Have Bag, Will Travel: Prague

Prague is like a symphony. In a city full of music, different melodies harmonize with one another to create a thing of beauty. There's the sound of street vendors and street artists performing in the Old Town Square. There's the sound of classical music wafting from windows contrasted with the modern music spilling out of bars and clubs. It's a mystery that will never be uncovered.

I adored Prague and the ominous feeling that strikes you as ancient. Clean and architecturally complex, the city has a life to it unlike the other cities in Europe. It's complicated with it's mix of cultures like a splatter paint canvas. In the end, the colors all compliment one another to create a masterpiece. That's Prague in a nutshell, a mashup that ends up working. With folk, classical and jazz music overarching over church spires and rooftops, one enters into a Bohemia fairytale. Side streets of cobblestone make it easy to get lost, but that’s exactly what you want to do.

Go to Prague without a plan. Let the city direct you, whether that means you stroll through the street markets, picking up leather gloves and sweet treats or if you peruse the old Jewish sector. Visit the Prague Castle and walk along the city walls. Learn about the culture and the history because you probably haven't looked that much into it but it's juicy.

Find a musical event and go to it. Prague is a city of music, and it needs to be appreciated. Walk along the Charles Bridge at dusk and bask in the feeling of solitude even if you're not alone. Sometime we all need to appreciate how small we are in a very big, wide world. Walk until you can't walk anymore, and don't be afraid to get lose in the winding streets.

I was only in Prague for a weekend, but it ended up being one of my favorite places in Europe. It's a beautiful city, vastly underrated. There's an ambience to it that speaks volumes across the years. It's medieval, baroque and modern all wrapped into one paradoxical city that begs the tourist to constantly come back to keep rediscovering it.