After four blissful days in Amsterdam it was time to move on to a city I was very much looking forward to visiting, Prague.  I had wanted to travel to Eastern Europe for well over a decade, specifically to the Czech Republic.  The region always held a certain mystique for me and when we began planning our honeymoon I knew I wanted Prague on our list of destinations.

That desire coupled with the fact that the Prague Opera was performing Bizet’s Carmen, an opera I had long loved, dictated that we hop on a plane to spend a whirlwind of a 36 hours in Prague.  I knew it was a lot of traveling to do for very little time in a destination, but I was determined to experience as much as Prague as I could.  Ideally a snow covered Prague.

You know the old adage “Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it”?  Well, Prague offered a shining example of just why I ought be a little more careful about what I wish for.  Leading up to our trip I was very vocal about wanting to experience cold weather and snow.  I packed long underwear, I carried a wool pea coat across the ocean with me, I was prepared!  Or so I thought.  It turns out that nothing could have prepared this LA girl for Eastern European temperatures and snow.READ MORE »