
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89 I wanted to see the inside this church but the rest of my family didn't
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93 alright so, right about now, at the building with the man about to kiss his deer, we start getting lost on our way to the castle...
94 i didn't mind because I got to see parts of the city I wouldn't have been able to see otherwise
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100 not lost anymore. just follow this road all the way up!
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105 that's a part of the castle complex, up there
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110 we found the castle!
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113 entrance to the caslte... and look, more tourists! What could they be looking at?
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116 we opted to skip it and go straight into the castle before everyone else did.
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118 this guy greets you as you enter the main courtyard...
119 inside, THE most beautiful building i've ever seen
120 beats Hamburg's city hall, easily.
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123 outside, its nearly impossible to get a good shot of it because its so freakin massive
124 alright, so every picture for now on, until i say otherwise, is part of the castle complex. it was huuuge.
125 another church, this one from like 1100 i think. (this was a later addition)
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129 The Golden Alley, built into the castle walls
130 inside the castle walls was all this cool old armor
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132 just to show how thick the walls are of the castle walls. they must have been atleast 3 feet deep!
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134 see that funky grey wall in the middle? we'll be there shortly
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143 the king's summer house - just a five minute walk from his main house!
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146 and we arrive at that funky wall! part of the Czech senate gardens
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149 and with that i will leave you with this less-than-perfect picture of Prague's skyline:
Vienna is next!
Hamburg, Part 1
Hamburg, Part 2
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