Meet you Under the Horse's Ass

Hey gang,

Hope all of you had a fantastic Easter and are enjoying the spring weather (although I'm told there have been several snowstorms recently back home). I'm in the home stretch now with school and things are starting to get pretty hectic and pressure filled. I just took a trip to Prague, Czech Republic this past weekend just before I become buried in school. I want to share some of the trip with you and give a couple shout-outs as per usual.

Prague:

To start off, if you are ever traveling in Europe and are looking for the "wow factor", you absolutely must visit Prague! I really cannot stress how amazing this city is. It is rich in history and very esthetically pleasing. I recommend that any guy looking to propose to a lady should take her here and a guaranteed "YES" will be received. Prague really caters to all people as it has something for everyone. It also served our group of three quite well. Everything is relatively inexpensive in the Czech Republic, despite the fact that you fell like you are spending a lot. Their currency is worth about 20 times less than Canadian money. So if a beer costs 60 Czech dollars it is actually 3 bucks CAD (Check my math on that). 

We left Poznan at 5:30am and didn't get into Prague until 5pm. It was really a torturous train journey through desolate and war torn land. This may be an exaggeration but going through lesser Poland was very tough on the eyes. Some of the stations that the train stopped scared the shit out of us. I recommend flying into Prague if possible. We took the train based on price of course, so for 20 bucks round trip, it wasn't to damaging to the pocket book.

Rolled into Prague and stepped outside the train station to immediately being swarmed by mafia taxi drivers telling us that they would take us for a special deal at 980 Czech dollars (its like 50 bucks CAD). So we passed on that clearly and caught a real cab for 170 Czech dollars to our hotel. We grabbed a couple tourist pamphlets at the hotel and found a 6hr guided tour in English that included a boat tour, drinks on the boat and lunch at a sweet restaurant. The price was right so we jumped on that. The tour was unreal, the lady that gave our tour knew everything about Prague and we were treated to quite the amazing history lesson while we took in all the tremendous architecture.  Have a gander at all of the pictures below.

The tour met at Wenceslas Square, which is like the main meeting point in Prague and is all where all of the shopping, restaurants etc. are for the most part. You can see the main statue of the man riding the horse in this picture. A common saying in Prague is "I'll meet you under the horses ass". I used this line often!







There are many amazing statues all throughout Prague. All which have significant meaning in Czech history. There were so many however that I lost track and forgot what our tour guide said about them. I only remember a select few unfortunately. I do remember that our guide told us that often times the sculptor of the statues would make statues of themselves to be remembered in conjunction with the real historical statue..... I would probably do the same if I were a sculptor.
 
We took an amazing tour on a boat that swam us all over the river that divides the city of Prague. We went under the most touristy thing in Prague, the Charles Bridge (google image it if you haven't heard of it) and we were able to get some amazing pictures on the water.

 

Theater where Mozart played!

Cathedral

We also got a tour through a castle which sits at the top of Prague and over looks the entire city. It was obviously where the king and royalty lived back in the day and is now the political center of Prague. It is open to the public and we just happened to show up to the castle during the changing of the guards at the gate of the castle:

It was quite funny that we saw the guards crack up during this. So consider this video exclusive footage!

The Castle also has a vantage point a little farther inside the complex where you can see the whole city and this is where we were treated to the a tremendous view:

Prague is also home to the oldest working astronomical clock in the world. It tells you the year, month, day, time and astrology sign I believe. The tour guide told us how to read it but it was quite noisy and packed with other tourists that I could not hear the explanation.

After the tour we went out with friends we met on the tour, went back to the hotel, got ready and went back into town to begin the nightlife. We went to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner, met up with friends from the tour again, went to several clubs and had a great time. We caught the train later on Sunday at 3pm and got back to Poznan safe and sound. It was a tremendous experience and I hope I will get the chance to go back again someday.

Shout-Outs

Arnold and Sami- Thanks for an amazing trip boys. Cheers
Lauren and Pat- Thank you for the buckle and card.
Ms. Densmore- Thanks for the letter and the skype company. Glad we're not "fighting"
Ina- Thank you for the card.
All of the St.FX grads- good luck on exams and congrats on graduation.
The 2012 Boston Red Sox- Good luck this year gentlemen, hopefully another championship is in the works
Harvey- My father tells me you are following the blog. Hope all is well and that our habs will have a better year next season.
John + Keg- Excited for your birthday boys. 
KK- book it off work champ.

Thats it for now folks. Wish me luck on exams and finishing year 1 of this DDS. Given my schedule the next two months I doubt I will be able to blog until after I complete the year so I'll see you in a bit.

PS. If anyone knows of a position of work from July to September that requires one year completed of in a DDS program let me know. Rather specific eh? Cheers.

Also, Check this out if you haven't seen it. Crazy good!