Day 3: Sunday, 11/28
On Sunday we had to check out of the hostel, but the workers were nice enough not to shove us out at a ridiculous hour and to let us keep our bags there until we had to catch out return bus. We had breakfast at the Alexandra bookstore... which was really dessert, but we had to go back to this place! I had the dobos torte which layers yellow sponge cake with chocolate butter cream and is topped with a slice of solid caramel.
Alexandra bookstore cafe - complete with Christmas tree!
Afterward, we headed downtown to the Great Market Hall, which is a three story building that has tons of stalls and vendors inside. I was excited to look around and get some souvenirs - possibly paprika. We were pretty bummed out to find that the place was closed on Sundays though! We now had a lot of downtime so we went to the location in the middle of the market and our hostel - uncharted territory. Luckily enough, we stumbled across the Christmas markets!
Christmas tree at the Markets
After getting out fill of the markets, we headed back to get some lunch.. at the hummus bar! This time I had the pita with hummus and sabik (eggplant and egg) and the malabi (rice pudding) with coconut (Hummus Bar.) After our lunch it was time to go to the hostel to pick up our bags and go back to the Nepliget station to catch our 4:00 pm bus back to Prague.
The 7 hour ride went quickly enough, thanks in large part to the better movies they played this time - The Proposal, The Ugly Truth and Blue Streak. We had a stop at Bratislava for a half an hour, where it was snowing. By 11:30 pm we were back in snowy Praha!
And it was back to the "real" world...
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