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Day 5 and, with fatigue having set in, we followed as we were led from square to square and street to street; with seemingly boundless energy Mr Smith strode out at the front in stark contrast to the shuffling, mumbling, weary tourists bringing up the rear, nearly a street behind.
Mumbled words and lazy hand gestures pointed in the vague direction of things being discussed at the front like some distorted version of Chinese Whispers. This was a final familiarisation I suppose before being released into Prague to spend the last day as we pleased with our plane leaving that evening. And so, after a pep talk from Mr Smith and a few tram numbers and directions scribbled on the backs of our maps we set off.
A little worse for wear and with sore feet, most trudged off to a nearby café to spend the sunny October morning in a drowsy stupor. However, paired up with Emily G, we set off in search of Prague castle keen to make the most of our final day in Prague. Scaling the hill and walking for the morning we revisited the Castle, the St. Vitus Cathedral and the striking memorial to the victims of communism along with many other places of interest. To see these places again gave us a greater understanding and allowed us to connect in our heads the routes and roads around Prague.
With the distance of walking involved in a King's scholars' trip, I'm sure anyone of the group could now confidently navigate the city without a map. It was by wandering Prague, however, that we came across an odd gathering of people. Asking what was going on and pointing at various, almost impossible to pronounce, phrases in the back of our guide book we managed to establish that it was something to do with the elections in Prague held a few days before. With a language barrier to contend with we never discovered what that vast queue of people was actually waiting for but it was an interesting situation to stumble upon nonetheless.
Helena Winsey
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