Thursday, February 28, 2013

Prague

Praha and Berlin
We spent the day in Prague strolling the streets of "Old Town" then meeting a friend, well Deb's friend, we all know i have no friends, who took us above the castle so we could walk down through the castle. Very interesting. Saw a very nice view of Prague. Unfortunately, for our guide we had an issue.
Old town is a tangle of old Strauses(streets) mostly one way. We called  a cab to pick us up outside our hotel and zoomed up the hill, Cost about 1200CZK. We walked down through the castle and "Golden houses" and out to a very stunning view of Prague. Then came down a long stair case lined with Guitars players from as far as Mexico and Nashville, a plain out beggar and a street actor posing as the King of Austria, near as i can reckon.
At the bottom of the stair walk we hailed a cab for the ride back. Now, mind you, we probably halved the return trip distance. When we passed the second landmark i recognized, yes I recognized, the driver and our Czech speaking friend had some words. When we, finally, helped our aged taxi driver back to our hotel he charged us double and feigned "getting lost" as his excuse. the other cab rides we had offered no such illegal activity. I fully think that people are honest and out to do good but we got lucky with this scoundrel.
Slept poorly last night, anxious that we will not get to our train station for an early out, 8:30, due to crash in subway , bad taxi driver, or possible meteor attack on our position. Then what would we do? 
Berlin, here we come.

1 comment:

  1. Saw no blog yesterday and this morning ...two!!! Terrific. Sorry to hear that Deb has had a cold. That is bad enough when you are home curled up on your own couch but traveling...it must be a bummer. Glad to hear you are finding some good local places to eat. Some good ideas for party food this summer!!!! Journey Dishes! We are still having a drizzle of snow today but the temp has been in the high 30's for the past few days. Going to get sunny and cold for your return! Have a beautiful day !

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