PRAGA- PRAHA- PRAG- PRAGUE ( and the adventure before seeing the beauty)
4 Apr
the most wonderful city I’ve ever seen.
it got high in my top cities…like it just jumped on the first place, so London and New York’s Manhattan come after it!!!
so much beauty concentrated on every hill top, along any street, in every building, on every wall, in every brick of a wall… so much history kept on that surface, and even if everything is old, is still new, clean, in refreshed colors. It’s perfection – felt in every detail – and there are details everywhere.
It ‘ s like every architect, every building maker had a sense of beauty, and they tried to place everything in a special way, that complete the whole image…
for me it were only 3 and a half wonderful days, a very funny and cute traveling mate, a nice host, hurting feet and eyes washed with beauty – if i am allowed to express like that.
so I am in love with the city. the only thing is that f*(^& complicated language… and the lack of information signs in English. they really should do something for the tourists that don’t know Romanian or Hungarian or don’t have imagination by trying to guess what words can mean…
everything started with an adventure. actually nothing was so rigorously planed even if the thought of going there existed for at least 3 months ago. i got there hitchhiking:)) never thought i will do smt like that all by myself, but “booking” somebody on the internet didn’t seem such a bad idea, and a 2 hours way couldn’t be that bad. i actually found someone from Romania, Cluj more exactly who studies here and was going home thru Prague. Lucky me. We got there he left me where i had to meet my friend , the address said by the gps was the correct one.
but where was I Sunday evening at 8 pm? on a huge street. a big building, no signs. i am looking at the building, hoping it was the state opera, but it was the train station, one of them, the bigger one. ( i can’t say which one:)) hl.n. …smt:))
ok…going to the information – the lady explained me in English that i had to walk not even 5 minutes, and go that way – and she pointed a direction. ok…fine. got out of the building somehow, and got the direction i thought she showed me. Wrong direction!! Darkness, rain, I was under some bridges, i saw only an older alcoholic guy… got spoookier and spookier when i saw on a house that i was in prague 3 not prague 1…
there where not many people on the street. i asked whom i could, everybody pointed directions with their finger but no one really knew where the opera was… my friends roaming wasn’t working, my phone was dying… but still she called me from some public phones, but couldn’t tell where i was, how to reach her…
finally i get on a street that drove me to a huge nice thing, to a place full of tourist, to a big yellow building – that i supposed it was the opera. but it wasn’t. i finally found the huge maps of the city, but the sign of u are here was missing on both of them… fuck fuck fuck!!!
I asked 2 guys. One of them was playing at the opera, so… he knew where it was, but couldn’t explain – but they proposed to drive me with their car there, cause it was easier, and close enough. ok… the proposal scared me… i would usually NEVER say yes… but after 1 hour of running in every direction and not knowing where i was i accepted. he said i should tell everybody that the guys from the Chech republic are nice. so i am saying it officially, cause they drove me to my friend, and i am very thankful to them!
Then, I am thankful to Brano, our host from the couchsurfing.com program, that by the way u should try it! the program is a very smart thing for traveling with no sleeping expenses, with no money for hotels, motels, or whateva…and u get to know interesting people that might show u the city, might reveal u the places that must be seen – insider secretes, u get to know the culture of it thru a person that is living it…
and the rest is beauty – and history…and thx God it’s kept in more than 800 pictures:)
enjoy – AND VISIT PRAGUE!!!!
And pictures can’t reveal the hole beauty of it, not even the half of it…and it can’t give u the feeling u get walking on those streets, or hills…
P.S.: important words that must be learned: pivo cerny (or cerna??) – black beer – the best we ever tasted!
