My trip to the Petřín was a solo trip, the first one I did in Prague, and one full of misadventures. I love exploring but I like to have at least one other person with me, especially in places where I don't know the language. My trip to the Petřín started with a troublesome tram ride. When no [...]
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Noc Kostelu and Noc Museum
One of the events that one of our teachers told us about while we were in Prague was Noc Kostelu, Night of Churches. On this night many churches throughout the city are open for free. Usually the churches cost money to go into and look around. So Noc Kostelu is a great way to get [...]
Chicago Cultural Center
The Chicago Cultural Center is located at 78 East Washington Street. The Cultural Center has been around since 1897 and use to be the Chicago Public Library. Today it is a free to enter museum of sorts. It's open daily from 9am until 7pm, except on weekends (Fridays through Sundays) when it closes an hour earlier. [...]
Communist Museum
One of my teachers took our class, a very small class of four, to Prague's Communist Museum. The Communist Museum is located between a McDonalds and a casino. It isn't an expensive museum includes a replica of an interrogation room, items from classrooms, uniforms, statues, art, and what life was like. It starts with the [...]
Franz Kafka Museum
One of the things we did in Prague as a group was have do a lot of things related to Franz Kafka. Franz Kafka was a novelist we studied while we were in Prague and whom we were all familiar with from earlier in our studies. One of the first things we did for our [...]
Chicago History Museum
The Chicago History Museum is located at 1601 N. Clark St. A couple buses like the 26 and 22 drop people off right at the front. It's the perfect place to get acquainted with the city and it's history. It packs a lot into two floors. It goes through Chicago's history, the blues and jazz era, [...]
Terezín
Part of our time in Prague included trips outside of the city. Our first trip was to Terezín, the Theresienstadt concentration camp. We took a bus out of the city from our hostel towards the camp. Our tour guide told us if we wanted to take any pictures inside the fortress we would have to pay, so [...]
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is in Lincoln Park, it's in the same area as the zoo. The museum is located at 2430 North Cannon Drive. It is reachable by different forms of public transportation, most require a short walk. The walk isn't that bad, however I went in winter as you can tell from [...]