SewDiva and Bug in their new room
hall with shelves!
Here in Prague we are staying in much more of a hotel/hostel than we have previously. We have no kitchen but there is a common room with refrigerator that we can use. The good news is that we have wi-fi in our room so we can access the internet 24/7 and I can blog in my spare time rather than having to make time for it.
The first room we had here had windows that opened onto the street – a narrow dead end with a passage to one of the busiest walking streets in Prague. With the windows open the partiers went by all night. In the morning Bug discovered that there was no hot water and that the door to the common room and our breakfast goodies was locked! We almost had a melt-down. Fortunately the hotel across the street had a delicious all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet and the food combined with the coffee made for a much better morning. Eventually we 1) found a laundry for our dirty clothes, 2) got moved to a different room that, in addition to having hot water, opens onto an inner courtyard where the night noises are almost nil, 3) found a bank ATM to get some cash & spent it and 4)got the car moved from the street to a secure garage.
About moving the car. Prague has lots and lots of one way streets in the tourist core so getting from here to there requires planning. When we arrived on Tuesday afternoon the garage associated with our hotel was full so we parked on the street – but there is no street parking available in Prague 1 (the district the tourist stuff is in) so we parked across the bridge – about a 15 min walk from our hotel, no biggie but we did want the car in a garage so we didn’t have to worry about it. Wednesday morning the garage had an opening so Bear and SewDiva walked over to get the car and drive it back to the garage while Bug did some wandering alone. The garage is located in even more central Prague than the hotel so driving was even weirder. We managed to get over the bridge and deal with the one-ways. When we were about 1 block from the garage we realized that the street had changed and there was no place to drive except on the trolley tracks. As we got to the end of the block and turned right a nice young policeman asked us to pull over and park. Fortunately Bear had not left all the car paperwork back in the room. We looked, old, harried and pathetic and didn’t get a ticket. Just a command to “not do that again”. We promised him that we were turning into the garage and would not be driving again in Prague! Actually, if we can figure out a way to have the car air-lifted out of town on Sunday morning when we take Bug to the airport we will be up for it. The reality is that we are figuring that at 6:00 Sunday morning there won’t be all that much traffic.
The first room we had here had windows that opened onto the street – a narrow dead end with a passage to one of the busiest walking streets in Prague. With the windows open the partiers went by all night. In the morning Bug discovered that there was no hot water and that the door to the common room and our breakfast goodies was locked! We almost had a melt-down. Fortunately the hotel across the street had a delicious all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet and the food combined with the coffee made for a much better morning. Eventually we 1) found a laundry for our dirty clothes, 2) got moved to a different room that, in addition to having hot water, opens onto an inner courtyard where the night noises are almost nil, 3) found a bank ATM to get some cash & spent it and 4)got the car moved from the street to a secure garage.
About moving the car. Prague has lots and lots of one way streets in the tourist core so getting from here to there requires planning. When we arrived on Tuesday afternoon the garage associated with our hotel was full so we parked on the street – but there is no street parking available in Prague 1 (the district the tourist stuff is in) so we parked across the bridge – about a 15 min walk from our hotel, no biggie but we did want the car in a garage so we didn’t have to worry about it. Wednesday morning the garage had an opening so Bear and SewDiva walked over to get the car and drive it back to the garage while Bug did some wandering alone. The garage is located in even more central Prague than the hotel so driving was even weirder. We managed to get over the bridge and deal with the one-ways. When we were about 1 block from the garage we realized that the street had changed and there was no place to drive except on the trolley tracks. As we got to the end of the block and turned right a nice young policeman asked us to pull over and park. Fortunately Bear had not left all the car paperwork back in the room. We looked, old, harried and pathetic and didn’t get a ticket. Just a command to “not do that again”. We promised him that we were turning into the garage and would not be driving again in Prague! Actually, if we can figure out a way to have the car air-lifted out of town on Sunday morning when we take Bug to the airport we will be up for it. The reality is that we are figuring that at 6:00 Sunday morning there won’t be all that much traffic.
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