Guess it's a combination of the crappy USD and increases in prices, but Praha is not the Eden of bargains it used to be. We had a great time though, and our accommodations are nice and reasonable. We are staying at the Aparthotel City 5 and the staff here is great. We 
started our first day with a stroll across the Charles Bridge into Old Town, and grabbed dinner at Navomestsky Pivovar, as recommended by my friend Steve. This is a brewery/restaurant, which was excellent and had reasonable prices. I had the dark beer 
goulash with horseradish, spicy sausage and bread dumplings, I of course had their house dark beer to keep it company...good stuff. (And who would pass up a dish with 'spicy sausage'? Not I).
We then caught an alternative theater show at the Black Light Theater. It was a trippy show about Alice (in Wonderland) as she goes through her adult life. Very wacky, but I did get to see her 'you know whats' so that made it worthwhile, love Prague ;)
Our second day we started with a tour of Prague Castle, oh after a 
stop at Starbucks (I needed a fix of the coffee I love and am used to), we did complement it with some apple strudel though. Other than there being a lot of grinds at the bottom of the coffee, it was damn good. So back to Prague Castle, we decided to pay the extra Crowns to do the audio tour, which was 
definitely a good idea. The St Vitus Cathedral is amazing, so beautiful. The rest of the castle is pretty cool (not as cool as the one in Salzburg). We then headed back to Old Town to check out the open market and ended the day with (drum roll please) a Mexican Dinner (I know..getting Mexican in Czech is nutty..and should be done only at your own risk). There is a place accross from our hotel called Hombre (how can we not go there). As expected, it was no Don Juan, but we were able to get a decent enough light inexpensive dinner. It seems people drink bottled water here in Czech more than in Switzerland and Austria, I am assuming the tap water is not as good (which makes sense based on mountain / river location).
We enjoyed Prague, there are certainly A LOT of tourists here, but luckily much less soccer frenzy. We have a long train ride (about 8 hours) ahead of us tomorrow morning from here to Krakow, Poland. I am looking forward to being in a less touristy location, and we will be there for 4 days...so it will be good to wind down a bit, also we are staying with family..so that will be nice. Off to bed...(I almost bought the 'Czech Me Out' t-shirt ;)).
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Maybe the Czhech water is an aphrodisiac and they don't want the tourists to know.... Drink up!
Ha, turns out the water supplies and filtering are not nearly as clean in Poland and Czech as they are in Austria and Switzerland (and US of course). Funny thing is in Austria and Switzerland they will try to sell you bottled water even though the tap water is perfectly fine. Another tourist trap.
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