prague Archives - Tolman Travels https://tolmantravels.com/tag/prague/ Sat, 30 May 2020 14:44:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://i0.wp.com/tolmantravels.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-T-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 prague Archives - Tolman Travels https://tolmantravels.com/tag/prague/ 32 32 162833905 Our First AirBNB “Experience”! Prague Family Photos https://tolmantravels.com/2019/11/03/prague-family-photos/ Sun, 03 Nov 2019 20:05:00 +0000 https://tolmantravels.com/?p=4798 Ok, I’m convinced! AirBNB is simply the best. We often utilize their unique lodging whenever we travel, but this weekend we decided to try out an AirBNB Experience. We hired a photographer who lives in Prague for a 2-hour walking tour/family photos. Spoiler Alert: It. Was. Awesome. If you haven’t signed up for an AirBNB account yet or have a different favorite site for hotel booking, sign up HERE and receive a discount on your first experience! We usually hate doing formal family photos, but this has changed the way we will do them forever! Kemal was so much fun, he walked us around the city and knew a lot about the history there and local landmarks. He took our photos along the way, some posed, some candid. As a doctoral student in Architecture, he had a really interesting view of the city. We got to know him personally a little bit, about his family, and he was so kind and patient with our kids, even through bathroom breaks and hangry meltdowns. If you’re going to Prague, you have to check him out! Here’s his link. (But if you don’t have an account yet, sign up here for a discount!) https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/774020 Also, check out his website and facebook page 🙂 Ok, here are our family pictures courtsey of Kemal and Prague, Czech Republic. There was a super cool astronomical clock in the town square. Very interesting! And now for my FAVORITE little series of my two beautiful little boys. I love each of their unique spirits and love for life in different ways. Annnnnnnd now for Hyrum’s hangry meltdown 🙂 Dad left to find some food real quick and I sat and held Hyrum. Kemal snapped a few cute photos. Biscuits have been found!!! Happy now 🙂 We really enjoyed Prague, and a lot of it had to do with our fun photo tour. We hope to do another one in Paris before we leave! Thankfully, that’s quite aways a way still, because we are absolutely LOVING Europe. ~Tolman Travels~

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]]> Ok, I’m convinced! AirBNB is simply the best. We often utilize their unique lodging whenever we travel, but this weekend we decided to try out an AirBNB Experience. We hired a photographer who lives in Prague for a 2-hour walking tour/family photos.

Spoiler Alert: It. Was. Awesome.

If you haven’t signed up for an AirBNB account yet or have a different favorite site for hotel booking, sign up HERE and receive a discount on your first experience!

We usually hate doing formal family photos, but this has changed the way we will do them forever! Kemal was so much fun, he walked us around the city and knew a lot about the history there and local landmarks. He took our photos along the way, some posed, some candid. As a doctoral student in Architecture, he had a really interesting view of the city.

We got to know him personally a little bit, about his family, and he was so kind and patient with our kids, even through bathroom breaks and hangry meltdowns.

If you’re going to Prague, you have to check him out! Here’s his link. (But if you don’t have an account yet, sign up here for a discount!)

https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/774020

Also, check out his website and facebook page 🙂

Ok, here are our family pictures courtsey of Kemal and Prague, Czech Republic.

There was a super cool astronomical clock in the town square. Very interesting!

Prague
Prague
Prague
Prague

And now for my FAVORITE little series of my two beautiful little boys. I love each of their unique spirits and love for life in different ways.

Prague
Prague
Prague
Prague
Prague
Prague
Prague

Annnnnnnd now for Hyrum’s hangry meltdown 🙂 Dad left to find some food real quick and I sat and held Hyrum. Kemal snapped a few cute photos.

Biscuits have been found!!! Happy now 🙂

Prague
Prague
Prague
Prague
Prague

We really enjoyed Prague, and a lot of it had to do with our fun photo tour. We hope to do another one in Paris before we leave! Thankfully, that’s quite aways a way still, because we are absolutely LOVING Europe.

~Tolman Travels~

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]]> 4798 Freiburg, Germany Temple, and PRAGUE! https://tolmantravels.com/2019/11/01/freiburg-germany-temple-and-prague/ Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:50:00 +0000 https://tolmantravels.com/?p=5355 On a 4 day weekend, we decided to take a last-minute trip over to Germany to knock off another temple on our goal to see all 14 temples in Europe for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and stop over to see Prague! Since it was a last-minute trip, we decided to drive. It was about 7.5 hours (without stops) to Freiburg, Germany where we stayed the night at a cute little AirBNB while Nick and I split up to do temple sessions. He usually does an evening session and I go first thing in the morning. They have headsets to listen to in English, but I know ZERO German and I really missed being in a French-speaking country! After my session in the morning, we brought the kids over to see the temple and walk through the very small visitors center next door. The boys always love to walk around the temple grounds. It’s a unique and special memory they have in many different locations as a family. That afternoon we took off to Prague! Just an easy 2-hour drive wasn’t bad at all. Checked into our AirBNB there and found a train station to head into town. We enjoy braving public transit, and the metro was easy to navigate and quite cheap. We wandered around the city for the evening and found a fun place to eat! There were a lot of people bunched up around the astronomical clock around 4 pm so I decided to wade through the sea of people and check it out. I just chimed a few times on the hour and was quite underwhelming… oh well! We wandered the city for the evening, it was just beautiful. We love walking slow, letting the kiddos play and set the pace, and looking for cool sites off the beaten path. Some people research things a bit more, but we enjoy just wandering. Haha this next picture is a Beer-Bike, where you sit and drink with your friends while you pedal and explore the city. Ha! A little cathedral we stopped in. After it was dark, the city light up! We wandered across the Charles Bridge and listened to many street performers. The boys love to give Euro change to the ones they enjoy. It was really impossible to capture the beauty of the city lighted on the hill, but it was breathtaking. We found a unique ice cream shop after the Charles bridge that was essentially a churro cooked over an open flame, wrapped into a come, lined with caramel, and filled with ice cream. Yum! The boys especially loved this because the cone didn’t have a bottom to the ice cream “pooped” all over my hand as it melted. A fun, and messy, experience! Did you know you can do “Experiences” on AirBNB as well? The next morning, we decided to try one out! We booked a photography walking tour with a local from Prague, wanting to explore the city more and knock out our family photos for the year. It was a win-win! If you haven’t signed up for an AirBNB account yet or have a different favorite site for hotel booking, sign up HERE and receive a discount on your first experience! If you’re going to Prague, you have to check Kemal out! Here’s his link. https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/774020 There were SO MANY amazing pictures that we got back from our AirBNB Experience, I put them in a separate blog post here. Here are a few favorites 🙂 Here are a few photos I snapped while we wandered the city with Kemal. On Sunday afternoon after our photo tour, we were supposed to drive halfway home and stop to see our friends the Hancocks! We ended up in TERRIBLE bad traffic somewhere in Germany, in the dark, with hungry kids. After 6 hours in the car, we decided to stop and find a place to sleep. It was pouring rain, of course, and we had no clue where we were. We navigated to 3 different hotel-type places, all of which were closed unexpectedly or unable to accommodate a family of 4. Finally, we were sent to a small place 15km away that was able to help us. No one in the heart of Germany spoke English and I was especially grateful for Nick’s German skills he learned in high school! He also ordered and picked a pizza (another adventure in itself) all in German. He really saved our bacon! We did stop the next day to see our friends for a quick visit then traveled the rest of the way home. We LOVED the Freiburg, Germany Temple and Prague. And although it didn’t turn out perfectly as planned, it was a great little family weekend.

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]]> On a 4 day weekend, we decided to take a last-minute trip over to Germany to knock off another temple on our goal to see all 14 temples in Europe for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and stop over to see Prague!

Since it was a last-minute trip, we decided to drive. It was about 7.5 hours (without stops) to Freiburg, Germany where we stayed the night at a cute little AirBNB while Nick and I split up to do temple sessions. He usually does an evening session and I go first thing in the morning. They have headsets to listen to in English, but I know ZERO German and I really missed being in a French-speaking country!

After my session in the morning, we brought the kids over to see the temple and walk through the very small visitors center next door. The boys always love to walk around the temple grounds. It’s a unique and special memory they have in many different locations as a family.

That afternoon we took off to Prague! Just an easy 2-hour drive wasn’t bad at all. Checked into our AirBNB there and found a train station to head into town. We enjoy braving public transit, and the metro was easy to navigate and quite cheap. We wandered around the city for the evening and found a fun place to eat!

There were a lot of people bunched up around the astronomical clock around 4 pm so I decided to wade through the sea of people and check it out. I just chimed a few times on the hour and was quite underwhelming… oh well!

We wandered the city for the evening, it was just beautiful. We love walking slow, letting the kiddos play and set the pace, and looking for cool sites off the beaten path. Some people research things a bit more, but we enjoy just wandering.

Haha this next picture is a Beer-Bike, where you sit and drink with your friends while you pedal and explore the city. Ha!

A little cathedral we stopped in.

After it was dark, the city light up! We wandered across the Charles Bridge and listened to many street performers. The boys love to give Euro change to the ones they enjoy. It was really impossible to capture the beauty of the city lighted on the hill, but it was breathtaking.

We found a unique ice cream shop after the Charles bridge that was essentially a churro cooked over an open flame, wrapped into a come, lined with caramel, and filled with ice cream. Yum! The boys especially loved this because the cone didn’t have a bottom to the ice cream “pooped” all over my hand as it melted. A fun, and messy, experience!

Did you know you can do “Experiences” on AirBNB as well? The next morning, we decided to try one out! We booked a photography walking tour with a local from Prague, wanting to explore the city more and knock out our family photos for the year. It was a win-win!

If you haven’t signed up for an AirBNB account yet or have a different favorite site for hotel booking, sign up HERE and receive a discount on your first experience!

If you’re going to Prague, you have to check Kemal out! Here’s his link.

https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/774020

There were SO MANY amazing pictures that we got back from our AirBNB Experience, I put them in a separate blog post here. Here are a few favorites 🙂

Here are a few photos I snapped while we wandered the city with Kemal.

On Sunday afternoon after our photo tour, we were supposed to drive halfway home and stop to see our friends the Hancocks! We ended up in TERRIBLE bad traffic somewhere in Germany, in the dark, with hungry kids. After 6 hours in the car, we decided to stop and find a place to sleep. It was pouring rain, of course, and we had no clue where we were. We navigated to 3 different hotel-type places, all of which were closed unexpectedly or unable to accommodate a family of 4. Finally, we were sent to a small place 15km away that was able to help us. No one in the heart of Germany spoke English and I was especially grateful for Nick’s German skills he learned in high school! He also ordered and picked a pizza (another adventure in itself) all in German. He really saved our bacon!