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Published: December 13th 2007
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When I arived in Prague, I could only read panels in Czech.
This language is very different from German.
It's a slav language that uses the latine alphabet with a lot of accents on the vowels and the consons.
The means of transportation are the subway and the tramway.
I needed at first to buy a subway ticket that was available for 24 hours that was at the cheapest price.
I had to do the change.
The tobacconist that was near didn't understand German or English. I made me understand by gestures.
By going then to another tobacconist, by expressing myself by gestures again, I could obtain my money.
I tried to find my way on a subway's map that was displayed in the station.
It was difficult because all the names were written in Czech.
I could after a certain moment find the station that was the nearest to my hotel where I had booked a room for my stay.
After I arrived at my destination, once I went out of the subway, I had still to find my way on the street.
I managed to do it with the city's map I had with me.
The weather was very sunny.
I went to my hotel.
Naturally I had to show my passport at the reception.
I left my luggage in my room.
I began my visit of Prague.
I stayed three days in the Czech capital.
There are many different architectural styles with the gothic, the baroc, the rococo and the classic.
The hotel prices are almost always high.
The restaurants are on the contrary often very affordable.
The cookery is rather different from the German food.
The Czech people eat gulash with a kind of semolina bread to accompany the dish.
German and English are sometimes understood.
German is more often understood than English.
Then I took the coach from Prague to Bratislava.
There was a stop after three hours.
Many people went out of the coach.
Everybody spoke only in Czech.
I was in fact arrived in Brno.
I took the opportunity to visit this little charming city that is the capital of Moravia.
After one hour, I went to the station to take a coach to Bratislava.
The person who answered me told me all an explanation in Czech, after
she let me wait for a moment.
I understood I could not do this travel.
I looked at an automatic display if there was a possible destination to Bratislava.
It was impossible.
Brastislava was the city indicated on my fare and I had left at the right time.
I think that the coach had just made a stop for a few minutes before it went to Bratislava.
I went to the railway station where I could go to an office for the international travel.
The employee who was selling tickets understood German.
I could have a ticket for Vienna in Austria where I had a correspondence to Bratislava, according to the informations I had had in Lyon on the Internet.
I had to do the change of Czech money to Slovak money. The latter can't be bought in France because the Banque de France refuses to get it.
I left for Vienna.
After I arrived at the station, I bought my ticket for Bratislava.
I left rather quickly.
The travel lasted a little more than half an hour.
Bratislava is rather near from Vienna.
After I arrived at the station of the slovak capital, I
was hearing only people speaking in Slovak that is a language more similar to Russian than the Czech language.
The shop that was selling a map of the city was closed because it was on Sunday.
The only means of transportation was the tramway. I began to do the change at a tobacconist and I bought a hot dog to go on doing the change.
I gave up trying to do the change to buy a tramway ticket.
I went on foot.
Luckily I had a luggage with rollers.
I went on a long avenue.
I went in a park that was behind the palace of the Slovak president that was behind a transparent plastic wall.
I went outside.
I went on walking.
I found finally the historic city center.
A map allowed me to find the hotel where I had booked a room.
I ate in a slovak restaurat in the evening. I went then for a walk on the streets that were lit in blue and green.
It was more intimate than in Prague.
The following day, I visited Bratislava.
I visited a jewish museum that showed the persecutions at the time
of the nazi occupation and at the Russian time.
I left then for Vienna in Austria.
I stayed for three days.
I did a touristic visit with a group of tourists in a coach.
I visited the Schönbrunn castle.
I had a walk on the Bürgerring.
I went near the Kunstmuseum where paintings of Brueghel are exposed.
A horse-drawn carriage went near the park where there is a statue of the famous musician Johann Strauss.
I took the train for Gmünd in the North of Austria.
It is a city at the border with the Czech Republic.
I went to the border on foot.
I waited for five minutes at the toll for the verication of my passport.
I went on foot to Ceske Velenice.
The weather was very sunny.
I walked in this little city on the Bohemian countryside.
I went to the railway station.
I waited a little to catch a train to go to Ceske Budejovice.
I had to go to Tabor, a city in the South of Bohemia.
I went out from the train in a little city to buy a ticket to have my correspondence to Tabor.
After I arrived
at the station, I bought a map of the city.
I went to the hotel where I had booked a room for one night.
In the evening I ate in a restaurant.
The following day I visited the Hussites museum.
I went then back to Prague.
I did a little travel in a little city called Cesky Krumlov.
It is a place that is classified as historic site by the UNESCO.
There is a very beautiful castle from the Middle Age.
In total I stayed eight days in Prague.
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