What a beautiful city, the pictures don’t do it justice. We fly onto Amsterdam tomorrow but we sure wish we had another day here.
This morning we took a tour of the city. Prague is still part of our river cruise just the land portion, just as Budapest was at the beginning. They’ve been doing a great job organizing everything.
We took a bus up to Prague Palace. From there you can look overlook the city.
Unfortunately, our tour did not include going inside to see the interiors, maybe someday if we return we’ll see them. The weather has been wonderful so the tourists have been out in force. Luckily, we’ve had earphones to hear our guide even from a distance if we wander off. The castle had a series of courtyards and in one we found a bride. Actually we saw three brides today in different locations.
From the castle we walked down to the Old Town square. It was a beautiful walk but the pictures I took look flat, they just don’t convey our pretty the city is.
We went to visit the astronomical clock, a huge tourist attraction here. On the hour the two blue squares open up and the 12 apostles appear one by one. We didn’t hang around for the show but we saw the crowd gathering last night when we did a little orientation walk. Apparently, it’s known as a pickpockets’ dream because everyone is looking up and not noticing what’s going on around them. Violent crime is rare here, but every big tourist city has a pickpocket problem.
The tour ended in the square and we went to a local restaurant to try some Czech specialties. Fred had the local sausages with a potato soup and I had Prague Ham. It was all really good. Somehow, no matter where we’ve gone for lunch or dinner, it always comes out to be about $50USD for us!
We went back to the hotel to get rid of some of the stuff we’ve been carrying around from the tour and then went to the Museum of Communism that was nearby. It was very interesting, more of a story then a lot of artifacts but one thing is for sure, as crazy as things get where ever you live, none of it is as bad as a dictatorship. They’ve had a tough history. It’s like they finally were in sunshine after 1990 and were able to be themselves. I’m glad we stopped by.
By this time, it was late in the afternoon but we had to check out the local mega mall that was also close by and in the heart of the city. It wasn’t big by US standards but it had all kinds of nice stores, some we recognized like, H&M and Marks Spencer but a lot we didn’t know. The food court had McDonalds, Burger King, KFC and Pizza Hut along with a lot of other places. We got salads from one place to take back to the room and eat later. We’ve definitely had a large enough lunch to hold us for the day.
The day would not be complete without some sort of a glitch however. I went onto the KLM site this morning just to check our flight for tomorrow afternoon. There was a message on the site (but no email or text to us) saying they had changed aircraft and so our seats were reassigned but we got the same type so don’t worry about it. Yeah, right.
Fred and I always get aisle seats across from each other when we fly. That’s what we had on the original flight, they changed those seats to a middle and a window seat. I don’t think a middle seat is giving us what we originally had at all. I immediately went on the app and was able to move Fred’s seat up to their economy plus seating on the aisle for about $4 extra. When I tried to change mine, the seat map was frozen, no changes were allowed.
The tollfree number wasn’t open yet (in the US) so I had to resort to texting. I waited a long long time for a response and they said (after a lot of back and forth) that the seat map was frozen while they made sure everyone had a seat on the new plane. They would consider my request to change my seat but they had to refer it to another area. Some hours later they got back and said, yes, I could upgrade to be across from my husband and it would cost me 18 euro. Remember, earlier in the day I upgraded Fred for about 4 euro. Whatever! Just do it. So, we got it settled and hopefully all will be well at the airport tomorrow. There was supposed to be thunderstorms but now it just looks like rain. Fingers crossed.
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