If a whole bunch of college students designed a city, it would be Prague. Party every day and every night. The buildings were all over the place. The streets were winding and confusing. The people are either drunk, homeless, or about to be drunk.
My entertainment consisted of going out one night to an Irish pub and listening to Irish music. The rest of the nights consisted of laundry, face masks, and sleeping. Lets just say I did not do Prague the way most do Prague. The people in Prague were louder and spoke less English than in Vienna. It was dirtier as well.
The building were an eclectic combination of many different styles. Modern, baroque, rococo, classical, and sometimes idk what the heck it was. Landscape had more hills than Vienna, which meant much more stairs. I think my butt will be so toned by the end of this trip.
As I said in the first blog, I don't really expect, I just do. But I've been told was a party city, so maybe I expected to see a lot of drunken college kids, which I did. Also I knew it was under soviet control for a long period of time, so I would say I expected to see some responses to that. Such as Liberalism, drugs, art, drugs, alcohol, poetry, and frankly just some messed up people. All of which was confirmed throughout my stay.
My conclusion was that Prague was built in many stages that are inconsistent in their planning. There are a lot of sectors and it is very confusing to the unsuspecting tourist. I feel like it was built to be built and not to have order or function.
My cultural insights is that Prague is an old city with a history of Empire. But, because of Soviet rain and communism, Prague has become, for lack of a better word, loosey goosey. Meaning that the pendulum of history shifted from strict rules and regulations, to few rules and regulation.
But it was cool. I met some Australians that were nice.
And no, they don't have pet kangaroos :(
Good day mate.
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