Day 31
Our last full day of Prague consisted of a Segway tour around the city. First we met up with Anne, Himani’s online friend. We huddled under an umbrella together and waited to go into Prague Castle. The exterior of the castle was magnificent. It was giant and hosted gothic themed details. Once you turn the corner and look at the castle from the side, it’s vast size and details leave you in awe. Walking around the castle and down a pathway, the view of the city is once again seen but from a different perspective. At this point, we had about 15min to make it to our segway tour so we ran, like crazy. We ran down steps, across roads, over bridges. It was quite dramatic tbh. We made it. BUT they weren’t even ready for us! Eventually, we got helmets and rain jackets for our segway trip. We got Alex as our tour guide and after a short tutorial (b/c we were so pro, we didn’t need much training), we set out onto the streets with our kick ass seaways. We made our way over bridges and breezed past a couple interesting sites: the metronome and signifies the constant change in politics, the John Lennon wall, the statue of politicians peeing on Czech Republic. After this, we went to find food.Â
During our stroll to search for cheap food, we came across a bar with loud cheering emitting from the doors. Intrigued, we stepped inside and were encouraged to stay by some of the men. We learned that this was a French rugby team and they’ve been drinking for the past 23h. They had so many chants and we joined in, having no clue what they were saying or when to say it but screaming randomly seems to work well. We got beer, just to be a part of the group and ordered food. We got up on the table and sang our anthem afterwards, which was such a rush and so fun! They banged their beers mugs on the table and clapped along with us as we sang. Eventually, they left, but not without an invite to continue with them on their drinking journey + they stole an antique helmet from the pub + they left their whatsapp number with Himani.Â
We left the pub, half filled with beer but tipsy AF and headed for our meeting point with Haider. We ended up ditching the beer tour cause of laziness and decided to walk across a bridge instead. Walking a couple steps in, we saw Charle’s Bridge parallel to us and stopped to admire it’s beauty. It’s different to look at a bridge from afar and admire its details vs. being on the bridge and looking at it/ the surroundings. Himani hopped up onto a ledge of the bridge and with some caution, we joined her soon after. We spent about an hour on that bridge, admiring the water, the buildings and of course the bridge. We talked about life, found out that we had a mutual friend, laughed about our past and shared our opinions on working in the health care industry.Â
That night, we followed Haider to a pub crawl. The initial plan was to join the pub crawl but after some tips from a fellow hostel mate, we decided that it was more worth it just to follow the pub crawl around town. Kim came along and we headed on our way to find a place to start the night off. After failing to catch up to the pub crawl twice, we eventually found them at a bar/ club. Outside the bar, we ran into a group of British Indian boys and started a conversation about our fantastic British accents, their wish for us to join them in a hot tub and their dorky pub crawl tshirts. After meeting some people at the pub crawl, the entire group paraded out of the club to head to the next location. It was quite intriguing to be in a group of drunk young adults as a (mostly) sober person. Just being around drunk people made me feel drunk and before you know it, we were strolling down streets, saying hi to everyone and singing songs. We met a bunch of different people (including the boys that took our picture) and headed to the next bar. At this place, it was bumpin’ with good music and vibes. The British boys from the hostel (TK, Fergie, Louie, Dylan) were dancing in close proximity and were fun to have around. Dylan drank too much (again..) and was taken upstairs to be taken care of. We ran into the crew upstairs and ended up sitting with them and chatting for a while. Took some pics and laughed about stealing Chinese food and snapchats. Finally we headed to Karlovy Lazne to end the night, during which we ran into the British Indian squad again and Himani got proposed to. Lol. The night came to a close when we went onto Charle’s Bridge to watch the sunrise one more time but this time it was hella cold. The wind was blowing quite strongly and the temperature was low but we suffered through it and stayed to watch the sunrise at 4am.Â
