Blogs from Old Town, Prague, Czech Republic, Europe - page 2

Day 23 - Prague Yesterday was a tough day, as far as holidays go. It was not a tragic day, we were not plagued with some life altering event it was just a bad travel day. 18 hours on trains, cars, taxis, and transit to get to a hotel that was not open, only to hop back in a taxi to get to another one. This morning I was still feeling the affects of the travel day but Sydney was so good bringing my spirits up. She is so wise for a 13 year old girl, she is like a miniture budda or yoda. The day in Prague, after Syd picked me up was great. We too a 7 minute tram from our hotel into the old city and it is, to say the least, magnificent. ... read more

Sunday 1st July We had a little bit of rain last night, which explained why it was so hot and humid when we went to bed. the apartment we are in does not have air con so all windows were open so I was woken up by a few spots of rain falling on my face. nice and cooled down a little. After a lazy morning, Lyn managed to fit a front rack to my bike (will put photo on later) but no luck with attaching one to her bike. We don't have a tool to remove the front light on her bike so it will have to wait until we find something to remove it with. It was hot and sunny out and the crowds were out enjoying the sunshine as well. Lyn, Robyn and ... read more

Finally finding time to talk about Prague, by far the coolest place I've ever been. I spent the weekend with three of the girls on my study abroad trip: Aly, Shelby, and Erin. We didn't arrive back in Strasbourg until about 715 this morning, and we then had about 50 minutes to dress up in business casual for our professional visit to the Mercedes Benz factory. After spending the previous 12 hours on a train, our appearances were lookin pretty rough, but we made it work I think. So I'll start from the beginning... Friday: We took an overnight train from Strasbourg, and got into Prague around 1030 am on Friday morning so that was a smart move on our part instead of spending all day traveling. Despite the fact that there were some snorers on ... read more

It’s Sunday and I write to you via the EC train from Prague to Vienna. So far the train situation has worked well for us, the Eurail pass was a good investment and the best part is we don’t have to make reservations in advance we just hop on whichever train we want. It’s Day 6 into our journey and overall holding up well, the past 2 nights I got good sleep so I am rejuventated. My eating schedule is not the best, but that’s expected when you are traveling. I’m hoping that the hostel in Vienna has a tiny gym so I can get a little workout in, definitely feel like my body is a little out of shape. My budget is also under control I haven’t spent as much as I anticipated, but I ... read more

My trip to Romania was now over and I was heading from Bucharest to Lisbon by way of Prague. I had expected that today was going to be spent waiting in airports or on airplanes as I travelled to the opposite side of Europe to visit our friend Maria in Lisbon. I was excited to be leaving Bucharest and get on with this next part of the trip, but Maria had emailed me last night and said that the Lisbon air traffic controllers were likely going to be striking when I flew in, so my flight may be delayed. If I had been flying straight to Lisbon from Bucharest I would have been extremely disappointed; as much as I liked Romania, I didn't want to spend any more time there. To my fortune, however, my stopover ... read more

Well it has been a while since I have writen anything on my blog but then since my last entry myself and Katharine have had a beautiful daughter and havnt really had chance to go anywhere until now. At 7 months we thought it would be a good time to trial a short break with our daughter and organise a city break which wasnt too far away on a flight. We are also in training for a marathon later in may so we wanted to find somewhere we could incorporate our run. We decided to head to Prague and also entered the Hervis Prague Half Marathon as well. We flew in to Prague on the 29th March with Jet2.com, last time i book a flight with them as we got stung on top of our booking ... read more