Vienna

This summer we had doubts as to where to go. I like visiting cities in summer, walking around and learning all the history. Jéssica wanted to visit Prague so the decision was easy but everybody told us that with three days we had enough to see the city. I don’t remember how Vienna came to our mind and we started to consider it as an option. We started searching for flights and hotels and we saw that we could afford it and we decided to book everything. 

At first I wasn’t sure because I didn’t expect much. However, I was wrong. We arrived to the city by train and then we looked for our hotel. As it was early, we started the day visiting Schönbrunn Palace and it was then when I realised how important and historic is the city. You know when you go to the cinema and you expect a lot from a film and in the end it disappoints you? Sometimes it happens the other way around: you don’t expect much but once you are there you really like it. 

I started going through all the history of this city and I was really impressed. The Austro-Hungarian was one of the most important empires in history. We all know Sisi because of the films, but there is further more things to know. It was incredible to hear different stories about that period of our history. Actually, in Prague, some of the guides we had started to let us know all the influence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 

I really enjoyed the visit to Vienna. The buildings were amazing. We visited a few palaces, we saw the Parliament, the City Hall, Stephan’s Cathedral, Karlskirche, the Belvedere Palace or the Kunsthistorisches Museum . One of the things that made me happier was to see Klimt’s picture ‘The Kiss’, one of the best art pictures I still had to see in person. 

I liked a lot travelling to Vienna. It was a city that impressed me and I wouldn’t doubt to repeat. Maybe nowadays it is not as important as it was in the past but I think that you should go if you have the chance you should try to go and visit it.

Prague: nice city

I know it has been a long time since I last updated my blog but summer it is a difficult time because all the work we have. I have a lot of things to write about but I will start explaining my holidays in Prague, a beautiful city that you should visit sometime in your life if you can afford it.

We arrived early in the morning and went to the hotel that was really nice. Only ten minutes walking from the city centre, we started visiting the Prague Astronomic clock, one of the city’s famous buildings. Afterwards, we decided to do the guided tour in the city Sandemans New Europe with Carlos who explained us a lot of interesting things. I strongly recommend you to do it because you receive a lot of information and you start knowing the city.

Everybody says that is a great city and I did like it. Charles’ bridge, the castle, St Vithus Cathedral, the city centre, Wenceslao’s square… a lot of interesting places to visit and spend some time enjoying them. We also visited different churches, the Jewish cemetery and the different synagogues or Loreto palace. A lot of places that are worth it and that you will like for sure. The only important place we didn’t get to visit was the Clementinum, an excuse to get back in the future.

As we had some time over we decided to visit Kutná Hora; a very nice city known because of a little chapel made of human bones, but that also had few other interesting monuments.

However, a lot of people say that is a cheap city and we didn’t found that cheap. It is not expensive but the prices were not very different from the ones here in Barcelona.

Prague was one of the cities I wanted to visit and I can delete it from my list. It is a small city where everything is in walking distance and that has a lot of nice things to see and a very interesting history. I think that is worth it to walk around the streets, the different squares and neighbourhoods and learn some of its history. A great trip to one of the most historical cities in Europe!