Stationary Thoughts: Prague

The Eastern Bloc really sucked at doing anything that works better when it's pretty.

Prague has a lot of  handmade crystal stuff for sale. I didn't buy any, because a lot of the necklaces looked suspiciously like costume jewelry, and why the fuck would you spend $2000 on a chandelier from a place that can also sell you absinthe, weed flavored alcohol, and your typical tourist schlock?

There is also a 5-story nightclub in Prague called Karlovy Lazne. I didn't go, because wub-wub clubs with brightly colored alcohol doesn't do it for me. However, the drunk English girls did, and they said it was shit. They are from Brighton, which is sort of like the Jersey Shore of the UK from what I gather. If the people used to the wild nightlife of Brighton aren't overawed by it, your reaction may be similar. Also note it is near the Charles Bridge, which is a very touristy part of Prague. Berlin is a better clubbing option anyway.

I'm going to go to Dachau when I visit Munich. If the Pinkas synagogue was any indication, I'm probably going to be in tears when I leave, and then retreat to the hostel for about 15 minutes of cat pictures on reddit, and several liters of doppelbock. There will not be a blog post from that day.

I have no idea how the fuck Paris has this reputation for being a beautiful city. It's nice, but the main squares in Bruges and Prague have been much nicer, and I still haven't been to Venice yet. Also, a lot of the tourist attractions are massively overrated things that you just kind of do because everybody does (Mona Lisa, Eiffel Tower, etc.)

Being a tourist in Prague is much nicer than in Paris, except at mealtime. While the French make spectacular and complex food that is rightly the envy of the world, the Czechs have apparently never heard of vegetables. Traditional Czech food is some meat in a sauce with dumplings that are similar to a dense, crustless bread, washed down with half a liter of beer. If you could trade Czech cuisine for French cuisine, Prague would be deluged with more tourists than it could handle, and Paris would only be visited by art lovers and people staying to visit Versailles for a day. Maybe the Parisians would be more welcoming then...