We've been to Prague before, and when we arrived decided to reacquaint ourselves with the old town, taking a sunset walk on the Charles Bridge - which is reopened what with all that flooding malarky last week. The river is still quite high and there were still a few flood defenses up and police barriers, but it was nothing like it was the other week when the river peaked.
Last time we were in Prague we wanted to go to Kutna Hora, which is this little village that has a church decorated with human bones. We didn't go as we weren't sure how to get there, so we made sure it was on the agenda this time. So, on Weds, we got the train from Prague hl station which took about an hour and cost a tenner return for the both of us. We walked from the station to the town which was pretty dead, and were just congratulating ourselves on getting the place to ourselves when two coach loads of people turned up/ Nevermind. Anyway, we went in and it was very, very weird. It might have been a bit more spooky if it wasn't full of people all happily ignoring the 'silence, prosim' sign but never mind - it was still really cool. It felt like it ought to be horrible looking around at these skulls decorating the place but I just felt detached from it. I quite like the idea of someone using my skeleton for artistic purposes.
When we got back we went up to the park for some beer and to watch the sunset. We headed back through the new town to district 2 where we were staying. There's a lot of dodgy people knocking around on the main strip, you get the impression they're sizing you up to try and a. rob you or b. sell you drugs. Bit dodgy but nevermind.
On Thursday we walked around the old town again, crossing the Charles Bridge in the day (chaos) and then walked up to Prague castle to look at the views. Last time we did this is was barely above freezing, this time it was pushing 30 degrees. We went back to the town square in the evening to meet some friends from home who were visiting, had some drinks and then went our separate ways. We grabbed a curry and ate it in the park to watch the sunset - people kept looking really jealous. I felt pretty sad to be leaving Prague.
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