The Never Ending Fairy tale of Prague

As a student of Hotel management, I always had this urge to travel and live in different places. During my 2nd year, I got an amazing opportunity to participate in an Erasmus program. After thorough preparations and practice, I managed to undertake the interview and eventually won the scholarship. After thinking over and over I choose the Ancient Bohemian capital of Prague. Main Reason? The sustainable economy of Czech... naa just kidding.... Beer, and lots of it.... good and cheap because, Hey, who does not like beer?

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After a couple of days, the departure day came.... and I went to the bus station. I was ready to embark on a new adventure called Prague. Unknown city, unknown environment. During my 10 hour long journey I started questioning my decision. Why am I going there? Leaving my home, parents, friends? What if I don't adjust. I don't know anyone...

To skip my thinking process... I finally arrived....

„Dobrij Denj, Jake se mate? “ (Only 2 sentences that I knew before I came to Czech, plus how to order a beer of course). I was staying in a hotel/dormitory that my university recommended. When I finally arrived, I went to the reception and said that I had to check in. While the receptionist was doing her job I felt very pleased by the look of the hotel. This looks nice, doesn't it...

While I was floating in clouds.. the receptionist, all of a sudden told me that I CAME TO THE WRONG HOTEL. Eventually, after additional 30 minutes of turmoil, I managed to get to my accommodation. I wish I did not. My flatmate was a „charming“ 50-year-old Slovak mobster who always smell of Czech whisky called Beherovka. Not even a 5-meter thick wall would stop that smell from reaching your nostrils. In the rare occasions when we met, either one of us was intoxicated and we spoke in a mixture of Russian and Czech. When he was leaving, after 3 months he gave me a present. An old dirty soviet refrigerator. It was loud as a tank and dirty as a soldier shoe from world war 1. I tried cleaning it 10 times, but it was still throwing some old oil every time I tried to open it. Nevertheless, it was good to chill my beer. I really wonder what happened to that devilish friend of mine.

During my first weeks it was a bit hard, but afterwards, you just adapt. I start meeting tons of new people. We even formed the so-called „Fellowship of the Beer“, because Hey, who does not like beer? As a city, Prague is truly amazing. You will find everything that will suit your need. A bar where you can climb a wall after you drink your coffee ( don't drink beer because you might fall off a cliff), a jazz bar where you have tons of dogs barking along with the musicians, a nightclub where you'll have the craziest electro music and right beside it, you'll find a club where you can find nothing but music from the late 30s.

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From breathtaking castles to contemporary art galleries. Prague is a boem city filled with music, joy, people from all over the world, and of course beer. Tons and tons and tons of street performers including a half Czech, half Scottish guy standing in a kilt at -15 C and playing his bagpipes, a French guy with dreadlocks playing an instrument made out of plastic pipes, while using his shoe out soles as drumsticks. Genuine Bolivians playing Samponjas, people with white pigeons, owls, and hawks... you can find it all.

Sex Machines museum, Escape room, alchemic museum, KGB museum, National and Technical museums, Army and Tank Museum and, last but of course not least Beer Museum. I even found a Witch House in the Woods near Prague Castle ( I was too scared to enter and did not want to get enchanted by a witch). You can use a taxi, car, horse, segway, bike, metro, almost everything to get around the city (there are a couple of enchanted brooms near the witch house so you can pretend to be Harry Potter and fly around the city).

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Fish restaurants, Traditional Czech restaurants, vegetarian restaurants, small diners, a medieval restaurant in the catacombs where, while you eat, a crazy pirate is spitting fire (I am not joking), a restaurant where you order food and beer (or wine) and you'll get it delivered by a small train( yet again I am dead serious).

Hey, did I mention that I even fell in love there and found myself a cute Hungarian girlfriend? And made friendships that will last for eternity (at least). If you are thinking of doing an Erasmus, I 'll tell you one thing: Just do it (this article wasn't sponsored by Nike). A lifetime experience, you'll meet tons of different people and cultures, you will grow on a professional basis but also in personal development. Sure, at first, it is a bit hard, but after 2 weeks you'll feel at home. And if all of these reasons didn't encourage you to visit Prague... I'll give you one. Beer, because Hey, who does not like Beer?

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