5/16 Thursday
Up at 5:30 to catch our 7:15 bus to Prague. We settle in for
a long drive, hitting stopped-up traffic after an hour or so, buses &
trucks parked along the autobahn for construction or an accident. Let's hope we
get to Prague before dark.
We got through the bus ride ok,
landed a little hot & disoriented at the bus station, but the travel center
clerk was pretty helpful & we bought a couple of city maps. We had a bit of
a haul up through the streets to our hotel, about 1.5 miles away, sort of
uphill. Our packs felt heavy, we aren’t carrying them often enough to get
used to the weight. But we arrived at our little hotel, in a nice
residential district just two blocks from the main street which is full of
stores, cafes & restaurants. Prague
is a little grittier than Frankfurt, there are scribbles of graffiti on some buildings, & some of the “Non-Stop” casino dives look pretty sketchy.
It’s not much different than walking around NYC really. We settle into our room
on the 5th floor & walk a few blocks to what looks like an
old-time tavern. The room is decorated with wagon wheels, pottery & farm
tools, heavy wooden tables, arched ceilings and lots of local types. Perfect.
We order dinners, chicken & rice for Bob, Pork chop for me. We each get a
half liter glass of Gambrinus beer for $1.25. Our dinners are enormous. My pork
chop is garnished with a slab of bacon and a fried egg. Bob’s chicken &
rice could feed us both easily. Next time we’ll know better. We enjoy our meals
& pay the $21 tab. Back at the hotel, we have a little Slivovitz at the
bar, where five young men, Irish we think, are lounging about with beers,
waiting to go out. They’re wearing colorful stretchy onesies with masks, like
Spiderman, each a different color: red, blue, pink, green. Their socks are
fringed with matching color clothespins. We don’t ask.
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