The City of 1000 Spires

Prague is the first city on our trip that we have not met or stayed with on our trip. It was very exciting setting out with no one to contact or anything. We were given a pamphlet at our hostel of various activities, one of which was a free tour of the city! How perfect!! We immediately decided to go and planned our day around it. 

It was one if the best decisions ever. Our tour guys was an awesome Australian guy named Callum and he was young and hilarious! We started our tour at the oldest working astronomical clock in the world! Every hour on the hour between 9 and 9 the clock puts on a little show! There are these 2 small doors that open and it reveals the 12 disciples rotating around one in each window at a time. At the same time, these four figures all move their heads. It might not sound like much, because it really was not impressive, until you consider that the gears and everything were built in 1410! 

We learned that and so much more about Prague, the buildings we were seeing, and the whole history of the Czech Republic on our tour. We were taken through the old town square, to the Charles Bridge, through the Jewish Quarter and much much more. It was so great seeing all the sights and learning so much at the same time. 

We loved Callum (man in the picture) and we were very thankful for the great and free tour! We both love Prague so much because of the buildings. Everywhere you go there are beautiful old buildings with many different architecture influences, all differently colored; it was breathtaking. 

Then we had an amazing night on the town! We both loved Prague and will forever hold it in our hearts as one of our favorite cities!!