Czeching In: Česky Krumlov for a night

September 21, 2013

Our program took us to a small town in Southern Bohemia called Česky Krumlov for an overnight. As we boarded the buses to Česky, I was immediately reminded of Birthright. A girl from my program here was on my birthright trip and we immediately made eye contact when we got on the bus and began reminiscing about Israel. I had my first traveller’s blunder this morning. I was exchanging money and was completely ripped off and ended up losing $50 because I went to a less legit exchange place. In the moment I was annoyed because I’ve been especially cautious of my budget, but I just took a breath, realized it was a small amount of money in the grand scheme of things and knew I would never make the same mistake again!

I’m excited for Česky because my entire group of friends are sharing a giant 16-person room at the youth hostel. It’s like being at camp again. Our room is super cute and reminds me a little bit of Painted Turtle (a camp that Brentwood was involved in) because of the cabin-like feel of the place. Immediately upon arrival, we went to lunch and then took a guided tour of the Česky Krumlov castle. It was cool walking through such a medieval monument and it was wild thinking about the fact that people from the Renaissance and Medieval times fully lived their lives in the places where we were walking around. The town was very charming, but very small, so the fact that we only spent a night there was perfect. Also, naturally, because of how many people were in our room, we spent most of the night chatting so we were all exhausted by the time we took the bus home.
I’m very happy to be back in my flat in Prague and have some down time.