Ok, so this was literally too late, but at least something…a couple of months later
18th of August
We started our second day in Prague by eating breakfast at Kumbál, a little cozy café on the same street as our Airbnb. They offer sweet and salt breakfasts, some healthier and some more filling and less healthy stuff, a lot of different kinds of tea, coffee and some other good snacks, if you want to check the place here is their website. I had a plate with some bread and different kinds of spreads – tuna and eggs, and a coffee, while my boyfriend opted for a homemade muslie.
We started our second long walk in Prague by getting to Wenceslas Square, stopped at a few souvenir places, and a kids shop full of games, staff dressed in funny clothes and nice choreographies. Now that I am writing, I actually find it difficult to understand that we walked as much as we did and saw and visited as many places as I am actually writing about. Since well, after the shop full of games, if I am not wrong and confusing everything, we visited the “city tower” or better the astronomical clock. A lot of steps and really nice view from the top, we made our way down, and found the wax museum which not only had the most common statues of famous actors and singers, but also introduced a bit into the traditional medieval history and fairytale of Prague.
Later we made our way to the Jewish ghetto, which we had walked by the day before but could not visit because closed. The ticket comprehends a long list of buildings you will be able to visit, and which are located mostly close to each other, except for a few ones that are a bit distant from the Jewish district itself. Here come some photos:
While visiting the ghetto, we started thinking about what to eat for lunch…we went around hoping to find some kind of traditional Czech kosher food. However, most of the places we saw had middle-easter liking food, and because my boyfriend is of Lebanese origin, and we have been eating Arabic food quite much in the last time, we opted to visit Lokal once again, the same place where we had eaten dinner the day before, the first day. We met the same waiter, things go so fast and easy when you travel and everything is new but still familiar and friendly! This time we said no to beer, and the guy went: “you don’t like beer? Oh my God…” and went away shaking his head and laughing. We were very tired of all the walking the day before and we just sat, ordered a new traditional dish – or actually more than one – and even ordered a dessert at the end…which I do not think we made in time to think we should take a picture of…funny enough…
We went back to the ghetto and visited many of the places left, such as the cemetery and other ones which right now I am not able to remember as quite much time has gone since we were there…lesson learnt for the next time!
By the way, we gathered our last energy, went through uphills and downhills in the park, to finally arrive home and take a nap. Later it was time to eat dinner, and we chose a place close to the airbnb we stayed at, called Holesovicka Sedma. A nice pub with good food, good price – so strange uh? – and good atmosphere.
Prag 7 is surely a neighborhood to stay at if you are in search of a quite spot not busy nor visited by tourists, with some local markets here and there, good vibe in the neighborhood, low prices, although this also often goes hand in hand with shops not accepting credit cards. All monuments are easily reached by feet here in Prague, or better said, Prague is a really nice city to walk through as the buildings have wonderful colors, there are street food stands everywhere and in a half a hour walk you can get pretty much to very new and different places. After one and a half day in Prague we had walked in total 32 km, but this is, as already named, something that differs from person to person, from traveler to traveller…
Well, a couple of months more and you will be able to read about our third day…deal? 😉
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