I’ve decided to make a few lists of things.

First, things that I have determined to seemingly be universal. This list is as follows:

1) English. No matter where or who you are, everyone’s default I-don’t-know-what-language-you-speak-so-I-will-be-neutral is English. With everyone.

2) Names of alcoholic drinks. Anywhere from jagger bombs or Long Island ice teas.

3) Music. I’ve heard so much music here, that even though people can’t speak English well, they can sing every line to the English song.

4) Candy Crush. Everyone is playing this game.

That’s all I have for now. Fun facts and words I’ve learned:

1) Tanty (tantrum)

2) Ciggy (cigarette)

3) British people only pay about 7,000 pounds for University (about 11,000 usd).

4) The same applies for University in Ausrtalia but they don’t have to start paying back their loans until they have a job at a certain pay level.

5) If before that happens they move over seas, they never have to pay it back.

6) Slingshots are illegal in Australia

7) In the Czech Republic you can carry small amounts of any type of drug you can think of (E, weed, meth, coke) and it’s not illegal because it’s for personal use.

8) The Koala’s in Australia have a huge clamittia problem and often die of it.

9) Everything is way sweeter here. Juice, coffee and soda tastes way different.

10) Fresh butter might be the best tasting thing ever.

Anyways, the last two days in Prague have been great! Yesterday we woke up, met up with Jade and Tracy and went to tour the Prague Castle. The castle grounds are huge! They have this huge beautiful Gothic Cathedral on the grounds too, it’s amazingl beautiful. We bought tickets that allowed us to access 4 different areas. St. Vitus’ Cathedral, Golden Land, Basillica of St. George, and the Old Royal Palace. The only bummer about all of it was that not every description had an English counterpart so not knowin Czech, there was lots we had to piece together.

The Cathedral as I said, was amazing.

Golden Lane was cute. It was basically old town Prague and what it use to look like with small shops and streets.

The Basillica of St. George didnt have much. It was very pretty though, the paintings were lovely.

The Old Royal Palace was my favorite after the Cathedral. For me, it’s just crazy cool to think about the people who had stood where I was standing, all the history held in each room, yet alone the whole palace, and that it’s withstanded so much time. The old royal palace was built at the end of the 10th century. That’s crazy. We stood in a room where soldiers charged and started the Cold War. There was a room where the King use to sit, displaying now the royal jewels. Another room we were in, the ceiling and walls were covered with the highest ranking bohemian officials’ coat of arms. It was just amazing to see and provided a beautiful view over the whole city.

We also watched the changing of the guards. It was lovely, the music was great, but it’s super freaking hot here. One guard looked like a Ken doll.

After all of this we grabbed this tastey snack that I keep seeing here but don’t actually know the name of. I would relate it to a churro. We split ways from Jade and Tracy and headed back to the hostel. We did some work that we had to do for future accommodations and took a nap. We got back up, met Jade and Tracy and headed to the meeting point for the Prague pub crawl.

For the first hour in the first bar you got free drinks of either beer, wine, vodka cranberry, or absinthe. Unlimited. Naturally we tried absinthe since that is not something you can get in the states, and at this first bar we made more friends. We met two girls from London, a boy from Manchester and two girls from New Zealand.

This was roughly our little group for the night, later joined by another man from Australia.

The Pub Crawl was great, probably one of the funnest things I have ever done. Met people from all over the world. Ireland, Austria, Italy, Sweden, you name it they were there!

I surprisingly met a lot of Americans last night as well. A guy from Colorado, a guy from Texas, a guy from Kansas, a guy from Maine, two girls from D.C. And a couple from Chicago, Illinois.

The it friend of the Chicago couple was talking with the group of us and said it was really nice to run into other Americans because it’s just having that common bond and knowing you’re not alone in such a foreign place was comforting. I totally got that, even though we didnt know each other, it’s still comforting.

Anyways, we went to 5 different bars and were suppose to go to one last one that’s a five story club but we were all over it and tired so we left!

This morning Holly and I got up, checked out by 11, had the best breakfast I have had so far, did some shopping and then busted a mission to get to our next place. We are sleeping closer to a train station because we have only decided to go into Ostrava for the day tomorrow (3 hour train ride) and will be back Saturday morning very late at night and don’t wanna walk too far back.

The coolest thing we have noticed about Prague and our waiter commented on this morning (he’s from Mexico City, Mexico. He followed a girl out here 4 years ago, they broke up and he’s still there. He says the quality of life is better) that the police presence is really good here.

I mentioned that this morning and the waiter said it really is. That there’s secret police everywhere. Apparently you could walk up the streets drunk at 3am and no one will bother you. It’s very interesting, but good to know. They are strict apparently though, but I don’t actually know, haha!

Prague has been great, but man the walking! We walk everywhere which I love, but the ground is cobblestone so that adds to it every time. And our hostel is at the top of the hill, so I’ve been a little sore! But no complaints, I love walking and seeing everything here.

Tomorrow is the Colours of Ostrava music festival! Apparently the biggest music festival in the Czech Republic! Gonna see Damien Rice! 🙂