Prague Day 2 - Lobkowicz Palace

We decided we didn't have a good sense of the city, so we decided to try using the Hop On Hop Off bus to get a ride around the city and to learn some of the history. We had walked past  the Lobkowicz Palace (inside the Prague Castle) but it was separate from the Prague Castle ticket. After we had read about stuff on Tripadvisor, we saw it was awesome so our plan was to head up there and stop at other cool places along the way.














 The first place we jumped off the bus was the monastery. The monastery itself was cool but there was a self guided tour which didn't really have a lot of information. After pushing through the tour, we had built up quite the drinking appetite so we went across the street to the brewery attached to the monastery. Everyone knows monks brew sweet beer. We sampled a few different options before heading over to the Prague Castle to try and see the changing of the guard. We kind of saw it and it was cool from what we could tell, but we were looking at it from the wrong side so it wasn't quite as impressive. After the guard's finished their swap we headed over to the Lobkowicz Palace which is inside of the main Prague Castle.


The reviews did not lie. This tour was awesome. I think it may be the best audio tour I've taken. It told a great story of the Lobkowicz family and had many beautiful artifacts which stories for each of them. All told, the tour took about 2 hours or so and we absolutely loved it. This is a can't miss for a trip to Prague.









We had paid for the boat cruise with the Hop On Hop Off bus so we hustled over to the port by the north of the city to get on the boat. We had a drink on the boat as we cruised past the city but unfortunately we had already gotten a good sense of Prague so we didn't really learn anything new from the cruise. Certainly not something I'd feel like you HAVE to do.

We headed back home to change because Megan had booked one of the nicest restaurants in Prague for dinner and we needed to fancy ourselves up. Before we jumped on the bus, we stopped by a jewelry shop and picked up a pair of cufflinks for me because I forgot them but only brought french cuffed shirts (oops). We had early reservations at Kampa Park and were seated right by the window overlooking the river.

Afterwards, Megan and I crossed the Prague bridge because the lighting was getting to be perfect for some pictures. We then took a few pictures looking back at the Prague Castle before heading back home for the night.