PRAGUE VISIT!

Hey Guys, and welcome to my blog update. Over the past couple of weeks I have been saying that I will blog about visiting Prague and the Old Town Square and finally, here it is. 

I knew it was going to be a long day but the first planned event of the day was a friendly game of Football with friends and family (we play every Sunday morning). And unfortunately, whilst warming up, I thought I may have broken my thumb! It was then I thought, great, I've ruined another family outing by spending all day in hospital. But the great news is that it started to feel better and maybe I was being a little over dramatic. So I got home and we went on our merry way.

When we arrived we found a parking space right in the center of Prague pretty sharpish and best of all, it was a free space, so we knew we were in for a good day. After five minutes of walking we arrived in the center of the Old Town Square. My first reaction was, wow there is a lot of people! But what was I expecting? It's known to be one of the greatest Christmas Markets in Europe. It was very impressive!

They had a stage for music, which was purposely set for Carol Singers (they sang in English which made it a little easier for me to understand), lots of traditional Czech grub such as Trdelnik, which is similar to a doughnut, Klobasa sausage and lots of meat style skewers etc. They had buskers, tour guides and lots of entertainers. The best bit was the hot mulled wine and warm mead. It couldn't have felt more like Christmas, standing there with a glass of mulled wine, listening to Carol singers under a gigantic Christmas Tree. 

As we made our way to the shopping center we stumbled across all sorts of entertainment. There was a lady blowing huge soap bubbles which caught the eye of children as they tried to burst them as quick as possible. I think she was getting pretty annoyed because they were popping them before she had even finished. And a little further down the road we saw this peculiar act where a man was levitating above another man, it had me thinking for a long time until I decided that they are actually floating. Jitka then burst my little bubble by telling me how it's done.

We then made it to the shopping center where it has six floors and over two hundred stores. It was heaven for Jitka but I knew it was going to be a late afternoon, and what was meant to be shopping for family presents, quickly turned into cloth shopping for Jitka. I'm not going to lie, I was pretty immature and starting moaning like a child (but it worked).

Finally after walking around all of the shops, we made our way back to the Square to see how it looked with all the lights. And it was, as they would say in Czech, Krasny (Beautiful). Again the only down side was the amount of people, you literally couldn't move, but it was Sunday and we didn't expect anything else. It was a shame that Max couldn't understand what was going on but next year I'm sure he will be more aware, and probably sleep less (hehe).

So there you have it! I finally got off my lazy bum to do some Christmas shopping, and its only the 8th December. I usually do my shopping on the 24th (*cough* *cough*). So feeling a little more organized now I'm a family man. Next week we will go food and drink shopping, the best bit!

Thank you for reading and I will update my blog in three days time. And sorry for the bad quality photos as we had to use my phone.....

Bye Guys.