Norm and I arrived into Prague today by plane. We got lost trying to find our hostel but it worked out in the end. I don't think the area that we're in is the safest but we'll see, I guess. We headed out for the train station to figure out how these eurorail passes work but the woman there didn't really know english well so the answers that she gave weren't very clear. We'll go back later. The train station isn't far from downtown so we headed down to the touristy "Robson Street" type centre of town. When we got there we found Jaromir Jagr's restaurant. It looks kinda kitschy with a lot of hockey related stuff and western style foods. We considered eating there but decided against it. We tried to find some interesting souvenirs from the abundant touristy trap stores but really, it's stuff that would just weigh us down. Anyway, it looks exactly like the souvenirs that you can find anywhere in the world: plastic yo-yos with the city printed on it, multi-coloured shirts with the country's flag or a homourless saying about the beauty of the city, or weird country-associated souvenir food products.
At the end and to the right of this street (Vaclavske namesti) is Charles Bridge that is probably one of the main attractions of Prague. It has a lot of statues on it and you can see the castle on the hill at the far end of the bridge which connects Prague with the old part of Prague. We went up the tower of the bridge and this gave us a great look of the city. On the bridge there was a line up of people wanting to touch this brass picture of a knight and his dog. I don't really know the significance but Norm and I both took the time to rub them, too. Here's a picture of Dwarf on Charles Bridge and a picture of Dwarf next to the brass picture of the dog and the knight on Charles Bridge.
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