Prague Rocks!

We just got back from 5 days in Prague and it was amazing. We couldn't believe all the insane architecture, just about every building in the entire city is a work of art. There are statues and monuments all over the place. The Charles Bridge is beautiful, with large statues on both sides every 20 or 30 feet and big towers on each end. And there's a torture museum at the end of it, but we're going to wait and see that when we go back in a couple months.

Prague also has what is supposed to be the largest castle in Europe, but I don't actually know if that's true or not. And even though it doesn't really look like a castle in the traditional sense, it's very impressive anyways. Inside the castle walls is the mindblowing St. Vitus Cathederal (that's what the pic is). We toured the inside but I didn't get any shots since I had already taken 435 pics and used up all 7GBs of my memory cards. But I'll definitely get a bunch of the inside when we go back. There are stained glass windows everywhere. Our guide told us that one of the windows had over 96,000 pieces of glass. We also got to climb up a long winding staircase into one of the towers and get a great view of the city.

Next time we go back it should be quite a bit more peaceful since tourist season will be over, although I hear that there are always tourists around. And even though the streets were pretty crowded while we were there, they tell us that it was actually slower than usual. But the streets clear out more once it starts getting dark, and I plan on getting a lot of night time shots on our next trip. I also plan on buying a bunch of souvenirs since I didn't really buy anything this time. We bought some beautiful handpainted vases and oil lamps, but not much else. There are shops everywhere and even though most of them all have a ton of the same crap, their crap is way cooler than most places I've been too.

I put a bunch of my shots on my flickr page, so go check it out!