I got to the hostel and paid for 3 days.  I would pay for more, but I would like to wait a day and see how nice it is, really hard to tell with a hostel.  Especially since I am sharing a room.

I got up and 3 of my roommates were from America and were just going out to see the castle.  I tagged along and after climbing to the top we discovered that in order to go into the buildings you had to pay.   They failed to believe that we were students with no student ID’s so everybody had to pay 250CZK each ($13.25).  It was worth it though, I got some beautiful pictures.  Though the most beautiful ones were from a Catholic Church that clearly has more money than any other human beings I have ever heard of, and I suppose it helps that people have to pay to get into that church…

I have all the photos posted on my facebook account.  I will probably put them on here sometime, but my internet time is now limited. 

We left the castle and decided to go to some Monastery that brewed their own beer.  Well that was a massive uphill hike.  I’d hate to be a crappy car trying to get up the hill to that part of the city.  Still, once we got to the top and ordered some Saintly beer and since I had not eaten since breakfast I also got some goolash and dumplings.  All of which were very low priced in my opinion. 

I had been told Prague is expensive however I had a very filling meal and 2 big dark beers and it only cost me $200 CZK with tip, though that was included in the bill at 19% ($10.50).  My hostel which seems very nice and has 24 hour receptionist, and key coded door that changes the code every single day for each room… It only cost me $15 a day.  It’s also right by the castle an art district and a beautiful bridge to the center of the city. 

A very fancy tourist area at crazy low prices.  That’s not to say that having low prices gives me a lot of fundage.  I will have to be very careful with what I spend and will have to find some work to get by. 

I don’t have wifi in my room, hostel said they were putting it in but it wasn’t ready yet.  So i have to go to Starbucks for internet.  However the Starbucks right around the corner here doesn’t charge for the internet access at all, though they do close at 6pm.

The view from my hostel is gorgeous, inside and out.   I took pictures from my room outside, and towards the rest of the hostel from my 3rd floor room.  Worth checking out on facebook if you get a chance.

If this is somewhat expensive for Europe, I cant imagine the prices in Poland where I am told it’s cheap by somebody who said Prague is expensive.

At night I took another walk across the bridge and took a couple more photos.  There are amazing statues on so many buildings.  The area where I am staying beyond the bridge is really nice though, no graffiti either which there was tons of graffiti in the center of the city.  So tourism here must encourage business owners to clean it off, or else it’s just always too busy for people to tag things.