Monday was a great day. I woke up with plenty of time to eat
breakfast, wash my dish and have everything packed and ready to go. It was a good thing that Kylie did a mental
checklist out loud outside because she reminded me of something that I would
eventually need. It would probably be a good idea that I have my passport. (Though I haven’t really needed it yet and I
am in Prague the second night.) All five
of us (Me, Ashley, Kylie, Kort and Megan) all got of the fast boat. I tried to pay with my credit card but it got
rejected. Oh well. I had cash that I could pay with. So I did.
The fast boat was uneventful.
Kort and Megan got off at Flesland to go to the airport to get on their
flight. Ashley, Kylie and I continued on to Bergen because our flight wouldn’t
leave until 4 pm.
We rode the bus for a while and were a
little bit unsure as to when to get off. We trusted the instructions given to us and
got off at the appropriate time which correlated with the right name of a bus
stop. We got off the bus and waited for the
second bus that was supposed to take us to the airport. We get on a bus. Then the driver drove like 2
stops and then told us that we needed to get off if we were going to the
airport. He told us that the airport is
down the street. We all thought that
this was pretty strange. But if the bus
drivers knows where we are going then he knows better how to get there than we
do. Well, it was a good thing we have a
bunch of time before our flight left and the Bergen airport isn’t that big or
busy. We probably walked about a
kilometer or two to actually get to the airport. We were walking on this normal Norwegian road
(one that is narrow and is `barely wide enough for two cars) and passed a
school. Then up the hill and around a
bend we saw a parking lot and thought that we were pretty close. Not really.
That parking lot was only like halfway.
But the parking lot was good because we knew that we were on the right
track. Ashley also seemed to remember
the parking lot. (Not sure how that
works because when we took the bus from the airport down to the pier we don’t
pass this parking lot) After that
parking lot then we found a main road (two lane road) that also had an
established bike lane (both ways) and a walking path and could then see the
airport.
Upon arriving at the airport we walked in
and then went into the arrivals part so that we could use the bathroom for
free. Then Ashley got us checked
in. Security was a breeze. Time to wait for our flight to Prague in the
airport. Quickly, we claimed a table and
had a seat. While we were walking around
I saw this girl that looked kind of lonely just sitting there. I was thinking “30 seconds of crazy, insane
courage” but then faltered. Bottom line
was that I didn’t go and talk to her. So
long random girl who flew from Bergen to Copenhagen on Monday. I think I talked about it too much with Kylie
and Ashley that I psyched myself out.
After just about everybody was loaded, we all tried to get on that
flight. We didn’t realizing that it was going to Copenhagen and not to
Prague. The counter women corrected us
and so it was time to wait for a little longer.
Our flight was delayed like 30 minutes
because the airplane didn’t come in for a while. But that was about it. Not too much exciting stuff has happened so
far.
The flight from Bergen to Prague was normal. All three of us sat together on the same
row. That probably happened because I
paid for all of our tickets at the same time and Ashley checked us all in at
the same time. We didn’t need to pay the
$5 or whatever the fee was when I paid for the tickets to get that.
#travelsmart
Prague reminded me a lot of Lithuania and
Latvia flying in. It looks really flat
here and just really looks like Eastern Europe.
It was kind of windy when we flew in so that was probably one of the
sketchiest landings but we made it.
Everything is fine.
At the airport we each took out 2000 Czech
moneys (about $80). That ended up being
a very good amount. I felt like I have
been able to do all the things that I want and haven’t run out of money. From the airport we got on a bus (119) closer
to the center of the city. On the bus we
sat by this nice girl, Christina, who is a student and works at the
airport. She was very nice and spoke
English well and her accent was impeccable.
She was very helpful and happened to lead us onto the metro that we
needed and then told us to get off at the appropriate stop. Thank you Christina!
Walking out of the metro we saw this
sight. We almost instantly fell in love
with Prague. I mean all the stuff
leading up to that point was fine, but it was then that we were all blown away.
We then walked to Old Town Square which was
easy to find because it is a prominent place that was a ‘happenin’ place. Since it is the week before Easter there are
some Easter decorations which are fun.
From there we found out hostel: Prague Square Hostel. We found our room and dropped off our heavy
backpackers and went out to see Prague.
At this time we were hungry so we asked for
a suggestion from the host at the hostel and we started walking that way. On the way we got stopped by this street
musician. We ended up seeing him a
couple times. He was playing Hallelujah. Then after he played that song he played one
of his own and then was done. Also on
the way we stopped at this restaurant that had their menu on in their
window. We decided that we were hungry
and that this restaurant would be great so we stopped there. #noregrets
At the restaurant we decided to order three
entrees and then just split all three of them.
I am having a hard time remembering all of the things that we got but I
know that one of the entrees was duck, another was rabbit, and then veggie and
meat kebab . I got apple juice to drink
which was the same price as Kylie’s water but more expensive than the beer that
Ashley got. The food was great! I think I liked the duck the most. I am still not really sure which one was
which. After we ate everything we asked
for dessert menu because “hey, why not?
We are in Prague.” We all ended
up getting an apple tort thing that was really good. We ended up being in that restaurant for like
2 hours just between the talking and the food and the wait time between dinner
and dessert but I am not complaining. We
were pretty tired so not moving that fast.
We made with it out paying 1165 Czech which wasn’t bad considering we
got a drink, entrée and dessert.
The whole night was one giant math
problem. All of us had 1000 Czech bills
and people didn’t want to break them so it was a lot of Kylie pays 1000 and
Andrew pays 500 and then gets the change and then Ashley owes Andrew a little
bit and owes Kylie some money as well.
Practical math! We had the same
situation at the hostel and at the restaurant.
I loved it!
We then went back to the hostel and went to
our room in order to go to bed. This
night we were in an 8 person. It was one
of those nights that remind you that you aren’t paying much for the room and so
can’t really expect the best sleeping conditions. There were people that were going in and out
of the room all night with flashlights.
Also the window was open because the room was warm but the window opened
to the street. If it wasn’t people in
the room then it was people out on the street that were making noise. All in all It made it really hard to
sleep. The nice thing though was that we
only had that one night. All of the
other nights our roommates were quiet or had the same bedtime as us.
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