Prague

After some much needed downtime/”me” time in Vienna, I was excited to move on to Prague and hopefully meet some people to hang around with. But, that would have to wait until I actually found the hostel – which was quite a challenge, let me tell you.

I got off of the train from Vienna sometime around 5PM I think. I had directions to the hostel this time, which was helpful, but they weren’t exactly step-by-step, which would have been nice in Prague considering I don’t speak an ounce of Czech. So after getting off of the train, I followed my instructions and found my way to the tram that would take me to my hostel. One problem: I needed a ticket for the train. And the ticket machine only takes Czech Koruna (Crown). Soooo I had to walk all the way back into the station (about 5 minutes and up and down more stairs than I’d prefer) to find an ATM. I was prompted to select how much money I wanted to withdraw: 200, 500, 1000, 1500, 2000. Hmm… 200 sounds good, right? OK, that done I headed back to the machine that sells tram tickets. Down more stairs, up more stairs, and what do you know? The machine only takes coins! All I had was a 200 Crown note. Alllllrighty then.

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