Arrived in Prague Wednesday afternoon to lots of warnings about pickpockets and about our ghastly hotel built during "the communism"... It scared mum and quite a few others a bit which was not good or fun.
Our hotel surely was ghastly. How a tour company could use a hotel like it was is totally beyond me. Particularly so close to the end of the tour! Anyway, the included dinner was as bad as the hotel, so that meant I didn't eat much, and meant I had no plans of getting up early for breakfast... Wafers from the supermarket in Vienna were going to do just fine!
Sightseeing tour the next day was not the best. Couldn't hear or understand the guide. So we saw lots of things with no real idea of what we were seeing!
After the tour was over we had the whole afternoon and evening to ourselves as we weren't doing any of the optional excursions.
We did a bit of garnet and amber jewellery shopping. All very beautiful. Lunch with a few other girls, quite nice. The others then headed off to their optional excursions and we headed off to just keep wandering and shopping. Sat for a few hours in the town square and had a drink and just absorbed. We are getting really good at it!!
We just wandered more and more and eventually had some dinner- traditional Czech - potato pancakes stuffed with 3 meat and vegies. It was really yummy!
Then we just trammed it back to the hotel and headed to bed.
We weren't particularly impressed with Prague. It didn't meet any of the expectations I had of it. It was WHAT I expected but not HOW I expected it to be.
Munich
We headed off from Prague early Friday morning. A couple of stops and then we were in Munich. My my, what a great place. We went to a pub as soon as we arrived, until it was time to go to the hotel. Checked into the hotel then made our way out for dinner. Our hotel was a nice walk out of the centre, but still central. Beautiful dinner. It was such a nice balmy evening. Warm!!!! The place really repaired the damage Berlin and Frankfurt did to me liking, or should I say, not liking, Germany. Early wake up Saturday morning for our trip to Frankfurt.
2 stops and the Romantic Road
Drove along the Romantic Road to Frankfurt. Lots of pituresque little villages. Stopped at one to go to the markets. They were craft markets! Not cheap, but beautiful stuff!!! Bought a few bits and pieces as I tend to do!!
Rothenburg was the bext stop. Beautiful village as well. Had lunch in a quaint little beer garden, did some sitting in the sun, and just had a really lovely couple of hours.
Almost back to Frankfurt now - well, Bad Homburg - where we are staying for the night - out from Frankfurt a bit, but can see the skyscrapers so we can't be too far out!
We can sleep in tomorrow! No early morning wake up calls! Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!
