Marketa Hotel Prague

Today we got up bright and early to catch our morning train to Prague.  This train wasn't as clean or impressive looking as the Eurail cars in Germany.  It was sort of dingy and had a faint odor to it.  At least we had our own ...

Today was our last day in Prague.  It rained for most of it so we were pretty wet and soggy.  Thank goodness for waterproof sneakers!  Anyway, we explored the Castle District today, otherwise referred to as Hradcany.  It was a hike ...

... up at 10:30am to take us to Hyskov.  When we arrived at Hyskov, the house was spotless and Emma, Alma, Hamuldi, Venda, Marketa and little Jitka were out. When everyone got back aunt Jitka arranged us all in special positions squished around the dinner ...

... novelist called Eva Kanturkova--"On Jan Palach's Deed"--in an collection of essays called Goodbye Samizdat edited by my friend Marketa Goetz Stankiewicz.  Natalie and I also discovered in the square what a reallllly good hot dog tastes like--not ...

... but it was enough :p. After breakfast we packed up all our luggage, checked out and left our bags at the hotel. We then headed down to a large palace Marketa had told us about. Along the way we walked through a large park and for the first time I saw ...

... sign held up with 'Isemonger' (Baba's last name). We got in the car and headed to the hotel. Along the way we noticed the huge difference between Prague and Berlin buildings, where Berlin buildings appeared to be so plain and simple. We arrived at the ...

... we were surprised to see it had 7 floors! We were staying in two rooms on the first floor, snoring Baba in one and Marketa and I in the other :p. We dropped our things off and headed down towards the city area close by. The buildings all around us ...