Prague:
Wednesday, November 6
Leaving golden Prague this evening - 8:00am rise for local pastry,
fruit, goodbye to Leo and 121 (our address) - Trolley #22 into the
train station for baggage "czech" - low on food
Go away unsatisfied to Muzeum stop on Metro - Wenceslas Square
(Vaclav Nam) - appealing boulevard stretches before National History
Museum - natural stuff, not political
Trees, shopping, hordes of people actively upbeat - look, snap...
look, snap...
Lunch at Daminka restaurant - cheap, good food, get special
including salad, soup, UH OH... liver and rice - gave Wade's away
Long, easy walk back past 13th century Powder Tower into the Old
Town Square again - sun, blue - over the Charles Bridge again - more
photos
Shopping for keepsakes - three lovely small photos - phone calls
to home - too easy
Go for a beer - small, elegant restaurant with antique fixtures,
modern feel - Pilsner
Out to walk 100 meters to local type bar for outrageous bargain in
appetizer/supper: bread, bread, Edam cheese, ham, Pilsner (better than
liver!)
Back over bridge, dusk setting in soon - walk, sit, find a
bathroom (Dunkin' Donuts - best W.C. in Prague!)
Stall, head for station - dark, Wilsonova Street is not for
pedestrians - suddenly a deadend walkway - such a dark under-highway
pass - save a Japanese guy - get luggage - meet every tubercular Gypsy
yet unseen
Thank God! - train arrives on time! Empty couchette compartment!
Glory! - One young couple arrives, well, okay - two young women with
major backpacks join, uh oh
All English-speaking: Welsh, Australian, Canadian, and us - laugh,
talk, make beds - passport checks, trains uncoupled and coupled - more
guards - no snoring, Wade remembers, he is awake the entire night