First Impressions | Prague
Random thoughts after spending a week in Prague
Ahoj from Praha!
After four weeks living in Split, we all knew that month 2 in Prague would have a much different feel to it given the bigger city vibes and lack of beaches. Eight days in I think it’s safe to say that most people have fallen in love with Prague and its history, colorful buildings, and quirkiness. Oh, and the beer.
Big city vibez
Prague feels HUGE compared to what we were used to in Split. I’m walking a lot more, using public transit, and feeling slightly overwhelmed (in a good way) about all of the options of things to do, see, and eat.
I do love me some of the conveniences that come with living in a bigger city, too: bigger grocery stores, tons of cafes to work and write from, lots of ATMs, late night food options, yoga studios nearby, neighborhoods, lots of parks, and the general energy that you feel in a bustling city.
Walking it out
All of the walking has been one of my favorite things about living in Prague so far. I didn’t have much me time in Split because we were constantly around each other and that is just not sustainable for me for a year. I’ve found that doing the 20 minute walk to/from the workspace by myself while jamming to the new Day Wave album has been the perfect way for this ISTJ to recharge.
The (late) nightlife
Places are open (way) past midnight here! There have already been some pretty epic nights that have turned into absurdly early mornings. In general people are staying out later here and it’s already starting to feel normalized. For example, I called it “early” one night this past weekend and went home at 3 am.
Get in my belly
I think almost everyone was looking forward to having more variety in terms of food options in Prague. So far, it has not disappointed. This week alone I’ve eaten Vietnamese, Japanese, Mexican, Czech, Cuban, Indian, Italian (courtesy of my dear Italian friend, Vale), and Greek #gyrotrip.
I want to take this time to give a shoutout to my new favorite dessert. I’m not sure what they’re called, but it kinda looked like it would sound similar to “turtleneck”, so that’s what we’ve been calling them.
WWII History
One of my personal goals for Remote Year is to see/do/experience/learn as much WWII history as I can while in Europe and Japan. Prague has provided my first chance to do that by way of a Remote Year organized track event that taught us about Operation Anthropoid — a mission that resulted in the assassination of the #3 person in the Nazi hierarchy, SS General Reinhard Heydrich, in Prague.
I’m going to write about this in a separate post later on, so for now I will say that it was incredibly moving and further validated my belief that RY is providing us with incredible local experiences that I otherwise would never have seen.
I’ll be continuing my WWII quest later this month when I spend a couple days in Normandy, France where I’ll be Czech-ing (sorry, had to) out some D-Day museums and going on a guided D-Day tour.
Keep Praha Weird
This place is weird af and I love it.
It’s has creepy babies crawling on towers, creepy dudes dressed as creepy babies, marionettes that will haunt your dreams, v fun artwork, and much more.
More please.
(K)10/10 would recommend the workspace
RY killed it once again with the workspace for the month IMO.
It’s called K10 and is a former Danish ambassador’s house something-or-other turned coworking space. Basically it’s a huge, old school mansion that repurposed its rooms into offices and it’s probably the closest I’ll ever get to living in Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters *wipes tear from cheek*.
We share the workspace with other locals, which was a change from the RY-owned workspace from last month. It is kind of cool to see some new faces, although it can sometimes be tough to find a good spot to work from since it’s busier.
Oh, it’s got this too…
