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Prague...

Prague is, to say the least, amazing. From Absinth to prostitutes, it's the craziest place I've been. Getting there was easy by car, though we had some trouble at the border because Ferri's friend Eberhard forgot his passport.

Once across the border, we were presented with rows of little prostituion huts, with the ladies out front lifting their skirts and trying to wave us into the parking lot as we drove along.

Can you believe they're still called Esso stations in Prague?

We wandered a bit on Saturday night (we didn't get there until 4:00PM), before settling down in a cheap pub. We all ate soup, dinner, desert, and between the three of us downed 11.5 Liters of beer. The total bill came out to be 900Kc, or 35,00 €. I managed the wholel weekending spending only 600Kc, less than 25,00 € for meals, beer, and hotel. Unbelievable.

At the pub. I think it's fake.

We wandered some in the north part of town that night too. Especially cool was the footbridge full of musicians and artists.

Glass Orchestra

This guy was playing Jesus Christ, Superstar on wine glasses full of water. It actually sounded pretty good.

Doesn't the Skoda symbol look familiar?

After filling ourselves with entirely too much beer, Ferri and I left Eberhard and walked around a little. He told me some history of Skoda. As for their logo, I think another logo might have been influenced by it.

Since we drank entirely too much beer, Ferri and I went back to the hotel room pretty quickly. Up bright and early to do the "Embassy Tour." It seems that they both knew what it meant, so I just tagged along.

Preview of the strip club

Apparently there are so many strip clubs and prostitute shops that competition is stiff (heh, sorry for the pun). Most shops have strippers in the windows. This one has a television screen of the inside so you can sample the eye candy before you pay for the eye candy.

The ants go marching...

Also along the way, we saw the Czech Guard marching along the streets. I guess it's a Sunday thing.

We're all German, right?

Left to right, Me, Eberhard, Ferri. I'm from the US, Ferri is Austrian, the other guy is German. Peas in a pod. We tried to get a picture at the American embassy, but we weren't allowed to take photos. And there were military police searching everyone and everything that tried to get near the Embassy. I probably could have showed them my passport, but seeing as how it was a weekend I doubt it was open anyway.

Most interesting thing about Prague? Everybody speaks English. I guess tourism is a big deal there. Even Czechs sitting around talking to each other spoke in English sometimes. Can I move there?

Posted by reid at November 26, 2002 02:45 PM | TrackBack