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The following day, we took the subway across Vltava River, and walked towards Prague Castle. The benefit of walking, I would say, you can see where the locals and tourists hang-out. The castle compound is huge, worth a half day trip there to explore the interior and its environment. After the castle, we walked back to the Old Town via Charles Bridge. No doubt, Charles Bridge is magnificent. Full of tourists walking thru. St. Nicholas church is behind the building Monument nearby St. Nicholas church View around the castle entrance The entrance to the castle compound One of the statues at the front gate The front facade of the cathedral Golden Lane where row of houses were built beside the castle compound The boy with a golden penis, well, it was repeatedly rubbed by people. The windows of the cathedral Inside the cathedral The cathedral Swans on Vltava River Charles Bridge One of the statues along Charles Bridge ...

Dr. Mike and I took up the free walking tour organized by a local travel agency. The tour started in Old Town Square. From we walked to nearby area like Jewish quarter, opera house (Rudolfinum), the bridge (don't know what's the name, it's just next to Charles Bridge), and finally back to the Old Town Square. Basically, the tour just cover the vicinity of the Old Town area. The tour was ok. Gained some historical knowledge of the town and its country. At the end of the trip, as usual, we tipped the guide as an appreciation.  Photos were taken with iPhone 6s

Getting to Prague city center via public transport was easy. We quickly checked in to our AirBnB place. In recent years, I've been lodging using AirBnB as I can have access to kitchen and washer with a price less than those offered by hotels. We stayed at the upper part area from Nadroni Museum. Besides the museum was an opera house. Even though these two places were near to where we stayed, we didn't drop by that places. Instead, we headed straight to the Old Town and across the Vltava river (the following day). I have to admit that for this trip, I didn't do much background check on the places nor make any proper plan of the itinerary visit. My bad. Well, further down from the museum was Wenceslas Square. After a few minutes walk along the street, we reached Old Town area. Needless to say, the must-see object in that area is the Prague Astronomical Clock. I got to know this place from my friend, not from last minute reading. Luckily he told me, otherwise I would become a...

Have an opportunity to attend conference in Ostrava, Czech Republic this week. So Dr Mike and I planned for a two-week trip in Central Europe. We planned to cover Prague, Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna, Cesky Krumlov and perhaps Auschwitz. We arrived in Prague two days ago, that was Saturday morning. Our flight had transit stop in Singapore and Zurich. The flight took us about 15 hours in total. Amazingly, I didn't have much jet lag; probably because I slept more in the flight. Getting to Prague city center was easy. We took a bus then transit to metro. It cost about kc32.00 per person. That's about RM6.00. Not too bad.