Today we traveled for about 7 hours on train to get to Prague. I think there were 6 transfers in total with 4 hours of it being through the desolate wastelands of the rural Czech Republic. I have to say that it looks exactly how I expected an ex-communist Eastern European country to look like... dreary. I saw one valley that had at least 5 cooling towers for what I think was either old nuke or coal plants (I couldn't see other buildings as we were too far away). Many train stations were worse for wear and many of the people looked just plain tired. I guess maybe it was the 6 hours on a train at that point but I was wondering what we had got ourselves into.
Once arriving in the city and negotiating the metro system (buy the 5 day pass, totally worth it in my opinion) I can now see that Prague is very beautiful. Prague's outskirts were just changing leaf colour so it was quite nice to see. The city is very bright and filled with lots people this evening, so who knows what it will look like tomorrow! Many are sitting in pubs and cafes drinking coffee, wine and beer and just watching people walk by. I think tonight we might go out on a pub crawl, or just crawl ourselves to a pub and drink some beers.
The apartment we have rented for 70 Euro a night is about 200 square feet with a kitchen, big bathroom and living/sleeping room. It is right off the Old Town Square so it is close to all the downtown sites. It also has a washing machine, which at this point in our laundry situations is like the holy grail. Just lets see if there is washing machine detergent. Check out Vodickova Apartments if you are going to be here and want to stay in a place that isn't a hotel or guest house. It seems like a really good deal...
More to come tomorrow when we actually do something here!
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