Chatting with Czechoslavakians
So, another couple of days down and I'm about to head to Amsterdam tomorrow so I figured that before I did that, I should write another update from Prague! Saturday night was a good one, we went back to the dance clue we had found the night before, we paced our drinking and we made some friends. Then we left the club and thinking soured quickly. After a mandatory Macca's stop (this is becoming a bad habit isn't it??), we were crossing the road to grab a cab and we were bailed up by 3 Police officers. They gave us a hard time about not using the crossing and it being 5.30am didn't help either... They soon demanded to see our passports and visions of being locked up in a Czechoslavakian cell overnight filled my mind. It took some convincing that we were getting into a cab and heading to our hotel but they eventually let us go. I think it was lucky that we didn't have our passports on us or who knows what would have happened!! They don't seem to like tourists here much, given some of the service we've received and this just went to prove the point! Anyway, crisis averted. Next day we headed to Kutna Hora which is 45 mins south of the city, to see a church made from human bones.
Kind of interesting place but a little bit of a let down to be honest. The town itself was completely closed down being Sunday but we of course were not to know and after grabbing a bite to eat, caught a cab back to thr train station for the return trip to Prague. After 1 hr 15, we began to get worried and of course after asking someone, found that we had gotten on train that was not going to Prague!! (Germany probably as there was a lot of people on there with overnight bags) We bolted off the train and onto another one and settled in for another hour and a half ride back to Prague... Who knows where we actually were but I intend to find a map to find out! We managed to see the funny side and it certainly proved to us that we aren't going to win "The Amazing Race" anytime soon! Today in comparison was rather
uneventful, we got to our destination and home again no worries. We caught the bus to Terezin which is a small town that the Natzi's took over and made into a concentration camp during WWII. Very interesting, saw the museums and some domitories as well as some tunnels through the prison where they tortured and
The view from the train just after we jumped back on to go back to Prague... can you imagine being stranded here??murdered 2600 people... pretty gruesome stuff and really makes you glad to live in "free" country. Back to Prague safely (albeit on the outskirts of the city where we didn't intend to go) and we both did a bit of shoppping before heading out to have dinner. I figured I should have some real Czech cuisine whilst here so I had the Czech specialty plate which had Dumplings, Roast Pork, Spicy Sausage, Pork Knuckle, Red Cabbage and Sauerkraut. Rosie, it reminded me of lunch at your parents place!! Beautiful food and lovely bottle of wine to finish of a very interesting trip to Prague! Last night in Prague...
Off to Amsterdam at 7.00 tomorrow morning, I can only hope it will be as much fun!

2 Comments:
Daniel and Troy you boys are absolute shockers! Here's a tip - get a map!!
;o)
Paula x
hey you two are bad. Dan i knew you were bad... but really, every city? How is it you just go in the wrong direction.
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