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Europe, March-April 1998 Prauge, Czech Republic So we took another overnighter from Krakow to Prague and sharing our couchette was a Canadian English teacher named Matt (?). He told us that he was meeting his mom in Prague and that when he was there he like to stay at Josef's pension, just outside the city. We were looking for a place to rest a little and wash-up before our next overnight train, so we asked to tag-along. Apparently, many private citizens rent out rooms in their houses for very cheap (I think we got the room for the whole night for $12.00) and often it's nice to interact with the family that actually lives there. People will meet the trains with cries of "Accomodation" and albums showing pictures of people who have come to stay with them and hand-written testimonies of their stay. We tagged along with Matt and were rewarded with a room large enough to house three or four people comfortably. We took showers and hopped back on the suburban train back to Prague. Prague is beautiful, the architecture is amazing and back then, dirt cheap. We wandered the city for a while, taking in the amazing "clock", and a variety of street performers. I even ran into some girls I met en route from Patras to Brindisi (that's another story). Honestly, I'd like to go back to Prague after I've read more about it and actually explore it more, because that particular trip we didn't spend enough time or do it justice. After wandering about the city all day, we decided on another couchette to Amsterdam, but with four hours to kill, we went back to Josef's and the grocery store nearby to get some rations for our trip. We got some cold-cuts, rolls, probably some fruit, but we decided to splurge and got an Apple Viennetta Ice Cream cake. It was pretty bad, but we ate most of it just the same. During our dinner at Josef's we encountered an item we still retain to this day... a big aluminum soup-spoon. We used it on the Viennetta, and then we decided that we couldn't live without it and took it... We are so sorry, and we vow to someday repay Josef for his spoon. But we DID use it a lot for the rest of our journey and we treasure it still. A
few hours later, we were on our way to Amsterdam....
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