Blogs from Prague, Czech Republic, Europe - page 169

So, a few months back, after I'd recieved the booking confirmations from our travel agent, I was sitting and sifting through the paperwork when I came across the info for our two flights around Europe. Now, when you see airlines going by the names Easyjet and Smartwings, it tends to give you pause as you stop to consider the possiblility that maybe these Barnum and Bailey names don't bode too well for your travel experience, but if you're anything like me, you follow your belief that bad things only happen to other people and you move on. Luckily for us, the flight from LA to London let us carry on everything (British Airways; a nice respectable name), and gave us hope that maybe the rest of the flights would be similar. Easyjet (From Paris to Rome) ... read more

PRAGUE We are joined on the train by two british lads that we met at Auschwitz. It is after 10pm & our plan was to get some sleep & be ready n rearing to go upon arrival in Prague at 7am. No chance..... We order our 1st beers - so cheap - they are cold & go down too well. This sucks us in & we order some more. Our carriage guy resembles mad eye moody (eyes all over the place) & he has the job of providing us with drinks. The cold ones are all gone & we start on the hot ones....nice. We arrive in Prague feeling a little dusty. We find our hostel but have to wait outside until 9am until it opens. We check-in but can't go into the room until 2pm, ... read more

Day 26, 26th June. Prague. The day was spent buzzing around town looking for stuff again. We met up with Toby and had some drinks, quite a lot actually - so the day passed into oblivion. We went back to the campground before, I wasn’t going to risk having anything else nicked overnight like my sandals last night. Rory went off to stay at his brother’s and I stayed at the campsite with Scott, Toby went off back to his hostel and we arranged to meet up in the morning to go up to the Russian Embassy with Rowan and Klara for translation. Day 27, 27th June. Prague. We all met at the usual place, Andal station, except Toby that is, who got lost on the way. However, he met up with us at the embassy ... read more

I had an ok sleep, and if Ginko snored I didn’t notice! There was a continental breakfast on offer, but after looking at what was on offer we decided to go to the supermarket. Everything was very cheap, particularly beer, but we managed to show strong will power. After buying our supplies we had breakfast back at the hostel. We decided to take in the sights of Prague on foot. All the shops were very interesting, obviously designed for tourists, but the souvenirs were different to what we normally see, eg. marionettes and babushkas. As there was so many shops, we decided we would shop later, although the girls did tend to linger at times. Our first touristy thing was to go up the clock tower. There was a lift in the middle of this amazing ... read more

I wanted to focus on going to Prague, but it wasn’t so easy being at school. Everything went ok though, and I got out as quick as I could around 15.10. Kez and Beck picked me up from school. I got changed in the car, dropped my shirt off for dry cleaning, and then we caught the 15.46 train as there was no 15.33. We got off at West Ham, caught another train to London Bridge, and then it was a mad scramble to try and get on the train for Gatwick. The train was jam packed, standing room only. We managed to get to the airport with a little bit of time to spare. I couldn’t find a fax machine to fax off my time sheet, settled for a snack at McDonalds, which coincided nicely ... read more