Since the last update:We did indeed go to more theater shows later in the evening. I went with my father to SPAMalot, the Monty Python based music. It was pretty funny. My mom, who has absolutely NO comedy bone, insisted on going to Grease with my wife. We dropped the ladies off for their show, and as we walked through the West End, my dad proclaimed, “Two men walking around in this neighborhood? We’ll have women hanging off each arm in no time.” We ended up seeing a show in Soho. The only people hanging off each other were the men making out on the street. Oh well.
After the show, we went to pick them up at their theater to walk home and talk about the show. I explained the Monty Python humor to my wife, “Do you find people getting hit in the face with a fish as funny?”
“Real fish?”
“No, but in concept.”
“No, not really.”
“It’s good you went to see Grease then.”
She didn’t like the show, because she didn’t think of High School students as people who should drive around and talk about sex. She can be such a prude at times.
After the show, we came back and slept. Most of us. My poor mom couldn’t. She was kicking my father’s bunk as he snored. We ate breakfast together, then said our goodbyes. We had to catch a tube to the airport. They were going off on their own adventure with a boat and a series of locks and bridges.
The flight from London to Prague was better in EVERY single aspect than our flight into London. Easyjet is a no-frills sort of airline, with gambling scratch offs for entertainment, in flight food has to be purchased, and there is nothing else to do but wait for the plane to land.
We got into Prague, purchased a Metro pass for 72 hours and got into the city NO incidents. The man checking for illegal passengers on the subway didn’t even stop us this time, when I actually HAD the card showing I paid, unlike my last time in Prague. Anyway, we ended up at a cheap hostel around the block from the train station. It’s big, old and VERY scary looking on the inside. It has the “featured in a slasher movie” feel to it. This is just the thing to encourage people to sleep I guess. The bathrooms aren’t segregated by sex very well, so we have to go in together as a team, lest one of us disappears to the almost CERTAIN psycho killer that is running around. It’s just the kind of place this appears to be. I’m surpised I didn’t have nightmares.
We woke up early this morning. Too early actually. Nothing was open in the city. We picked up some stuff for a later dinner, and got down to sightseeing. We went to the famous clock again. The Charles Bridge was VERY crowded. The Prague Castle held our attention most of the day. St. Vitus’ steps are still a killer. I got to see a really famous church my brother and I had missed last time. LARGEST FRESCO EVER.I have pictures, several hundred actually. It was pretty good to be back in this city, but it loses it’s “Wow” factor this time. It’s been there, done that territory now. At least it’s REALLY cheap, and has GOOD BEER. These things STILL put it up on my list as a must visit. My wife liked a lot of the stuff we saw for free, but she agreed some of the pay attractions weren’t as packed as London was with interesting stuff to see.
We basically did all of Prague in a DAY. We didn’t do it all, but we basically knocked out everything you’d get from a tour or the highlights on Google Earth. It’s a bit scary. We’re knocking out the sites in a record. It’s because I’ve been to this city and I knew where things were in relationship to each other, distances, times, and whatnot. I’m sure the rest of the trip will be much more daunting when we actually go somewhere completely new in a different language. It all gets expensive from here on out too.
Tomorrow we are moving to Austria in the afternoon. Vienna is ANOTHER hold over from my last vacation, but I didn’t get to explore that city at all. My brother and I gave it a half hearted attempt before we had to get on different trains, and it wasn’t that open at the time we were trying to see the sites. I hope to actually explore a few places and find a cheap place to stay. This probably is impossible. I’d also settle for some clean shirts, and or socks.
I’m currently in a free PC room. When I sat down, I was chatting with two Korean ladies waiting in queue for the SLOW computers that the hostel offered. They nearly jumped out of their skin when I said,”Hello” to them in Korean. It’s easy to get trapped in a little bubble thinking no one understands what you are saying. I know my wife and I do it ALL the time when we want to talk about something we see without alerting others.
