Next Stop: Prague

Saturday, August 3, 2013. Pam and I woke up early to set out on our journey to Prague. We caught the trains to Nuremberg where we were to catch a bus to Prague. The station at Nuremburg was huge with lots of stores and fast food restaurants. We grabbed a couple of mocha frappes from McDonald's while waiting for our bus to depart. Fortunately, we made reservations for the bus and arrived in plenty of time to find it. It turned out to be a double-decker bus with air conditioning, food service, and restrooms. It was really an enjoyable ride, except for a man I called "Zorba the Greek" who sat in the seat across the aisle and seemed to struggle with sleep apnea the whole way. We watched videos of a little mole and his forrest friends. I woke up to catch the video where the mole was delivering baby rabbits in visual way that you would not expect in a childrens cartoon. We were quite amused. After 31/2 hours, we arrived in Prague where it was over 90 degrees. We fumbled our way through the station looking to get Czech Korunas from an ATM and figure out how to buy metro tickets. The metro was easy to access and it was much cooler underground. Of couse, once out of the tube, it took some time finding the pathway to our hotel, but we made it. We are in a very old building, on the first floor up, that is decorated with a 1920's theme. Our room is rather ugly, but it has air conditioning! We had fish and chips at an Irish pub around the corner and were eager to rest up for a day of exploration in Prague.