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Saturday March 3'rd
Leaving Vejle by train at 6.48 am. Change train in
Fredericia. In Hamburg at about 11 am - and a two hour wait before the departure for
Prague.
Arrival in Prague at 8.30 pm - it's raining a little - and
there's still a little snow lying here and there. A short walk to Hotel Axa - check in - and relax.
Sunday March 4'th
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Getting up pretty early. A long walk from the hotel - via
downtown - to the Castle - one of the famous sights in Prague. This walk takes me throug the old Prague and
across the Charles Bridge. There is a huge number of souvenir and other crap-shops. Then
it's up the long hill to the castle. Gets to see the St. Vitus Cahthedral and the Old
Royal Palace. Changing of the guard at noon - a little rainy - so the music keeps
in-doors, with open windows and blow their horns. Lunch at Malý Buddha close to the castle. There are Buddha-figures in a room
at the end of the restaurant, they play silent meditativ music, most courses are
vegatarian, no alcohol around - only "healing" wines - and there is a strange
smell of incense. Get myself a good lunch - for around 2 us$ - before I walk back to the
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Another walk in the evening. Up and down Václevské
Námesti. A shopping-street when it is worst.
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Monday March 5'th
I start the day with a trip to the old jewish
part of Prague called Josofov. I take a look at the old jewish cemetary and some old
synagogues - now transferred to small museums, which they can use to fool the tourist and
charge an exceptionally high fee to get in.Now
it's time to get a little away from tourist-Prague. So I take the very efficient Metro to
the Vltavska-station. Here is a funny - and very local - market - and surely some other
prices than in downtown. Well - some of the stuff they are selling do look a little
"hot"..... Then I walk to the station in the neighbourhood called
Holesevice. This is a more normal neighbourhood, where real people work and live. From
there I take the metro home. A quarter for a metroticket - that's kind of cheap I think.
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Another break at the hotel - before I take a stroll around
downtown for some more nice houses, beautiful squares and impressive buildings. Pizza and
a pint at a small restaurant in one of the sidestreets for 3$ kind of finishes this day.
In fact thats about half the entrence-fee to the jewish cemetary.
| Tuesday March 6'th
The longest walk on this trip. From the hotel -
via downtown - to U Lanové Prŕhý. From here there is a steep funicular railway to
Petrin Hill with a nice view across Prague. There is a tiny fantasy-castle Biudiste with a
nice little labyrinth made out of mirrors. There is also a mini-Eiffeltower - which was
closed du to renovation. Then I follow the Hladova Zed to the Strahov monestary - where I
get another 3$ lunch at a nice little cafe (including a pint - and coffee at the top).
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From here it is down-hill towards the
Moldau-river. If you keeps right from the main tourist-route up towards the castle, then
you will find a very nice neighbourhood with lots of nice houses. From there you can walk
to the peninsula of Kampa in the river of Moldau. Here I met the only drunkard on this
trip - he thought that Denmark had something to do with Valhalla!?. From Kampa you can
walk up to the Charles Bridge again - and you are back on the mainstream tourist-route Back to the hotel - via the famous city-square
of Prague - better known as Staroméstské namestí. There are huge numbers of con-men
around here, trying to sell tickets to strange classical concerts. Smetane seems to be the
guy that is the huge hit this year. Well - just tell them that you prefer rock'n'roll, and
they will let you go.
At the hotel it's time
for a short rest before going by the metro to Paegas Arena and tonights hockey-match
between Sparta Prague and Pardubice. It's the last game before the play-offs and
Sparte has to win it to get through. Pardubice is safe. 8.300 spectators. There is a good
and intense athmosphere in the rink. The match is great - and fast. Sparta win by 6 - 1,
and almost everyone is happy. So it was sure worth taking the trip - and paying the
enormous (!) entre-fee of 2$ for the match. Take
a walk back to the hotel. Late dinner at a local pizzaria - 3$ including pint and coffe -
this is not the trip where you will go bankrupt. |
Wednesday March 7'th
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Metro to Vysehrad. Here is another fine castle - with a good
view across Moldau and Prague. Very peacefull around here - not a single group of
"umbrella-tourist" which is everywhere in the center and at the real castle. From here there is a long walk to the center - lunch at
McDonalds (embarresing) - and not less embarresing because the only thing on the menu I
know from back home is a "happy-meal" - so I ordet that - and finally notices
what I have orderer, when the guy at the desk asks me what kind of toy I would like
together with my meal :-)
More sightseeing in the center, before I turn my nose back to
my afternoon-rest at the hotel. |
In the evening it's time for a little culture, visiting the Laterna Magica. Laterna
Magica is a kind of multimedia-theather, that once was critic to the society and
"dangerous". Now they seem to run it to make the tourists happy - and all the
money you can create by doing so. On the other hand, I find it pretty good - but I'm not
used to so much...
Thursday march 8'th
| Last day in Prague. Another long walk. First to the
city-museum of Prague. A kind of old-fashioned place. From here I walk to the
neighbourhood of Zitkov - and a walk up to Zitkov Hill. Here are one of those
eastern-european monoments. First it was a tribute to the unknown soldier, but then some
communist-leader those to use it as a mausoleum for himself. Now it's just a kind of
nothing - slowly falling apart. From the hill down to Zitkov, which is a very
nice workers-neighbourhood. Lunch at restaurant Victoria - gulyas for 1$ and 50 - a pint
is almost 50 cents - best bargain on this trip. On Chech restaurants don't make it a
problem that there are no tables available. If there is a free spot at a table where other
people are sitting, it's ok to sit down there. I like that attitude. Further on in this neighbourhood before things turn into concrete-slum. Then
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Back at the hotel in the afternoon, and thats all for today.
Feet up, telly on and a good book this evening.
Friday March 9´th
Wake up early. Leaving Praha Hlavni Nadrazi at 5 to 9 am for
Hamburg. Not the most exiting traintrip in the world, but its nice anyway to relax, and
there are plenty of space.
In Hamburg at 5 pm. Into the restaurant to get a
wiener-schnitzel (this is Germany!), before another train takes me to Fredericia. There I
wait an hour before a third train take me to Vejle. Back home at midnight.
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