16/05/10 - Prague - Czech Republic

You can buy beer from just about anywhere including fast food places. Even the Monastry had a vending machine that dispensed beer as well as soft drink. Prague is about 380 Klm away so it always a big ask of the sat-nav to calculate long distances so we did the traditional wait half an hour before getting directions. But today we waited and waited so I drove and drove and we soon became lost in Germany. It took two hours before we found our way after everyone was cranky with each other. We drove 380 klms to again become lost in Prague. Turning down a one way street the wrong way met with two Czech police asking "did you not see the sign?" They knew I spoke English somehow. Upon entering the Czech Republic the car in front kept flashing their hazard lights and mimicking flashing lights with their hands out the window. It is an offense to drive without headlights on we found out later and this is what those people were trying to tell us. We found the hostel and boy can we pick them. We have been staying at A&O Hotels/Hostels which have been cheap but cheerful. This one in Prague whilst adequate is in a dodgy area that is dirty and has lots of graffiti. Karinne is somewhat scared and I don't blame her. No one is very friendly or speaks English but we are 10 minutes from town and I believe this will be very different. Another problem we had was we only have pounds and Euros but no Korunas. We needed to eat and to eat we needed to catch a tram and to catch a tram we needed Korunas. Being Sunday evening we werent hopeful but we did finally manage to find a currency exchange that was open. We still couldn't catch a tram as no ticket booths were open and ticket machines only took coins. The only place close by was Maccas were our meal was 382 Korunas.