City 1, Prague
Day 1
So my travel break started with a sweet 14 hour bus ride from Copenhagen to Prague. Sunrise number 1, along with my first overnight travel of the trip. We arrived Sunday morning, quickly ate breakfast and then went off on a walking tour, where we hit all the major sights, including the Astrological clock, Charles bridge, and walked all the way up to the Prague Castle. It is the world's larges castle complex. Prague is a gorgeous city with lots of different styles of buildings, my favorite was the art nouveou. They also have a mini Eiffel Tower, spotting it from the hill made me feel like I was on the drive to Kings Island. We also then spent our after checking out some of the other sights in Prague, including St. Vitus cathedral, St. Nicholas church, and the Mucha museum. I really enjoyed the Mucha Museum, he is the artist who created all the art nouveou Parisian posters from the early 20th century.Then we all met up again for a private tour of a traditional brewery. They make this excellent really dark beer, and we got a free glass out of it! There was a group of Italien tourists and another of Japanese tourists, and we got in a competition of drinking songs. Well, by competition the Italiens and Japanese actually had drinking songs to sing, and we tried to think of any American drinking songs. Our most successful was Take Me Out to the Ballgame.
Day 2
We had an early start with a visit to Johnson and Johnson. Boring, but had good snacks and unlimited coffee. Next was lunch at a place where we were supposed to eat like medieval knights. Well, the food wasn't actually like traditional food, but it did feel like we were eating in a dungeon. That afternoon we took a bus to Ruckl crystal factory. The Czech Republic does not have safety regulations. The glassblowers actually drink beer while doing their glassblowing, while wearing flipflops and t-shirts. According to our guide, beer is much better than water in the heat, due to its nutrients. This explains why the Czech drink the most beer per person anywhere in the world.
Day 3
Company trip number two, Microsoft. They just pushed their new products most of the time. Today was full of crazy Prague weather, it was snowing when we left Microsoft, sunny the rest of the day, then later snowed again while thundering. I didn't think that was possible. We had a free afternoon, so we went to the Prague national Museum, which was full of taxidermied animals and had one cool exhibit about Czech history. I think it seemed so much better because it was actually in English along with Czech. Then it was shopping time! I got a cool pair of Euro sneakers, they are purple. My new goal is to look as Euro as possible. That night we had a DIS pub crawl, which was pretty disappointing. We went to only 3 pubs, and had the same beer at each one.
Astrological Clock
View from Charles Bridge, looking at the castle
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