Novotel Prague

... AAA one outside and we dragged our luggage to him, crammed it all in with 5 of us in the back and headed off to the nearby Novotel Hotel near Wenceslas Square. We managed to get a very large room that could fit us all in which was great! Mum had a roll ...

... 6 hours of driving from Berlin. The accors hotel made an error as we we dropped off at the ibis when we were staying at the novotel hehe.  We were pretty happy tho cause novotel was in the city and the ibis was a fair way out.  We had dinner at the ...

What a great day! We did the mass herding through the Prague Castle in the morning but then were on our own. Nancy, Chris, Frank and I took the subway into old town to walk across the Charles Bridge to the church that houses the original statue of ...

... had a nice meal. It began to rain this afternoon so the 2 hour bus ride turned into 3 1/2 hours with dense traffic coming into Prague. We don't quite have our bearings yet since it was dark when we arrived. Our bus got here first, and we were able to ...

Today We took a tour to Kutna Hora , a small historical town about an hour out of Prague. It's most unusual attraction is a "bone church" or ossuary. It is a small chapel in a graveyard. Apparently the demand exceeded the space of the cemetary and the ...

... a grotesque wall created nearby in the 1800's - modern art has been alive here for a long time. I have decided that Prague loves juxtaposition- new with the old, grotesque with the beautiful. It is really remarkable. It stimulates the creative ...

Well we have pretty much walked our legs off. We went up to the castle gardens and made our way back down to the city. We stopped at Loreta- a monastery that has some very strange chapels. Not so strange was a small chapel with a black Madonna . ...

Today we went to the Museum of Decorative Arts in the Jewish quarter. A sick fact is that this area is well preserved because the Nazi's intended to turn the area into a museum of an extinct race. Horrible. But the good news is all the Synagogues were ...

... , showing you a small glimpse of how they lived, and how they died. Our hotel in Reising was very nice, the Dorint Novotel. This was the best place we stayed during the entire visit. Local restaurants there in Friesing center (a 3-minute walk) serve ...

... self respect the prisoners there had and seen where political prisoners were tortured and killed. We had seen the Jewish ghetto in Prague, empty now of Jews, many dying in the death camps of Poland and the German section of Prague empty now of Germans ...

... gardens, ending in a lookout point next to the Hall of Justice.  Now, compared to other cities we've been to (Prague, Budapest, San Francisco), where the view overlooks a gorgeous cityscape near a river or bay, this view was... the opposite.  ...

... be at the bus at 6am. JOY!!  We have been told that we will be bushcamping for the first few nights until we reach Prague when we will have a proper camp site. Bush camping will be an experience and I will no doubt, if not to traumatised, tell you ...