Kobra

It is only fitting that my last photo be at Kobra. It is the first place I went when I got to Prague. In hopes of getting the top room with a balcony, we arrived at Vervakova 25 an hour before check in thinking just maybe we wouldn’t get rooms assigned to us. Of course, no one was there at 10 in the morning and we sat on the steps that we would later sit on before the start of many tours. We had been in such a rush to check out of our hostel, we skipped breakfast. While sitting on the steps a man approached us to tell us about a theater nearby where we should go see a show (one of the many things I never made it to in Prague). We asked him where we could grab a coffee and he pointed down the street to Kobra.

While living in Prague, we were not quite tourists, not quite travelers and not locals. We were somewhere in between. We had an apartment where we cooked our own food and went grocery shopping and had to bring our own soap, but it was temporary. We are still guests in the city. We would get on the tram the wrong direction, have to go shopping because we brought clothes for the wrong weather and we forget that water costs money. As someone who grew up in Austin and who is going to school in Austin, getting to explore a new city has been an amazing adventure.