From London we travelled to Prague via Easyjet. First, let me tell you, what a fun ride. On the plane, they sell lottery tickets. Well, not quite lottery, as you only win some stuff from the airline, but heck, you do have the chance of winning a lot of money. Anyhow, we figure we'll just spend our pounds on it since we won't need the pounds. We buy two tickets each and each of us win one pound. Great. Well, with 2 pounds you can buy a cheapo bottle of airplane wine. We indicate our interest, but sadly can only afford one between the three of us. The nice flight attendant pitches in the last pound so we could have two bottles of cheapo wine and provides us with three cups! Score!
At the airport, we are met by our hotel host, Pasquale, who informs us that he thinks it's too noisy at his hotel due to neighboring construction, so he has taken the initiative to find us a new hotel at the same cost. We can go take a look and see if it meets our approval, if not, we can stay at his hotel. Sure. Why not.
First, however, we need to pull out Czech money, so we're not completely without. Again, the girls let me go first, so they can decide how much they should pull out. Unfortunately, I can't remember what the exchange rate is. Pasquale tells me it is 20 to 1. However, with all the pressure of everyone watching me, I play it safe and pull out only 200 koruna, thinking it is $100, but is actually the equivalent of $10. We ALL pulled out only $10. Only in the van on the way to the hotel do I decide to re-do the math and discover that we are all idiots. Me for the bad panic math. Them for being lemmings. =P I am much better at calculating sale prices.
Anyhow, the new hotel, Hotel Dar, is great. Newly refurbished with an elevator and right in the old town, only steps away from the clock tower. The staff is also very nice and Pasquale, who runs Arcadia Residence, where we were going to stay, is so nice, he still provides us with information as to good locals' restaurants and places to find the necessities, such as ATMs, groceries, etc. We were very sad we didn't get to stay at Arcadia and try the breakfast trolley, as it is legendary on trip advisor. Maybe next time. Anyway, even though we didn't stay with them, he still arranged our car transportation to the train station for our departure from Prague (and paid for it!). What a nice guy!
Anyhow, the next day, we venture out to explore the city, and we notice that we are getting curious looks. Yes, we are Asians On Parade. No, there aren't very many Asian tourists in Prague at the time, but I'm assuming they've seen some, even if they're other tourists. Why everyone was so intrigued by us, I have no idea. Anyhow, since they were curious looks and not dirty looks, we took it upon ourselves to be good will ambassadors for Asian-kind and smiled a lot. At everyone. There are of course the usual questions, "Where are you from?" Followed by the usual answer, "California." bahahaha. We knew that wasn't what they meant, but it was the truth. Then we made everybody guess where each one of us was from since we are all different nationalities, yet none of us Chinese or Japanese, the favorite typical answers. Then we did our martial arts demonstration. bahahaha. j/k.
Anyhow, more about Prague when I'm not about to fall asleep. Pictures from Prague: http://picasaweb.google.com/kejercito/PRAGUE
At the airport, we are met by our hotel host, Pasquale, who informs us that he thinks it's too noisy at his hotel due to neighboring construction, so he has taken the initiative to find us a new hotel at the same cost. We can go take a look and see if it meets our approval, if not, we can stay at his hotel. Sure. Why not.
First, however, we need to pull out Czech money, so we're not completely without. Again, the girls let me go first, so they can decide how much they should pull out. Unfortunately, I can't remember what the exchange rate is. Pasquale tells me it is 20 to 1. However, with all the pressure of everyone watching me, I play it safe and pull out only 200 koruna, thinking it is $100, but is actually the equivalent of $10. We ALL pulled out only $10. Only in the van on the way to the hotel do I decide to re-do the math and discover that we are all idiots. Me for the bad panic math. Them for being lemmings. =P I am much better at calculating sale prices.
Anyhow, the new hotel, Hotel Dar, is great. Newly refurbished with an elevator and right in the old town, only steps away from the clock tower. The staff is also very nice and Pasquale, who runs Arcadia Residence, where we were going to stay, is so nice, he still provides us with information as to good locals' restaurants and places to find the necessities, such as ATMs, groceries, etc. We were very sad we didn't get to stay at Arcadia and try the breakfast trolley, as it is legendary on trip advisor. Maybe next time. Anyway, even though we didn't stay with them, he still arranged our car transportation to the train station for our departure from Prague (and paid for it!). What a nice guy!
Anyhow, the next day, we venture out to explore the city, and we notice that we are getting curious looks. Yes, we are Asians On Parade. No, there aren't very many Asian tourists in Prague at the time, but I'm assuming they've seen some, even if they're other tourists. Why everyone was so intrigued by us, I have no idea. Anyhow, since they were curious looks and not dirty looks, we took it upon ourselves to be good will ambassadors for Asian-kind and smiled a lot. At everyone. There are of course the usual questions, "Where are you from?" Followed by the usual answer, "California." bahahaha. We knew that wasn't what they meant, but it was the truth. Then we made everybody guess where each one of us was from since we are all different nationalities, yet none of us Chinese or Japanese, the favorite typical answers. Then we did our martial arts demonstration. bahahaha. j/k.
Anyhow, more about Prague when I'm not about to fall asleep. Pictures from Prague: http://picasaweb.google.com/kejercito/PRAGUE
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