The Amazing Race - Day 1

I've been debating about when my amazing race actually started. Was it when I sent my luggage home and was living out of a backpack? When I left Lyon? Or when I left France?

I've decided it all started when I left for Prague because a) this is my first time taking a flight since getting to Lyon and b) this is my first time in a country where I literally know none of the language.

This is what I knew about Prague before I got there:

• There is a clock that does something cool every hour.
  
• There is an important bridge or something.
  
• There is a castle

I only knew about the castle because I read a fictional book that occasionally had true facts, such as there is a castle in Prague. The rest of the book was about taking a drug to travel through time. It was a weird book.

Anyway, since going to Prague I've learned:

• The clock show is not that cool. The only really cool thing is a skeleton that raises his glass up and down.

• The important bridge is kind of lame. It is essentially a very crowded tourist trap with silly souvenirs.
 

• The language they speak in Prague is Czech.
 

• Ahoj means hello (informal) in Czech. This is the only word I could remember because it looks like ahoy. I never got to use it, though, because I didn't know if it was rude to use an informal hello to people I didn't know, so instead I was much more polite and played charades with everyone.
 

• The Lennon Wall is in Prague.
 

• There are also some dancing houses that do not look like they're dancing.
 

• And finally: the Prague castle is stunning.