A city trapped in time
Wednesday, 30 May 2007
Enroute to Prague (after an hour an a half of being held up at the Czech border!) we stopped off at a concentration camp in Terezin. It wasn't an extermination camp but many prisoners suffered here before being shipped off to worse places (if they survived). One of the interesting things was seeing what horrible conditions the prisoners were put through and right next door were the guards and their families, kids etc in huge living areas with large lawns and movies theatres, and they were seemingly oblivious to what was going on next door.
We went out to dinner the first night with a big group from the bus, where we met some great mates who we'll definitely keep in touch with. After a good meal we went out to a club called Mecca which was apparently the place to go to. Unfortunately it really wasn't and we didn't stay there very long at all.
The next day we went and checked out the centre of Prague. It really is an amazing place and you kinda walk around with your jaw wide open. We decided to do another bike tour here which was an extremely good work out, but nothing compared to the tour in Berlin. In fact our tour guide had only been living in Prague for four months!!
2nd night in Prague we went on yet another pub crawl. We had heaps of fun but went to some very average places. The first place was a hostel bar (yep and it was a scummy hostel at that too). However we did get to stand in a line and try a shot of absinthe which was good. So many people complained about the disorganisation of the crawl and the general disinterest of the people running it, that we managed to get it cancelled as a busabout recommendation!
Our last day we spent at Prague Castle, which was absolutely stunning. Definitely recommend this site and I think we'll be back in Prague at some stage as 2 days is not enough to appreciate all that is Prague.
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