Since we do not have classes on Fridays, myself and seven other students decided to take a one night trip to Cesky Krumlov, which is a small town about three hours south of
Prague.
I booked a hostel and John went and bought bus tickets and we were to leave at 8:30am on Friday morning.
That morning we all got up to leave at 7:30 to take the metro to the bus station.
We got to the bus station where John had bought the tickets at about 8 am and were just sitting along the curb when one of our friends made a comment about how his ticket said that we were getting picked up at another station.
John went to go ask someone at the desk about it and sure enough we were at the wrong bus station.
The lady John bought the tickets from never pointed out not to come back here but to go to another station.
Realizing this we all ran out of there to catch the metro where unfortunately we had to transfer lines to get to the right place.
After all eight of us went running fr
om metro to metro and then finally to the bus platform we got there at 8:32am and the bus had already left.
Realizing we would still have to pay for the hostel that I booked and we still had return trip bus tickets we went to the counter and the soonest bus to leave with enough room for all of us was at 1:30pm so we decided to do that.
To kill all this extra time we now had between buses we went to a café called Café Louvre and had breakfast and read the newspaper and just hung out for a while. We left to make our new bus time and left for Cesky Krumlov at 1:30pm. The bus trip was three hours and we arrived around 4:30pm. To get to our hostel we walked through the entire town which isn't much more then a major street with little side streets going off of it and the Castle towering over everything. We found our hostel where I had booked an eight person room for all of us. The manager came in to check us in and asked all of us for our passports, which none of us had because our program director had collected all of them to get our visas registered with the foreign police. We had told her we were traveling to Cesky Krumlov this weekend and she didn't mention not to travel within the Czech Republic without them. He then told us we could not check in here or anywhere else in town without them and we could even be arrested for traveling without them. Not really knowing what to do, we said that we could get our passport num
bers and he agreed to let us stay if we at least had those. We called the pension where we are staying and they were nice enough to give us all our numbers and we finally checked in.
By this time it was past 6pm and everyone was hungry. Cesky Krumlov is very small so we walked the main street again before deciding to eat at another hostel called Traveller's Hostel. They had really good food and we had appetizers and pivo (beer) and hung out there fo
r a while. From here we walked around and took some pictures of the castle all lit up at night and then stopped by a few other bars. One bar we stopped at had Eggenberg beer which is brewed in Cesky Krumlov. I thought it had a strange taste but it was fun to try.
The next morning we had to be checked out by 10:00am so we all got our stuff together and left to go have breakfast and then explore the town more. We walked up to the castle and decided to go up in the tower. The stairways were very narrow and
there were some bells inside from the 1400's. You could look out on all of Cesky Krumlov from the tower and see the houses and see people canoing in the river. We then walked around the complex and the gardens before finding a place to eat lunch. We ate at a restaurant called Two Mary's and ordered hot mead and the Bohemian feast for eight people. The feast included potato pancakes, chicken, millet (sort of like a casserole), salad, a piece of ham, and dumplings. The mead was too strong for me but the feast was pretty good. From here we walked to other end of town to pick up our bags at the hostel and then were off to the bus station to catch our 4:10pm bus back to Prague.
om metro to metro and then finally to the bus platform we got there at 8:32am and the bus had already left. Realizing we would still have to pay for the hostel that I booked and we still had return trip bus tickets we went to the counter and the soonest bus to leave with enough room for all of us was at 1:30pm so we decided to do that. 
bers and he agreed to let us stay if we at least had those. We called the pension where we are staying and they were nice enough to give us all our numbers and we finally checked in. 
r a while. From here we walked around and took some pictures of the castle all lit up at night and then stopped by a few other bars. One bar we stopped at had Eggenberg beer which is brewed in Cesky Krumlov. I thought it had a strange taste but it was fun to try. 
there were some bells inside from the 1400's. You could look out on all of Cesky Krumlov from the tower and see the houses and see people canoing in the river. We then walked around the complex and the gardens before finding a place to eat lunch. We ate at a restaurant called Two Mary's and ordered hot mead and the Bohemian feast for eight people. The feast included potato pancakes, chicken, millet (sort of like a casserole), salad, a piece of ham, and dumplings. The mead was too strong for me but the feast was pretty good. From here we walked to other end of town to pick up our bags at the hostel and then were off to the bus station to catch our 4:10pm bus back to Prague. 
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