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\"\"<\/a>Arrived after a 5 hour train ride from Munich.\u00a0\u00a0 Ubered to the apartment.\u00a0 In the old town of Prague, the walking section again.\u00a0\u00a0 We managed to get into it without any issues.\u00a0\u00a0 Made a quick walk after unpacking some things, over to Fat\u00a0 Cat Old Town for burgers, Quesadilla and a flat bread pizza.<\/p>\n

Walked back home and set out for a couple grocery stores to pickup some food for the next few nights.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>After a bit of relaxing I headed out to the old town square to take a few pics of the Celestial Clock and the high steeple church across from it while the sun was shining on the \"\"<\/a>western parts of the buildings.<\/p>\n

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While there I saw a small booth selling some good looking street food so I headed over.\u00a0\u00a0 Got a small order of Hulu$ky\u00a0 and Old Prague Ham,\u00a0\u00a0 Both were delicious.\u00a0\u00a0 They had Klobasa but it looked more like a big Hebrew National hot dog than Kielbasa I’ve had in the US.\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The next morning we headed back to that clock and then Kathy and I went over to the Synagoge for a bit and caught a bus toward the Prague castle. \u00a0 Sort of wish I did a bit more \"\"<\/a>research before climbing a very long and steep set of stairs up to the top. \u00a0 About 3\/4 the way up while pausing to catch our breath I got a text from Scott about the tough climb. \u00a0 I then started \"\"<\/a>looking at G maps to see if there was a better way down when we were finished as going down these was nothing \"\"<\/a>something either of us wanted to do unless it was the only way.\u00a0 I found a side gate all the way on the other side of the castle that looked to have a tram stop at around the same height as the castle grounds that we could use to get back to the river.\u00a0 After lunch on the castle grounds we took the tram back to the other side of the river.\u00a0 I sure wish I had come up that way too.<\/p>\n

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The last full day we headed out to find breakfast and after one stop decided to move on to find another which turned out to be closing due to their power \"\"<\/a>being out.\u00a0\u00a0 Kathy found us the next spot to try which turned out to be very good.\u00a0 Scott and I had a great omelet there, and the ladies chose pancakes which no one complained. \u00a0\u00a0 Scott & Tami left to go back to the room while we talked to the folks at our next table who were from Chicago but currently were living in London for the last two years with their two young children. \u00a0 One of \"\"<\/a>them had a grandmother that lived in San Diego. \u00a0\u00a0 We left a few minutes later \"\"<\/a>and took a tram that was across the street over to the Rotating Kafka head. \u00a0 We didn’t stick around to watch the head rotate on its schedule as there were fairly dark clouds moving our way. \u00a0 We walked back over to the \"\"<\/a>tram to get back to the Charles Bridge quickly. \u00a0 The tram stop was quite a ways from the bridge and when we got off it started to sprinkle a little bit.\u00a0 We headed over to the river to walk along it on the way back to the bridge.\u00a0\u00a0 It started to rain a bit harder and I spotted a scaffold about 100 meters ahead that covered the sidewalk just prior to getting to the rivers edge.\u00a0\u00a0 As we got to it the heavens let loose a torrent of wind and rain.\u00a0 Phew!\u00a0\u00a0 We watched a lot of folks get caught in that squall without a raincoat or umbrella.\u00a0 Although one older woman’s umbrella got turned inside out and it was toast but she didn’t grok that and she kept trying to fix it.\u00a0 (that was hopeless)\u00a0\u00a0 We stood under that cover for at least 15 minutes of hard rain.\u00a0\u00a0 While there I could see a roof or something over by the river which was maybe \"\"<\/a>another hundred meters.\u00a0\u00a0 I checked G maps and it turned out to be a restaurant\u00a0 right on the water.\u00a0 The rain started diminishing and we “be-lined” for it. \u00a0 I was a really nice looking restaurant on a barge or something similar. \u00a0 We got a table next to the wall of windows to \"\"<\/a>have some more coffee while we watched the boats travel up and down the river.\u00a0 We had a good view from there of the Charles Bridge. \u00a0 Since it was a close to a couple hours after breakfast we decided to have something, that turned out to be a chocolate tort and ice cream for lunch.\u00a0\u00a0 They told us it would take about 10 minutes to bake the tort.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a very nice wait while having coffee right on the water with a wall of windows probably 30 meters long next to our table.\u00a0\u00a0 Our waiter told us the wall of windows are really doors and open up during nice weather, and also the roof had the same feature.\u00a0\u00a0 I was glad they didn’t leak in the rain.\u00a0\u00a0 We spent a long time at the restaurant while it kept raining (not torrents now, just a little more than a drizzle.)\u00a0 We left after the \"\"<\/a>rain stopped and started walking along the river path, dodging a lot of deep puddles due to poor grading.\u00a0\u00a0 When we got back \"\"<\/a>to the bridge it was jam packed and we decided to skip the throng of people on it.\u00a0 Its and old bridge that is now only for pedestrians and it was literally wall to wall with tourists.\u00a0\u00a0 We headed back to the apartment<\/p>\n

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Around 5pm we started talking about getting dinner as the small tort for lunch was a long time ago.\u00a0\u00a0 We chose a Thai place that didn’t disappoint.\u00a0\u00a0 Afterward we headed back to the apartment to start packing as we have a 10:30am 4+ hour train ride to Berlin in the morning.<\/p>\n

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Arrived after a 5 hour train ride from Munich.\u00a0\u00a0 Ubered to the apartment.\u00a0 In the old town of Prague, the walking section again.\u00a0\u00a0 We managed to get into it without any issues.\u00a0\u00a0 Made a quick walk after unpacking some things, over to Fat\u00a0 Cat Old Town for burgers, Quesadilla and a flat bread pizza. Walked … <\/p>\n

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