Hello hello, faithful blog readers. Sorry for the utter lack of posting yesterday, and the half-assed attempt the day before. I’m still not going to have a very spectacular post today – mostly because I didn’t bring my camera down and the WiFi is in the lobby here at this awesome hotel.
Yesterday, Maria and I went to the Emmaus (Emauzy) Monastery in the morning. It was beautiful and so peaceful. We finally left there after an hour and meandered over to the National Museum area – where Maria and I parted ways: her to the museum, and I to the airport!
I dropped down into the metro station and bought a 20 minute ticket and rode to the main train station. There, I had to ask just about everyone where to buy a ticket for the airport express bus, and, once I bought that, where to board the bus! After half an hour of trying to figure things out, I finally was directed to the bus (in Czech) by a nice train lady, and waited about 10 minutes for the next bus to show up. The bus ride was sweltering because the weather was so intense yesterday, but it was nice. The city towards the airport is exceedingly nice and has some very green grass and large houses. I finally reached the airport and found that my parents had been waiting for me to get there! They didn’t even get a stamp on their passport.
We got into a taxi and sat in traffic for awhile before getting to the hotel. Once we got to the hotel we vegged out – mom and dad took showers, mom then took a nap and dad and I went downstairs for a beer. Then we met Maria at the old hostel and brought our bags to the new hotel, and took showers then popped out for dinner. We had dinner at a restaurant I can’t remember the name of, but mom and Maria had the Czech specialty of roast pig’s knee. It was pretty awesome. Dad had the knee of lamb, and I had a yummy flank steak (they like their leg meat here!). We then rolled ourselves back over the Charles bridge to the hotel – stopping to buy some chocolate on the way. Basically, after that, we hit the beds and slept until now (well, everyone else is still asleep I do believe).
I got sunburnt yesterday! That’s how warm it was. And today look very nice out already, just a bit cloudy (which will be good for my toasty skin). We’re planning on going to Prague Castle today and wandering around and exploring that. We leave tomorrow night for Warsaw, so we’re jamming in a bunch of Czech sightseeing in the next couple of days.
Maria and I have also decided we’re going to mail some of our stuff back to London because we grossly overpacked (I never knew 10 shirts for 30 days would be too much), and it’ll lighten our load through the rest of our trip.
Anyways, I’m going to go see if anyone else is up yet.
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