The Copenhagen Chronicles: A Weekend in Prague

Prague! I went to Prague!

Ok, this update is loooong overdue, but I'm leaving on Sunday for my two-week spring break to St. Petersburg, Moscow and London so I figured I better update you all on my last trip before I start off on my next one. Now, before you get the idea that all I'm doing here is traveling Europe, rest assured that I have been working incredibly hard in the past few weeks - definitely exercising the "study" part of "study abroad." I haven't been as academically stressed and emotionally drained since I've arrived in Denmark as I have been in the past two weeks, but instead of dwelling on that (which I've been doing more than my fair share of recently) I'm going to talk about (and mostly share pictures of) my wonderful long weekend to Prague.

At the end of March, I went to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, for a long weekend with my friends Emilia and Alana. We stayed in a nice enough hostel near the Old Town and the Charles Bridge, and we mostly just walked the city, exploring the castle complex and the area around the Old Town Square. We sampled traditional Czech food (lots of potatoes for me, since most of it was meat), tried not to get killed by the trams, and did lots of shopping since Prague is significantly cheaper than Copenhagen. One night we went out to Karlovy Lázně, which at 5 stories tall is the biggest club in Central Europe. Each floor had a different theme, and we spent most of the night at the Oldies floor, dancing to wonderfully trashy disco music, 80s music, and much more. It was a great few days!

The Astronomical Clock in the Old Town Square, which draws huge crowds when it goes off. According to Wikipedia (always handy for these quick-fact type things), the clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the only one still working. Pretty cool stuff.