10th May

Went to Vysehrad by taking the metro. we were kinda lost, but i guess carmen figured out the way.

vysehrad's an old castle, with a cemetery with dead famous people and a bunch of other attractions. and the cemetery's damn cool, with like statues and stuff. kinda disrespectful to take photos, so none.

saw this really old pipe/well thing, which wasn't working so i'm guessing it's really old and it's how people used to draw water. hah merlin. except merlin's one was kind of fixed to the wall.

this is the plague pillar, apparently built when the plague occurred and people were looking for spiritual help/guidance/something.

another old gothic church. seriously lots of gothic buildings in prague with fantastic artwork. and like art's painted on the ceiling and stuff.

this really old well, with no water inside. at least i think so. everything was black when i looked down it.

here's the entrance to the gothic cellar, which is kind of like a museum or something.

another interesting site was the gorlice. one bloody annoying thing about the gorlice was that it's BLOODY HARD TO FIND. we walked back and forth the area like twice before realizing where the entrance was. and despite the area shown in the picture below being labelled at the gorlice, it WAS NOT the entrance (it turned out to be the exit). and when we finally found the entrance, it turned out we missed the tour time so we had to wait like another hour for the next tour. so we went back to the exit. also saw this really young couple with a kid, and we were arguing between ourselves whether the couple was the parents or were they siblings or something. but the kid was really adorable, with a bicycle with no pedals (he moved by pushing his feet on the ground) and playing on the merry-go-round, both sitting and pushing it.

here's the entrance to the gorlice. the gorlice is this tunnel thing which leads to this great big hall, where apparently soldiers slept in the past. and it's really cold in there. if i'm not wrong the tunnel was supposed to lead out of the castle or something. so it's a secret tunnel! pretty exciting.

inside the great hall are the old statues from the charles bridge, so i guess this is actually kind of cooler than the charles bridge.

and here ends our trip in prague, as we were too lazy to go to other areas and had to travel to venice the next day. the rest of the time was spent hanging about the hostel and the supermarket.

seriously, we have some sort of obsession with the supermarket. must be the really cheap deals we can get there.