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So picking up where we left off, after London we headed to Vienna. We woke up the next morning feeling refreshed and ready to conquer the day…. and the night because we didn’t have anywhere to stay for the night!! Yes, you read that correct. So when we got to London we had booked a night in a hostel in Vienna because we knew we would be getting in late butttt we didn’t know how long we were going to want to stay there so we didn’t book 2 nights. Well long story short we also booked a bus from Vienna to Prague at 5:00 am on following morning so we needed a second night Vienna. THE WHOLE CITY WAS BOOKED. I guess it was a holiday so even the Airbnbs were $300 for a private room. Our solution you might ask? Well in classical college kid fashion we decided we would stay out at the clubs and bars as late as we could and then sleep at the train station for the remaining time. Honestly our plan worked out pretty smoothly. We stayed out until 2 AM and then went back to get our bags from the hostel. I would like to give the nice front desk lady that let us in a quick thank you because she definitely could have just left us outside with no bags at 2:30 in the morning. We made it to the train station by 3 and Claire slept for an hour while we waited for the sun to rise. Then it was 5 am and headed for the station. We thought all was going well until we still hadn’t seen our bus and realized we missed it!! So we got another ticket for 6 am and made it on that but we were soooo exhausted.
Okay okay yeah so had to get that chaotic, dramatic story out of the way real quick.
The city was so so pretty tho. I really feel in love with Vienna. The buildings were prestige and the people were absolutely beautiful (especially the boys haha) and I need to take a quick moment to TALK ABOUT THE DOGS. I swear they have been breading the same dogs for the past 2000 years because these dogs looked like they just walked out of dog show they were so beautiful. We mostly just spent the day walking around running into the sites and spending time laying parks. We found a garden with probably over 100 different types of roses and ahhhhh so pretty. Vienna was liking walking through a fairytale. Overall I would definitely recommend a trip to Vienna if you find yourself in the area.
And then we were off to Prague. Prague was pretty amazing because I have never seen a city like it. It gothic and old yet colorful and playful. One of the best parts of prague is spoiled ourselves with a very nice airbnb. Claire and I booth had a queen size bed as well as a full kitchen, washing machine and even a piano. We dropped of our bags and headed to get a traditional Czech meal. I would give it 7 out of 10. Our waiter was very sweet and read each dish word by word for us because they didn’t have English menus and I ended up getting these fried potatoes cakes with cabbage. We went back to the airbnb and got some rest before heading into the city. We walked to the beautiful church a top the hill and saw some pretty stuffing views before heading down to the John Lennon wall. We ate at this restaurant called Birstro Monk IT WAS SO SO YUMMY I 10/10 recommend. We booth got beet burgers and sweat potatoes fries mmmmm thinking about it makes my mouth water. We called it an early night and passed out in our big beds.
The next morning we woke up late and got some homework done. Yes we are booth enrolled in 2 online classes so we have to carve some time out for that but I also came to the realization that it is a good way for us to slow down. It never occurred to me before that we can’t just go go go for a month straight and that we will have to give ourselves lazy mornings and early nights. So we got the city around 12 and head for the Dancing House by Frank Gerry. This one was fun for me because I remember seeing picture ever since I was little and now I was seeing it in real life. We treated ourselves and a good boujee lunch at the top of the dancing house and topped it off with a ‘gastro punk dessert tray’ which was drug themed hahaha. We spent the day walking around but it was pretty quite in prague because it was Sunday so we ended up at a park writing in our journals.
We topped the night off renting a paddle boat and talking dinner on the water with while the sunset in the background. It was so so pretty but one little detail that hindered our plan was our pressecco bottle. We thought it would just pop off like all tops butttt we wrong. So we spent half of our time on the boat trying to open the bottle with a key until we eventually gave up hahaha. It was a pretty memorable experience though, we loved it.
We finished off our time by going to this 5 story club in prague. Our problem is we aren’t exactly on the whole European eating schedule yet we get to the clubs at 10 and literally no one is there yet. Sooooo we hung out for an hour and then called it quits to get more sleep before we board the bus to Berlin at 6 the next morning.
Per usual, love and miss you all lots
gabi
