Gregory Mulholland

FFor Christmas, Kelly gave me a great present. She was planning a trip to Prague in the Czech Republic for us. Yesterday morning, we left Cambridge for Prague. We flew with SkyEurope, a Slovenian airline that was about the same price as Ryan Air, but was very easy to deal with (as opposed to Ryan Air which nearly gives me an aneurysm every time we look at their website). We were able to board our plane with no problem and fly to Prague. Once there, we bought 3-day bus/tram/metro passes and followed our pensione’s instructions about how to get to it. We made it as far as the correct metro stop without trouble. When we emerged at street level, we tried to follow the directions but couldn’t seem to find where we belonged. We ended up using a map in our tour book to find it by its address. When we got there, we realized we had been about 50m away when we had originally followed the directions and just hadn’t been able to see it. On another interesting note, we are one street away from NCSU’s Prague Institute. We went to look for it and couldn’t find it, but it is hidden in a courtyard somewhere. Walking in on our first night, Kelly saw someone she recognized though.

We ate dinner at a little over-authentic Czech restaurant with delicious food on our first night, then we headed in to plan our first full day in the city.