I was in Prague first time this summer. Not just a little holiday of course. I went there with my friends just because we really wanted to see the best Heavy Metal band ever, the Iron Maiden! Sorry for this late post, but I wanted to listen to the bootleg and read Rod’s Diary first. And I’m extremely lazy too…
My two friends I from my city (George and David) and two guys (Mate – I knew him, we organized this holiday – and Zsolti) from Budapest, Hungary went to Prague by train, and Adam (from Budapest too) by bus – he arrived later. We arrived at about 1 PM, caught a metro and went to the Prague Holiday office, where we got our apartment keys and maps, and we walked to our apartment, it wasn’t so far from the office. That was a funny situation when we got lost. We couldn’t find our damned apartment, because on our keys were Lipova 2. We thought this is our street number but it wasn’t… Thanks to these helpful guys in Prague, they told us we have check the address on the voucher, so we could find the apartments, which was on the middle of the street. We went directly to the fourth floor, the Hungarian guys to the third floor of the building, and we entered our very nice apartments.
I guess you know, what was our next to-do. Sightseeing, of course. We went to the Wenceslas Square first, because that was the nearest famous place to our apartments. Then we went to find some place where we could drink some famous Czech beer (actually I can drink Czech beer every day here in Slovakia, but that’s not the same). We found a little pub where the waitress couldn’t speak English, so Dave asked the beer in Slovak (I don’t speak Slovak so well, despite I live in Slovakia). I decided to find the Hell’s Bells Rockin’ Pub. It’s close to the metro station Andel. It’s a very cool place, good beer, nice waitress (called Katka), who brought us beer right when we drank the previous one. We didn’t have to ask one more. Actually we couldn’t stop her… After two or three beers each we payed and went back to our apartments by metro, I’ve had a shower and we went out to continue the sightseeing. We walked to the Charles Bridge, and that was beautiful. I bought a pizza, and we went back to the apartments by metro (maybe by the last one). I tried to eat my pizza, but that was absolutely uneatable, so I could eat just a half pizza…
On the second day we continued the sightseeing in that beautiful city. Afternoon I had to check my e-mails (yes, I’m a geek…), I found a place where I could do that. I sent a mail to my mom, and I found a great music shop, but it was late and the shop was closed when we came back, so we went to the Hell’s Bells again. I sent a text to Adrienne (who came to Prague from New Jersey), and I told her where the Hell’s Bells is. She and Jouke (from Netherlands) came to the Andel, George and I went to there to show them where the Hell’s Bells is exactly (it was hard to find also to us first). We drank a lot of beer that evening, and after that we went to our apartments with Ade and Jouke, where we drank beers, Peach and Jack Daniel’s. That was fun, I was a little bit drunk. When Ade and Jouke left, we went down to let them out, but Dave told me he stays in the apartment. But he came down and forgot the keys… we locked ourselves out, so we were sleeping in the other apartment that night.
Morning we went to the office and asked keys, came back and opened the door. I had to bring the keys back to the office, but the others didn’t come with me. There was a brewery called U Fleku (from 1499) on the other side of the street. I went into there (one beer costs over 2 €), so I drank just one beer. But that was amazing, its color was like the Guinness. I met there with a couple of guys from Hungary, including Farm, who I added to my contacts on MSN. He goes to that university which I want to go to, so we had a good chat. I asked his cell phone number, and we left, because I had to go back to the apartments, the others waited for me. After we visited the music shop, we went to the train station to buy our tickets and reservations, and when we went back, it was time to go to the gig! We got there by tram filled with Maiden fans from everywhere (also from Hungary), so almost everyone of these strangers seemed to be our friend, we talked to each other, it was a very good feeling. The stadium was huge and up to date. We had to wait just 10 or 15 minutes for Lauren. The people say she isn’t talented. I think she is, she just isn’t ready for these huge gigs. I listened to her music also on her MySpace, and I have to say it’s much better than her live performance. I think she’ll be much better in few years. And if not… she is one of the most beautiful girls in Britain…
To be continued on the Lawbreakers’ Pub…
