Day 6: Train ride to Prague

Welcome to day 6 of our Holiday 1 trip and one entry that might not be that long (we’ll see about that!) considering that 8 hours of the day was spent on a train, so lets begin.

We got up and enjoyed a nice breakfast at the hotel. The last breakfast we would actually sit down and eat together we later realized. I was glad to have a bigger breakfast since I knew we’d be on the train for such a long time. So we got on the tram car (exciting stuff to ride one of these, I’d never been on one before) and headed to the train station. We got there, found the train and were off. Because we booked our tickets in Warsaw our train was as if we had left from Warsaw so we had to change trains in Katowice Poland. Not to bad, the train was a few minutes late but we found our seats and were ready to go. We got spoiled on the train to Krakow because this was an older train, no air conditioning and not nearly as comfortable. Thankfully we had a nice cross breeze from the two windows (I think I was in the best seat to take advantage of this) and so the ride wasn’t too bad. We finally made it to Prague at 6pm and headed to the hotel.

This time I picked a little walk up hotel and so were went up to the 5th floor, dropped our stuff off and freshened up a bit then headed to the Old Town square. (I love how every city we visited so far had an old town square!) Now poor Amanda was starving at this point because they didn’t have anything easy on the train to eat and my snacks only did so much so we ended up eating at a tourist trap restaurant right next to the Astronomical clock which was way over priced and not that great. The clock itself was pretty neat though and on the hour there the little people danced around a bit so that was fun. The astronomical part of the clock was built in 1410 and the calendar part in 1490. The clock suffered some damage during the Prague uprising in WWII but has been restored. It was pretty cool to see!

I felt better after eating so we went on to explore. We walked across the Charles Bridge which is the famous bridge in Prague which King Charles IV had built to connect the new part to the old. The view from the bridge is amazing and you can see all of Prague castle and St. Vitus Cathedral, the oldest Gothic Cathedral in Central Europe. We even got to hear some cello music while walking on the bridge. We walked across the bridge in search of the restaurant Joe ate at when he was visiting Prague in March. We found it and decided we’d have dinner there the next night. We got some ice cream and headed back to the hotel to get some sleep. In general it was a good start to our rather short time in Prague but I was looking forward to the adventures of the next day!