Arriving in Prague I am awestruck by the beauty of just the regular street down from my hostel. The hostel I am staying at is a bit out of the city, but that is fine with me. I have a decent room and a place to read a book for a bit as I could use a minute or two of downtime.
In the morning I took off solo in search of something nobody else would have ever put up searching for. I went scouring for Czech crystal beads. I got a few directions from the girl working at the hostel, but I didn't have a concrete go here circled on the map. Which would have been helpful. I got lost all day. I walked all day. I constantly was looking at my battered map going huh, I thought I was on the other end of town. I should have been angry. I should have given up but it was SUNNY! Yes finally, after forever and a year I see the sun and it is warm enough to not shiver. I also wasn't going to be bested by tiny pieces of rock, so I kept on searching.
At about 4pm I found the beads. Whooot! They are beautiful and special because they are going to be personally hand delivered to my mother for her stringing enjoyment. She'll love them! And as a trade off I had a great day free of live changing tourist stops. A day just to walk and look and not tick things off a list is what every long-term traveler needs.
Some cool things I saw along the way....you knew I was going to take pictures, right?
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