Prague Blog : Visitors in Praha!

So this post is coming about a month after what I'm actually writing about, my bad. But anyways two weeks in a row I had some visitors in Prague so I got to be the tour guide! My parents visited the first weekend in March and my friend Melina from high school came the week after.

A few days before my parents came I had my first dabble in some traditional Czech food. I went over to a friends apartment and her Czech roommate showed us how to make strawberry dumplings. It's basically strawberries with this cream cheese/sugary thing around it. It was really good, but extremely filling.

Niki, Allison, Morgan and Dani making strawberry dumplings

Before my parents came I went to the Vietnamese Sapa Market. It was a really interesting different side of Prague to see. We had to take the metro really far out and then got on this bus. We didn't have the name of a bus stop to get off at, our directions from some website just said "follow the Vietnamese people." The definition of racist profiling, but surprisingly it worked! It reminded me a lot of shopping in downtown LA at santee alley in LA. It had a lot of clothes, sunglasses, handbags, and creepy weird toys.

Vietnamese Sapa Market

Niki with an immense amount of toys

When my parents got here we did some basic sight seeing that day and that night we went out to this fancy restaurant with my friends Laura and Niki. On Sunday we went to Český Krumlov, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site. It was a really gorgeous cute town, and has this giant castle.

View of Cesky Krumlov

My parents and I in front of the Castle at Cesky Krumlov

I spent the next weekend in town, but my roommates and a lot of my friends were out of town. I spent most of the weekend with my friend Laura from Wisconsin doing some sight seeing and just hanging out. We went to the Communism Museum which was smaller than I expected, but still really interesting to see. They had a lot of old communism propaganda posters.

Laura and her best friend

Laura and I also went to the Dali exhibit and did some touristy shopping. That night we went out with her brother and some of his friends. We started out at this one bar where one of her brothers students was performing with his band. They did a lot of covers of American songs, but they didn't really know what they were singing apparently so that was funny.

Creepy witch marionettes

The next day we went to the Kolbenova Flea Market, which made for a very janky interesting experience. The market was in a really sketch area, with really sketch people, but it was really fun to see. Most of the things there were shampoo, electronics (none of which were in cases, and most likely stolen), jewelry and other knick knacks. The reason we went there is it's famous for having communist time trinkets and things. That was really cool to see. They had tons of communist like toys, coins, and random things. They also sold guns here...

Kolbenova Flea Market

Communist knick knacks

Gas mask, type writer and old coins

Janky electronics...

Laura agrees that this places is sketch...

The week after my parents came my friend Melina from high school came! She was a year above me so she had studied abroad in Madrid for a semester last year so it was nice that she was familiar with Europe. She got here early in the morning and we spent the whole day doing a ton of sight seeing. We got lost for at least an hour trying to find the Lennon Wall, but besides that it was a successful day. Melina was here for a few days and we saw a ton of the city, and she also did a lot of sight seeing on her own when I was in class. It was great having her here cause I haven't seen her since high school so we got to reminisce a lot and update each other on our lives.