We made it!!!!!!! We arrived in Prague at 1035 this Morning, but not after a few hiccups. The flights went smooth for the most part but the currency, busses and trains were a different story. We decided to use an ATM to get Czech money which is abbreviated Kc. We very quickly found out that the language barrier is harder to over come than we thought. The ATM was all written in Czech, we played a guessing game to what buttons to push and what they meant. We ened up selecting the button for 5500Kc, to our suprise it was about $300. That was the amount that we wanted to take out so that worked out. We made it through customs with no problems. We found a ticket man that was selling tickets for the bus who spoke very little english. He dirrected us to wait for the bus for the train station. We ended up taking the wrong bus to the "metro" station. Unfortunatly the word Metro means subway, not trains. We were dropped off at the subway station where we thought that we could pick up the next bus to get us to the train station. After waiting about an hour and seeing 3 of the busses that we should have been on pass by, we knew we were in trouble. We tried to call a cab but soon realized that the phone card that we bought in the US we could not use in Prague. A few select words were spoken between Nathan and I and I almost cried, but we decided to do the only thing that we new to do. We started to head back to the airport to catch the right bus. Fortunatly, along the way to the bus we found a cab. After spending about 300Kc= about $15 we were dropped off at the train station. We took a 3 hour train ride to Brno and the scenery along the way was absolutely breathtaking, at least that's what Nathan said because I was sleeping. We met Eva, our coordinator, who took us to our hotel/college dorm room. Yes I did say college dorm room. Nathan claims the pictures online were of a much nicer hotel, with running water and electricity. J/K. None the less it will do for 2 nights, until we find a real hotel, depending on what the doctor says our schedule will be at my 9 am appointment tomorrow morning. That's all so far. We will update the next time we can find a reliable wifi hotspot. Ciao Bella!
SOUNDS LIKE OUR TRIP TO NORWAY IN 1997 FOR OUR 25TH ANNIVERSARY. WE DID NOT KNOW THE LANGUAGE AND CURRENCY. IT WAS INTERESTING. WE PAID $17.00 (US) FOR 2 HAMBURGERS AND TWO GLASSES OF WATER! WE DROVE THE WRONG WAY ON A STREET, AND WE HAD TO JUMP THE MEDIUM WITH THE RENTAL CAR. LUCKLY NO DAMAGE TO THE CAR! IT WAS A FUN TRIP.
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