European Vacation - Day 2 (Prague)

Another day of rain. But that didn't stop us. We each had our raincoats (a must have for Denmark) and a huge golf umbrella. We were up early and headed through old town and over the Charles Bridge, then up a few rather steep and winding streets...then 208 steps of pure misery up to the Prague Castle. We had a choice, we could either take the steep winding streets or the steps. We opted for the steps. Ugh. The castle was gorgeous as was the Church.

We took a funicular up a hill to a look out point and then decided to walk down the winding road, in the rain. I'm a bit of a klutz, and luckily (knock on wood) I didn't fall down the hill! We stopped at La Bastille for a late lunch, which was amazing.

After all that walking and climbing, I convinced Chuck to splurge and pay the 15E for a 30 minute Thai massage on my feet and calves. It was kind of a reflexology thing. I was really looking forward to a massage on my tootsies. Well, I think the woman thought to herself, "I wonder how much pain this American will put up with?" It was ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch. So much so that I have finger mark bruises on my legs. Chuck says...and you paid for this!?!?

Unfortunately my internet connection is kind of slow, so I'll post slideshows once I get a better connection. Until then, enjoy the one or two in the posting.

Here's Prague Castle.

European Vacation - Day 1 (Prague)

You know how when you were little and you couldn't sleep the night before a big event or trip. Well, Chuck and I must be big kids because we couldn't sleep the night before our whirlwind trip around Europe. We were up at 3am and on the road by 3:30am. Our 8 hour drive to Prague went really quickly and we actually arrived ahead of schedule.

It rained for most of the drive and then rained once we arrived in Prague. We stayed at the Modra Ruze hotel, which was in a great location and we had a very nice Deluxe room. I would definitely recommend the hotel.

We spent the first day walking on the pedestrian street and in the National History Museum. The only thing in English was the following. Everything else was in Czech.

In the evening we went to Old Town and saw the Astronomical Clock. There were hundreds of tourists there for the 'on the hour' event. It stinks being short. There's always one bugger that stands in front of me.