{"id":1295,"date":"2016-05-16T12:56:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T19:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/daykev10\/?p=209"},"modified":"2016-05-16T12:56:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T19:56:17","slug":"prague-blague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/prague-blague\/","title":{"rendered":"Prague Blague"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can one summarize Prague after spending only one weekend there? First of all let me start by saying that I have been missing Prague ever since I left. It has taken me more than a week to fully gather myself, mentally and physically after being barraged by its beauty to finally be able to put the details of mythoughtd into words to attempt to discuss the city that I will never forget.<\/p>\n

\"Prague<\/p>\n

Having to survive in Berlin without knowing very much German is already quite difficult, but to survive in Prague without knowing, literally, any Czech is impossible. And thus I would not say that my time in Prague was spent surviving but rather living. Caution was thrown to the wind as we, as a class collectively, were released from the confines of a classroom and given instead as human sacrifices to the city. During our first night, after we all finished eating, we made our way back through the heart of the city on a busy Saturday night. After seeing the popular destinations in the day, I was not prepared for the lush nightlife that was thriving right when we stepped outside the door. The crowds were thick and the aroma of mischief and scandal gripped me as I struggled to keep up with the the rest of my American brethren. The city was truly alive at night. During the day it hides itself in disguise as a polite and classy city with beautiful red tiled roofs as far as the eye can see. It’s bridges seem to be from antiquity until you see a tram pass over it by the other tourists. At night, though, the lights come out. The churches are on top of their game as people thrive in their presence guided by the streetlights with old hues vibrating from them.<\/p>\n

\"Prague<\/p>\n

What sets Prague apart from the rest of the continent? Why would Prague be the place to go over the more familiar destinations of Paris and London? I have never been to either of these, but I will offer my opinion. Prague has managed to maintain its old age charms while still being swept up in the tide of cultural and societal evolution. I won’t deny it, the city smells of American capitalism around every corner, the constant presence of sex shops and naked women on public news fliers attest to this. It would normally be a shame \u00a0to see a beautiful old city fall victim to this new era of civilization. However, in his case, Prague seems to own these details and make a so much a part of its culture that you feel as if they belong there and should come as no surprise. I hesitate apply a nick name that I know nothing about seeing as how I have never been there either, but I would venture to claim that Prague is the Vegas of Europe. The cit is much smaller than say Berlin, but still big and populated. Over the lack of overs infancy makes it easier to enjoy all that Prague has to offer, at least along the borders of the beautiful river that flows right through the middle of it.<\/p>\n

\"Prague<\/p>\n

On our first day, we spent most of the time touring around the old, famous castle on the nearby hill that overlooks the whole city. There were lots of people, but it was by no means crowded. On that same night, I decided to go for a night run to try and claim a little more familiarity with the the city. I got lost and eventually found myself at this same cattle from earlier, the only thing was there was no one there. I mean no one. Throughout the whole surrounding neighborhood on the hill, there was nary a soul in sight. Only occasionally did I jog passed a small group of people dressed up from the medieval fair earlier in the day, who had no business otherwise to be there. This is an area of beautiful small buildings and tight alleys, cobblestone roads everywhere. I kept on trying to find a restaurant or a cafe that would be open at this hour, but there was nothing. This struck me as special in two ways. First that a whole neighborhood in such a dense city could maintain such an absence of night life. Secondly, that this absence, I believe, was due out of an old respect for the castle, church and other old traditional buildings in that area. It is no secret that Prague has become an increasingly touristy city. The locals know his and, in order to preserve the dignit of these sacred places, want to avoid having people get drunk on its premises and thus risking turning the place into a sty either through garbage or drunkenly damaging the property.<\/p>\n

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How can one summarize Prague after spending only one weekend there? First of all let me start by saying that I have been missing Prague ever since I left. It has taken me more than a week to fully gather myself, mentally and physically after being barraged by its beauty to finally be able to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}